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New Avalanche x Filecoin Data Bridge Unlocks Cross-Chain Value 

In a new cross-ecosystem initiative, Filecoin Foundation and Ava Labs are launching a native cross-chain data bridge between Avalanche C-Chain and Filecoin via the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FEVM).

May 27, 2025

Announcing the ProPGF Selection Committee Members

We are excited to introduce the inaugural Selection Committee for the Filecoin ProPGF program.

May 2, 2025

Introducing Proof of Data Possession (PDP): Verifiable Hot Storage on Filecoin

Filecoin introduces verifiable hot storage with Proof of Data Possession, enabling fast, on-demand access while maintaining cryptographic integrity.

May 1, 2025

Announcing the ProPGF Selection Committee: Strategy and Approach 

Introducing the ProPGF Selection Committee: a diverse, expert-driven group shaping the future of public goods funding in the Filecoin ecosystem.

Josh Daniels, Apr 17, 2025

Filecoin’s NV25 Teep Network Upgrade is Here

The Network version 25 "Teep" upgrade introduces improvements that make Filecoin more efficient and adaptable, simplifying storage provider economics and enhancing developer tooling. Overall these changes make the network more flexible, adaptable and dynamic for builders, storage providers, and storage clients alike.

Apr 15, 2025

Introducing FIL ProPGF: A New Era in Community-Led Public Goods Funding for the Filecoin Ecosystem

We are excited to announce the launch of the Filecoin ProPGF prototype, a pioneering on-chain funding program designed to support the development of public goods within the Filecoin ecosystem. This new initiative builds on the success of RetroPGF and aims to create a more transparent, decentralized, and community-driven approach to funding critical projects.

Josh Daniels, Mar 25, 2025

Amplifying the Impact: FIL-RetroPGF-2 with Drips

Congratulations to all FIL-RetroPGF Round 2 recipients! With Drips as the mechanism powering the distribution of the funds for this round you have a chance to amplify its impact further.

The FIL-Retro PGF Team, Jan 28, 2025

Your Guide to FIL-RetroPGF-2

Your guide to FIL-RetroPGF-2’s key dates and milestones. Learn how to participate, showcase your project, and stay informed about each stage of this grants initiative.

Sep 30, 2024

Expanding the Decentralized Frontier: Destor’s S3 Cloud Solutions and New Partnerships

In the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized storage, DeStor is introducing groundbreaking advancements and new partnerships that strengthen its commitment to delivering robust, decentralized cloud solutions.

Emily Vaughan, Sep 26, 2024

How F3 is Transforming the Filecoin Network

Fast Finality in Filecoin (F3) is coming to the network, speeding up finality on the network by 450x.

Sep 24, 2024

Filecoin and Storacha: Spicing Up Decentralized Hot Storage Like Never Before

Storacha revolutionizes decentralized hot storage with Filecoin's PDP, ensuring secure, accessible data with top-tier availability and durability.

Emily Vaughan, Aug 30, 2024

Introducing FIL-B: the catalyst for builders on Filecoin

FIL-B is a new public goods DX team for on-chain projects on Filecoin.

The FIL-B Team, Aug 22, 2024

Announcing FIL-RetroPGF-2: Continuing to Fund Filecoin Public Goods

FIL-RetroPGF-2 launches Fall 2024, empowering builders with stronger funding, streamlined processes, and enhanced UX. Join us in shaping Filecoin's future!

Aug 20, 2024

Introducing Storacha - The Future of Hot Decentralized Data

Storacha transforms web3.storage into a community-driven, decentralized hot storage network. Learn how it works and how you can start storing!

Storacha Team, Jul 30, 2024

Announcing the Onboarding Innovation Grants Program!

Introducing the Onboarding Innovation Grants Program - a program to supercharge innovation in Filecoin data onboarding.

Jun 14, 2024

Introducing FilOz

Introducing FilOz, a new public goods design and development team in the Filecoin ecosystem.

Jun 4, 2024

Celebrating Filecoin Public Goods

Today we celebrate 10+ teams committed to the decentralization and preservation of public goods tools & infrastructure, the new FIL RetroPGF program rewarding new public goods contributions, and the ongoing commitment from major Filecoin supporters towards advancing the growth of public goods in the Filecoin Ecosystem.

May 14, 2024

Introducing Curio: A Lotus-Miner Replacement for Filecoin Storage Providers

Meet Curio! It's never been easier for a data center to be a Filecoin Storage Provider (SP) than with Curio, which takes care of the responsibilities of reliable SP storage proving & sealing with minimal operations time.

Andy Jackson, May 7, 2024

Unveiling FIL-RetroPGF-1: Retroactively Funding Filecoin Public Goods

FIL-RetroPGF-1 will award 200,000 FIL to contributors to the Filecoin network.

Tom Mellan, Mar 15, 2024

InterPlanetary Consensus & Fluence Power the Future of Cloudless Computing

Fluence, powered by IPC, launches a groundbreaking serverless platform, transforming decentralized computing for web3 builders.

Feb 27, 2024

2023: Expanding from a storage network to enabling open services for data, PART I

Filecoin's 2023: Landmark FVM launch, 2M terabytes stored, major strides in data retrieval, compute networks, and IPC for web3 leadership.

Jan 19, 2024

Filecoin News 79

Info on the upcoming network upgrade, where to find the Filecoin community in India next week and more.

Emily Vaughan, Nov 28, 2023

Filecoin News 78

Learn more about IPC, build with us at ETHIndia, plus your last chance to participate in LabWeek23.

Emily Vaughan, Nov 14, 2023

Achieving Breakthrough Scalability with InterPlanetary Consensus (IPC)

Meet InterPlanetary Consensus (IPC), a revolutionary blockchain technology from the minds behind Filecoin and IPFS, designed to bring planetary-scale performance to web3.

InterPlanetary Consensus Team, Nov 13, 2023

Filecoin News 77

Discover the latest including Messari's Q3 Report on Filecoin, a partnership with MIT educational materials & a new explainer on Filecoin tokenomics.

Emily Vaughan, Nov 1, 2023

Filecoin News 76

3 years since mainnet launch, a mandatory network upgrade, an updated guide to Filecoin wallets, and more!

Emily Vaughan, Oct 18, 2023

Revolutionizing Filecoin Storage with Synthetic-PoRep: Cutting Overheads and Boosting Efficiency

In this blog post, we delve deep into the challenges posed by PoRep's large storage overhead and explore how Synth-PoRep is poised to change the game, offering massive storage savings and lower gas costs while synergizing seamlessly with SupraSeal optimizations.

Jake (@drpetervannostrand), Oct 3, 2023

Filecoin’s Growth Trajectory: The Role of Fil+ and Compliance

This post discusses the importance of Filecoin Plus (Fil+), an incentive-compliance mechanism in the Filecoin network, in promoting data decentralization and ensuring network integrity.

Sep 12, 2023

Filecoin Docs is moving to GitBook!

The Protocol Labs Docs Team has been using a combination of Hugo, Doks, and Fleek to create and host the Filecoin Docs website. While these services and platforms have served us well, we've decided to move the docs to the GitBook platform.

Johnny Matthews, Aug 31, 2023

Announcing the Lotus Slasher & Lotus Disputer Services

The Lotus Team is excited to introduce the new Lotus Slasher and enhanced Lotus Disputer in partnership with our friends over at StorSwift!

James Bluett, Aug 17, 2023

Filecoin News 71

Open Data Hack, the FVM Genesis Accelerator, and more! Check out all of the opportunities to get building in the Filecoin ecosystem.

Emily Vaughan, Aug 8, 2023

Monitoring booster-http Retrievals

Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot booster-http retrievals as a Filecoin Storage Provider.

Mayank Pandey, Aug 1, 2023

CC Sector Upgrade: Guidelines and Modeling

In this blog post, you will find the different storage pipelines which are available in the Filecoin Network today, in addition to models of the cost expected when using snapping versus not.

Irene Giacomelli and Luca Nizzardo, Jul 27, 2023

DSA Reduces Decentralized Storage Costs by 40%

The DSA unveils the first advanced software and reference configuration that will fundamentally optimize data onboarding for the Filecoin network.

