A short documentary born at Edge Esmeralda 2026 - after a creative dinner where projects meet, an event with a live DJ set recording and collective mural painting together. Interviews with participants about what brought them here, unified by one bottom line: co-creation.

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 160000. The [Filecoin Data Portal ](https://filecoindataportal.xyz/)will keep Filecoin's public data layer reliable, open, reproducible, through December 2026. It will maintain the core datasets, models, dashboards, metric docs, public files, and agent-rea…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. QMesh Vault will make Filecoin the verifiable memory, provenance, and archival backbone for QMesh, an agentic AI platform for automated drug discovery over distributed quantum and classical compute. The project will let biology labs package each disc…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 504000. # ***High-Efficiency Infrastructure:*** * ***Only implementation with fast snapshot generation**, delivering 10x faster snapshot generation while using \~88% less RAM and \~56% less disk\*\** * ***More performant, lower-cost RPC than Lotus**, w…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $190,000. **Project Description:** Operating a Filecoin Storage Provider requires expertise across multiple complex systems: Lotus, Curio, Boost, Singularity, Filecoin Pay, storage infrastructure, networking, sealing pipelines, deal onboarding, payment workf…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $190,000. **Project Description** Verifiable Data Marketplace is not another data onboarding or storage product. It is a B2B marketplace for licensing and selling verifiable datasets, with Filecoin used as the infrastructure layer for storage, integrity, and…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $92,000. Project Description The goal of this project is to create and maintain a machine-readable Filecoin ecosystem knowledge layer that can be consumed by both developers and AI systems. Today, Filecoin technical knowledge is distributed across documentat…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 106866.67. The goal of this proposal is to keep providing the premium Node Hosting services for the Filecoin community and development team as we have been providing for years as Glif Nodes. Given the recent extreme spikes in a hardware pricing, Chain.Love…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 34000. FIL Accrual Verifier will build open-source monitoring and keeper tooling for Filecoin Pay’s existing fee-auction burn mechanism. Filecoin Pay deducts a 0.5% network fee from payment-rail settlements, places non-native ERC-20 fee balances in the payme…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $185,000. Filecoin is finally getting paid for storage, but that revenue settles in stablecoins and bypasses FIL, only the hard-coded 0.5% network-fee burn reaches the token, while every other FIL lock/burn is supply-side and funded by declining emissions. …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $235,000. The RWA Compliance Vault is a compliance-grade evidence and vault-operations product for tokenized real-world-asset (RWA) issuers and regulated asset managers, sold as a supported SaaS offering with Filecoin as the verifiable storage backbone. It c…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $26000. AI agents are starting to do real things on Web3, signing transactions, calling contracts, moving funds around on their own. While doing this, they constantly produce background signals, how long things take, how much gas gets used, how the API respo…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 120000. OSCIRIS Labs is building a Filecoin-backed evidence and provenance layer for secure AI compute. The project will turn OSCIRIS' existing verifier-backed AI workload protocol into a product that stores signed job receipts, model outputs, inference chec…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $120,000. Goldsky will continue its existing relationship with Filecoin by sustaining the indexing infrastructure and ecosystem support that Filecoin and FEVM teams use to build applications, run analytics, and monitor onchain activity. The base scope contin…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 30000. DotSwarm is a production-grade C# / .NET peer for the libp2p universal-connectivity ecosystem, paired with the first real-world application demo — a decentralized supply chain tracking system — built on top of it. The libp2p universal-connectivity r…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: USD $300,000 (over a 6-month term, Oct 2025 – Mar 2026). FilPonto is a Filecoin public-goods coordination cell that funds and maintains connective infrastructure, developer tooling, grants advisory and Filecoin partner integration work. In Batch 3, FilPonto …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. Filecoin's developer documentation at docs.filecoin.io is a critical but underserved piece of the network's growth infrastructure — it is the first place developers, AI agents, and enterprise evaluators land when assessing whether to build on Filecoi…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 210000. **Verify It Bro (VIB)** is an npm-compatible registry that uses Filecoin Onchain Cloud as a verifiable storage and provenance layer for JavaScript packages. The registry will allow developers and teams to: - publish npm-compatible packages; - store…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $35000. **Vaultra** will accomplish the creation of a production-ready, cross-platform desktop backup application that enables developers, SMBs, and DAOs to schedule automated, encrypted folder backups to Filecoin's Warm Storage Service. The project supports…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $250,000. ScopeLift will assess, design and ship for audit a value accrual model that leverages burn and lock mechanisms relevant to Filecoin's storage and retrieval markets within six months, paired with appropriate onchain data tooling and public dashboard…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 110000. **On Filecoin today, a storage provider proves on-chain that it still holds your data, while a separate system pays it. The two never talk, so payment keeps flowing even when the proof stops. ProofGate is the missing link: it makes payment follow pro…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 20000. RailBurn is a Filecoin Pay-compatible service-commission burn recipient for routing configurable service/operator commission flow into FIL burn. Filecoin Pay already supports payment rails with commissionRateBps and serviceFeeRecipient; RailBurn uses …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 77400. Filecoin Infrastructure Services funds the continued operation, hardening, and cost-reduction of critical, neutral Filecoin infrastructure the network already depends on: the snapshot service (24×7), the historical snapshot archive, bootstrap nodes, t…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 165000. **Velic** is a SaaS web application that stores professional video master files on the Filecoin Onchain Cloud and gives each customer continuous, independent, on-chain proof that every master remains present and bit-for-bit intact. That assurance com…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $320,000 USD & 67,200 FIL. Curio is the go-to infrastructure that enables Filecoin storage providers to maintain power and reliably execute paid storage deals. Maintained by the FilOz team, this proposal funds the continued development and maintenance of Cur…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $280,000. 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 fro…

