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Filecoin Kicks-off Mentorship Grants for Storage Providers...

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

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

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

IPFS Force is thrilled to announce the FIL-Singapore Summit from August 16th-19th in Singapore. ...

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

Introducing the Official Filecoin Green Website for Blockchain Sustainability...

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

Vivid Labs Takes NFTs a Step Further with Filecoin....

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. ...

Storage Providers are integral components to the Filecoin Network. A breakdown of what the ecosystem looks like....

On February 17th, the Filecoin community was engaged in an Ask Me Anything session about deal making in the Filecoin Network. We covered topics ranging from SnapDeals to the Boost Alpha release....

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

Fostering Metaverse Development with Filecoin and Polygon Studios...

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

The program helps enterprise storage providers optimize for large datasets on Filecoin....

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021 was quite the year for the Filecoin network and community! ...

The Filecoin track will feature innovative projects including Grape Protocol, Lit Protocol, Matters Lab, and Lighthouse....

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

Filecoin Green Shows How Web3 Can Help Fight Climate Change...

The Projects Building the Next Wave of Web3 Developer Tools...

De-risking relationships, identity NFTs for DAOs, community-operated weather frameworks, and more — explore the infrastructure and dev tool projects from Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II....

3D art galleries, play-to-earn, derivative NFTs, and more — explore the gaming and metaverse projects from Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II....

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

A unified, interoperable environment for computation and storage, enabled by the Filecoin Virtual Machine....

Fractional ownership, no-loss gaming, marketplaces, and more — explore the NFT projects from Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II....

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

Options markets, synthetic tokens, compliance, and more — an overview of DeFi projects from Launchpad Demo Day #2...

Starting on October 15th and culminating a week later, Filecoin Orbit 2021 was a happy celebration to mark the momentous first anniversary of the Filecoin mainnet launch in October, 2020....

One of the most recent advances in Filecoin's development is the creation of the NEAR bridge....

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

In 12 short months, the Filecoin network and its surrounding ecosystem have grown in strength to what it is today....

Filecoin is now the official storage collaborator of Flow blockchain....

Filecoin Orbit is Here! Celebrating 1 Year of Filecoin Mainnet....

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

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

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

Understanding the economic interconnectedness of the Filecoin storage network....

Welcome to Filecoin News 27!...

Understanding how Filecoin and IPFS come together to create decentralized storage through the lens of Textile and Estuary....

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

ION is building a solution on top of Bitcoin and IPFS to fix our fractured online identities....

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

Welcome to Filecoin News 26!...

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

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

Asia Hackathon Season 2021 is a hackathon series helping startups and entrepreneurs grow with Web3 stacks....

Welcome to Filecoin News 25! Updates from the ecosystem about Web3 interoperability, community terminology updates, grant distributions, and more....

Welcome to Filecoin News 25! Updates from the ecosystem about Web3 interoperability, community terminology updates, grant distributions, and more....

Filecoin and Polygon are collaborating on Web3 interoperability with the Filecoin-Polygon Bridge by the Textile team....

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

Catch up with the 17 winning projects (including three first places) from the DoraHacks Filecoin Grant Hackathon. ...

Welcome to Filecoin News 24, our roundup of the latest updates and happenings in the world of Filecoin....

Today we are excited to deepen the collaboration between the Filecoin ecosystem and the NEAR ecosystem 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....

We are excited to announce that 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....

A look at some of the projects leading the collaborative opportunities between Filecoin and Ethereum....

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

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

Welcome to Filecoin News 23!...

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

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....

Dystopia Labs recently hosted the Open Web Community Summit for Creators & Community, co-presented by NEAR Protocol and Gitcoin. The event mainly focused on NFTs and featured 50+ speakers and dozens of artists and creators from all over the world....

Announcing the Filecoin Techstars Accelerator, Starling Labs featured on BloombergTV, SNARKs website launch, and more!...

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....

Exploring Web2 and Web3 business opportunities for the Filecoin network beyond storage, with ZX Zhang....

Protocol Labs is sponsoring a HackerLink Grant via DoraHacks to fund open source developer projects via donation, so that these projects can develop further into a startup in the Filecoin ecosystem. ...

Welcome to Filecoin News 21!...

A look into the past, present, and future of a Lotus node from the Retrieval Market Builders Mini-Summit....

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

Welcome to Filecoin News 20!...

The Slingshot Phase 2.3 Closing Ceremony on June 9th closed what has been one of the most productive phases of the Slingshot Competition yet. Check out this post for a full recap....

On June 8th, Filecoin hosted an AMA answering 25+ questions on the network upgrade, sealing, onboarding new storage deals and more. ...

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

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

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 limi...

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 limi...

This article provides an update on the Filecoin x BlockScience research collaboration, denoting a significant milestone for the Filecoin project. It was first published by Blockscience here....

A look at the DeFi and consumer tech startups from Filecoin Frontier Accelerator demo day: Atomica, Ownership Labs, Sinso Technology, and Vera AI....

A look at the NFT and media startups from Filecoin Frontier Accelerator demo day: Curio, Flame, Huddle 01, Myel, NonEntropy Tech, Numbers, and OP Games....

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....

Welcome to Filecoin News 17!...

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

NFT.Storage lets users store their NFT content and metadata seamlessly and securely with IPFS and Filecoin....

Welcome to Filecoin News 16!...

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....

IPFSUnion has announced a large investment in a Filecoin mining facility as part of the Big Data Industrial Park. Check out this exclusive Q&A with their team....

IPFSUnion has announced a $1.3 billion USD investment in a Filecoin mining facility as part of the Big Data Industrial Park....

