Application for Filecoin ProPGF Batch 2

Curio Storage

The go-to universal way that SPs maintain power on the Filecoin network and successfully get paid deals.

https://curiostorage.org

Andrew Jackson

snadrus

Andy Jackson

Paid deals today require PDPv0 which has needs on all sides: it doesn’t maintain power, it can’t be unified with PoREP, it has no repair, ACL, per-SP pricing, deal modification, etc. There is no place for smart-contracts to tell SPs what to do. Also other models for public data sets like pay-for-download do not exist in any free Filecoin software. Finally, a market that’s capable of hosting additional provable products beyond “store x with me” becomes a place to put some of the bits and pieces typically entrusted to onboarders, which will move toward Filecoin as a self-maintaining technology-set.

- SPs get a tool that helps them earn better pay in this environment, growing their interest. - Data-owners get a predictable API surface that meets their needs and outlives any one company in the network, a key competency that’s novel distributed, trustless storage. - The Filecoin promoters get a unique, high-value sales item: Filecoin becomes the ONLY online storage that’s durable to any particular company going away.

After consulting with all pods, it’s clear that roadmaps are not available at the 6-month horizon, so instead this plan includes a time breakdown and likely tasks. - A time commitment breakdown of: - - 60% for FOC pod. - - 20% to Support - - 10% for structural improvements - - 10% for Public pod - - FOC-Pod: Market 2.0: a composable interface for deals that includes advertising, deal-taking, deal-composability. - - Optionals (depending on business discovery) may include deal-modifications, ACL, erasure coding, and various products for sale like repair, replication, etc - Public-Pod: Depending on business needs. Discussions are currently around paid egress, fetchable sealed sectors, and multi-sector deals.

$500,000 USD

$500,000 USD

$395,000 USD

An increase in PDP deals and by extension general interest in Filecoin.

Improvements will come from the development of the best business directions of the 2 associated pods. The Public pod work will directly unlock data onboarding. The FOC findings will build the best offerings that attract data white minimizing network re-engineering (by adapting PoREP into the deals) which is the cheapest path to a healthy network with high onboarding and high stability.

**Issues resolved**: SPs using Curio will see issue resolution in a timely manner that doesn’t disrupt their activities significantly. **FOC Code written**: The FOC team is able to execute on strategic objectives stated above within the contract deadline. **Paid transactional volume increase**: As income arrives due to a reliable FOC infrastructure.

Code will be integrated into the Curio SP system with considerable deduplication and integration so that the maintenance & rollout burdens of these enhancements are minimal and fit well within the scope of maintenance engineering as is reasonable to cover with follow-on grants.

This high-productivity team (Magik, Andy, Mayank, and Nicklas) has brought great value to many SPs for over 2 years with individuals having as many as 5 years in the ecosystem. The current team will bring-on an additional engineer and look to the pod PMs to guide toward the greatest wins. Tight coordination with SPs for bugs and assistance has helped this support team attain high trust throughout the community.

All pod owners were consulted, and the objectives are sufficiently indeterminate as to what kind of development they need from Curio. Curio team intends to order the work in terms of best impact as the business directions emerge, however this makes for an imprecise work description at contract time. All PDP SPs. All Supraseal SPs. Aurora. Many other SP categories including SP lists that can be named.

Curio core team added over 126,000 lines of code in the past 6 months: https://github.com/filecoin-project/curio/graphs/contributors?from=6%2F14%2F2025

ThePDP ecosystem of SPs, app creators, and data-owners. All Supraseal SPs and their customers. Aurora. Many other SP categories and SP lists.