Round 1 / Spacescope

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.

Tooling developers such as Web3 application developers require up-to-date information about the Filecoin network to inform execution or logic of Web3 applications. Storage providers or individual contributors would like to obtain information about the Filecoin network for their own internal monitoring or internal dashboards. In these contexts, a common pain point is a need to obtain vital information with low latency and with minimal overhead.