Funding Ask: $1M for 1 full year (or $500k per 6 months)

Over the past year, FilPonto has operated as a critical public goods and technical support initiative within the Filecoin ecosystem. Led by Eva, the entity focused on bolstering ecosystem accessibility through infrastructure coordination, wallet and developer tooling, grant advisory, and responsive ecosystem support. Collaborating closely with ecosystem stakeholders such as FF, PLFIF, FilOz, Fil-B, Nexus and others, FilPonto oversaw a $1M budget that funded day-to-day ecosystem support activities—and $769K of which was directly allocated to grants supporting high-impact, open-chain infrastructure and tools and integrations.

Key highlights include improved L1 infrastructure coordination (e.g. Glif Nodes RPC, Laconic and Goldsky for subgraphs), wallet integrations (Safe, Filecoin MetaMask Wallet, Ledger), developer tooling (iso-filecoin, Gelato, BlockScout), and early-stage experimental projects (on-chain paid deals PoCs with CID Gravity and FF social impact datasets). FilPonto also provided grant advisory, scoped a number of successful ecosystem grants for the FF, and supported events to boost awareness and adoption.

For the coming year, FilPonto seeks a funding refresh of $1M, identical to the PLFIF funding of the previous year, to continue this critical work and operation of its strategic grants pool. This will directly support being responsive to priority ecosystem needs including defi infrastructure, expanding tooling support, on-chain paid deal workflow scaling, and exploring innovative applications of existing ecosystem technology like verifiable data streams. A discretionary grants pool is essential for maintaining strategic agility in the face of evolving ecosystem needs and sustaining high-leverage public goods contributions across the Filecoin stack.