Daniel León, Jul 14, 2023

Filecoin News 70

100 Days of FVM, the recently announced Spheron <> Filecoin Grant program, and more!

Emily Vaughan, Jun 27, 2023

100 Days of FVM

It's been 100 days since the launch of FVM, check out this blog post for all that's happened since and a glimpse at what's to come for FVM in the remainder of 2023.

Jun 22, 2023

Filecoin News 69

Where to find the Filecoin community during EthCC week, plus more in this edition of Filecoin News.

Emily Vaughan, Jun 13, 2023

Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Builder Cohort Launches to Mainnet

Leading up to FVM launch, 60+ project teams were building with FVM on its Hyperspace testnet as a part of the FVM Mainnet Pioneers cohort.

Sarah Thiam, Jun 8, 2023

Introducing Filecoin Data Tools (FDT)

The Engineering team within the Filecoin ecosystem has now positioned the Filecoin Data Tools (FDT) project to begin large scale onboarding of customer data. This platform has demonstrated the ease of use to rapidly and seamlessly onboard data through three pilot initiatives and is now ready to begin supporting more and more customers within the Filecoin ecosystem.

Corinne Bernett, May 25, 2023

Protecting booster-http with nginx

Serve Filecoin retrievals via http securely as a Storage Provider. Get started with these examples of how to protect booster-http with nginx tooling.

Dirk McCormick, May 24, 2023

Serving Files with booster-http

Filecoin storage providers will now have more flexibility with serving files and blocks with booster-http. Check out this step by step guide!

Dirk McCormick, May 24, 2023

Introducing Lassie - a retrieval client for Filecoin and IPFS

We’re excited to share that you can now use a simple retrieval client, named Lassie, to retrieve your data from Filecoin and IPFS.

Brenda Lee, May 12, 2023

Filecoin News 66

Announcing Filecoin Web Services (FWS) and more in this edition of Filecoin News.

May 5, 2023

Brave announces automatic NFT backups and enhanced Filecoin support in Brave Wallet

The Filecoin community is proud to announce that Brave has officially launched new features to support the development, adoption, and use of web3 in Brave Browser and Wallet via Filecoin and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

May 3, 2023

IPC Subnet support comes to Filecoin Spacenet

The launch of FVM represents a historic achievement for Filecoin but the potential for higher transaction volumes and a rapidly changing network landscape means that users will need to adapt and leverage every tool at their disposal. This is where IPC or Interplanetary Consensus comes in!

Jorge Soares, Apr 25, 2023

Indexer Scalability for Ingest-heavy Workload

This post describes a simple strategy for spreading the ingest-heavy indexing workload over a pool of indexer nodes, while allowing the pool to grow as needed.

Andrew Gillis, Apr 6, 2023

Filecoin News 64

FIL Hong Kong, SBS Boston, Filecoin Network Base in Austin, TX, and more!

Apr 4, 2023

The FVM Imaginarium: Cross-chain Interoperability

The launch of FVM on March 14, 2023 revolutionized the existing Filecoin ecosystem, unleashing the full potential of the open data economy. Below is a highlight of the projects that are building cross-chain interoperability on top of the Filecoin Virtual Machine.

Anshuman Prasad, Mar 23, 2023

Refreshing the Filecoin Bug Bounty Program

Now that the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is officially live on Filecoin mainnet, the community is excited to announce a refreshed Filecoin bug bounty program, featuring increased rewards up to 500k USD for critical issues and inclusion of programmability features in scope.

Mar 17, 2023

The FVM Imaginarium: Staking and Leasing Protocols

The launch of FVM on March 14, 2023 will revolutionize the existing Filecoin ecosystem, unleashing the full potential of the open data economy. Below is a highlight the projects that are building DeFi lending protocols on top of the Filecoin Virtual Machine.

Ashwanth Samuel, Mar 16, 2023

The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is live on Mainnet!

Today, the Filecoin community is proud to announce the successful launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). As of epoch 2,683,348 (or 3.14PM UTC on March 14), the Filecoin blockchain now supports smart contracts and user programmability via the Filecoin Virtual Machine, unlocking the enormous potential of an open data economy.

Mar 14, 2023

HTTP Retrieval Benchmarks with Boost

Boost has released a feature which enables storage providers to serve HTTP retrievals (full piece retrieval and range requests) with booster-http.

Brenda Lee, Mar 9, 2023

Filecoin News 62

FVM launch is only 7 days away - check out all the ways to start building early.

Mar 8, 2023

The FVM Imaginarium: Block Explorers

With the launch of FVM, existing block explorers are being augmented and new ones are being developed that will dramatically enhance the Web3 experience for FVM users

Mar 3, 2023

Extended Providers: Updating IPNI without re-advertising

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Ivan Schasny, Feb 28, 2023

Filecoin News 61

FVM launch is closer than you think!

Feb 22, 2023

Filecoin News 63

FVM is now live on mainnet, now what? Find out in this week’s Filecoin News.

Feb 22, 2023

Mapping Value for FVM Mainnet: Space Warp Leaderboard + Impact Evaluators

Leading up to the Filecoin Virtual Machine’s mainnet launch on March 14th, a series of Impact Evaluator rounds are empowering the community of FVM builders and experts to assess and reward the most valuable work and projects within the ecosystem.

Feb 21, 2023

Boost Monitoring Stack

Monitor your Boost processes with out of the box tooling and dashboards.

Brenda Lee, Feb 16, 2023

Filecoin News 60

Join the Filecoin community in Denver for an exclusive look into how FVM will bring smart contracts and user programmability to the Filecoin blockchain.

Feb 8, 2023

The FVM Imaginarium: Bringing DataDAOs to the Next Level with FVM

With FVM adding programmability to storage, DataDAOs are in a prime position to unlock valuable data-related solutions and services.

Crystal Mills, Feb 1, 2023

Case Study: iPollo Guarantees Ownership in the Metaverse with Content Persistence and Interoperability

The platform uses Filecoin to offload its growing 3D content storage needs for NFT metadata.

Jan 31, 2023

How to be an Index Provider

This is the third blog post in a series of posts on the Network Indexer. This blog post will discuss in depth on how to be an index provider.

Masih Derkani, Jan 27, 2023

Cloud Storage Services: Understanding the Decentralized Storage Approach

In this post we take a look at how a decentralized approach to cloud storage is setting a new standard for the industry.

Jan 26, 2023

Filecoin News 59

Revisit highlights in the Filecoin growth story and get a glimpse at what’s to come in 2023!

Jan 25, 2023

Filecoin 2022 Review: Enabling the World’s Largest Decentralized Open Data Economy

2022 was a tumultuous year for Web3 and the world more broadly. Yet, in spite of challenging times, the Filecoin community had a year with many bright spots.

Jan 24, 2023

FVM Bulletproofing Initiative

FVM Bulletproofing is an invite-only initiative that aims to engage experts from relevant fields to assess the codebase for latent vulnerabilities and earn rewards for new issues they find and report responsibly.

Jan 20, 2023

Case Study: Why NFTStar Trusts Decentralized Cloud Storage for Sports Collectibles

The new platform was able to meet its need for a storage alternative that is secure, scalable, and cost-effective

Jan 18, 2023

The Filecoin Virtual Machine Explained

If you're new to Web3, you might click around and find info about Filecoin or IPFS. In those circles, you'll see quite a bit of buzz about the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) and the capability it will unlock for all things data-related. What does it all mean?

Sarah Thiam, Jan 16, 2023

Telnyx builds innovative storage solution on the Filecoin network

Telnyx worked with the Filecoin team to build Telnyx Storage to make it easy for customers to transition their development teams from using S3 services.

Elle Roth-Brunet, Odhran Reidy , Jan 12, 2023

Filecoin News 58

The launch of FVM is approaching! Learn more about the early use cases and start building!

Jan 10, 2023

The FVM Imaginarium: Magmo Brings State Channels to the Filecoin Virtual Machine

The Filecoin Retrieval Market is about to see a drastic improvement in transaction costs and times with State Channels and micropayment capabilities.

Jan 5, 2023

Filecoin News 57

Already excited for FVM? Apply for a Next Step Microgrant to build on FEVM ahead of mainnet launch

Dec 21, 2022

Announcing Space Warp: Journey to FVM Launch on Filecoin Mainnet

Get ready to deploy on the FVM with Space Warp!

