Filecoin remains highly popular. What ecological projects are worth paying attention to?

虽然Filecoin主网上线才5个月，但Filecoin网络已经拥有了Web3中最活跃的开发者生态之一(https://outlierventures.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OV-Blockchain-Dev-Q1-2021-_v6.pdf)。我们很愿意帮助开发团队向更广泛的社区展示您不可思议的项目和贡献，帮助您吸引新的开发者、人才、社区贡献和资助来支持您的努力。

接下来我们将向社区介绍Filecoin生态中的各个项目，包括但不限于Showcase计划、Filecoin Frontier Accelerator、Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator中的项目团队，本文是Filecoin生态项目集锦系列中的一篇，本期介绍的是来自Filecoin Frontier加速营的Ownership Labs、OPgames以及来自Filecoin Launchpad 加速营的Secured Finance，Filecoin Frontier加速营的Curio和Myel，更多精彩期待接下来的更新。

Filecoin Frontier Accelerator

Ownership Labs

Project Introduction:

In today's fast-developing internet, the efficient and continuously intelligent data usage and push systems in Web 2.0 have also brought certain troubles to users. Due to factors such as information asymmetry and lack of transparency, data owners lose control over their data, and data users cannot trace the source of the data. Ownership Labs aims to rebuild the efficient service matching model of Web 2.0 in the privacy-protecting world of Web 3.0 by constructing an intermediary protocol layer and browser plugins, making the data trading market more transparent, open, and privacy-secure. Users can control and define the permissions for how their data is used, while data buyers can quickly confirm the source of the data and use it more compliantly.

Core Philosophy:

Ownership Labs aims to make the chain of data flow transparent, thus designing traceable computing and hierarchical aggregation data service specifications. Data asset owners can declare a list of trusted operations in the data service terms; aggregators can define trusted distributed computing workflows on data assets from multiple different domains, forming a data consortium; data buyers can directly purchase aggregated data and confirm the source of each data.

Product Highlights:

• Full process of data flow is transparent, open, and traceable.
• Provides asset operation templates for data asset owners, allowing users to choose templates with privacy protection capabilities to define how their data is used.
• Data consortium can aggregate bulk data and embed distributed computing workflows, solving the dilemma between illegal data trading and intelligent data services in Web 2.0.
• The Filecoin network serves as the infrastructure layer, hosting metadata of data assets and related computations, providing a foundation for transparent and open data traceability.

Application Outlook:

In the future, it will serve as a decentralized data collaboration intermediary layer, allowing data to flow securely, enabling data asset owners to trade the computational rights of their data while protecting privacy. Ownership Labs encourages global data scientists to participate in the interaction between users and creators, providing precise service matching capabilities for Dapps.

Project Progress:

• Participated in the Wanxiang Blockchain Hackathon in October 2020 and won the championship, launching a beta version of the data market and multi-party collaboration platform.
• Received Grants support from Lattice X Foundation in January 2021, implementing and open-sourcing two developer-oriented projects, DataToken and Compute-to-Data, redefining new norms for data usage.
• Participated in the Filecoin Frontier Accelerator supported by LongHash Ventures in 2021, with the Alpha version of the data market expected to launch in mid to late April 2021.
• Will expand its data analysis capabilities for Dapps, and plans to release a browser plugin for blockchain users based on the Alpha version, providing information aggregation and matching services.

Team Background:

The current team consists of 5 members, located in Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Founder Qibing Lee, champion of the 2020 Wanxiang Hackathon. He studied at the Computer Science Department of Zhejiang University, researching AI, cognitive science, and their applications in personalized recommendations during his PhD. He previously served as the technical lead of the BitHack blockchain community. After realizing the contradictions between data, intelligence, and privacy, he dropped out to start a business, focusing on the blockchain data market. He has independently completed several open-source software developments and is actively participating in the construction of Web 3.0, hoping to connect you-me-things-services in the virtual space.

GitHub:

https://github.com/ownership-labs

WeChat Official Account:

Ownership-labs

Twitter:

@OwnershipLabs

OPgames

Project Introduction:

OPGames has developed a tool that allows game developers to insert tournaments and one-on-one matches into their single-player games, using cryptocurrency as the buy-in and payment method. They are also building SDKs and APIs for casual and hyper-casual games, making it easy for these games to integrate into mobile or HTML5. Opgames is also constructing a web and mobile platform that integrates all games and hosts various types of gaming events, allowing for different games to set matching NFTs.

Product Features:

• Easy-to-integrate SDK for game developers.
• The SDK unlocks participation in game tournaments, leaderboard entries, and allows for cryptocurrency purchases and payments for participation.
• Players can easily redeem cryptocurrency rewards from prize pools, seamlessly connecting to payment systems.
• Integrates multiple gaming competitions for players to choose from, with plans to launch related NFTs in the future.
• The Filecoin network serves as the data storage layer, providing a secure hosting method for data.

