Notary Application: Etlink #641
Description
Notary Application
To apply to be a Fil+ Notary, please review the Notary Overview here and then fill out the following form.
Core Information
- Name: Felix
- Affiliated organization: Etlink
- On-chain address to be notarized (recommend using a new address): f1etb6sp4cn6oxy7cn7ndvqhiybxsrhb4vuz4pdiq
- Country of Operation: GCR
- Region of Operation: Greater China Region (GCR)
- Use case(s) to be supported: [Please select from here] In principle, we support all use cases, we are particularly interested in Decentralized applications, Public or Open data, and Media & Entertainment
- DataCap requested for allocation (10TiB - 1PiB): 200TiB
- Are you applying on behalf of yourself or an organization?: [Individual, Organization] Organization
Please respond to the questions below in paragraph form, replacing the text saying "Please answer here". Include as much detail as you can in your answer!
Long Term Network Alignment
Time Commitment
Describe the nature and duration of your affiliation with the Filecoin network. Please include relevant GitHub handles, Storage Provider IDs, significant projects or contributions (with links).
Etlink is a leading filecoin mining service provider and filecoin application developer with multiple nodes in United states, Hongkong and China. We firmly believe filecoin is the game changer in the storage industry which can truly benefit a wide spectrum of industries with its decentralized and cost-effective way of storing data. It also has the potential to be predominant layer1 blockchain.
1. I was technology innovation department leader of bank of communication when I first came across IPFS in 2016, I was extremely intrigued by the technology innovation of IPFS.
2. I began to learn about Filecoin in 2020 when we were looking for cost effective way to store massive dataset for AI machine learning. I realized filecoin has the potential to be the infrastructure of web3.0, and I should be part of this innovation.
3. Etlink was founded in 2020 with a bunch of blockchain and AI technology enthusiasts, with the common vision that Filecoin will be future of decentralized storage industry.
4. In March 2021, we launched the first Filecoin miner node, since then we have launched multiple filecoin nodes in United states, Hongkong and China, and became a major player in the filecoin mining and filecoin mining service industry. Due to Chinese unfriendly mining policy, we have moved some of our operation to United States and helped 3 other SPs to move their mining operations outside China.
5. To help the filecoin ecosystem to grow, we formed several WeChat groups and posted more than 100 self-made videos in Etlink social media, advocating blockchain technology, especially on how filecoin network can benefit industries.
6. In September 2021, we launched an App called filstore which is specifically designed to allow end user to store their personal data (mainly video and pics) to filecoin network for free. Through its user-friendly interface, hundreds of users experienced filecoin unique way of storing data.
7. In September 2022, Etlink formed a dedicated Slack channel with PL to launch Sealing-As-A-Service testing program, we have worked closely with SAAS development team of PL to test inter-continental network stability between our Filecoin nodes from United states to Hongkong.
Stake Exposure
Please cite total token at stake (currently available, locked as collateral, vesting over time) and any substantiating evidence (i.e., addresses on chain with their corresponding FIL amounts).
We have over 500,000 FILs at stake, we will only disclose minerId outside of China:
nodes operated in United States:
f01780412, f01059489 f0765173 f01906874 total over 240,000 FIL were locked
node operated in HongKong:
f01680508 over 50,000 FIL were locked
Wallet address: f1ctk5qcbd5gci22vgppgfi2dji37e7kwwwl6nd2y Over 100,000 FIL
How did you acquire the FIL cited above?
Besides mining reward, the rest is acquired from Binance and OKEX
Industry Reputation
In-protocol Reputation
Please describe (in detail) your activity and tenure as a member of the Filecoin community. Please note (with links where possible) any contributions made to implementations of Filecoin, the spec, documentation, or to substantially help the Filecoin ecosystem grow.
As a proud member of filecoin community, Etlink has been committed to contribute to the filecoin ecosystem in whichever way it can:
1. Etlink has posted over 100 self-made videos in its social media, advocating blockchain technology, especially on how filecoin network can benefit industries.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV16R4y1Z74m/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1pG411F7kw/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot4y1h7T7/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zg411X7J2/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1DT411G7hL/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
2. In September 2021, we launched an App called filstore which is specifically designed to allow end user to store their personal data (mainly video and pics) to filecoin network for free. Through its user-friendly interface, hundreds of users experienced filecoin unique way of storing data.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LPW0niWHYGsruyqSZOxnmM7MyTZq4O9V?usp=share_link
3. Due to China unfriendly crypto mining policy, Etlink has helped 3 Chinese SPs to move operation to United States and Hongkong. To be specific, Etlink helped to negotiate US and Hongkong IDC contracts, helped to arrange logistics.
4. In September 2022, Etlink formed a dedicated Slack channel with PL to launch Sealing-As-A-Service testing program, we have worked closely with SAAS development team of PL to test inter-continental network stability between our Filecoin nodes from United states to Hongkong.