Dec 8, 2022

Filecoin News 56

Get the latest and greatest from around the ecosystem on Filecoin TL;DR

Nov 23, 2022

Filecoin Network v17 Shark 🦈 Upgrade

The upcoming Filecoin upgrade to network version 17, “Shark 🦈”, will bring a range of improvements and simplifications that set the stage for programmable storage: smart contracts that interact with storage deals and providers.

Nov 22, 2022

Filecoin News 55

The Decentralized Storage Alliance is Bringing Web2 Enterprises to Web3

Nov 9, 2022

Introducing the Decentralized Storage Alliance

Learn how Seagate, EY, and AMD, are working with Protocol Labs and Filecoin Foundation to accelerate the adoption of decentralized storage by enterprises

Oct 31, 2022

Filecoin News 54

The “choose your own adventure” conference will be an exciting time to meet with web3 builders in the PLN community

Oct 26, 2022

Filecoin News 53

The “choose your own adventure” conference will be an exciting time to meet with web3 builders in the PLN community

Oct 12, 2022

Filecoin News 52

Filecoin sees significant growth as it builds towards the FVM launch

Sep 28, 2022

What the FVM Unlocks

Imagining what can be built on the Filecoin Network with the upcoming smart contract and compute over data capabilities.

Sep 27, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About FIP0036 — Deliberation, Discussion, and Next Steps

The Filecoin community has spent the past several months debating FIP0036, read all about the proposal in this blog post.

Sep 16, 2022

Filecoin News 51

Learn about how a sector duration multiplier for long-term sector commitments will continue to improve the network in a recorded AMA session

Sep 14, 2022

ESPA Bootcamp: AMD’s view on Filecoin and Web3

The Enterprise Storage Provider Accelerator program is designed to help startups, data centers, managed service providers, and CTOs become successful members of the Filecoin network.

Sep 13, 2022

Large Datasets: Kernelogic

Individuals and enterprises are looking for decentralized alternatives for the storage of large datasets. Let’s take a look at how Filecoin is meeting this need via Kernelogic.

Sep 6, 2022

Filecoin News 50

Zondax worked with Protocol Labs to make sure that FIL is directly available on Ledger Live

Aug 31, 2022

Zondax Brings Filecoin to Ledger Live

FIL can now be held securely in one of the most popular cold storage solutions in web3 - Ledger.

Aug 25, 2022

Filecoin News 49

The Filecoin community is looking to expand the capabilities of the recently launched FVM by adding EVM compatibility

Aug 17, 2022

Large Datasets: FileDrive

Individuals and enterprise clients alike are looking for a cost-effective way to store a growing amount of data safely, persistently, and with easy retrievability. Let’s take a look at how Filecoin is meeting this need via FileDrive.

Aug 16, 2022

ESPA Bootcamp: Innovation in Storage

The Enterprise Storage Provider Accelerator program is designed to help startups, data centers, managed service providers, and CTOs become successful members of the Filecoin network. Let’s take a look at some of the modules that have been shared during the bootcamp.

Aug 9, 2022

Filecoin News 48

Learn about the security improvements to the way the network proves user data is physically stored.

Aug 3, 2022

SnarkPack v2: A New Version of Filecoin’s Proof Aggregator

In the recent Filecoin Network v16 Skyr Upgrade, a new version of the SnarkPack proof aggregation library was released, this post details the updates.

Aug 2, 2022

How does the Network Indexer work?

The second blog post of the Network Indexer series, unpacking the inner workings of this important new tool.

Masih Derkani, Aug 1, 2022

Introducing Filgram, the Newest SP Discovery Tool

Meet Filgram - an AirBnb-like tool for Filecoin Storage Providers

Jul 18, 2022

Retrieval Markets Rollup H1 2022

The Retrieval Market Working Group (RMWG) has been hard at work in 2022! This report gives a summary of its progress in the first half of 2022, and some insights into what to expect in H2 2022.

Patrick Woodhead, Jul 18, 2022

Filecoin v16 Network Upgrade: Skyr

The Filecoin v16 Skyr upgrade - the deployment of Milestone 1 of the Filecoin Virtual Machine to the Filecoin network was successfully completed on Wednesday, July 6th at 1400 UTC.

Jul 10, 2022

Filecoin News 46

The Filecoin Network’s Most Significant Upgrade Yet

Jul 6, 2022

Lighthouse Makes Permanent Storage on Filecoin Easy and Affordable

Lighthouse is a facilitator of permanent file storage on the Filecoin Network where users only pay once and their files are stored forever.

Jun 30, 2022

How to Become a Green Storage Provider

Filecoin Green provides important guidance and tools to SPs who contribute to the network’s efforts towards decarbonization.

Jun 28, 2022

Make lightning fast storage deals with Boost v1.0

Boost v1.0.0 has officially landed! Boost is a new, standalone replacement for the existing Lotus Markets process that enables you to get your data into Filecoin up to 20x faster, retry paused deals, watch deal transfer rates, see deal logs right from the new Web UI, and much more.

Jun 23, 2022

Filecoin News 45

Brave users can now send and receive FIL from the browser’s native cryptocurrency wallet

Jun 22, 2022

Brave Browser Adds Filecoin to Wallet

The Filecoin ecosystem is excited to announce that with today’s release of Brave browser 1.40, the wallet feature now supports FIL.

Jun 21, 2022

Filecoin Green’s $1 million Green Grants Program will support climate positive Regenerative Finance (ReFi) initiatives

Filecoin Green announced today the launch of its $1M Regenerative Finance (ReFi) Green Grants Program to fund ReFi Web3 initiatives globally.

Jun 15, 2022

180Protocol: Confidential Cloud Computing with Decentralized Storage

180Protocol offers Data Unions to ensure the privacy features that are necessary for Web3 enterprise.

Jun 9, 2022

Filecoin News 44

Funding opportunities for public goods, FIL-Singapore tickets are now available, HackFS is back, & more!

Jun 8, 2022

Funding Opportunity for Public Goods in the Filecoin & IPFS Ecosystem

The Protocol Labs community has just announced a Gitcoin Grants Matching Round, happening June 8th through 23rd, to help fund public and network goods in the greater Protocol Labs (IPFS / Filecoin) ecosystem.

Jun 3, 2022

Understanding Filecoin Data Aggregators for Storage Providers

A look at different tools and common metrics that are taken into account for Storage Provider operations on the Filecoin Network

Jun 1, 2022

A Public Goods Experiment on Filecoin: Retroactively Funding Impact with Quadratic Voting

The PL Network Goods team launched a Quadratic Voting funding experiment on Filecoin repositories with the help of maintainers and storage providers, rewarded community contributors, and built retroactive funding infrastructure for broader application.

Matthew Frehlich, May 26, 2022

Filecoin News 43

Funding the Commons is Back!

May 25, 2022

Estuary is a Boon to All Filecoin Users

Over six hundred million objects have been uploaded to the service as it keeps adding new features

May 24, 2022

New Filecoin Storage Provider Mentorship Grants (FSPM) Available

Grant recipients can choose from three SP operator consulting packages, offered by Factor8 Solutions

May 18, 2022

Filecoin News 42

Create and sell unique 3D spaces in the metaverse where you can showcase your NFTs.

May 11, 2022

Building Worlds, not Walls, with Mona

The burgeoning platform is upping the ante on high-quality metaverse experiences

May 3, 2022

Filecoin News 41

Filecoin Kicks-off Mentorship Grants for Storage Providers

Apr 27, 2022

Tools for Building Consumer Applications with Filecoin

An overview of how developers can get started with Filecoin as the decentralized storage solution for their projects.

Apr 26, 2022

Introducing Lurk: A programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs

We are excited to announce that the Lurk programming language repositories are now open to the public.

Apr 22, 2022

Announcing Filecoin Storage Provider Mentorship Grants (FSPM)

Grantees will be supported through consulting in their journey to become robust and effective Filecoin Storage Providers.