Development Progress:

• The idea for Opgames originated in 2018, when the founder began in-depth research on NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and IPFS.
• In 2021, the team joined the Filecoin Frontier Accelerator supported by LongHash Ventures.
• The Opgames testnet is expected to launch in early to mid-April this year.
• The team plans to launch NFTs and sell them to the market from late April to early May this year.

Future Plans:

The team will focus more on enhancing user interaction experience and continuous SDK development.

They will also introduce more games for different users to choose from, with more flexible participation methods.

Team Background (currently expanding the team):

The team currently has 6 members, including co-founders & CEO Chase Freo, co-founders & CTO Paul Gadi, and co-founder Gabby Dizon.

Website:

https://outplay.games/

Social Media:

Twitter: @Outplay_Games

Medium: https://medium.com/alto-io

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/GFZgZ84

Telegram: https://t.me/outplaygames

Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator

Secured Finance

Project Introduction:

Secured Finance is dedicated to establishing decentralized P2P banking services through blockchain technology, creating a secure and trustworthy financial platform and bank-grade P2P financial trading protocols.

Secured Finance provides lending smart contract components, offering users a decentralized, peer-to-peer bank-level trading experience based on blockchain technology, providing a transparent and secure lending market for FIL miners and holders:

• Market makers provide liquidity to the market through the Secured Finance platform, proposing lending rates and conditions.
• Users trade based on the loan conditions provided by market makers.
• The Filecoin network sends/receives and verifies the balance of FIL escrow accounts.
• Smart contracts collect information from the market, functioning as an on-chain database.
• The collateral smart contract is a protocol managing the fund status with ETH as collateral.
• The lending smart contract is a protocol that can store all loans and manage coupon payments, calculating current value.

Users can manage long-term trades through the yield curve in Secured Finance, enabling Secured Finance to provide bank-level financial services. Currently, the digital asset categories supported by Secured Finance include: BTC, ETH, FIL, USDC.

Product Highlights:

• Matches P2P lending orders based on smart contracts, with no centralization risk.
• Provides a series of financial products including digital asset lending, cross-currency swaps, and interest rate swaps.
• Adopts an order book model, with no trading scale and impermanent loss limitations, providing secure financial services for ordinary and institutional users.
• Market makers can autonomously decide expected interest rates and terms, ranging from three months to five years.
• The self-developed Dione oracle network solves interoperability between multiple blockchain networks.

Project Progress:

Development is ongoing, and the testnet release is approaching.

Core Team Members (currently expanding the team):

Masakazu Kikuchi, Co-Founder & CEO

Bach Adylbekov, Co-Founder & COO

Timo Lee, Community Lead

Denis Davydov, Distributed Network Engineer

Website:

https://secured-finance.com/filecoin-lending-cn/

GitHub:

https://github.com/Secured-Finance

WebApp:

https://app.secured-finance.com/

Demo Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEyuG6Q3og\&t=3s

WeChat Official Account:

secured-finance

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Filecoin Frontier Accelerator

Curio

Project Introduction:

Curio is a leading creation and trading platform for digital art NFTs in the fields of art & entertainment. Currently, Curio creates ERC-721 NFTs based on Ethereum, and plans to use Filecoin and Polygon in the future to enhance the platform's functionality in creating NFTs, allowing brands and content owners who want to create digital experiences to participate in their favorite art & entertainment communities in a modern way. Curio's partners are mostly well-known leading companies in the entertainment industry, creating reliable and unique digital identities for works such as anime, video, and music through collaboration.

Product Highlights:

• A simpler digitization process. Curio simplifies the process of owning, selling, trading, and sharing collectibles, providing customized digital services to users and IP fans in a digital way. Its custom-developed technology creates a new world for creating digital collectibles.
• Connecting content, commerce, and community. Digital collectibles and artworks authorize content in a powerful way, attracting young and digitally-savvy fans, and driving new incremental products.
• Innovators and leaders in the entertainment and technology fields. Curio's team consists of senior experts from the entertainment, digital, and technology sectors. They have held leadership roles in pioneering classic brands and will create a new world by leveraging technology in the digital expression of entertainment and storytelling.

Project Progress:

The platform is currently live, and more IP content will be integrated in the future to provide users with a more complete digital experience.

Recently, Curio completed a $1.2 million seed round of financing, led by Future Perfect Ventures, with participation from A195 Capital, LongHash Ventures, MoonWhale Ventures, and Rich Battista, former CEO of 21st Century Fox and executive at Fox Entertainment.

