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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.

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    Filecoin News 95

    DeStor partners with DCENT to launch decentralized S3 cloud storage platform, FDS is back in Bangkok, & more in Filecoin News 94!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 94

    DeStor partners with DCENT to launch decentralized S3 cloud storage platform, FDS is back in Bangkok, & more in Filecoin News 94!

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    Filecoin News 93

    Filecoin + Storacha, the Filecoin blockchain surpasses 4+ million blocks, Fast Finality in Filecoin (F3): 450X faster finalization times, & more in Filecoin News 93!

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    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.

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    Introducing FIL-B: the catalyst for builders on Filecoin

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

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    Filecoin News 92

    FILRetro-PGF Round 2, FIL Dev Summit 5 in Bangkok, & more in Filecoin News 92!

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    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!

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    Filecoin News 91

    A new FVM explorer, the successful nv23 waffle upgrade, Messari’s State of Filecoin Q2 '24 report, and more in Filecoin News 91.

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    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!

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    Filecoin News 90

    Enhanced performance + broader ecosystem integration = nv23 🧇

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    Announcing the Onboarding Innovation Grants Program!

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

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    Filecoin News 89

    Filecoin 🤝 AI - CryptoEternalAI has integrated Filecoin’s decentralized storage to enhance its capabilities.

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    Introducing FilOz

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

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    Filecoin News 88

    Celebrating Filecoin public goods, a new lotus-miner replacement for SPs, & more in this edition of Filecoin News.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 87

    Celebrating Filecoin public goods, a new lotus-miner replacement for SPs, & more in this edition of Filecoin News.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 86

    Meet us at FDS 4, dive into the Nv22 Dragon Upgrade, & read up on Messari’s State of Filecoin report.

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    Filecoin News 85

    Explore Filecoin community's latest updates: Postponed network upgrades, a monumental NFT.Storage event, and breakthroughs in zk proof computation

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    The Rise of Decentralized Storage and Compute at FIL Dev Summit

    FIL Dev Summit Track on Decentralized Compute & Storage: Decentralized AI, Supercharging DePIN, Open Models & Decentralized Datasets, FIPs and the DSA

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    Decoding the Future of Decentralized Storage: A Deep Dive into Filecoin at ETHDenver 2024

    The FILDev Summit at ETHDenver 2024 brought together Filecoin's community to propel its evolution, featuring the "Filecoin 101" track that provided a comprehensive dive into its principles and potential in decentralized storage.

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

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

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    FIL Dev Summit Track on Smart Storage & dApps

    Archiving Solana on Filecoin, Filecoin’s relationship to DA, IPC L2s, Fast Finality and more.

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    Filecoin News 84

    Unveiling cloudless computing with IPC & Fluence, Uniswap V3 on FVM, plus insights on scaling and the AI Hackathon - all in Filecoin News 84.

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    InterPlanetary Consensus & Fluence Power the Future of Cloudless Computing

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

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    Filecoin News 83

    Dive into Filecoin News 83: the game-changing collab of Solana and Filecoin, $24k in Filecoin bounties at ETHDenver, and more.

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    Filecoin News 82

    Where to find the Filecoin community in Denver, plus a look ahead at what Filecoin has in store for 2024, & more!

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

    Reflecting on Filecoin's 2023: a transformative year of community growth, tech innovation, and a leap towards a decentralized web in 2024.

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    Filecoin News 81

    Filecoin News: 2023 Highlights, IPFS in Space, Ecosystem Explorer, and More!

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 80

    Electric Capital's Annual Developer Report, Filecoin Watermelon upgrade complete, plus more all in Filecoin News 80!

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    FIL Dev Iceland Track Recap: From Click to PiB, Scaling Enterprise Data

    The Filecoin ecosystem has onboarded over 1.8 EiB of data. Learn how these teams are scaling their data onboarding efforts to support enterprise customers.

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    Filecoin News 79

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

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    Retrieving Memories from the FIL Dev Summit

    Filecoin retrieval was a topic of significant excitement at FIL Dev Summit. Learn how the Filecoin community is working to make retrievals more reliable.