Apr 18, 2022

Filecoin News 40

The FVM Bug Bounty program is a chance to make the network’s upcoming smart contract capabilities stronger

Apr 13, 2022

Introducing the Network Indexer

Protocol Labs recently launched the first production Network Indexer to enable searching for content-addressable data available at storage providers, such as those on the Filecoin and IPFS networks.

Masih Derkani, Apr 12, 2022

Introducing the FVM Milestone 1 Bug Bounty Program & Audits

Bug Bounties are now live for FVM Milestone 1 until the end of May.

Apr 7, 2022

The Economics of Storage Providers

A look at how the Filecoin economy works for Storage Providers. A full presentation on the subject is available thanks to ESPA’s Storage Provider Bootcamp.

Apr 5, 2022

Introducing Boost: New Capabilities for Markets Including HTTP transfers, Web UI, and More

Boost replaces go-fil-markets with a better tool for storage and retrieval.

Apr 1, 2022

FVM M0.5: Run your own FVM node!

Great news: You can now sync the Filecoin blockchain using the Filecoin Virtual Machine!

Mar 31, 2022

Filecoin News 39

Get a Bird’s-eye View of the Metaverse with Mscape.io

Mar 30, 2022

Filecoin News 47

Use the code and reserve your spot to hear from top leaders in sustainability and web3, right after EthCC

Mar 30, 2022

Why Become a Filecoin Storage Provider?

A look at the opportunities for service providers in Web3 as decentralized storage becomes the new standard.

Mar 24, 2022

Announcing Mscape.io: A Community-driven Metaverse Landscape Framework & Map

Mscape.io presents a comprehensive look at the projects building the metaverse with IPFS and Filecoin.

Mar 22, 2022

Filecoin News 38

Introducing the Official Filecoin Green Website for Blockchain Sustainability

Mar 16, 2022

CDNs and the Filecoin Retrieval Market

Filecoin’s journey to become the default file storage and retrieval system for Web3 development and Myel’s plans to make it happen.

Mar 9, 2022

Filecoin News 37

Vivid Labs Takes NFTs a Step Further with Filecoin.

Mar 2, 2022

Announcing DGM, a new decentralized grants marketplace

The Protocol Labs (PL) ecosystem is excited to announce the launch of DGM (Decentralized Grants Marketplace), a new platform for large-scale grants within the Protocol Labs Network and beyond.

Feb 28, 2022

SnapDeals Circuits Verification is Complete

Proper steps were taken to guarantee that their outputs are verifiable and trustworthy.

Feb 23, 2022

Vivid Labs: Using Filecoin to Preserve Advanced Multimedia NFTs

The VIVID platform lets creators add complexity to their NFT releases.

Feb 22, 2022

Filecoin News 36

Fostering Metaverse Development with Filecoin and Polygon Studios

Feb 16, 2022

Filecoin and Polygon Studios Deepen Collaboration in NFTs, Games, and the Metaverse

The collaboration will foster the growth of Polygon-based projects in the space seeking decentralized storage solutions.

Feb 15, 2022

Filecoin News 35

A new website and referral program at the scale of Filecoin’s 15+ EiB of decentralized storage power

Feb 2, 2022

Filecoin for Large Data

A solution for large datasets — and announcing Project Gravity II as a way to incentivize clients to explore this capability.

Feb 1, 2022

Trusted Setup Complete for Network v15 Upgrade

The Filecoin community successfully completed the task of generating secure parameters for 4 circuits that will enable “SnapDeals” in Network V15.

Jan 27, 2022

Orbit Community Program

We are excited to announce the launch of the Orbit Community Program powered by Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation.

Jan 21, 2022

Filecoin News 34

Take a look at everything that happened in the Filecoin ecosystem in the last year

Jan 21, 2022

Introducing ref-fvm, a new FVM website, and the Early Builders Program

Announcing three major updates along the road of the Filecoin Virtual Machine’s towards Milestone 1.

Jan 19, 2022

MetaMask Flask: A Snap for Filecoin Devs

Developers: Use MetaMask Flask to Access Web3 Tools Like Filecoin Directly from the Wallet

Jan 18, 2022

Filecoin in 2021: Looking Back at a Year of Exponential Growth

The Filecoin network surpassed a combined storage capacity of 14+ EiB with the help of 3,600+ storage providers from around the globe. The community also welcomed over 400 new applications built by the community of 7,000 FIlecoin developers. All that within little more than a year since mainnet launch.

Jan 13, 2022

Filecoin Green

A look of what’s ahead in Filecoin’s push towards environmental sustainability.

Dec 21, 2021

Filecoin News 33

Filecoin Green Shows How Web3 Can Help Fight Climate Change

Dec 16, 2021

Filecoin News 32

The Projects Building the Next Wave of Web3 Developer Tools

Dec 2, 2021

Filecoin News 31

The FVM brings new capabilities to decentralized storage. Plus, five up-and-coming NFT projects building on Filecoin, and more.

Nov 17, 2021

Filecoin News 30: Announcing the Filecoin Virtual Machine! Storage + Computation = 🤯🚀

Catch up on the most exciting announcements and developments from Filecoin Orbit, including what the rest of the year holds in store.

Nov 4, 2021

Filecoin News 29: Join the 1-year celebration of Filecoin Mainnet

Join the Filecoin community to celebrate one year since Filecoin Mainnet Liftoff. Register now!

Oct 20, 2021

Filecoin Becomes Official Storage Collaborator for Flow Blockchain

Filecoin is now the official storage collaborator of Flow blockchain.

Oct 13, 2021

Filecoin News 28: Filecoin Orbit, Proofs v10.0.0, Halo 2, and More

Filecoin Orbit is here: celebrating one year of Filecoin mainnet!

Oct 6, 2021

Filecoin Plus: How Storage Providers Can Engage with Verified Clients

Filecoin Plus adds a layer of social trust to the Filecoin network to incentivize useful storage and facilitates deals with verified clients.

Oct 5, 2021

Reviving Halo 2 with Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, and Electric Coin Co.

The four ecosystems come together to explore the future of recursive zero knowledge proofs.

Oct 1, 2021

ChainSafe Files — Building Privacy-preserving Cloud Storage

ChainSafe Files provides highly private, highly secure cloud storage that allows users to maintain full sovereignty over their data.

Thibaut Sardan, Sep 28, 2021

Filecoin’s “Island Economy”

Understanding the economic interconnectedness of the Filecoin storage network.

Sep 23, 2021

Filecoin News 27: MoNA Launch, Decentralized Storage Options, Using Filecoin with IPFS, and More

MoNA is bringing together creators, collectors, and investors to build the world of NFT art.

Sep 22, 2021

Using Filecoin with IPFS

Understand how complementary systems Filecoin and IPFS come together to create decentralized storage through the lens of Textile and Estuary, tools that help them work together. With the increasing limitations for plugins, these tools are some of the best solutions for developing for Web3 with current browsers.

Sep 16, 2021

Filecoin Project Gravity, a Sales Referral Program

Bring your customer’s data to the Filecoin network and make gravity work!

Sep 14, 2021

Decentralized Storage: Estuary, Web3.storage, and NFT.storage

Breaking down the different reasons to use Estuary vs. Web3.storage vs. NFT.storage

Sep 10, 2021

The Future of Decentralized Social Media

Decentralizing social media is the latest evolution in the “forum” — a critical tool for human discussion, collaboration, and consensus.

Sep 7, 2021

Taking a Look at Estuary

Estuary is open-source software allowing simple sending of public data to the Filecoin network to be retrieved from anywhere.

Sep 2, 2021

Dapper Labs Integrates Filecoin to Propel the Future of the NFT and Gaming Metaverse on Flow Blockchain

Aug 26, 2021

Announcing Filecoin-Polygon Bridge and Free Storage for Developers

This kicks off with the recently-created Filecoin-Polygon Bridge by the Textile team.

Aug 20, 2021

Mask Network × Filecoin: Bridging the Gap Between Web2 and Web3

Today, Mask Network and Filecoin announced a collaboration to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 by bringing decentralized storage solutions to Mask users.

Aug 17, 2021

NEAR and Filecoin Ecosystems to Accelerate the Growth of the Web3 Stack

The collaboration between the Filecoin ecosystem and the NEAR ecosystem deepens with the launch of a $300,000 joint grants program designed to support developers interested in exploring new opportunities at the intersection of these two protocols.