Team Background:

The Curio team consists of senior professionals who have left leading companies in the entertainment, technology, and blockchain sectors. Their expertise combines participation in entertainment institutions such as Disney, Universal Pictures, and Universal Music Group, along with a solid foundation in fintech, blockchain, and technology from companies like Openfinance, Deloitte, Google, and Yahoo. Curio CEO: Juan Hernandez, former CEO of Openfinance, the first compliant token trading platform in the U.S., has over 20 years of experience in fintech, alternative investments, and exchange technology, and is a serial entrepreneur. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in computer science and completed his MBA.

Website:

https://oncurio.com/

Social Media:

Twitter: @CurioNFT

Discord: https://discord.gg/WavfzmqYbk

Curio Showcase Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw3nxhbdeY Filecoin Frontier Accelerator Myel Project Introduction:

Myel provides a distributed CDN for Web3 applications, allowing applications to retrieve content from Filecoin's secondary market at a faster speed. The demand for bandwidth in web applications is continuously growing. Emerging technologies like VR require expensive infrastructure that scales slowly and struggles to meet future demands. Additionally, to utilize Filecoin beyond cold storage, a secondary market is needed to accelerate content retrieval. Currently, there is no decentralized CDN for Web3 applications, and most applications rely on Web2 CDNs, which are potential single points of failure. Myel makes it easier for applications to access content stored on Filecoin without the need to build expensive infrastructure. It binds CDN services and storage together, allowing users to pay directly in FIL.

Product Overview:

• The Hop Exchange

A Bitswap-like IPFS exchange interface that uses a lightweight gossipsub implementation to inquire whether other nodes in the network have the requested blocks. Blocks with corresponding requests respond with the retrieval transaction terms they support, initiating a payment channel, connecting to a remote lotus RPC, and sending FIL transactions to retrieve the blocks.
Initially, the exchange subscribes to a GossipSub topic to receive the CIDs of new content uploaded to Filecoin. If they have available space (configurable), the exchange will automatically retrieve the content (without charging any FIL fees).
The Hop exchange packages Bitswap, so if a bitswap request yields no results, it will call the hop exchange to attempt to retrieve content from Filecoin providers. Additionally, it will soon be available as an IPFS plugin, allowing anyone to easily turn their IPFS node into a retrieval provider node and earn FIL for temporarily storing content.

• Myel Desktop Application (macOS)

Allows developers and retrieval providers to run and manage Myel nodes through a MacOS desktop application. This application is a native Swift app with a simple file browser and wallet interface, and it spawns a go backend daemon running in the background to store and provide content to the network. By default, it interacts with the lotus node on Infura, but users can also run their own lotus nodes if they wish.
Myel nodes run the Hop Exchange, so they implement the same functionality, adding an intuitive user interface that provides feedback on market and retrieval earnings. On this basis, it also allows users to easily add FIL to their wallets.
To upload files to Filecoin, users can create a new directory and add files to it. Once they are ready to store it, they will receive an estimated transaction price based on connected peers and can start the transaction. This will automatically upload the content to Filecoin for storage and propagate the content to other peers for quick retrieval.
Technically, users can use this application to store any files they want on Filecoin, but the application has not yet been optimized, so its functionality will remain very basic.

• Myel JS User

A modern lightweight JavaScript library that allows web applications to load content from local Myel nodes via HTTP. If the Myel node is not running, the library will prompt to start or install the application. Optional React hooks can also be installed to load and cache content in modern React applications.

Project Origin:

The project's founder, Thomas Chardin, began learning about IPFS in 2017 and started using and understanding distributed state patterns until the Filecoin mainnet launched, when Myel began to attempt to introduce Filecoin. Application developers are building incredible new digital experiences. These new applications, such as VR games, immersive video streaming, and rich content publishing platforms, require unprecedented flexibility and powerful content delivery tools. Thus, Myel was created to help developers deliver high-performance and scalable experiences without relying on expensive server facilities.

Project Progress:

Myel is currently in the testing phase on the Filecoin calibration network, with plans to release a Beta version in the future. Myel will continue to invest time and effort in optimizing user experience and integrating IPFS-compatible browsers. If you are interested in Myel, you can click here to try it out (https://www.myel.network/#/sign-up)

Team Background:

Thomas Chardin, founder of the app Catch from Y Combinator's 19th batch, comes from IDEO CoLab alumni.

Sandra Platano, former product lead at Lifen, co-founder of ShopnGo.

Alex Camuto, PhD from Oxford University, Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence).

Website:

https://www.myel.network/#/

GitHub:

https://github.com/tchardin/myel

Blog:

https://myel.dev/#/blog