Collaborative zine and poetry project recording Edge Esmeralda 2026 tensions and track themes.

Our goal is to create a replicable model for better living and better governance that others can copy in order to bring back community into people's lives and revitalize the urban and suburban form.

View and subscribe to edge community members' work.

A focused experiment using ultrasound to investigate whether trauma leaves detectable patterns in the vascular system.

Using Reasonscape to map, decompose, and resolve key conceptual bottlenecks in core philosophical debates, with machine consciousness as a primary example domain.

A decentralized interview process testing whether structured Reasonscape maps help facilitate cross-cultural dialogue on hard questions like conflict.

A video essay and song exploring subjectivity, with crowdsourced visuals and collaboration from Edge residents.

Build a moltbook for Edge Esmeralda

Establish the Vibe Code Residency as a recurring program at all Edge City popup villages, starting with Edge India.

A pilot to introduce individual excavation blocks into Simocracy gatherings after S-Process voting to measure human-agent alignment and make decision=making legible

A pilot event testing whether structured multithreaded reflection helps sophisticated users move past conversation stalls on hard normative questions.

A living tool that lets the village see itself. Anyone surfaces what they notice; any three self-organize a council and run a small experiment. What works becomes culture; what doesn't becomes learning. Decentralized, transparent, self-correcting — collective intelligence as infrastructure.

A beautiful communal sauna for Edge City India: a daily wind-down ritual for recovery, conversation, and village life.

Standard sprints measure speed; we measure depth and divergence.

A month-long gathering in Northern California for people building a brighter future (May 30 - June 27, 2026).

A fellowship funding exceptional builders under 25 to spend a month at Edge City working on frontier fields.

A month-long popup village in India where frontier builders prototype the future — timed around Devcon Mumbai.

Let's bring a PoolParty to Edge's ClawCon: a live public-screen channel where creators submit media, audiences and agents coordinate in the open, pooling reversible collateral and $1,000 flows through transparent reward rules to creators as a test of fair platform revenue distribution.

Ribbit! A playful behavioral study comparing village residents with their Simocracy agents, culminating in an in-person sweet dairy summit. If you're curious, you'll ribbit along!

A participatory event where EE residents go out into Healdsburg with small budgets and open hearts to create connection and random acts of kindness for local residents. Then they return to share what they learned on the ground about what a flourishing future for humanity feels like.

Ever wanted a carbon sequestering hat with a multipurpose hole to rep Edge City with? Introducing: HolyHats (bucket hats with a top-knot hole, bun portal, vitamin D receiver and halo tan line maker) made from RTV's infinitely-recyclable fish-net based nylon. Includes BYO-art customization options :)

A robust three-tier roadmap (TheSys, TerraSys, TechnoSys) for modular preference frameworks, co-living models, and organic-synthetic intelligence scaling.

A giant raw linen scroll inside The Hub for every resident to sign, sketch, and co-write as a physical village yearbook. Scan the QR code to watch signatures activate web-friendly AR community threads.

Funds to buy 3D printing filament, fabric for Edge merch, acrylic for laser cutting name tags, etc.

An online tool/service to make a zine* together with friends from intimate gatherings and communities like Edge! (*zine = a smol magazine) Live at punto.press

A body-based practice that gives you a second way of seeing — available on demand, through your own body, no teacher required. For people building things that matter who need more than one perceptual lens to do it well.

Buy food at the farmer's market and have a huge, abundant picnic

Cuties.app, a small social media app with a dedicated following, is expanding into agentic infrastructure for connection. We want to create a neopets-inspired interface for personal agents to create more connection within the prosocial app.

The tagline of this experiment was to give away free money, but the actual process of doing so has become complicated and confusing. I will give away cash to people around town with all of the money I receive from this funding round.