Aug 10, 2021

Announcing Chainlink-Filecoin Joint Grants for dApps Combining Decentralized Storage and Oracles

Chainlink and Filecoin are launching a joint grant initiative to accelerate development of hybrid smart contracts that combine Chainlink decentralized oracles and Filecoin decentralized storage within a single application.

Aug 6, 2021

Introducing Web3.Storage: A simple interface for Filecoin storage

Protocol Labs launches Web3.Storage, a free product for any developer to use Filecoin’s decentralized storage network in their applications.

Aug 3, 2021

Zero Knowledge and the Filecoin Network

An overview of how the worlds of zk-SNARKs and decentralized storage come together on the Filecoin network.

Jul 29, 2021

Filecoin and Hedera Hashgraph Announce Grant Program to Propel Web3 Interoperability

Today, Filecoin and Hedera Hashgraph are announcing a joint effort to advance the interoperability of Web3.

Jul 27, 2021

Building Businesses for the Future of the Decentralized Web

Outlier Ventures CEO & Founder Jamie Burke and Protocol Labs Ecosystem Lead Colin Evran talking about the business opportunities of decentralized storage in the future of Web3 and the role that the recently-announced Filecoin Base Camp by Outlier Ventures plays.

Jul 20, 2021

Filecoin zk-SNARKs: Zero Knowledge — but a Lot of Zero Knowledge

CryptoComputeLab created a beautiful zk-SNARKs for the world minisite, showcasing that Filecoin is the largest deployed zk-SNARK network to date and highlighting the key improvements that allowed a deployment of this scale.

Jul 13, 2021

OpenSea stores NFTs with IPFS and Filecoin

OpenSea recently launched a feature to “freeze” NFT metadata, enabling NFT creators to properly decentralize their NFTs using IPFS and Filecoin.

Jun 17, 2021

Starling Lab: Establishing Trust for Humanity’s Data

Announcing the launch of Starling Lab, a commitment to continue building the frameworks required to endow humanity’s most vital digital information with trust.

Jun 10, 2021

Filecoin Case Study: Starling Lab

Starling Lab is the home to the Starling Framework for Data Integrity, a comprehensive set of tools empowering organizations to securely capture, store and verify human history leveraging technologies like Filecoin.

Jun 10, 2021

IPFS, Filecoin, and ‘Content Persistence’

The value of content persistence for the information era, and the role IPFS and Filecoin play.

Jun 3, 2021

Filecoin v13 ‘HyperDrive’ Network Upgrade Unlocks 10-25x Increase in Storage Onboarding

Today, we’re excited to announce that the Filecoin v13 ‘HyperDrive’ Network upgrade coming in just a few weeks will unlock a 10-25x increase in storage onboarding rate* due to innovations in Filecoin Proofs system (*depending on how miners take advantage of the new aggregation limits) !

May 27, 2021

Wolfram Blockchain Labs Expanding Storage Functionality with IPFS & Filecoin for Dapp Development

WBL is integrating their distributed ledger technology platform with IPFS and Filecoin to add new decentralized functionality and expanded storage to their existing blockchain features.

May 12, 2021

Filecoin Network v12

On April 29th, 2021, the Filecoin network upgraded to version 12.

May 4, 2021

Introducing NFT.Storage: Free Decentralized Storage for NFTs

NFT.Storage lets users store their NFT content and metadata seamlessly and securely with IPFS and Filecoin. Today we are excited to introduce NFT.Storage, a service backed by Protocol Labs and Pinata specifically for storing NFT data.

Apr 29, 2021

FilRep.io - A Filecoin Miner Reputation System v1 by Digital Mob

Filrep.io helps storage clients answer “How can I find the best miners to make storage and retrieval deals with?” by keeping track of storage miner reliability and performance.

Apr 15, 2021

VideoCoin and Filecoin to Power the Video NFT Market

The VideoCoin Network commences integration with Filecoin to offer platform optimized for Video NFTs.

Apr 9, 2021

Block Dream Fund launches $10m fund to support the Filecoin Ecosystem

OKEx’s newly founded Block Dream Fund announces a collaboration with the Filecoin Network.

Apr 8, 2021

Truffle Suite Launches NFT Development Template with Filecoin Box

Filecoin Box includes everything a developer needs to get started with decentralized storage and markets for NFTs, powered by Truffle Ganache.

Mar 31, 2021

Decentralized Data Markets with Filehive

Solving the problem of data availability and monetization with Filehive, built on top of Filecoin.

Mar 30, 2021

Filecoin and Chainlink Integration to Bring Advanced Decentralized Storage Solutions to Web 3.0 Developers

We're excited to announce that Chainlink—the industry leading decentralized oracle solution—is integrating with Filecoin—the world’s largest open-source, decentralized storage network— to enable bidirectional connection between the Filecoin Network and smart contract enabled blockchains such as Ethereum.

Mar 24, 2021

Livepeer x Filecoin Co-Mining Pilot

Co-locating decentralized video transcoding with decentralized storage.

Mar 23, 2021

Decrypt Collaborates with Filecoin for its Inaugural Token Season

Filecoin is sponsoring Decrypt’s first token season, which will let Decrypt token holders swap their tokens for limited edition NFTs.

Mar 18, 2021

The Next Phase of Fleek with Filecoin

Fleek’s support of Filecoin archiving for websites and dapps pushes the protocol further down the road of decentralization and permanence.

Mar 11, 2021

How storage and retrieval deals work on Filecoin

A short article on how storage and retrieval deals work in Filecoin.

Mar 9, 2021

Filecoin News, Issue 12: Fenbushi Ecosystem Fund, Textile, Starling Framework, and More

Welcome to the twelfth issue of Filecoin News!

Feb 24, 2021

Reputation Systems in Filecoin

The role reputation plays in the maintenance of the Filecoin network.

Feb 16, 2021

The Future of DeFi with Filecoin

The Ethereum DeFi ecosystem is interoperating with Filecoin to supercharge the future of DeFi.

Feb 12, 2021

Welcome Venus to the Filecoin mainnet!

Today we are excited to announce that at epoch 455673 (Jan 30th, 2021, 03:16 UTC), miner f0128788 running Venus v0.9.0, mined its very first block on mainnet!

Feb 2, 2021

Filecoin Plus: Aligning Participants with Useful Storage

Filecoin is a global marketplace of storage and its related services, matching a diverse set of storage providers with demand for secure distributed cloud storage services. As a blockchain network, Filecoin provides a robust, decentralized, verifiable platform for anyone to store and interact with data.

Jan 28, 2021

Filecoin MinerX Fellowship Program

The MinerX Fellowship engages small and medium-sized miners distributed across the world to help improve Filecoin’s experience and productivity in the early stages of the network. MinerX is designed to build a solid foundation of geographically-diverse, reliable, long-term storage options to accelerate the development of tools and services in the Filecoin ecosystem.

Jan 21, 2021

Resolving the Dec 19 Chain Halt: Cause, Impact, & Take Aways

On Dec 19th, 2020, the Filecoin network experienced a chain halt. This post describes the issue encountered, the outage impact, the rapid response, and what’s next.

Jan 15, 2021

EIP-1559 in Filecoin

Filecoin incorporates the EIP-1559 transaction pricing model to make transaction processing on the network more efficient and easier to navigate. This post details the promising impact this decision has had over the course of Filecoin's mainnet launch.

Jan 5, 2021

A Look Back at Filecoin in 2020

Welcoming 2021 by taking a moment to celebrate the Filecoin community’s achievements in 2020.

Dec 30, 2020

Filecoin Community Highlights: Slate

Slate is the first storage application designed to encourage collaboration and research across a distributed network.

Dec 29, 2020

Filecoin Dev Grants Waves 4-5 and Gitcoin Grants

Announcing Filecoin Dev Grants Wave 4 and 5 Projects and Filecoin’s participation in the current Gitcoin Grants Round 8 with 2 categories dedicated to Filecoin including Miner Tooling Grant RFPs and Apollo Filecoin Dapps. Wave 6 and Gitcoin proposals are due January 15th at 23:59 PDT for priority consideration. Apply for a Filecoin dev grant!

