Notary Application: Protocan

[AthSmith]

Notary Application

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

Core Information

• Name: AnthonySmith
• Affiliated organization: Protocan
• On-chain address to be notarized (recommend using a new address):f1vxbqrf7rfum3n6m5u6eb4re6xj7amvsaqnzu64y
• Country of Operation: Singapore
• Region of Operation: [Asia minus GCR]
• Use case(s) to be supported: [Open dataset and Enterprise data]
• DataCap requested for allocation (10TiB - 1PiB): 1PiB
• Are you applying on behalf of yourself or an organization?: [Organization]

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).

Engaged in Filecoin ecosystem since the mainnet as
1. storage providers
2. FIL Investor
3. SpaceRace and MinerX project
4. Due deligence as a community member
5. Attend the weekly conference call 
More information:
- GitHub handles: Protocan
-  Miner ID: f0673920, f0133501,f0407733, f0463030
- Slack: @Protocan

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).

The total FIL at stake is over 1MM, with the following miners f0673920, f0133501,f0407733, f0463030 by the end of last month.

How did you acquire the FIL cited above?

Filecoin Storage Provide Service.

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.

1. Working as a Fil+ potential Notary(AnthonySmith) in the community from 2021 to 2022.
2. Answering some frequently asked questions which were put forward by the members in slack for years.

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.

Protocan Labs was founded in 2020,  we are a venture capital focusing on blockchain technology and infrastructure incubation. Now we have 15+ employees in Singapore.

Please share any relevant details to help substantiate information about your organization (website, named officers, links to social media profiles).

https://www.protocan.info
2 Science Park Dr, Singapore, Central Singapore
@protocanlabs2022

Please share any relevant external information regarding your organization (e.g. news articles, social media profiles, etc.)

https://medium.com/protofire-blog/protofire-integrates-the-filecoin-storage-with-ocean-protocol-a4a44ec10e47
https://medium.com/@sentimentxyz/on-chain-lending-its-history-shortcomings-and-future-2dd4a116cd78

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.

@Protocanlabs2022 Followers: 12.8k
@AnthonySmithWeb3  Followers: 5500+

Please share any additional relevant information regarding your presence (e.g. news articles, interviews, podcasts, videos, awards, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPIVDAl6KHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cr8ZhFY2Mg

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.

We will allocate different amounts of DataCap depending on several factors.
1. Due Diligence & KYC
We will check for company, team, legitimacy, and GitHub account authorization
2. DataCap scoring
The allocation of DataCap will be approved on the following basis: 
Please refers detail with link below: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CHZpHXI8xJcV78Jn-8n78qHeyHW13w_Kg0VtWJ1HfWI/edit?usp=sharing
3. We will help the client who is the first time apply for DataCap regarding the POC and Onboarding

How do you plan on securing the DataCap to ensure your organization (and its delegated members) are the ones allocating the DataCap?

We have dedicated staff to manage the ledger.

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?

We will ask questions under the client's application.
Please describe answers as much specificity as you can.
1. Can you introduce yourself? Where can I find you online? (Github, Twitter, Linkedin handle, Wechat, etc.)
2. If you represent an organization, what is the name, nature, registration country, time since inception, and named officers of your organization?
3. In which region(s) do you intend to use the DataCap?
4. What is your use case for the DataCap being requested?
5. How many miners do you plan on allocating the DataCap? If you have a specific SP(s) ,how you would like to allocate a DataCap, please specify.
6. Do you agree on providing transparency of DataCap allocation decisions & execution details in public to prevent excessive/unfair self-dealing? 

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.

We will also use Filecoin-related platforms to confirm. https://filplus.info/
To make sure deals are not distributed within a single SP entity, I plan to check on a regular basis to eliminate the concerns.

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?

Both GitHub and my email can do it.
https://filplus.d.interplanetary.one/

Where do you plan on keeping a publicly accessible record of all your allocation decisions?

You can check all of the process in Github, and get the result report in https://filplus.d.interplanetary.one.

