Filecoin (@Filecoin): This Week on Filecoin: RetroPGF, Research Data & New Tools [Aug 25 – Sep 1]

This Week on Filecoin: RetroPGF, Research Data & New Tools [Aug 25 – Sep 1] 1⃣ Loops Hacker House Heads to New Delhi From Sept 21–26, Loops Hacker House will host 25 builders and multiple protocols in New Delhi. The program includes mentorship, workshops, and a $10,000 prize pool. @FILBuilders will represent Filecoin at the event. 🔗Event Page 2⃣ FIL RetroPGF Round 3 Announced Round 3 launches with 585,000 FIL, nearly double previous rounds. Focus areas include client onboarding, FVM payments, infrastructure, AI, cross-chain tools, and governance. Applications open in late September. 🔗Blog 3⃣ Plasma Simulations Archived with Ramo Dr. Fielding’s galactic plasma simulations reach over 5 PB per run. @ramo_io now moves this data to Filecoin, ensuring it remains preserved for future analysis. 🔗 fil.org Post 4⃣ Eternal AI Stores Models on Filecoin @EternalAI_ integrated Hermes 4, a 70B open-source reasoning model. Weights are preserved on Filecoin via @LighthouseWeb3, with logic on Ethereum. The app supports local AI or peer-to-peer connections. 🔗 Details 5⃣ Eternal AI Climbs Product Hunt Rankings @EternalAI_ introduced a peer-to-peer app with specialized agents: uncensored chat, image generation, and content creation. It reached top 6 on @ProductHunt. 🔗 Post 6⃣ FIL Dev Summit 7 Announced From Nov 13–15, the Filecoin community will gather in Buenos Aires for FIL Dev Summit 7. The event will focus on decentralized applications, AI workloads, and verifiable computing. 🔗 Event Page 7⃣ Synapse SDK Available on npm Developers can now install filoz/synapse-sdk for Filecoin. The toolkit supports storing files, token payments, and downloads across providers with simple JavaScript/TypeScript. 🔗 npm Package