Community Diligence Review of Niwan Dao Allocator

filecoin-watchdog commented 3 weeks ago

Review of Allocations from @Niwan-dao Allocator Application: https://github.com/filecoin-project/notary-governance/issues/1081

First example: DataCap was given to: https://github.com/NiwanDao/NiwanPathway/issues/10

Public Open Dataset - key compliance requirement: Retrievability

1st point) No sign of KYC or KYB of client or dataset as mentioned in allocator application - need gov team to investigate details Client asked for 10PiB and 1PiB of DataCap given to brand new GitHub ID.

2nd point) Client said these were the SPs Hainan future cloud Technology Co., f02933536, Ningxia Hainan future cloud Technology Co., f02933563 ,Ningxia Siwei Technology Co.,Technology Co.,f03083319, Chengdu Youyun Tech,tobecreated, Hongkong qitian yun ,tobecreated, nanjing

Actual data storage report: https://check.allocator.tech/report/NiwanDao/NiwanPathway/issues/10/1716967283901.md

One SP ID has sealed 40% of deals Additional diligence needed to confirm storage plan

Finally, 0% retrievability for an open dataset

filecoin-watchdog commented 3 weeks ago

Next example: https://github.com/NiwanDao/NiwanPathway/issues/7

Client again unknown, asked for 10PiB was given 1PiB. - Gov team needs to check client KYC KYB. Not clear from application.

No SPs mentioned upfront.

Finally, 0% retrievability for an open dataset

filecoin-watchdog commented 3 weeks ago

Third example: https://github.com/NiwanDao/NiwanPathway/issues/1

Client is the Allocator. Gave themself two allocations - 500TiBs and 1000 TiBs

One SP has sealed 40%+ of the deals

Provider | Location | Total Deals Sealed | Percentage | Unique Data | Duplicate Deals | Mean Spark Retrieval Success Rate 7d f02933563 | Yinchuan, Ningxia, CNCHINANET NINGXIA province ZHONGWEI IDC network | 148.94 TiB | 4.03% | 148.94 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f02933536 | Yinchuan, Ningxia, CNCHINANET NINGXIA province ZHONGWEI IDC network | 128.81 TiB | 3.48% | 128.81 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f02889390 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, CNCHINANET-BACKBONE | 1.58 PiB | 43.65% | 1.58 PiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f01946104 | Chengdu, Sichuan, CNCHINANET-BACKBONE | 660.00 TiB | 17.85% | 660.00 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f02035252 | Chengdu, Sichuan, CNCHINANET-BACKBONE | 408.47 TiB | 11.05% | 408.47 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f01225783 | Chengdu, Sichuan, CNCHINANET-BACKBONE | 50.00 TiB | 1.35% | 50.00 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f02966277new | Singapore, Singapore, SGGoDaddy.com, LLC | 445.09 TiB | 12.04% | 445.09 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00% f03083319 | Qingdao, Shandong, CNHangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd. | 242.50 TiB | 6.56% | 242.50 TiB | 0.00% | 0.00%

SPs - applicant said this is a continuation of a previous project: https://github.com/filecoin-project/filecoin-plus-large-datasets/issues/2300

Retrieval success rate = 0%

galen-mcandrew commented 3 weeks ago

Based on a further diligence review, this allocator pathway is not in compliance with their application.

Specifically:

No evidence of diligence with client (no verification of client claims)
Allocations did not match tranche schedule (not scaling trust over time)
Subsequent allocations given despite noncompliant client deal-making (no verification of data legitimacy)
No retrievability for datasets, despite claims of public open data by both allocator and client (not showing distributed network data storage utility)

Given these details, this allocator will not receive a subsequent allocation request to the root key holders at this time.

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