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Notary Application: Etlink #641

Closed yujia1023 closed 1 year ago

yujia1023 commented 1 year ago

Notary Application

To apply to be a Fil+ Notary, please review the Notary Overview here and then fill out the following form.

Core Information

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
Kevin-FF-USA commented 1 year ago

Thank you @yujia1023,

Confirming receipt of your application. I will be in touch in the coming days with further questions and follow up.

filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided

    Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
yujia1023 commented 1 year ago

Thank you @yujia1023,

Confirming receipt of your application. I will be in touch in the coming days with further questions and follow up.

Thanks Kevin, sounds good and talk to you soon

filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
Kevin-FF-USA commented 1 year ago

Hi @yujia1023 Thanks for applying to become a Notary in the Fil+ program!

As we score your application, you will need to verify your contact information and affiliated organization. Since you are applying on behalf of an organization, please email NOTARYELECTION@FIL.ORG from your Organizations email account. *This cannot be from your personal account. You Must include the address of your Organization.

Subject Line: Notary Name, Application Number Email Body:

  1. Your First and Last name
  2. Your Organization
  3. Your Country of Operation
  4. Your Slack handle in [filecoinproject.slack.com](http://filecoinproject.slack.com/)
  5. Link to this GitHub application

This step needs to be completed by 28NOV. Emails received after the 28th run the risk of delaying scoring and may result in your application not being completed. Once we receive verification of your email, we will then send you a token code to verify and link your SLACK account.

Should you have any questions, please post them here in the comments section of your application and tag @Kevin-FF-USA and @panges2

Thank you!

Kevin-FF-USA commented 1 year ago

Hi @yujia1023,

Thanks for applying to become a Notary in the Fil+ program!

As we score your application, you will need to verify your contact information and affiliated organization. Since you are applying on behalf of an organization, please email NOTARYELECTION@FIL.ORG from your Organizations email account. *This cannot be from your personal account. You Must include the address of your Organization.

Subject Line: Notary Name, Application Number Email Body:

  1. Your First and Last name
  2. Your Organization
  3. Your Country of Operation
  4. Your Slack handle in filecoinproject.slack.com
  5. Link to this GitHub application

This step needs to be completed by 28NOV. Emails received after the 28th run the risk of delaying scoring and may result in your application not being completed. Once we receive verification of your email, we will then send you a token code to verify and link your SLACK account.

Should you have any questions, please post them here in the comments section of your application and tag @Kevin-FF-USA and @panges2

Thank you!

yujia1023 commented 1 year ago

Thank you Kevin, email has been sent.

filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
galen-mcandrew commented 1 year ago

Please see attached for initial notary scoring by governance team. Thank you for applying! 641.pdf

large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! Everything looks good. :ok_hand: 

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.
large-datacap-requests[bot] commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your request! :exclamation: We have found some problems in the information provided. We could not find your Name in the information provided We could not find your Filecoin address in the information provided We could not find the Datacap requested in the information provided We could not find any Web site or social media info in the information provided We could not find any Expected weekly DataCap usage rate in the information provided We could not find any Region in the information provided

Please, take a look at the request and edit the body of the issue providing all the required information.
yujia1023 commented 1 year ago

@galen-mcandrew @Kevin-FF-USA Hi, thank you for the feedback. In the Stake Exposure, Client Due Diligence and Bookkeeping plan category, we would like to provide more infromation to help the score.

Stake Exposure We have over 1MM FILs at stake, we will only disclose minerId outside of China: nodes operated in the United States: f01780412 f01059489 f0765173 f01906874 f01981059 with total over 250,000 FILs were locked node operated in HongKong: f01680508 over 50,000 FIL were locked Wallet address: f1ctk5qcbd5gci22vgppgfi2dji37e7kwwwl6nd2y Over 100,000 FIL f1b26gpxnynel7b3yr4qnzpwwdk62d5qpmgfsc7ga Over 100,000 FIL

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? The main goal of Due Diligence is to ensure that the client has a legitimate business, a valid business need to store large amount of public data on the filecoin network, and the client will conduct the data onboarding process in line with the Fil+ value and purpose. To that end, the following questions will be asked:

  1. Can you provide business documentation of the organization such as a copy of government-issued business registration form?
  2. Has the organization applied for DataCap before? If so, can you provide all the links of the applications before?
  3. Can you provide the website, social media account of the business?
  4. What is your role in the organization, or what is your relationship with the organization？
  5. If you represent the organization, Can you send an email from your business email account, if you are not from the organization, can you have someone who is to send me an email from the business email account, stating the use case and the purpose of the data onboarding to filecoin network?
  6. What is the data composition and can you provide sufficient sample data?
  7. How relevant is the sample data to your core business?
  8. Dose the nature of sample data justify the datacap amount you request?
  9. The data you intent to store on filecoin network, where are they stored now?
  10. How many copied you intent to store?
  11. what is your Filecoin Slack handle?
  12. Can you provide detailed information about the SPs who will store the data?
  13. How often will you retrieve those data?

Furthermore, if the client is applying for 3P datacap or more, more KYB will be performed, such as google search of the company, a third-party KYB tool to conduct a more comprehensive KYB.

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. 1.We will use filplus.info to check how the client’s datacap is used, clients are required to allocate DataCap to at least 3 or more SPs and no single SP ID should receive >30% of the allocated DataCap. And if the SPs who ended up storing the data are totally different from the SPs listed in the application, we will ask the client to explain why. And if there is a patten for the client of doing so, a waning will be issued to the client. 2.We will periodically do retrieval usability tests and check if the client is acting in good faith (i.e., the data stored is consistent with sample data provided).

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, and be monitored by the Filecoin Plus governance team and other notaries. And if there is a dispute, we will set up a 10-day publicity period, client can submit more information or suggestions. And we will have a online call which will be recorded to make the final decision.

Where do you plan on keeping a publicly accessible record of all your allocation decisions? All allocation decisions will be conducted publicly in the github repo, email notifications will be sent to all relevant parties as well

Kevin-FF-USA commented 1 year ago

@yujia1023

Thank you for applying to serve as a Notary in this 4th round of elections for the Filecoin Plus program. This round’s pool of applicants was the largest and most accomplished in the programs history; and in light of this, we were unable to offer positions to every worthy applicant. After carefully reviewing the application, I’m sorry to inform that it was not selected as a Notary in this 4th round.

Please know that this decision in no way diminishes your application. We are impressed by the contributions you’ve demonstrated and hope you continue to drive the success of the Filecoin storage system. The 5th round of new Notary Elections is scheduled to open in Q2 of 2023, and we encourage you to maintain a presence in the community and return during the next round. Please reach out to Galen, Kevin-FF, or Philip on Slack if you have any questions.

Thank you for the hard work your application represents.