Filecoin 2022 review: opening the world's largest distributed open data economy
Looking back at 2022, both the Web3 world and the real world have experienced ups and downs. However, in the face of many challenges, the Filecoin community still created many bright moments, working together in construction, and implementing the mission and vision of the project. Of particular note is the role Filecoin technology plays in verifying the authenticity of information (https://twitter.com/Filecoin/status/1613238456347418630?s=20), in a year of geopolitical instability and counterfeiting campaigns Help people find their way.
It is Filecoin's mission to create a distributed, efficient, and robust foundation for human information resources. In the eyes of many, Filecoin represents the largest distributed storage network in existence, but our vision goes far beyond the initial step of storage. The Filecoin community looks at building a distributed infrastructure to enable programmable storage (using smart contracts), data retrieval, and large-scale computing. When these milestones are established one by one, Filecoin will be able to open the world's largest distributed data economy, and provide users with another choice by rivaling the scale and service items of centralized cloud services.
Since the Filecoin mainnet was launched in October 2020, the community has progressed in an orderly manner according to a three-step development plan (Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet called the plan "Filecoin Masterplan(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= oY1ot0qD0Rw)"). In 2022, the first and second steps have achieved remarkable results. In 2023, the Filecoin community will focus on advancing the third step.
A list of key points of Filecoin growth in 2022:
Regarding storage capacity, Filecoin is the world's largest distributed storage network. Over 17 M TB of storage capacity contributed by >3800 storage providers worldwide. This capacity can store 275 copies of Internet Archive, which is 400 times that of the second place in the industry, marking Filecoin as the largest existing distributed storage network.
With regard to network utilization, user storage data will increase 16 times to more than 400 PiB in 2022, and tens of thousands of users have reached 13.9 million active transactions. There are many "new partners" among users, such as: MagicEden, Rarible(https:/ /blog.ipfs.tech/2022-07-21-rarible-and-nftstorage/), Kitsumon (https://blog.ipfs.tech/2022-07-15-ecosystem-highlight-kitsumon/) and Peeranha, some The Web2 big data set comes from UC Berkeley (https://www.sealstorage.io/blog/uc-berkeley-uses-web3-decentralized-storage-for-neutrino-research-data), University of Southern California (USC) and other universities, In addition to the official Philadelphia
At present, 500+ teams and start-up companies have devoted themselves to the construction of the ecosystem, with a total financing of nearly 500 million US dollars, and continue to drive "network utilization" through products and services.
We are grateful, humbled and respected for these accomplishments in difficult times for the industry in 2022.
Looking ahead, in 2023 there are many noteworthy projects ready to go. After all, with the launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) (https://fvm.filecoin.io), the Filecoin network will achieve programmability in Q1 of 2023, a major on-chain upgrade that gives Filecoin the opportunity to outperform All other L1 protocols are uniquely positioned to take the lead in the open-access digital economy.
The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) can expand the Filecoin economy, unlock more value for participants, and stimulate space demand. Everyone can write software on the Filecoin network and participate in the creation and acquisition of value around data. Filecoin storage services will also be more comprehensive, supporting a series of new application scenarios in the Web3 field. In addition, we will vigorously develop several major areas, such as retrieval (upgrading Filecoin to a distributed content distribution network), data-based computing (unlocking distributed conversion and data processing methods), and interstellar consensus (supporting Internet-level use cases), etc. An indispensable link in the third step of "Filecoin Masterplan" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY 1 ot 0 qD 0 Rw).
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Unlock programmability, fast winding, performance optimization
In 2022, the Filecoin network underwent a major update. The first major update (https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/trusted-setup-complete-for-network-v1 5-upgrade/), v1 5 launched in early January, updated to generate security parameters for four lines , that is"search market
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2022 is a big year for the search market. To maintain the development momentum in 2021, Retrieval Markets Builders (https://youtube.com/playlist? list=PL_ 0 VrY 55 u V1 9 f 5 zh 5 ahk 10 GjlwTV 8 eEf 0) will release multi-field sample progress frequently, including Data transfer protocols and new cryptoeconomic models for retrieval. Special thanks to the following teams:
1. Magmo, team specializing in multi-hop payment channels in 2022 (https://github.com/statechannels/go-nitro).
2. Myel, the team successfully delivered Rust-graphsync (https://github.com/retrieval-markets-lab/rs-graphsync), JS-Graphsync (https://github.com/retrieval-markets-lab/js- graphsync) and has joined PL's Retrieval Markets Lab to continue development.
3. Ken Labs, team responsible for Pando (https://pando.network/), a SQL-based verifiable database serving IPLD.
In February 2022, the Saturn initiative (https://strn.network) was launched to build a retrieval network for data stored in Filecoin. In May of the same year, we officially established RM Lab (https://github.com/retrieval-markets-lab) and released the Filecoin Station Initiative (https://filstation.app), a desktop application for all users to participate in the Filecoin economy .
In October 2022, RM Lab launches Saturn Network (https://strn.network) and Beta Station (https://filstation.app). By the end of 2022, Saturn has more than 500 nodes around the world. Not only that, Boost (https://boost.filecoin.io) and network indexer (https://cid.contact) greatly facilitate the retrieval of Filecoin storage providers, and 94 billion CIDs are currently indexed.
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FVM development process
In 2022, the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) (https://fvm.filecoin.io/) is hitting its stride on the roadmap (https://fvm.filecoin.io/#roadmap-4). Milestone 1.0 was completed in July, and the non-programmable version of FVM was successfully launched on the Filecoin main network (https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-v1 6-network-upgrade-skyr/). After the Skyr network upgrade, the main network core logic runs on top of FVM.
We launched the FVM Early Builders Program (https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/introducing-ref-fvm-a-new-fvm-website-and-the-early-builders-program/) and formed the F/ 0 group, joined hands with 25 project teams from the Protocol Labs network and community, and built FVM with the core team. The group has made many outstanding achievements, such as FVM SDKRust (https://github.com/polyphene/fvm-rs-sdk), Go (https://github.com/ipfs-force-community/go-fvm- sdk), AssemblyScript (https://docs.zondax.ch/filecoin-virtual-machine/fvm-as-sdk/), blockchain browser and other indispensable FVM tools and tests.
Milestone 2.0 has also been launched, and the FVM that allows user programming will be launched on the main network. At that time, the Filecoin storage network will be programmable and open unlimited use cases (https://rfs.fvm.dev/). We have completed 90% of Milestone 2.1 in 2022 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/issues/692) to build an Ethereum-compatible FVM (FEVM) (https://docs .filecoin.io/developers/smart-contracts/concepts/filecoin-evm/), and a full-featured Ethereum JSON-RPC API that supports the use of Metamask, Foundry, Remix and other Ethereum tools in the Filecoin environment.
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Compute over Data Working Group
Compute over Data (http://cod.cloud) and the Bacalhau initiative (https://www.bacalhau.org/) have been phenomenal in 2022, delivering a production network beta at the end of the year!
Compute over Data is a community-initiated initiative advocating for a distributed computing platform that allows all projects to build. By enabling collaborative spaces, Compute over Data accelerates innovation with repositories of assembleable, reusable protocols and files.
In early 2022, we held the first Compute over Data (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=WnTlwXHhbcI&list=PLhuBigpl 7 lqsg 9 s 4 l 9 TXiIX 5 vemchi 5 kz) summit, showing the alpha version, At the same time, Compute over Data WG (https://www.cod.cloud/) was launched to gather like-minded organizations and individuals to jointly explore how to better perform data-heavy work.
In June, we performed our first public mission on the Bacalhau network and demonstrated a number of advanced use cases of the Bacalhau Project. For example: using Duck DB (https://docs.bacalhau.org/examples/data-engineering/DuckDB/), processing image data (https://docs.bacalhau.org/examples/data-engineering/image-processing/ ) and running parallel jobs (https://docs.bacalhau.org/examples/data-engineering/simple-parallel-workloads/).
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Interplanetary Consensus Interplanetary Consensus
Interplanetary Consensus (IPC) (https://fil.space/) is the flagship project of ConsensusLab (https://consensuslab.world/), which can scale blockchain networks and use hierarchical recursive solutions, including Layer 2+ networks , known as a subnet, sends network status to the upper-level network through checkpoints up to the highest-level Layer 1 network (including but not limited to Filecoin).
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Drand Distributed Random Beacon
The growth of the drand (https://drand.love) ecology in 2022 cannot be underestimated. This is the result of the team's shift of focus from maintenance to research and development. The engineering team has added two new members, and the officially announced drand-based Timelock encryption scheme (https://github.com/drand/tlock/) will be released on the mainnet in February 2023.
Timelock encryption is enabled thanks to the release of multi-beacon support in early 2022 (https://drand.love/blog/2022/02/21/multi-frequency-support-and-timelock-encryption-capabilities/). The features brought include sealed auctions, anti-running transactions, and we look forward to integrating Timelock encryption into FVM.
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Filecoin Ecological Development
User maintenance and data on-chain (https://app.periscopedata.com/shared/369e23ac-851c-4bbe-b0ec-0b043b2d0848?)
