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There are billions of requests each week to IPFS and Filecoin for content addressed data. A thriving retrieval market allows anyone to contribute resources and earn from delivering this data.
By 2025 the global CDN market is expected to be twice as large as the cloud object storage market.
That is, delivering files to people quickly and reliably is a bigger market than storing those files in the first place. This makes sense since we all expect video, and image feeds to load instantly wherever we are in the world.
Not only is a decentralised CDN essential for the Web3 movement, it can also provide some efficiencies that are not within easy reach for traditional CDNs like Cloudflare and Akamai. p2p content sharing, especially in the “last mile”, and the ability of nodes emerging in sparely populated geographies are a few such efficiencies.
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The Filecoin Retrieval Market initiative is building a decentralised CDN for the Filecoin Network.
The approach to do this is in a modular way with many teams contributing. The Retrieval Market Working Group (RMWG) consists of teams tackling challenging problems in the space, ranging from ultra fast payments, to data transfer protocol enhancements and cryptoeconomic models for data retrieval.
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PL Starfleet
Saturn
A Filecoin Retrieval Network
Retrieval Network
In Progress
PL Starfleet
Station
A desktop app for the Filecoin Network
Retrieval Network
In Progress
Myel
JS Graphsync
An implementation of the Graphsync protocol in Javascript.
Data Transport
Completed
Myel
Rust Graphsync
An implementation of the Graphsync protocol in Rust.
Data Transport
Completed
Myel
PoP
A retrieval network for content addressed data formed of Myel Points of Presence.
Browser Retrievals
Retrieval Network
In Progress
PL Data Systems
Indexer Node
How to find which storage provider is storing your CID in Filecoin.
Indexing
In Progress
PL Data Systems
Thunder
Implementing support for payments in Bitswap
Payment Channels
In Progress
PL Data Systems
Boost
Boost is a tool for Storage Providers to manage data onboarding and retrieval on the Filecoin network
Retrieval Network
In Progress
ChainSafe
Content Indexing
How to find which storage provider is storing your CID in Filecoin.
Indexing
Completed
ChainSafe
WebRTC Research
A spike into how performant WebRTC can be as a browser protocol in a p2p network
Data Transport
Completed
Magmo
Go Nitro
Virtual Funding Protocol and State Channel Manager written in Golang.
Payment Channels
Completed
Magmo
Go Nitro Productization
Productization of the Virtual Funding Protocol and State Channel Manager.
Payment Channels
In Progress
WCGCYX
FCR
A Filecoin Retrieval Provider with a payment proxy network
Retrieval Network
Completed
New Web Group
Titan Ultra
A Retrieval Network for Filecoin, leveraging unused home network bandwidth
Retrieval Network
In Progress
Ken Labs
Pando
Ensuring Access to Notarized Metadata for nodes in the network
Reputation Systems
Completed
Ken Labs
Pando Integrations
Integrating Pando into other Filecoin network services.
Reputation Systems
In Progress
Filedrive
Parallel Graphsync
The Graphsync protocol adapted to fetch content from multiple providers at the same time
Data Transport
In Progress
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Many teams are already working on Retrieval Markets.
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Retrieval Markets Workshop: Intro to Saturn
We met in April 2022 to introduce Saturn, a CDN for the Filecoin Network