Operational Resumption
Considered complete a week after service is restored and able to handle up to 25% above current query levels. Monitoring demonstrates acceptable rate of error responses.
Car mirror
Able to start replicas independent of provider bandwidth. Per-provider accounting - Cost breakdown by provider
Double Cursor Ingest
Replica startup able to reduce load on other replicas w/i 2 days of startup
Per-provider metering
Supports: up-front expectations, responsive, simple Target: we know what fraction of overall resources are attributable to each provider
SWE Onboarding
Senior SWE onboarded and can independently deploy fixes.
GM (General Manager) Onboarding
General Manager hired and onboarded.
Technical Federation Design
Revised architecture based on stakeholder and technical research, allowing costs to be distributed across multiple operators and toward long-term goal of IPNI operating as federated infrastructure with multiple operators, costs shared by usage, and no single entity dependency. Fo…
Financial Federation Design
Based on metering data, a design for large consumers to contribute proportionally for sustainable operations. For implementation in H2 2026.
Ongoing Operations and Maintenance
IPNI service maintained throughout grant period, serving ~220M requests/day
Admin & Finance
Financial and grant administration.
Per-provider Metering
Milestone carried over from Batch 1 project scope. Target: Visible endpoint to identify the fraction of resources consumed by each publisher
Milestone 3
Paid-Tier Ingest: Sync-on-Announce + Dedicated Lane: Build immediate sync-on-announce for paid publishers and route their ingest to a dedicated lane on existing unused SF hardware. Target ingest latency of one to three seconds for paid publishers, with the free tier continuing on…
Milestone 2
Paid-Tier Cache Invalidation Paid-Tier Pricing Framework & Calibration Technical Advisory Support
Milestone 1
Technical Advisory and Operational maintenance: covering architectural input, protocol guidance, and datacenter labor on the SF rack.
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 1
We received a grant from Filecoin ProPGF program
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 2
Interplanetary Network Indexers provide a content routing service (who has any individual piece of data) that links the Filecoin and IPFS ecosystems. IPNI is optimized to take billions of CIDs from large data providers and provide fast lookup of provider information over a simple…
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 3
The InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI) is the content routing layer for the Filecoin and IPFS ecosystems. It maintains a global index mapping content identifiers to the storage providers that hold them, and answers low-latency lookup queries from retrieval clients, gateways, a…
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