A series of experiential salons bridging inner, relational, cultural, and planetary flourishing through cross-disciplinary dialogue across 8 frontier clusters.

Testing physical progress infrastructure by funding 2–3 micro-grants for local, ambitious builders and researchers to join Edge Esmeralda.

Generates shareable multimedia representations re: how agents view their humans and how agents predict their humans would respond to (and prioritize) various AI futures questions This produces data about fidelity of agent representations and facilitates low-friction discourse on important topics

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $230,000. Stax-Infra operates an independent Filecoin chain snapshot service that produces verified daily mainnet snapshots (full/live and a growing lite-archival history) plus calibnet snapshots, served over HTTPS with resumable downloads and an off-datacen…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 300,000. Secured Finance proposes to establish and evaluate a Stablecoin Settlement Infrastructure Program for the Filecoin ecosystem through the USDFC–axlUSDC liquidity layer. Today, stablecoin liquidity on FVM remains fragmented and shallow, creating high…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $17,000.00. ## 2.1 Project Summary **Plumbline** ([github.com/Reiers/plumbline](https://github.com/Reiers/plumbline)) is the operational stability layer for the Filecoin CalibrationNet, run by TSE Reiersen (Org. 929 074 912). This proposal funds **6 months …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $86,700. Regulated organisations in the EU and the US now carry legal post-quantum deadlines: DORA covers 22,000+ financial institutions, NIS2 covers roughly 160,000 entities, and CNSA 2.0 starts a supplier attestation wave in 2027. Each of them has to prepa…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $60,000. Blockscout requests funding to cover the upkeep, hosting, and maintenance of its Filecoin block explorer for a 12-month period beginning in December 2026. This grant keeps the Mainnet and Calibration Testnet instances online, indexed, and current wi…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $100,000.. 1. Retrievex is an escrow-based retrieval coordination layer for Filecoin that enables clients to request data retrieval from storage providers with verifiable on-chain payment guarantees. 2. The system introduces a structured request–receipt–conf…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 150000. BurnRouter is a modular smart-contract protocol on FVM that creates a permanent, autonomous link between Filecoin's growing stablecoin storage revenues and native FIL scarcity. The protocol operates at the application layer, offering two integration…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. Core objective: To enable individuals to actively promote and utilize FFSW, ensuring that FFSW offers a user experience comparable to that of traditional cloud providers Filecoin's gap: The current storage mechanism of FFSW is excellent, but it has a…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 225000. Vellum is a verifiable agent-memory and audit-log service: it ingests the audit trail and memory of AGNTCY-based multi-agent systems, binds each record to the agent's verifiable identity, content-addresses it for tamper-evidence, and persists it to F…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 45,000. PDP Compass is a decision simulator and readiness tool for infrastructure operators who are considering becoming Filecoin PDP providers. PDP is becoming an important part of Filecoin’s warm storage and Onchain Cloud direction. However, many external…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 85,000. Ownfeed is a customer-facing archive product built around a simple promise: Own what you follow. Users follow curated KOLs and can enable Archive for any KOL they care about. From that moment onward, Ownfeed automatically captures new public posts, g…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 100000. The main pain points to be solved by the project: (1)Solve the problem of high barriers to entry for storage providers: fil ops system integrates filecoin-related technologies to easily and effectively complete project deployment and business operati…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $500. Gossipsub 1.4 Large Message Propagation Framework is an attempt at improving the capacity of the Filecoin network to propagate large payloads through a peer-to-peer network. Existing gossip protocols have been designed for smaller payloads; thus, bandw…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $225,000. VeraLayer is a decentralized data gateway that secures Africa’s digital future by archiving high-value public goods, including 3MTT technical portfolios and the FESTAC cultural archives. Utilizing the filecoin.cloud infrastructure, our project pr…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 40000. GooseSwarm is a production-grade decentralized peer-to-peer AI agent coordination platform built on py-libp2p. It ships GossipSub-based direct messaging and group chat, distributed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) across peers, paid file sha…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $225,000. CbyUCE Rights-Aware Creative Archives will add a Filecoin-backed archival tier for large creative, media, institutional, and AI-provenance assets. The project will convert CbyUCE’s creator-rights and evidence workflows into Filecoin storage and ret…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $220,000. Debox will integrate Filecoin Onchain Cloud as a durable storage layer for selected files and intentional file versions inside its existing mounted encrypted drive workflow. The project will allow users to choose which data should receive encrypted…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 180000. This project aims to build a Filecoin-based digital content provenance and copyright protection platform, covering both traditional creative works (photography, illustration, design) and AI-generated content. Our core objective is to solve the trust …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 180000. MALT Vault will productize MALT into a Filecoin-backed verifiable memory service for AI agents and AI teams. Users will store encrypted memory, documents, artifacts, and audit logs on Filecoin, while MALT provides a mutable semantic layer for struc…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 6500. P2PCalc replaces the centralized sync layer in EtherCalc, an open-source collaborative spreadsheet tool, with py-libp2p GossipSub and Filecoin-backed snapshot storage. EtherCalc currently routes every edit through a central Node.js server and Redis, w…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 170000. 1.This project will build a cryptographically-guaranteed AI Agent trusted memory and end-to-end audit managed service based on Filecoin Onchain Cloud, delivering tamper-proof memory storage and traceable behavior tracking for highly regulated sectors…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 110000. This project proposes optimisations to Filecoin's networking layer stack, libp2p. The proposed optimisations come as a result of ProbeLab's measurements and performance audit studies. If implemented, these changes will reduce bandwidth requirements o…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200,000. Lighthouse BaaS is a live, professional-grade Backup-and-Retention product (https://baas.lighthouse.storage/) sold to compliance, enterprise, and AI buyers, with Filecoin as the verifiable storage substrate. It already ships immutable point-in-time …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 150000. We will ship a productized, agent-native storage service that lets any AI agent persist artefacts permanently on Filecoin by paying per use over the open x402 payment protocol without accounts, deals to negotiate nor human in the loop. An agent makes…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $250,000. This project will deploy the Pyth Pro consumer contract on the Filecoin network, giving every protocol on FVM access to first-party, sub-second market data sourced directly from exchanges, market makers, and trading firms. To make the data immediat…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 110000. The current state of the Gossipsub relays and Libp2p network used by most Lotus SPs to consume drand beacons with very low latency is overly centralized and has been a source of concern for community members in the past. The current drand distributi…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. This project aims to develop a specialized on-chain explorer for the Filecoin paid storage market, providing real-time visualization of storage providers' core metrics, including earnings, data capacity, and FIL collateral. It serves as a critical re…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. Veridex turns the audit trail that every AI agent *should* keep into a verifiable, regulator-grade product backed by Filecoin. Our Agent Fabric already captures each agent's reasoning, policy verdicts, approvals, and on-chain payment references into …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 30000. Veil Stack is a decentralized Docker container scheduler — every container deployed would originate a Filecoin storage deal anchored on-chain via FEVM. The Canteen contract is already deployed and verified on Calibration (0x04dEf...d4b7). This grant b…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 300000. Hedera Guardian is the open-source (Apache-2.0) platform that lets standards bodies, registries, and project developers digitize environmental methodologies and issue, verify, and tokenize assets such as carbon credits with cryptographic, auditable p…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 158000. This project will build an open-source **Filecoin Storage Agent** that allows AI agents, applications, and API clients to pay for Filecoin-backed storage and retrieval through [x402 payment flows](https://x402.org) -- using [Ax402](https://ax402.io) …