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

Welcome to Filecoin News 15!...

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

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

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

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 en...

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 en...

Co-locating decentralized video transcoding with decentralized storage....

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

Welcome to Filecoin News 14!...

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

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

Breaking down how libp2p helped bring about the Ethereum 2.0 milestone last December....

Welcome to Filecoin News 13!...

A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Finance” category....

A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Enterprise” category....

Welcome to the twelfth issue of Filecoin News!...

A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Social” category....

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

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

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

The Starling Framework and Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative launch a photo archive documenting November 2020 to January 2021....

Filecoin's role in expanding the potential of DAOs within the DeFi ecosystem and beyond....

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!...

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 d...

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 a...

The following is a summary of a talk given by Tim Myers on October 22, 2020 during Filecoin Liftoff Week. Filecoin node implementations expose APIs to provide developers a convenient way to interact with the Filecoin blockchain. These APIs allow developers to both query for information about the cha...

On Dec 19th, 2020, the Filecoin network experienced a chain halt, meaning that for a window of time, new blocks could be created, but miners couldn’t reach consensus on the resulting state, each computing a different value. Thanks to the fast response across community members, miners, and deve...

The Filecoin team is excited to announce the first crop of Fellows for the Filecoin Miner Experience (MinerX) Fellowship, which aims to engage globally distributed, small-to-medium-sized Filecoin miners to help improve Filecoin’s experience and productivity in these early stages of the network...

The following is a summary of a talk given by Roland Sun at the Storage Market Summit on December 11, 2020. Roland Sun is a partner at Fenbushi Capital. Entire talk available here. In collaboration with Protocol Labs, Fenbushi Capital has announced a $15+ million USD investment fund in the IPFS and ...

This is a summary of a talk given by Juan Benet. In the Filecoin network, the concept of gas is used to measure the computational resources required to execute a given on-chain transaction. The cost of these resources needs to be paid for, leading to a number of decisions that must be made around wh...

On December 11, ETH Global and Filecon hosted the Storage Market Summit (SMS). A portion of the day was dedicated to Empowering Filecoin Startups. Below are recaps, themes, and conclusions from different talks during this portion of the day. You can browse the agenda and check out the full Investing...

In the final hours before we welcome 2021, we’re taking a moment to look back on all that the Filecoin community and network achieved in 2020. Though this year’s highlight was the mainnet launch in October, those of you who have been part of the community for years know 2020 was packed w...

On top of the Filecoin protocol, app developers and service providers are building easy-to-use end-user tools for file storage and sharing. One of the most exciting projects to be borne out of this wave of growth and innovation is Slate, an open-source storage system built on top of Filecoin. Slate ...

Disclaimers: Nothing in these presentations is investment advice. Any models shown in presentations are based on many assumptions, and should not be relied upon as the source of truth. Any estimates should not be relied upon and are for illustrative purposes only. You should build your own models b...

On December 11, ETH Global and Filecon hosted the Storage Market Summit (SMS). A portion of the day was dedicated to Filecoin Ecosystem Growth & Innovation. Below are recaps, themes, and conclusions from different talks during this portion of the day. You can browse the agenda and check out the ...

During Filecoin Liftoff Week, we rounded out the last day with a panel titled “Meet the Filecoin Foundation.” The session was an opportunity for event attendees to hear from the people who comprise the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW). Belo...

As the Filecoin Ecosystem continues to grow, more projects are being developed that facilitate an exciting range of storage applications, developer tools and integration experiments. In addition to the recent launch of Fil+ to maximize incentives for storing useful data on Filecoin, and Phase 2 of t...

Earlier this month, ETH Global and Filecon hosted the Storage Market Summit (SMS). A portion of the day was dedicated to Filecoin Economy Deep Dives. Below are recaps, themes, and conclusions from different talks during this portion of the day. You can browse the agenda and check out the full Collab...

During Filecoin Liftoff week, we had the pleasure of hosting Jonathan Dotan, who gave this talk introducing the Starling Framework for Data Integrity. Learn how Filecoin’s unique cryptographic proofs are being put to the task of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records, such as...

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. The Starling Framework is a distributed storage solution built on Filecoin, using our p...

Last week on December 11, ETH Global and Filecon hosted the Storage Market Summit (SMS). A portion of the day was dedicated to Collaborative Resource and Risk Management in the Filecoin ecosystem. Below are recaps, themes, and conclusions from different talks during this portion of the day. You can ...

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. This post should be paired by reading the paper on Filecoin&rsqu...

The Huobi Group, in collaboration with Protocol Labs, has announced the launch of the Huobi Filecoin Incubation Center with a $10M USD fund dedicated to supporting the Filecoin ecosystem. The center will focus on three main areas: incubation, investment, and community development. It will support pr...

Fewer than four weeks after its mainnet launch, the Filecoin network is celebrating a major milestone. As of today, the global community of Filecoin miners has dedicated 1 exbibyte (EiB) of decentralized storage capacity to the Filecoin network. This is a tremendous achievement for the Filecoin netw...

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 participan...

Slingshot is a community competition for storage clients and developers that rewards the storage of real, valuable, and usable data on the Filecoin network. Phase 1 of the Slingshot competition ran for four weeks. In that time, the Filecoin storage client and developer communities passed several imp...

From October 23 - 28, 2020, we joined our community in China for Shanghai International Blockchain Week - a week of hackathons, talks, and events. We celebrated Filecoin’s recent mainnet launch with new and longtime fans, developers, and miners. Here are some highlights from the days’ ac...

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. Here are some highlights from the conversation ...

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...