2022 User data on-chain statistics (PiB)
In 2022, Filecoin's data storage will explode. 1,000+ verified customers storing 460 PiB of data, with average monthly growth\~ 25% 。
Researchers or businesses often pay high fees to store large data sets. Cloud storage is expensive, and the Filecoin network provides a reasonably priced and geographically distributed storage solution, storing data in multiple nodes rather than a central network, reducing the pressure on users' funds and reducing the risk of data integrity damage.
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1. GenRAIT (https://fil-foundation.on.fleek.co/hosting/FF-CaseStudy-GenRAIT.pdf): 80% of a scientist's time is spent managing and preparing data. GenRAIT uses the Filecoin network as the default archive for non-sensitive genomic and scientific data. Greatly simplifies data upload, leaving precious time for data analysis.
2. Berkeley (https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/uc-berkeley-engages-seal-storage-web3-technology-to-advance-innovative-neutrino-physics-research-825550798.html) : The Underground Physics Group at the University of California, Berkeley (https://underground.physics.berkeley.edu/) uses Seal Storage (https://www.sealstorage.io/), a distributed cloud storage product based on Filecoin, Store neutrino physics research data. Storage on the Filecoin blockchain ensures verifiable data, enabling researchers to develop new detection techniques.
One of the core concepts of the Web3 community is the transparency of data ownership, but the technical details of data uploading still constitute a barrier, especially for the creative Web3 community. Now, with products on Filecoin, creators, collectors, and developers can store NFTs conveniently and securely.
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1. NFTStar (https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/case-study-why-nftstar-trusts-decentralized-cloud-storage-for-sports-collectibles/): Build a comprehensive international sports metaverse platform and set up a supply A Web3 community where sports stars and sports fans communicate directly. Sports NFT collectors can easily trade and exchange digital collections here without worrying about data loss and devaluation of collections. The development team chose Filecoin because Filecoin supports verifiable and secure direct content ownership. In addition to storage services, the geographical distribution of the Filecoin network can effectively shorten the retrieval time and bring a high-quality experience to platform users.
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Developer maintenance and on-chain platform
NFT.Storage (https://nft.storage) is a data archiving project that stores off-chain NFTs as public assets, uses content addressable metadata and assets to allow encryption protection to be covered off-chain, and all data will be repeatedly stored on the Filecoin network Enable verifiable, programmable storage. In 2022, the number of NFT.Storage uploads will exceed 110 million! This year, NFT.Storage will further fulfill its mission and use Filecoin on-chain innovation and FVM to decentralize services. For details, please refer to the NFT.Storage blog (https://blog.nft.storage/posts/2021-11-30-hello-world-nft-storage).
web3.storage (https://web3.storage) is a data storage platform that uses a distributed protocol to make data storage and reading more convenient. In 2022, the structure of the platform was optimized, which greatly improved the scale capability and reliability, and more than 8,500 uploads and broadcasts were broadcast to the IPFS network with 6 billion blocks. In 2023, web3.storage will announce the new upload API and client w 3 up (https://blog.web3.storage/posts/w 3 up-beta-launch), lowering the threshold for developers to use Filecoin storage in their applications . The architecture will continue to implement the distributed concept, not only using distributed data protocols, but also more inclined to use copies stored in Filecoin to reduce costs for users.
Singularity provides an end-to-end solution for uploading data to the Filecoin network, helping users solve a series of steps such as network entry, storage, and retrieval of PB-level raw data. Singularity's open source and modular features allow users to choose corresponding functions according to their data upload needs. Including Filecoin data processing (converting raw data into IPFS/Filecoin compatible format), metadata management of processed data, data distribution, and transaction execution. Since its launch in 2022, it has helped to upload \~1.5 billion documents to Filecoin, processing 1.5 billion storage transactions and nearly 50 PiB of data in a year.
Beijing Yiweishi Network Technology Company,Ltd. (namely Ewesion) is the fastest growing site for photos, illustrations and vector graphics in China. After Ewesion chooses Filecoin (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1 yZ 5 Yqvq 9 SpuUaWpObMtrhvQ 6 Dhx 2 aosy?_hsmi=227593706&_hsenc=p 2 ANqtz-8 mDPB 3 tQOwp 20 Pi 1 PFPABoS QUR l0 FUCPzLaCU-2 PAcEOEIsrcfdTZsDVz 8 Jvl_ 11 AgfEhThnqtmnb 8 Uecb-2d 8 KPG 84 g), which reduces storage costs, ensures user image retrieval experience, strengthens copyright and data ownership protection, and is well received by commercial partners (photographers, illustrators) , designers) trust, and extended the validity period of long-term storage services for existing customers.
