Weekly Governance Updates (19 July, 2024)

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This weekly report provides a high-level overview of what's happening with Filecoin governance.

Anyone is welcome to participate in governance. To learn more about any of the below materials, simply follow the links and feel free to weigh in.

If you have questions or ideas related to FIPs or Filecoin governance, please start a new discussion in the FIPs Forum or post directly in #fil-fips.

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Accepted FIPs - FIPs awaiting network implementation

• FIP0065 - Ignore built-in market locked balance in circulating supply calculation (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0067 - PoRep Security Policy & Replacement Sealing Enforcement (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0079 - Add BLS Aggregate Signatures to FVM (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0082 - Add support for aggregated replica update proofs (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0084 - Remove Storage Miner Actor Method ProveCommitSectors (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0085: Convert f090 Mining Reserve Actor to Keyless Account Actor (FIP Draft) (Discussion)
• FIP0091: Add support for Homestead and EIP-155 Ethereum Transactions ("legacy" Ethereum Transactions) (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0092: Non-Interactive PoRep (FIP Draft)(Discussion 1)(Discussion 2)

Open Pull Requests - upcoming FIP drafts awaiting technical review; now accepting community feedback

• Update FIP0001 (PR)(Discussion)
• On-chain Retrieval Expectations (PR)(Discussion)
• Introducing SealerID (PR)(Discussion)
• FIP0081 Gradual Activation (PR)
• FIPXXXX: Export Sector Termination Method for Miner Action (PR)(Discussion)
• Common Node API (PR)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback!

• FIP0086- Fast Finality in Filecoin (F3) (FIP Draft)(Discussion). Last Call until August 2 2024.

Current FIP Drafts - Now accepting community feedback; merged into repo

• FIP0037 - Gas model adjustment for user programmability (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0039 - Filecoin Message Replay Protection (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0077 - Add Cost Opportunity For New Miner Creation (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0078 - Remove Restrictions on the Minting of Datacap (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0080 - Phasing Out Fil+ and Restoring Deal Quality Multiplier to 1x (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0081 - Introduce lower bound for sector initial pledge (FIP Draft)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• @jennijuju started a pre-FIP discussion post that proposes adding more APIs to the Filecoin miner actor to support onchain liquidation procedures, enhancing trustless DeFi applications by improving economic security and reducing liability concerns. You can read more here
• @Schwartz10 opened a discussion recently outlining the challenges in computing precise collateral values for Filecoin miner actors, emphasizing the need for efficient, secure methods to support DeFi protocols on the FEVM, and proposes optimizing data structures or simplifying termination penalty calculations as potential solutions. Read more and engage here
• Filecoin Foundation has recently released the FIP draft for a proposed update to FIP0001. This new proposal contains significant improvements to the existing governance models of Filecoin. Read the full draft here

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Other Governance Updates

Finalized dates for nv23 Waffle upgrade:

• Calibnet upgrade - July 11
• Mainnet - August 6

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FIPs in Scope for NV23 Upgrade

FIP Number	Title	Status
FIP0065	Ignore Built-In Market Locked Balance in Circulating Supply	Accepted
FIP0079	Add BLS Aggregate Signatures to FVM	Accepted
FIP0084	Remove Storage Miner Actor Method ProveCommitSectors	Accepted
FIP0085	Convert f090 Mining Reserve Actor to a Keyless Account Actor	Accepted
FIP0086	Fast Finality in Filecoin	Draft (Soft-launch)
FIP0091	Add Support for Legacy Ethereum Transactions	Accepted
FIP0092	Non-Interactive PoRep	Accepted

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This weekly report provides a high-level overview of what's happening with Filecoin governance.

Anyone is welcome to participate in governance. To learn more about any of the below materials, simply follow the links and feel free to weigh in.

If you have questions or ideas related to FIPs or Filecoin governance, please start a new discussion in the FIPs Forum or post directly in #fil-fips.