Open Grant Proposal: Meson

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+# Open Grant Proposal: `Meson`
+
+**Name of Project:** Meson
+
+**Proposal Category:** `app-dev`
+
+**Proposer:** Haihong Shi
+
+**Do you agree to open source all work you do on behalf of this RFP and dual-license under MIT and APACHE2 licenses?:** "Yes"
+
+
+# Project Description
+Filecoin&IPFS focus on distributed storage, but there are many limitations when it comes to nowadays's popular applications like video streaming, gaming, etc.
+Because popular applications often require high bandwidth in file transmission besides the file storage capacity. But Filecoin&IPFS only focus on storage capacity. We are building a project called 'meson' which is a distributed file acceleration cache layer over Filecoin&IPFS. Meson is the layer2 that increases the whole bandwidth over Filecoin&IPFS, and it caches the hot files from Filecoin&IPFS globally. 
+
+## Value
+According to the market, a popular application called 'tiktok' spends billions on file transmission each year.[CDN] Currently, Filecoin&IPFS network has a lot of storage capacity, but files stored on the network are not efficiently used. Meson will bring down the cost of file transmission while using Filecoin &IPFS and bring Filecoin&IPFS into real commercial applications.
+
+
+### What are the benefits to getting this right?
+There are three parts to the benefits.
+
+1.For Filecoin&IPFS miners, they can run meson directly on top of Filecoin&IPFS. Miners will receive more money from commercial applications while transmitting the hot files.
+
+2.For traditional application companies like 'tiktok', they can reduce the payment to centralized CDN providers and benefit from distributed storage and transmission.
+
+3.For Filecoin&IPFS ecosystem, meson will help to increase the bandwidth of file transmission of the whole network. This will bring more commercial applications into Filecoin&IPFS ecosystem.
+
+### What are the risks if you don't get it right?
+Filecoin&IPFS has relatively low risk as we have already built the test network. It validates our idea and works pretty well. Filecoin&IPFS has low risk as the budget is paid on milestones and each milestone has defined deliverables.
+
+### What are the risks that will make executing on this project difficult?
+At present, we have not seen any risks that will make executing on this project difficult.
+
+
+## Development Roadmap
+
+### Milestone 1
+1.1 Design and release IPFS/Meson specifications documents.
+1.2 Design and extend the current Meson terminal application to support IPFS.
+1.3 Design and release the frontend portal to all clients.
+1.4 Develop and release a restful API to use IPFS/Meson.
+1.5 Community promotions to all programmers.
+
+### Milestone 2
+2.1 Develop and release web-json SDK to use IPFS/Meson
+2.2 Develop and release video SDK to use IPFS/Meson.
+2.3 Develop and extend frontend portal for Filecoin&IPFS miners.
+2.4 Community promotions to all streaming and gaming applications.
+
+## Total Budget Requested
+
+* Milestone 1: $10,000
+* Milestone 2: $10,000
+
+Total: $20,000
+
+## Maintenance and Upgrade Plans
+IPFS/Meson will be updated, maintained, and supported as needed indefinitely.
+
+
+# Team
+
+## Team Members
+
+- Haihong Shi
+- Longyue Li
+- Frank Xiang Wang
+- Zhenbo Zhang
+
+## Team Member LinkedIn Profiles
+
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/haihong-shi-21b477a3/
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/longyue-li-147829124/
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-xiang-wang-00a73180/
+- https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhenbo-zhang-571b1b6a/
+- 
+## Team Website
+
+https://meson.network
+
+## Relevant Experience
+
+We have much experience in both the blockchain industry and traditional CDN business.
+
+## Team code repositories
+
+https://github.com/daqnext
+
+# Additional Information
+
+We are very confident that we can bring more real commercial value into Filecoin&IPFS ecosystem.