Shanghai Xinshu Information Technology Company Limited (namely Xinshu Technology) focuses on photography customization and picture sharing business, expecting to create an "emotional bank". Xinshu seeks a new solution (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1 yZ 5 Yqvq 9 SpuUaWpObMtrhvQ 6 Dhx 2 aosy?_hsmi= 227593706&_hsenc=p 2 ANqtz-8 mDPB 3 tQOwp 20 Pi 1 PFPABoSQi Z l0 FUCPzLaCU-2 PAcEOEIsrcfdTZsDVz 8 Jvl_ 11 AgfEhThnqtmnb 8 Uecb-2d 8 KPG 84 g) Optimize business. The company once chose Alibaba Cloud, the largest cloud computing service platform in China, but the problems of complicated processes, high costs, flexibility, and lack of scale have begun to hinder the company's development, so the founders changed their thinking.
As of the end of 2022, Estuary brings 1.34 PiB of storage data to Filecoin, and 140,000+ storage transactions represent 11,806,012,578 objects.
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Empowering Storage Providers
The Network Growth Team from Outercore is one of the organizations dedicated to the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem. In 2022, they bring many new tools and resources to storage providers. For example, publishing the Storage Provider Landing Page (http://sp.filecoin.io), and compiling the IDC white paper "Why Web3 technology distributed storage will eventually replace most public cloud storage services" (https://hub.filecoin.io/ hubfs/White% 20 Papers/IDC.pdf), through the efforts of the team, the storage provider realized 400 EiB of real user data on-chain.
The newly released Storage Provider Sales Kit (https://hub.filecoin.io/form-resource-request) has prepared a wealth of resources for marketing and promotion for storage providers, including card chain games, case studies, and email templates , analysis reports, etc., among which there are many cases that storage providers want to know, such as:
PiKNiK(https://hub.filecoin.io/case-study-piknik)，GREATERHEAT(https://hub.filecoin.io/case-study-greaterheat)，Lucky Storage(https://hub.filecoin.io/case-study-lucky-storage)，DCENT(https://hub.filecoin.io/case-study-dcent)，Konvergence(https://hub.filecoin.io/case-study-konvergence)。
In 2022, the team also launched the Fil+ interactive infographic (https://sp.filecoin.io/plus), which gave the outline of the Fil+ project and clarified how to compensate Filecoin Network storage providers through block rewards. The infographic also explains how data caps are utilized by clients and the role of notaries in this, and the team has developed a series of sales playbooks for storage providers to communicate effectively with potential clients in granular areas.
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Filecoin Creator & Startup
The success of multiple projects in 2022 further highlights the absolute advantages of IPFS and Filecoin as ecology in supporting creators and founders and promoting community growth.
By the end of 2022, 500+ active teams and startups working with IPFS and Filecoin are attracted by diverse programs tailored for builders, such as 50+ hackathons, grants, 20 accelerator groups, etc. .
Filecoin has the most mature accelerator project in the world, and its partners include Longhash, Tachyon, Techstars and other 20+ high-quality institutions. The user support obtained by partners who join the ecology covers financing, human resources, and event planning. Take FILVC as an example. On this invitation-only experience day, the guests included 300 industry-leading funds that manage US$5 trillion.
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Popularity of IPFS
The breaking of the NFT circle in 2022 has brought about an explosive growth in the use and popularity of IPFS, and thus spawned a number of new services and platforms to meet people's needs for the availability of production-level data on IPFS. The IPFS Gateway, which allows users to access web data via HTTP, receives an average of 1.5 million requests per week. The number of nodes on the public network is maintained at an average of 350,000 throughout the year, reaching a peak of 800,000. This growth momentum has also brought us a new implementation of the protocol to meet the high performance required for large NFT releases, such as Rust-based Iroh and Elastic IPFS. IPFS þing (https://blog.ipfs.tech/ipfs-ping-2022-recap/) is the first gathering of nearly 100 developers exploring new ways to implement the protocol.
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Filecoin Green Environmental Action
With the Filecoin Green Energy Dashboard (https://filecoin.energy/), Filecoin's measurement of network-wide and individual storage provider energy usage is the most transparent in the blockchain industry.
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Filecoin Conferences and Events
In 2022, we have organized 35 conferences and events for Filecoin community members, including ETHDenver, SXSW, ETHCC, Sustainable Blockchain Summit EU, Sustainable Blockchain Summit EU Bogota. FIL Singapore Summit (https://www.fil-singapore.io/) is the first Filecoin event in Asia, with an unprecedented scale, with more than 1,600 offline participants and more online participants. More than 30 communities have prepared branch activities , FIL.VC also debuted at the conference, attracting 300+ investors and 26 distributed storage construction projects.
