Grant proposal: ARC data wallet

Hello Kino, thank you for your reply

For now we plan to install our node and let all users use it. For this reason we added 1-year budget for infrastructure rent - to support this solution after delivery. In future we plan to add functionality to switch a node and connect to any other particular node, chosen by a user. In all our Web3 projects we proceed from the fact that one of the main principles should be decentralization, therefore we plan to work on this issue in the future.

Privacy will be preserved by encrypting uploaded files with user’s key in the extension and these files will be received by a node already encrypted.

Explanations of the FTE parameter - both developers will work full time + partially PO, QA and management, so we got 6,8 man-months in total that fit in 3 calendar months due to the team of several developers.

Renterd seems ok, we are learning it’s API and everything seems good for our task now.

Hello @dsrdrk11a,

We’re happy to let you know that the committee has approved this proposal!

The committee was satisfied with your justification for their concerns, namely the clarification of the Sia node location and project duration.

We’ll reach out to you via email to start onboarding.

Thanks,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Hello, all!
Here’s our report on the work done in August. I’ve also shared it with Steve by the mail.

Hi all!
Here’s the Sept report: https://github.com/bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension/blob/develop/grant_reports/Sept_report.md

Next month an MVP will be ready for the test net.

Thanks for this! Please edit your progress report post to follow the format found here: About the Grants category - #8

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Hello @dsrdrk11a,

This is a reminder that your October progress report is now late.

Progress reports are expected to be posted by the end of the 2nd day of the next month, in this instance your October progress report was due on November 2nd.

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Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

I’m sorry, didn’t get the reminder on mail. Just switched on the notifications not to miss the new ones.
Here’s the report with demo video and you can also use the extension in the test net:

Hi all!
Here’s a link to the Nov report:

Hello, all! I hope yiou have a great NY holidays!
Here’s our report for Dec’23

Thanks @dsrdrk11a! For future progress reports, please paste the body content in the forum response as opposed to linking to Github. Thanks!

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Hello @dsrdrk11a,

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Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

Hello!
Here’s the Jan report:

What progress was made on your grant this month?
Please summarize your progress in 3-5 sentences or bullet points:

To increase throughput and lower the gateway resources consuption when uploading large files we have changed the intermediate storage which is used to store client’s files while uploading them to the network - now the disk space is used. The files are deleted as soon as they are uploaded to the network.

All tariffs shown in the extension are now tied to the current SC/USD exchange rate according to USD prices shown on the Tiri web site.

Current version is 0.0.21: Releases · bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension · GitHub.

I’ll update on the main net extension when it will be approved by the Chrome Web Store.

Hi, all!
The Feb report:

What progress was made on your grant this month?

In Feb we have published the Tiri main net extension. Current version is 1.0.0: Releases · bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension · GitHub .

We have added the dapp version notification for users to update the dapp when a new version is published. Also, some manipulations with tariffs were made.
Here’s the last updated repo: GitHub - bsn-si/sia-datawallet-gateway

Hello @dsrdrk11a

Thank you for your progress report!

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

Hello! In March we didn’t make a lot. We are working with billing: have changed some tariffs mechanics and fixed a few minor problems, but still have to execute tests. We will push the new version till Tuesday, I think, and I’ll comment here when done.

The Mar report:

What progress was made on your grant this month?

We have worked with billing and tariffs, fixed different issues, for example - the free “disk” space indicator now correctly considers deleted files and tariff change.
Current version of the extension is 1.0.1: Releases · bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension · GitHub .

Here are the last updated repos:
GitHub - bsn-si/sia-datawallet-gateway
GitHub - bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension

Hello @dsrdrk11a,

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Progress reports are due by the end of the 2nd day of the month, in this instance your April progress report was due on May 2nd.

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Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

Hello! Sorry for silence, we’ve got national holidays in Slovenia, as well as in Serbia the whole last week and the team is out till tomorrow. From the code perspective we’ve just added a “support” form, so users could request support if they agree to reveal an email for messaging. I’ll push the update to Git asap and put a report form here.
In April we were working on the Tiri concept that will help to gain mass adoption. The Tiri dapp shows that a user can easily, yet privately and securely store data on-chain, but using a browser extension fits only archive storage tasks and users need an operational storage like Dropbox - this is the main feedback that we’ve got from our test and first users. So we are developing a technical description for using Tiri as a remote virtual disk storage.

April Progress Report

What progress was made on your grant this month?

We’ve added a user support form, so users could request support if they agree to reveal an email for messaging.
As we have fulfilled all the planned deliverables, the current work on the project is mostly focused on the product concept, model and technical design of the needed features.

Summarize any problems that you ran into this month and how you’ll be solving them.

I see these main tasks with additional features:

  1. Adding integration with local file system, so users could work with their files locally. This feature is quiet clear and we don’t see technical constraints. The tech description is prepared.
  2. File sharing. If we want to stay as decentralized as possible, this feature could be solved with an access list smart contract like here, for example, but smart contracts are not available at the moment. So this feature is something that requires contemplation over its concept.
  3. The HTLC would be a great feature for SIA mass adoption and for all projects on SIA as well, so we are eagerly monitoring the progress of the Komodo team’s work on this task. This should allow payments for SIA services from different networks.

Links to repos worked on this month:
GitHub - bsn-si/sia-datawallet-gateway
GitHub - bsn-si/sia-datawallet-extension
The current version of the extension is 1.0.2

What will you be working on next?

In May I plan to finish a technical description of local FS integration and the product model.

Hello @dsrdrk11a,

Thank you for your progress report!

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee