Milestone 1: Trustless multi-source head quorum
Ship the trustless multi-source head quorum that the pure-Go PDP path rides on: continuous N-source head agreement with heaviest-ParentWeight fork choice, no single-endpoint trust, released and running in production. This is the load-bearing infrastructure the rest of the researc…
Milestone 2: Reproducible build path, verified by an external operator
Prove Lantern builds from documented steps and performs PDP for an operator who is not the author. This is the "another SP can actually run it" test that separates working code from usable infrastructure. Not production-hardened, just reproducible and gruntable by a com…
Milestone 3: Benchmark harness against a reference implementation
Publish a public benchmark harness comparing Lantern's pure-Go PDP chain path against a reference implementation (Curio and/or Forge) on the dimensions an operator actually chooses on. The harness is public and the numbers are contestable by design: any operator can re-run it on…
Milestone 4: SP field trial and structured findings
Run a structured field trial with SPs from the MinerX network. Every SP who attempts Lantern gets their outcome recorded in a public findings log: hardware, build result, PDP-run result, blockers hit, workarounds applied. The deliverable is the findings log itself, not an adoptio…
Milestone 5: Operator readiness: architecture explainer, security model, runbook, static analysis, network-upgrade hold-through
Publish the operator-readiness documentation set that makes Lantern usable by contributors and operators beyond the author: architecture explainer, security model, runbook, plus continuous static analysis in CI. Also prove Lantern holds through any mainnet network-version upgrade…
Milestone 6: v2.0.0, tradeoff writeup, and adoption pathway
Cut Lantern v2.0.0. Publish the tradeoff writeup that turns six months of running, measuring, and testing Lantern into the evidence base an SP or FoC team needs to consider the pure-Go path: what it costs, what it buys, where it wins against the Curio and Forge reference implemen…
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 3
Lantern is the pure-Go PDP light node for Filecoin Onchain Cloud (FoC), a trustless roughly 1 GB chain node that lets a storage provider serve PDP paid deals without running a full Lotus node or trusting a hosted RPC like Glif. It verifies Filecoin chain state end-to-end (BLS blo…