Dec 23, 2020

Filecoin Network Economics

Highlights from the Storage Market Summit with Filecoin and ETH Global on Dec. 11

Dec 22, 2020

Meet Filecoin’s Collaborators: Jonathan Dotan, Starling Framework for Data Integrity

At a time when the internet is overrun with misinformation and valuable data is intentionally obscured, it’s more important than ever that we harness technology to capture, verify, and preserve our history.

Dec 18, 2020

Filecoin Collaborative Resource and Risk Management

Highlights from the Storage Market Summit with Filecoin and ETH Global on Dec. 11

Dec 15, 2020

Understanding Filecoin Circulating Supply

This blog post aims to unpack how Filecoin tokens enter circulating supply, provide more insights on how various stakeholders take part in its economy, and shed light on how one should approach and think about Filecoin token economics.

Dec 10, 2020

Huobi Group Launches Filecoin Incubation Center

Huobi Group and Protocol labs have partnered to launch the Huobi Filecoin Incubation Center with a $10M USD fund.

Dec 5, 2020

A Milestone in Storage: Filecoin Surpasses 1 Exbibyte

The Filecoin network has just surpassed 1 exbibyte of storage fewer than four weeks after launch.

Nov 24, 2020

Filecoin Features: Slashing

Filecoin’s combination of cryptographic and economic mechanisms are designed to align participants’ incentives with the goals and mission of the network. With block reward and deal payment as the main incentive drivers, slashing is the main form of mitigating bad behavior when participants deviate from the promises they made to the network.

Nov 17, 2020

Introducing Slingshot Phase 2

In this blog post, we are introducing Phase 2 of the Slingshot competition. If you are interested in earning FIL rewards for storing valuable data on the Filecoin network, Slingshot is for you!

Nov 9, 2020

The Intersection of Filecoin and DeFi

During Filecoin Liftoff Week, Colin Evran of Filecoin led a conversation with Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov, Ren Protocol CTO Loong Wang, and ConsenSys Codefi Head of Product Corbin Page to discuss Filecoin’s position in the DeFi ecosystem.

Nov 6, 2020

Slingshot Phase 1 Recap

Phase 1 of Space Race 2: Slingshot is in the books! Slingshot is a two-part community competition for storage clients and developers that rewards the storage of real, valuable, and usable data onto the Filecoin network. The goal is to onboard 10PiB of valuable data to the Filecoin network. Teams are rewarded for storing more useful data, as well as building interesting, novel, and functional user interfaces (UIs) or applications associated with the data they store.

Nov 5, 2020

The Journey to Filecoin Mainnet Liftoff

After years of work, the Filecoin mainnet is officially live!🚀

Oct 29, 2020

Looking Back on Filecoin Liftoff Week

Last week was packed with talks, demos, workshops, and more for Filecoin Liftoff Week.

Oct 26, 2020

Liftoff Day 5 Recap: On the Shoulders of Giants

Today we wrapped up day 5 at Filecoin Liftoff Week - our final day. We heard from Filecoin founder Juan Benet, Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, Blockchain Association Executive Director Kristin Smith, Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf, Head of Blockchain and DLT at the World Economic Forum Sheila Warren, and more.

Oct 23, 2020

Bridging the Filecoin and Ethereum Communities

Building a decentralized data and transaction infrastructure for the future of the internet depends upon interoperation between decentralized protocols like Ethereum, Filecoin, and IPFS.

Oct 22, 2020

Liftoff Day 4 Recap: Storage for a Better Future

Today we wrapped up day 4 at Filecoin Liftoff Week. We heard from builders, entrepreneurs, and activists across the Web3 ecosystem and beyond, including Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, Pinata’s CTO Matt Ober and CEO Kyle Tut, Livepeer founder Doug Petkanics, Carbon Five principal developer Hannah Howard, and Jonathan Dotan of the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, and more.

Oct 22, 2020

Liftoff Day 3 Recap: The Holy Grail of the Blockchain Ecosystem

Today we wrapped up day 3 at Filecoin Liftoff Week. We heard from developers across the Web3 ecosystem, including Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, Filecoin product lead Pooja Shah, Infura senior engineer Tim Myers, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, and Ren CTO Loong Wang.

Oct 21, 2020

Filecoin Implementations Progress Update

One of Filecoin’s launch goals has always been to have multiple independent protocol implementations to help secure the network at launch.

Oct 20, 2020

Liftoff Day 1 Recap

Yesterday we wrapped up Day 1 at Filecoin Liftoff Week. We heard from Filecoin founder, Juan Benet, Polychain Capital founder Olaf Carlson-Wee, Stanford Professor Dan Boneh, outside general counsel Marta Belcher, and more.

Oct 20, 2020

Liftoff Day 2 Recap: Growing Filecoin’s Island Economy

Today we wrapped up day 2 at Filecoin Liftoff Week. We heard from mining experts across the Web3 ecosystem, including solo Filecoin miner Benjamin Hoesjbo, Node Factory CEO Belma Gutlic, IPFSMain Co-founder Neo Ge, Chainsafe lead engineer Elizabeth Binks, and many many more.

Oct 20, 2020

Updates to the Filecoin Security Program

Building a strong Security Culture in the Filecoin project has been one of our core goals from the beginning of the project, from creating bleeding edge, researched, and evaluated mathematical proofs that set the foundation for the critical operations executed in the Filecoin Protocol (e.g. Proof of Replication & Proof of Space Time), to building a culture of strong security habits, secure code development and testing, through working with multiple external security specialists, pentesters and researchers to audit our code and practices.

Oct 19, 2020

Filecoin Mainnet is Live

Today around 3pm UTC the Filecoin Mainnet went live! 🚀

Oct 15, 2020

Miner's Guide to Liftoff

As we count down the final few hours of Space Race 2: Orbital Burn, here are some useful tips and FAQs to help miners transition into mainnet smoothly.

Oct 14, 2020

Filecoin just received a massive Spec upgrade!

Over the last few months, we have made massive progress revamping the Filecoin Specification and its custom website!

Oct 13, 2020

Filecoin Features: Block Rewards

The Filecoin network boasts a unique economic design that aligns incentives among participants and rewards useful work by Filecoin miners.

Oct 12, 2020

Introducing the Building Web3 Video Series

In just the past few months, dozens of new applications, services, and businesses utilizing web3 have come to life, leveraging Filecoin and IPFS in exciting ways.

Oct 9, 2020

Filecoin Features: Gas Fees

This is the latest installment in our series highlighting unique features of the Filecoin network. This post dives into gas fees – how they operate and why they’re important to the Filecoin network.

Oct 8, 2020

Filecoin Frontier Accelerator launched by LongHash Ventures

LongHash Ventures has just announced the launch of the Filecoin Frontier Accelerator, a 12 week program to fuel the growth of major projects on the world’s largest decentralized storage network.

Oct 5, 2020

Meet The SR2 Slingshot Teams

We’re about a week into the Space Race 2 Slingshot competition, and it is off to an exciting start! So far, 370+ participants have made over 125,000 storage deals to store valuable data on the Filecoin network, competing for a potential 500,000 FIL prize pool.

Oct 2, 2020

Space Race AMA #4 Summary

As a part of the Space Race events program, the Filecoin team are hosting weekly live AMA’s with the Filecoin community.

Sep 28, 2020

Announcing Mainnet Ignition & Liftoff

The Filecoin network has made phenomenal progress over the last few months

Sep 27, 2020

Slingshot Week One Recap

It’s been an exciting week with the kickoff of Filecoin Slingshot, a two-part competition for storage clients and developers to deploy their products to the testnet.

Sep 25, 2020

Space Race AMA #3 Summary

As a part of the Space Race events program, the Filecoin team are hosting weekly live AMA’s with the Filecoin community.

Sep 20, 2020

Spark University Hackathon Winners: Challenge Two

Now that the Spark University Hackathon has reached a conclusion, we’re shining a spotlight on the winners of the two challenges that Filecoin sponsored for the event!

Sep 16, 2020

Announcing Space Race 2

For the past 3 weeks, miners across the community have been participating in the Filecoin Space Race to onboard as much storage as possible to the Testnet.

Sep 12, 2020

Space Race AMA #2 Summary

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.