In-protocol Security
Please describe your contributions to the security of Filecoin and the duration over which you've made contributions. Please also include any links or references that can substantiate your contributions.
N/A
Organizational Reputation
Please describe the nature of your organization, including the country of registration, size of the organization, and time since inception.
Etlink is an AI and blockchain technology company, founded in shanghai, China, 2020. Currently, it has over 40 full-time employees, many of them came from, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and other internet giants, with expertise in AI and blockchain technology . It specializes in industry specific AI and consortium blockchain application development. Through a few successful high-profile consortium blockchain based projects, we have formed strategic partnership with quite a few industry leaders. In 2022, we successfully secured funding from Borui investment.
Please share any relevant details to help substantiate information about your organization (website, named officers, links to social media profiles).
Website: et.link
CEO: Jianmin Zang
bilibili: https://b23.tv/7BCTn4r
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/et.linkcryptomining/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDvSTaNd0EKJSNzQdWjLjw
Please share any relevant external information regarding your organization (e.g. news articles, social media profiles, etc.)
Please answer here.
Individual Reputation
Please share links to at least 2 of your (personal) social media profiles (or accounts that you are able to use) and the approximate size of your audience (i.e., followers, subscribers) for each one.
twitter: @myanTokenGeek over 16K followers
twitter: @0xhiger 1822 followers
Please share any additional relevant information regarding your presence (e.g. news articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, awards, etc.)
Please answer here.
Allocation Plan refer to the Rubric to see how this impacts your Notary score
Concreteness of Allocation Plan
Allocation Strategy
How do you plan on allocating the DataCap requested above? Please describe your allocation strategy with as much specificity as you can. This includes the target amount per client and rate at which you'll allocate DataCap.
Please refer to the links below to check out rubric used to evaluate client’s application and allocation rate
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NiXkmTGJI6ON3kXBHkfzOu4jhiDkaHcQ/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=109731570259585443333&rtpof=true&sd=true
Client reputation should reflect the business prospects, website should clearly show the client business model, products, use case, industry status, customer base, client business history, future business potential, etc.
Data preferably should be continuous, business-generated, and with enormous supply
SPs diversity and decentralization are also factors in allocating datacap
How do you plan on securing the DataCap to ensure your organization (and its delegated members) are the ones allocating the DataCap?
We plan to use a multi-signature hardware wallet to store the keys
Client Due Diligence
How will you vet the clients that are applying for DataCap? What questions will you ask to ensure your trust is placed well and that clients can properly handle the DataCap you intend to allocate to them?
Client business license, website, sample data and an email from applicant business email account are needed. The website and the nature of sample data will be heavily weighted (as outlined in the client scoring table).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NiXkmTGJI6ON3kXBHkfzOu4jhiDkaHcQ/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=109731570259585443333&rtpof=true&sd=true
Questions I would ask:
1. How relevant is the sample data to your core business?
2. Dose the content of sample data justify the datacap amount you request?
3. What's your relationship with the client, or what's your role in the client?
4. If you have a role in the client, can you send me an email from your business email account within 48 hours?
5. The data you intent to store on filecoin network, where are they stored now?
6. How many SPs will you choose to store your data?
7. How often will you retrieve those data?
The client should have a detailed method and tool to check on the SPs, and we will vet the clients' datacap spending regularly, and disqualify the bad allocation.
What processes will you employ when granting additional DataCap to a client that has previously been verified? This includes confirming that the client is not improperly using the DataCap they were previously granted, i.e., making deals with a single SP entity.
The main principle is to ensure the Client is obliged to spend the DataCap for the approved use, so the process we would employ when granting additional DataCap include:
1. Ask client to provide the complete deal list to verify how the datacap is used among SPs
2. Check on-chain deal data regularly to make sure the client is acting in good faith (i.e., the data stored is in line with sample data provided)
3. If datacap is misused or abused in any way, we may penalize the client by delaying or even cancelling the outstanding datacap
Bookkeeping Plan
Do you plan on conducting all your allocation decisions in public (e.g. Github repo), private (e.g. over email, Telegram, etc), or both?
All allocation decisions will be conducted publicly in the github repo
Where do you plan on keeping a publicly accessible record of all your allocation decisions?
In public via github repo
Service Level Agreement
Engagement in Program
Which level (1-5) of service commitment are you willing to dedicate to participating in the Fil+ program? This includes making DataCap allocations (direct and/or Large Datasets), joining working groups, adding comments on discussion/issues, attendance in governance calls, messages in Slack, etc. For a full list of the service levels and time commitments please review the rubric
L4
Track Record
Past allocation
Have you previously received DataCap to allocate before? If so, please link to any previous applications.
no
Disclosures
Do you/your organization have any relationship(s) with other existing notaries or their organizations? If yes, please list the names of the Notary individuals or organizations you may be related to.
no