A Uganda-based initiative that empowers youth, women, and farmers to restore ecosystems and improve livelihoods through regenerative agriculture, beekeeping, and climate education. It strengthens food security, biodiversity, and sustainable incomes through community-led action

A Uganda-based initiative that empowers youth, women, and farmers to restore ecosystems and improve livelihoods through regenerative agriculture, beekeeping, and climate education. It strengthens food security, biodiversity, and sustainable incomes through community-led action

June 19 Simocracy x Edge launch event for digital twins, alignment, live governance workflows, participant onboarding, and feedback for agentic public-goods funding.

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 180000. Aweb Filecoin Agent Receipt Archive will define an open-source archive profile for AI-agent execution evidence: scoped authority, tool/provider invocation, status, cost, failure state, recovery state, and redaction boundaries. The Filecoin-specific w…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 50,000. We'll be responsible for the bugfix and protocol network upgrading of lotus and boost components.…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 200000. InferGrid will build a managed verifiable AI work service for embeddings, RAG, and agent workflows on Filecoin. Customers submit AI jobs through a familiar API; large model artifacts, datasets, RAG indexes, agent memory, and task receipts are represe…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 100000. Fetcher is a TypeScript SDK that gives AI agents — Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini — 17 native tools to store, retrieve, verify, and remember data on Filecoin Onchain Cloud. It is the first SDK to bridge MCP, LangChain, and LlamaIndex with Synapse SDK in a si…

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: $130,000 USD. **Curio Core + Lantern is the pure-Go Filecoin Onchain Cloud stack:** a Filecoin SP implementation small enough to run on a single VM (one ~90 MB static binary, ~55 MB RSS at idle), with the chain backend (Lantern) embedded directly in-process …

ProPGF Batch 3 application. Requested: 95000. AI teams are sitting on a compliance time bomb. The EU AI Act requires documented, auditable training data provenance — and most teams have no way to prove their datasets weren't tampered with after the fact. ProvenanceLayer is a paid product that sol…