Sep 10, 2020

Spark University Hackathon Winners: Challenge One

In June, we shared the news that Filecoin was participating as a challenge partner in the Spark University Hackathon, an eight-week online competition focused on the development of novel blockchain solutions.

Sep 8, 2020

Space Race AMA Summary

As a part of the Space Race events program, the Filecoin team are hosting weekly live AMAs with the Filecoin community.

Sep 3, 2020

Filecoin Roadmap Update August 2020

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. The last two months have seen amazing progress across the project - here are some highlights.

Aug 31, 2020

Trusted Setup Complete!

At the end of last year, we successfully completed the first phase of our trusted setup also known as the “powers of tau” ceremony. At the end of July, we finished our second phase of the trusted setup – generating secure parameters for the 6 circuits that will be used for mainnet. Now, with both phases of our setup complete Filecoin’s final parameters for mainnet are available. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

Aug 28, 2020

Introducing the Filecoin Economy

The datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC estimates. A stack of enough 10-terabyte hard drives to store all that data would literally reach the moon (1 zettabyte equals 1 trillion gigabytes).

Aug 27, 2020

HackFS: What's Next

More than three dozen teams took home prizes at the HackFS Finale last week on August 18. Among them, 10 were named finalists, earning $1,000 USD per team member plus 250 FIL.

Aug 26, 2020

More Ways to Keep Building on the Filecoin Network

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.

Aug 25, 2020

30 Days, 130 Projects: Recognizing New Ideas to Power Web3

After a month of workshops, talks, AMAs, and heads-down building, 134 teams submitted final projects for the inaugural HackFS hackathon, unveiling amazing tools and services to drive the decentralized web.

Aug 19, 2020

Welcome to the Space Race

The Filecoin Testnet Incentives Program is kicking off on, Monday August 24th at 10pm UTC (3pm PT | 6am CST on Tuesday, August 25th)!

Aug 19, 2020

Filecoin Features: Distributed Randomness & Leader Elections

This is the latest installment in our series highlighting unique features of the Filecoin network. Filecoin will be the first high-profile user of the production drand network.

Aug 10, 2020

Meet the HackFS Teams Vol. 3: coeo, IPFS.FPS, Sailplane

Welcome to the ninth installment of the Filecoin Community Highlights series, and our final post highlighting the HackFS teams building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network.

Aug 6, 2020

Andrew Cronk & Yannick Folla, Figment Networks

Welcome to the eighth installment of the Filecoin Community Highlights series, which features users and developers building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network.

Aug 4, 2020

Meet the HackFS Teams Vol. 2: Kazan, Parcel, EduVault

Welcome to the seventh installment of the Filecoin Community Highlights series, which features users and developers building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network.

Jul 24, 2020

Getting Ready for Filecoin’s Space Race

As we enter the home stretch into Filecoin’s mainnet launch, Lotus (the Filecoin reference implementation) is making fast progress. In the past 2 weeks alone the team has landed a major data transfer improvement to the Filecoin market implementation, finished up the final sector-lifecycle features for verified & fast-retrieval deals and upgrading Committed Capacity sectors, and shipped large improvements to the Filecoin actors.

Jul 14, 2020

Juan Leni, Zondax

Welcome to the fifth installment of the Filecoin Community Highlights series, which features users and developers building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network. The goal is to inspire others to build world-class tools for the distributed web.

Jul 8, 2020

A Guide to Filecoin Storage Mining

A growing number of opportunities are becoming available for community members to get involved with Filecoin. Find an updated guide to Filecoin storage mining plus recently announced incentives and opportunities for members of the growing Filecoin community.

Jul 7, 2020

Filecoin Comes to ProtoSchool

Today we’re excited to announce ProtoSchool’s first-ever Filecoin tutorial, Verifying Storage on Filecoin. It offers a beginner-friendly, code-free look at Filecoin’s proof system, exploring how Proof of Replication (PoRep), Proof of Storage (PoSt), and zkSNARKs make it possible to trust peers in an incentivized, decentralized storage system.

Jul 6, 2020

Meet the HackFS Teams Vol. 1: Omo Earth, Pygate, Unchained Index, Padlock

Welcome to the sixth installment of the Filecoin Community Highlights series, which features users and developers building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network.

Jul 1, 2020

Dev Grants Wave 3 Update, Wave 4 RFPs

For Wave 3 of Dev Grants that were due in April, we received 44 proposals from the community.

Jun 30, 2020

Filecoin features: verifiable storage

With Filecoin, miners’ storage is publicly audited. In other words, our storage proofs give every user of the Filecoin network assurance that all miners are storing data exactly as promised.

Jun 29, 2020

Update: trusted setup

The trusted setup ceremony is conducted in two phases. The first phase, also known as the “powers of tau” ceremony, applies to all Groth16 zk-SNARKs up to a given size.

Jun 11, 2020

Offline data transfer for large-scale data

As we discussed in our cryptoeconomics constructions blog post, sometimes when you’re dealing with huge troves of data, it’s difficult (expensive and time-consuming) to transfer those files over the internet for safekeeping. For petabyte-scale datasets and larger, the most sensible solutions often involve shipping data on hard drives. The Filecoin protocol and project has tools and structures to support what’s known as offline data transfers.

Jun 8, 2020

Update: Filecoin Discover

Filecoin Discover has received an overwhelming amount of community interest. Since May 7th, Filecoin miners have signed up to store dozens of petabytes worth of important data.

May 19, 2020

Filecoin Testnet Phase 2 is here!

Today is a big day for the Filecoin project. Six months ago, we launched the first phase of the Filecoin testnet. Since then, we have been bug fixing, conducting protocol reviews, making critical protocol and product improvements, performing optimizations, and working towards running networks with multiple interoperable nodes. Now, we are ready to launch Testnet Phase 2!

May 14, 2020

Jonathan Schwartz, Open Work Labs

Jonathan Schwartz is the co-founder of Open Work Labs (OWL), a product studio based in Brooklyn that builds tools to improve the way people share, organize, and archive their work. Most of their time is spent helping other teams develop distributed web apps and infrastructure that they hope to eventually reuse on their own products.

May 5, 2020

Ben Fino-Radin, Small Data Industries

Ben Fino-Radin is the founder of Small Data Industries, a lab and consultancy based in New York City. Small Data’s mission is to safeguard the permanence and integrity of the world’s artistic record. Ben and his team work with artists, collectors, and cultural heritage institutions around the world to preserve and protect art and archives, and they see Filecoin as the key to improving their efficiency and creating more secure records.

Apr 22, 2020

Filecoin roadmap update April 2020

Our April 2020 roadmap update covers progress made since the last roadmap update and a peek into what’s next for the Filecoin project as we get closer to the mainnet launch.

Apr 17, 2020

Tammy Yang and Bofu Chen, Numbers

Bofu Chen and Tammy Yang launched Numbers to give people greater access to and control of their information – including where and with whom they share it. Most recently, they’ve turned their talents to helping track symptoms related to the Coronavirus. We asked them why they chose to build on the Filecoin network and what’s next for Numbers.

Apr 14, 2020

Filecoin Dev Grants - Wave 3 New RFPs, Wave 1 & 2

The Wave 3 deadline for Filecoin Dev Grants has been extended to April 15th at 23:59 PDT. This is the final wave with a few months to build something before Filecoin’s mainnet launch. A wide range of new RFP ideas have been published here and we hope this sparks more ideas and discussion of what could be built.

Apr 8, 2020

Meet Andrew Hill, Co-Founder and CEO of Textile

Welcome to the first blog post in our Filecoin Community Highlights series. Over the next few weeks, we will be featuring Filecoin use cases and developers in the community who are building essential tools and services on the Filecoin network.

Mar 23, 2020

March Q&A thank you and summary

Thanks to everyone who participated in our March 5 Q&A about the Filecoin project! We answered more than 100 questions in our 1-hour session (fast and furious typing!). We fielded questions on topics ranging from hardware requirements, for mining to our timeline for Testnet Phase 2 and mainnet launch, to the inner workings of our proofs constructions.

Mar 10, 2020

Participate in a March Q&A with Juan Benet

This Thursday, March 5, 2020, we will host a virtual Q&A session with Juan Benet, founder of the Filecoin Project. For one hour, Juan will be online to answer any questions you might have about our testnet, updated roadmap and future plans. We hope you can join us!

