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 the current shared path.
Paid-Tier Cache Invalidation
Flush stale 404 entries from the edge cache when paid publishers ingest new content. Without this, the M1 latency gains are wiped out by negative-cache TTLs at the CDN.
GM Coordination & Stakeholder Management
General Manager function across the six months. Roadmap, partner and ecosystem coordination, engineering oversight, grant reporting, and federation onboarding prep.
Paid-Tier Pricing Framework & Calibration
Calibration conversations with at least five large publishers, then a published pricing framework and draft SLA for the paid tier.
Sustainability Plan & 6-Month Check-in
The formal sustainability deliverable and 6-month check-in report for ProPGF. Updated sustainability plan, revenue-share model, and the shape of the next funding cycle.
Technical Advisor
Retained advisory at $3K/month covering architectural input, protocol guidance, and datacenter labor on the SF rack.
Operational Upkeep, Datacenter & External Services
Rack costs in San Francisco, disk replacements and incidental hardware, Cloudflare, monitoring tooling, and other recurring services.
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…