Last week, we shared the results of the first of two challenges we sponsored for the recently-concluded Spark University Hackathon. This week, we shine a spotlight on the winners of our second challenge: building an app that showcases the convenience of interoperability between Filecoin and IPFS.

在过去的3个周内，社区里的矿工们参与了Filecoin太空竞赛并向测试网添加了许多存储。我们很激动地向大家宣布第二轮太空竞赛，这是在太空竞赛期间基于强大发展的网络进行创建的第二阶段。这也给了我们一次在主网启动之际可以在网络层面继续测试和改进Filecoin的机会。

As a part of the Space Race events program, on September 9th the Filecoin team hosted another live AMA with the Filecoin community, answering questions on Space Race, cryptoeconomics, Filecoin mining. Our engineering team also helped miners troubleshoot some common issues.

The Spark University Hackathon has come to a close! Over the last two months, hundreds of participants came together to build novel blockchain solutions to address specific challenges. We’re excited to announce the winners of the first of two challenges we proposed: building a system for storing, retrieving, and verifying research data with Filecoin.

As a part of the Space Race events program, the Filecoin team are hosting weekly live AMAs with the Filecoin community. On September 2nd our team hosted the first of two AMAs, answering 20+ questions on Space Race, cryptoeconomics, and Filecoin mining. In addition, we helped miners troubleshoot certain issues.

去年年底，我们圆满地完成了可信配置环节的第一阶段，也就是“powers of tau”。今年7月我们完成了可信配置的第二阶段——为主网的将要使用的6个逻辑电路生成安全参数。

现在在挑选云服务提供商时大家的自由度相对较小，几个大型的数据中心网络与品牌效应使得竞争非常激烈，新的平台难以进入市场。将数据从一个服务提供商转移到另一个提供商的过程较慢，耗费人力与资金，并且难以保证互操作性。我们的愿景是，在未来有标准的交互界面，任何人可以轻松地作为存储提供方加入存储市场。

More than three dozen teams took home prizes at the HackFS Finale. The amazing array of projects created within the month-long hackathon covered almost every facet of the decentralized web – from communications tools, to gaming, to dev tools, to new innovations in DeFi. We’ll keep tracking the progress of these teams and others.

Around the world, thousands of individuals and teams are devoting their energy, talent, and resources to making Filecoin an important building block of the internet’s evolving infrastructure. As we saw these past few weeks during HackFS, the products and services these teams are building are truly revolutionary.

Our August 2020 roadmap update covers progress made since the last roadmap update - with a special celebration of today’s launch of the Filecoin Space Race, our incentivized testnet competition.