FIL Lisbon Summit (https://fil-lisbon.io/) attracted hundreds of participants from the Filecoin ecosystem. 50 guest speakers gave constructive speeches for 5 consecutive days, and the world's top Filecoin ecological participants held special seminars and interactive symposiums with Web3 co-builders. Community members also hosted enrichment events at the Filecoin Foundation x Fission Codes x Lightshift Hacker Base.
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First FIL.VC Demo Day
The FIL Singapore Summit held the first invitation-only demo day FIL.VC (https://www.fil.vc/), 25 startups in the Filecoin, IPFS and Protocol Labs ecosystem and 300+ top investors in the Web3 field Get together. Demo Days resulted in hundreds of matchmaking and signings, leading to successful funding for startups. In 2023 we’ll be rolling out more of these events, helping builders, entrepreneurs, and startups secure value-added venture capital.
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Filecoin Orbit & Community Gathering
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The development route of Filecoin in 2022 is divided into three major sections:
1. Capacity and data on-chain: Ensure that Filecoin can support the chain bandwidth brought by the storage provider. Future projects will further improve the convenience, efficiency, economy and reliability of data and capacity on-chain.
2. Data retrievability: optimize users' ability to use CDN-like tools to retrieve data stored in the Filecoin network.
3. Programmability and computing: Launched Filecoin Virtual Machine, unlocked a series of new tools, and added Compute over Data that can run on sectors.
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FVM Release & Space Warp Event
FVM will fully unleash the potential of the data economy with global empowerment, and integrate the basic building blocks of the Filecoin network in an innovative way for people to create practical products and services.
Having software that manages stored data in a Web3-native way not only helps the Filecoin economy, but also allows more people to participate in the value creation and capture of data storage, while strengthening Filecoin's position as a powerful L1 network.
For developers and entrepreneurs, there are several advantages to choosing FVM:
Fast Migration: With the addition of the EVM runtime to FVM, developers have a trusted tooling infrastructure to continue using EVM-based smart contracts. The testnet is still improving, and early developers can take advantage of this opportunity to accumulate advantages.
Community prosperity: FVM improves the utility of the Filecoin network, motivates and gathers storage providers, developers, token holders and other Filecoin economic participants, laying the foundation for growth.
Strong support: Enrichment programs attract and support participants to try FVM through capital and world-class mentor support, now available in grant programs for FVM, hackathons, community events, accelerator programs, and more.
Insist on open source: Filecoin and FVM are oriented to the optimal solution to build a reorganizable ecosystem. FVM has strong compatibility, can accelerate the application of Web3 technology, and maintain an advantage in competition and cooperation with other ecology.
Clear direction: FVM is one of the recent updates worth looking forward to. In the future, the position of Filecoin's strong L1 network will be more stable and become the best choice for Internet-level applications.
To start building now, join Space Warp (https://spacewarp.fvm.dev/), the project that gave birth to FVM and continues to run, including hackathons, bug bounty programs, and builder grants.
Token holders have CeFi and DeFi staking options
Filecoin's native token FIL is the basic pledge of the network, serving both blockchain security and protecting user data on the network. As the effective computing power of the network grows, storage providers are always looking for more Filecoin to store data and expand operations.
Token holders can help the growth of storage providers and the entire network through Staking FIL (https://tldr.filecoin.io/staking-your-fil/), and get compensation from it. The mainstream method is through the form of CeFi, mainly projects operated by Anchorage, Darma Capital and Coinlist. Projects have their own terms, but all directly benefit the Filecoin economy.
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Expand the circle of friends of users & storage providers
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Filecoin Community Events
The events in 2022 are full of excitement. Lab Week 22 launched the community's first distributed conference (https://protocol.ai/blog/get-ready-for-labweek 22/), and the two-week schedule includes dozens of activities of different styles: research seminars , engineering seminars, summits, informal meetings and dinners. We look forward to seeing the community come together again in 2023, with events in the pipeline including:
Filecoin Hacker Base: February 28-March 1, 2023
FVM Launch Event: March 1
FIL Austin: April 25
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There will be ups and downs in 2022, but the Filecoin community has shown tenacity and resilience, steadily fulfilling its mission-to build the world's largest distributed data economy. Thanks again to all of you who have been with us all the way and spent an extraordinary year with us! To learn about the latest events and opportunities in 2023, please follow Twitter (https://twitter.com/Filecoin) and join the Slack (https://filecoin.io/slack/) community.
