Round 1 / Network Health Dashboard

Storage providers need to rigorously calculate initial and ongoing costs and/or ROI of onboarding storage on the network. Blockchain analytics and teams such as the Filecoin TLDR team would like to disseminate digestible and yet accurate metrics to the general public. Product and business development teams in Protocol Labs or Filecoin Foundation have an urgent need to monitor uptake of new network initiatives (e.g. FVM), consequences of network upgrades, etc. Finally, multiple stakeholders involved in the collective governance of Filecoin need access to rigorous information about the network’s trajectory over time in order to make informed decisions about the future directions of the protocol.

All of these needs have a common pain point: each stakeholder depends on the availability of distilled information that is either difficult to access or non-trivial to calculate. Starboard addresses these issues by calculating metrics important to our stakeholders from first principles, for example, calculating network storage metrics from a sector-by-sector level upward.