Andy, Mar 3, 2020

Filecoin roadmap update February 2020

In this blog post, we cover recent progress since launching Testnet Phase 1 and updated roadmap information about Testnet Phase 2 and mainnet launch. Please review our Roadmap Update Q4 2019 and Testnet Phase 2 Update (in that order) for additional context.

Feb 19, 2020

What sets it apart: Filecoin’s proof system

With the testnet launch, a new set of storage-based proof systems to attain decentralized consensus has been launched.

Feb 18, 2020

Announcing Filecoin implementations in Rust and C++

Today, we are excited to announce two additional implementations of the Filecoin protocol: forest – being implemented in Rust by ChainSafe, and fuhon – being implemented in C++ by Soramitsu. These implementations are in active development, and are now fully open for anyone to use or contribute to. Check them out on GitHub!

Jan 31, 2020

Testnet Phase 2 update

As announced in our last roadmap update, we’re using a public Gantt chart to maintain an updated view of our roadmap to launch. We are currently in Testnet Phase 1, and are gearing up to launch Testnet Phase 2. This blog post assumes knowledge of our milestones and what they mean; if you’d like a refresher, read more here.

Jan 30, 2020

Tipsets: A closer look at Filecoin's building blocks

Blockchains are built on blocks—chunks of information denoted by a unique cryptographic hash and permanently recorded on the blockchain. Strung together, these blocks of information constitute the blockchain and carry a set of updates to a given system whose state they encode.

Jan 13, 2020

Filecoin roadmap update Q4 2019

In this post, we share what’s next on our roadmap and a tool you can use to follow milestone timing estimates.

Dec 11, 2019

Filecoin Testnet is live

Today marks an important milestone for the Filecoin project: the launch of the Filecoin testnet (on schedule)! After significant research, design, and development, the Filecoin protocol is ready for live network testing. We’re thrilled to share it with you.

Dec 11, 2019

Filecoin Testnet mining

Becoming a Filecoin miner is an opportunity for community members to help store and preserve access to humanity’s most important information. By providing network security and infrastructure, Filecoin miners help build a more open, resilient, and trustworthy Internet.

Dec 10, 2019

Filecoin Dev Grants - Wave 1 recipients, Wave 2 now open

Dec 3, 2019

Participate in our trusted setup ceremony

As you may have seen in our recent update, the Filecoin team is gearing up to launch our testnet in December 2019 and mainnet in March 2020. Prior to launch, we need to conduct a secure trusted setup ceremony (read more about this below). We are seeking volunteers to participate in our trusted setup ceremony and to help us get Filecoin securely off the ground.

Oct 22, 2019

Announcing Lotus, our first alternate Filecoin implementation

One of our most important goals is to make the Filecoin mainnet as secure and resilient as possible. One part of our network security strategy is launching the Filecoin network with multiple implementations. Today, we are delighted to announce lotus, our first alternate Filecoin implementation.

Oct 16, 2019

Announcing the go-filecoin alphanet

Yesterday, we launched the go-filecoin alphanet, go-filecoin release 0.5.6 (right on schedule – well actually, a day early!). As we announced in our 2019 Q2 & Q3 Update, this was our last major interim milestone before our upcoming testnet launch in December 2019.

Sep 25, 2019

Filecoin 2019 Q2 & Q3 Update: Testnet & Mainnet Launches, Highlights from 2019, Roadmap Update, and More

The most important news in this update is that we’re getting very close to launching the network. We are delayed from our prior estimates, but – as you will read below – we have made tremendous progress on all fronts!

Sep 24, 2019

Filecoin Dev Grants Program now live – first wave closes September 30

Filecoin is much more than just a file storage network. It aims to be a decentralized, robust, and efficient foundation for humanity’s information. This vision is ambitious, and we can’t do it alone! The Filecoin network needs a vibrant and diverse community of participants working together to build the ecosystem of tools and services needed to improve Filecoin and make it usable in countless real-world applications.

Sep 11, 2019

go-filecoin 0.3.2 is released

We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.3.2. This release is a big step towards completing the filecoin storage protocol.

Jul 9, 2019

Announcing the SNARK Challenge

We are excited to announce that Protocol Labs and Filecoin are sponsoring the SNARK Challenge, an open challenge to speed up zk-SNARK provers. The SNARK challenge is co-hosted by Coinlist, Coda, and Dekrypt Capital, and co-sponsored by Tezos and the Zcash Foundation.

May 17, 2019

go-filecoin 0.2.2 is released

We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.2.2. go-filecoin is the Go implementation of the Filecoin protocol. The up-to-date changelog can always be found at go-filecoin/CHANGELOG.md.

May 17, 2019

Announcing our first mining community call

We are excited to announce our upcoming community call specifically focused on mining. In this call, we will bring together implementers, contributors, researchers, prospective miners, and curious minds to engage with one another.

Apr 24, 2019

Collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation on VDFs

Today, Protocol Labs is announcing a research collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation to design and develop at least one secure, efficient, and usable Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) construction.

Apr 19, 2019

Filecoin 2018 Q3 & Q4 Update: Development and Research Repos, Roadmap Update, Development Update, and More

Good news! After many months building things privately, we are ready to open up a number of codebases and community forums. This is right on schedule as predicted in our Project Roadmap and last update. Read our announcement blog post for more.

Feb 14, 2019

Getting started with Filecoin repos and devnets

As we announced here, we recently opened up the Filecoin project repos on GitHub. You can visit the GitHub repos to explore the codebase, development tools, community resources, and more.

Feb 14, 2019

Opening the Filecoin project repos

Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub.

Feb 14, 2019

Anti-fraud statement for our communities in China & Hong Kong

Community Caution: The Protocol Labs, IPFS and Filecoin teams are thrilled about the activity coming from communities around the world, including China and Hong Kong. Over the past year, we’ve enjoyed receiving open-source contributions from several community volunteers across China and Hong Kong. We’ve been happy about the many educational events, webcasts, meetups, articles about our projects, and more.

Dec 10, 2018

Announcing the Filecoin FAQs

We have assembled an exhaustive list of crowd-sourced Filecoin FAQs from our active community as a quick and easy resource for questions about Filecoin.

Nov 9, 2018

Filecoin 2018 Q1 & Q2 update

Filecoin 2018 Q1 & Q2 Update

Aug 28, 2018

Token Sale Completed

The Filecoin Sale completed on Sep 7th, 2017, at 19:00 UTC. The sale was a resounding success!

Sep 13, 2017

First Day Sale Update, Reopening Aug 12, 11:00am PDT

Wow! We are deeply humbled and grateful for your tremendous support. As soon as we opened the sale we were overwhelmed with thousands of investments.

Aug 11, 2017

Sale Delayed — New Date: Thursday Aug 10

Bad news. We unfortunately have to delay the sale. This is painful — for us, as much as anybody else — but it is necessary.

Aug 7, 2017

More Filecoin Token Sale Details — 7 days away!

First off, I want to thank our amazing community for being so creative, and so overwhelmingly supportive in this time.

Jul 31, 2017

Proof-of-Replication, Power-Fault-Tolerance and Research Roadmap

At Protocol Labs we are charting a course to the future, but we also know that the details make or break the plan.

Jul 27, 2017

Updates & New Token Sale Date - August 7th

We are absolutely overwhelmed with the positive response to the new Filecoin whitepaper, our upcoming token sale, our video, and the other info we’ve released.

Jul 24, 2017

Announcing the Filecoin token sale and upgraded whitepaper

The Filecoin Token Sale will begin on July 27 at 7pm GMT. The sale will take place on CoinList and is open for registration and pre-funding now.

Jul 19, 2017

Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?

The team behind IPFS and Filecoin explain how advances in distributed data storage and strong alignment of market incentives are combining to create a much more secure and efficient web.

Jun 20, 2017

Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update: Community Updates, How You Can Help, Filecoin Blog, and More

Since the completion of the token sale, we have been heads down turning Filecoin’s tremendous potential into reality – from implementing the core parts of the Filecoin protocol to growing our team with the best talent we can find.

Jan 1, 2017