Filecoin is the world's largest decentralized storage network, built to keep data secure, verifiable, and free from centralized control.
network storage capacity
Enough to store Wikipedia's text 22 million times over
large clients
With more than 1TiB active data
smart contracts
Deployed via the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
Today, a small handful of corporations control most of the world's data, creating centralized gatekeepers that introduce single points of failure.
Filecoin offers a fundamentally different approach to data storage: distributing data across a decentralized, global network secured by cryptographic proofs, ensuring greater security and resilience.
From cultural archives to scientific research, petabytes of data are already stored on Filecoin. The decentralized model empowers users with true autonomy over their information, building a foundation for a more open, resilient, and user-controlled web.
How decentralized storage compares to traditional cloud storage
Filecoin adds incentivized, persistent storage to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer network for content-addressable data, creating a powerful, versatile, and long-term home for data.
Filecoin makes it easy for IPFS users to reliably store their data directly on the Filecoin network. The result is a decentralized, storage layer opening up an entirely new class of applications and use cases.
Power chain storage, dApps, data-heavy SaaS platforms, immutable archives, and beyond. Accelerate development with open source tools, native IPFS integration, cross-chain data bridges, and FEVM for programmable smart contracts. Build without compromise, knowing you control your data, not centralized gatekeepers.
Insights, updates, ecosystem spotlights, and community stories, directly from the teams building Filecoin.
A diverse group of ecosystem contributors will help guide milestone-based funding decisions for core infrastructure initiatives and projects responding to targeted RFPs
The Filecoin network upgrade NV28 "Fire Horse" is now live on mainnet, making the network more usable, trustworthy, and performant for the real businesses running real workloads on the network today.
May 27, 2026We're excited to announce Filecoin Public Goods Funding (ProPGF) Batch 3 - General Track, a $2M milestone-based funding round dedicated to key ecosystem focus areas.