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

L3

Track Record

Past allocation

Have you previously received DataCap to allocate before? If so, please link to any previous applications.

N/A

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.

N/A

[filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot]

Thanks for your request!
Everything looks good. 👌

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.

[filecoin-notaries-onboarding-bot]

Thanks for your request!
Everything looks good. 👌

    A Governance Team member will review the information provided and contact you back pretty soon.

[Kevin-FF-USA]

Hi @Protocan,

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:

Your First and Last name
Your Organization
Your Country of Operation
Your Slack handle in filecoinproject.slack.com
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!

[AthSmith]

The code number has been sent by Slack，please check~

[galen-mcandrew]

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

[AthSmith]

Hi @galen-mcandrew @Kevin-FF-USA ,We'd like to add the following comments and hope to get the score updated, thank you very much!

#Client Due Diligence
After approval:

1. If the DataCap remains unallocated for a certain time, explain the reason why this happens? Any help needed from the notary to find some SPs?
2. If a single SP stores over 25% of data, or the number of SP is lower than promised in application, ask them to make modifications as soon as possible and explain why?

The questions we are going to ask may vary due to different information provided by clients, we will ask further questions to clear the doubts as we see fit. Hopefully, if all the responses make sense, then the application will be approved. But if we can not decide on our own, in fairness, we will invite other notaries to decide.

#Bookkeeping Plan
We will make the allocation decision tracker public on Github.
Our allocation decisions are self-explanatory to a high degree,because we made client scoring table and allocation decision tracker, the allocation amount is calculated by a formula automatically, it is relatively fair and objective.
In case of any disagreement/dispute, then initiate an allocation decision discussion publicly on slack or github, if the decision still remains controversial after that, then send a dispute resolution application to Notary Governance team within 10 working days, the governance team will rule accordingly. Besides, we can escalate the dispute issue to Notary Govenance call for discussion, all the notaries and governance team will decide on the dispute.

#Service Level Agreement
We guarantee that 16 hours per week will be spent on processing applications and responding to messages or leaving comments on proposals. We will attend 2 notary governance meetings every month. We plan to attend 2 or more working groups. Hopefully we will become new notary for this round,that means it is unrealistic to main a good ranking in Leaderboard for now, but we will spare no effort to raise the ranking in future. If possiblie，we'd like to choose Level 4.

Thank you for reviewing again!

[Kevin-FF-USA]

@Protocan
Thank you for applying to serve as a Notary in support of the Filecoin Plus program. After review of your application and a diligent scoring of your past and potential future contributions to the program, you have been selected to onboard as a Notary in this 4th round of elections.

In the coming days you will receive an onboarding training checklist. It will walk you through the steps to verify your ledger verification in https://plus.fil.org/ as well as outline the best practices and responsbilities for a Notary in the Program.

Next steps

1. By 20 December - Complete the CONTACT AND DISCLOSURES form
   1. https://airtable.com/shrjx52lvefitwdq6
2. By 30 December - Ensure that the Governance meeting time is on your calendar and make scheduling plans which allow you to commit to attending per your SLA level expectations. (L1-L5)

Please reach out to Galen, Kevin-FF, or Philop on Slack if you have any questions.

[panges2]

Hi @Protocan, this is a kind reminder to get your ledger verified by Wednesday, Feb 8. To connect and set up your account in the Registry, please follow this short guide.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VCksV4_roLSTmaPqZJ8u643rykC0A7Z53YBDUoIY1xc/edit?usp=sharing
For a longer video walkthrough - see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFvRjjplt4NpRz4P67320D2g3Z42ePzj/view

[AthSmith]

Notary Ledger Verified

Message sent to Filecoin Network

message CID: bafy2bzaceabxeiiqt6tjga2fd4ites3n377tghyfua2rjctfilv4ocfk26t3q

You can check the status of the message here: https://filfox.info/en/message/bafy2bzaceabxeiiqt6tjga2fd4ites3n377tghyfua2rjctfilv4ocfk26t3q

[AthSmith]

Thank you! @panges2