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    Filecoin News 78

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 76

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

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    Filecoin News 75

    Vote now to deploy Uniswap V3 on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)!

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 74

    Amazing progress in the land of FVM - 10M FIL deposited in just 6 months since FVM Mainnet launch!

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 73

    Dive into the latest Filecoin developments at these upcoming global events!

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 72

    Let’s empower a decentralized future together! Apply now to join us at the FIL Dev Summit 2023 in Singapore and Iceland.

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    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!

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    Empowering a Decentralized Future: Join Us at the FIL Dev Summit 2023!

    The Filecoin community is thrilled to announce the FIL Dev Summit - a gathering of developers, builders, and engaged community members who want to contribute to the core protocol and network evolution of Filecoin!

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    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.

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    Monitoring booster-http Retrievals

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 70

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 69

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 68

    Filecoin x SETI, a new TL;DR guide, Filecoin on BlueSky, & more in Filecoin News 68.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    Filecoin News 67

    Brave + Filecoin & IPFS, HackFS returns, and more in Filecoin News 67.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 66

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

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    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).

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    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!

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    Filecoin News 65

    Get the details on the expedited nv19 upgrade, FEVM on Brave Wallet, and Messari’s latest State of Filecoin report.

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    The FVM Imaginarium: Developer Tooling, Hackathons and other Opportunities for Builders

    In this blogpost, you’ll find an overview of developer tools that will help you get started on your journey building with FVM.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 64

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

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    Celebrating a Year of Sustainable Blockchain Innovation

    It’s been one year since our team launched the Sustainable Blockchain Summit and made our official introduction to the world! Check out some of the major accomplishments over the past year.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 62

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

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    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

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    Extended Providers: Updating IPNI without re-advertising

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    Filecoin News 61

    FVM launch is closer than you think!

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    Filecoin News 63

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin and FVM’s Most Successful Hackathon Yet!

    In anticipation of the Ethereum-compatible Filecoin Virtual Machine (FEVM) launching on Filecoin mainnet on March 14th, the Filecoin community recently completed its largest hackathon to date specifically for developers to kick off building with FEVM.

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    Boost Monitoring Stack

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 59

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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?

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    Telnyx builds innovative, low-cost object storage 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.

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    Filecoin News 58

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 57

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

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    Hacking the Filecoin Ethereum Virtual Machine (FEVM)

    Hack FEVM introduced the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Filecoin Virtual Machine to the ETH ecosystem, welcoming over 400 hackers and 117 project submissions.

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    Announcing Space Warp: Journey to FVM Launch on Filecoin Mainnet

    Get ready to deploy on the FVM with Space Warp!

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    Announcing the Hack FEVM Finalists

    The first-ever Hack FEVM welcomed over 400 hackers to build and showcase 117 projects with over $50,000 awarded through various prizes!

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    Filecoin News 56

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

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    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.

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    The Filecoin Masterplan

    A recap of Juan Benet’s keynote address at FIL-Singapore exploring where the Filecoin network is headed.

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    Filecoin News 55

    The Decentralized Storage Alliance is Bringing Web2 Enterprises to Web3

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    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

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    Filecoin News 54

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

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    Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p Ecosystem WG: October 2022 All Hands Recap

    Get the latest from the FIL-Singapore Summit and dive deep into Zondax’s FVM Assemblyscript SDK

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    Filecoin News 53

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

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    Filecoin News 52

    Filecoin sees significant growth as it builds towards the FVM launch

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    What the FVM Unlocks

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

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    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.

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    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

    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.

    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.

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    Filecoin News 50

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

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    Zondax Brings Filecoin to Ledger Live

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

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    The Filecoin Orbit Community’s Growth Around the Globe

    Builders from Africa, Germany, and Canada explore the possibilities of decentralized storage.

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    Filecoin News 49

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

    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.

    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.

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    Filecoin News 48

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

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    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.

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    How does the Network Indexer work?

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

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    Introducing Filgram, the Newest SP Discovery Tool

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

    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.

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    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.

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    ESPA Bootcamp: Supermicro's Solutions for the Filecoin Ecosystem

    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.

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    Filecoin News 46

    The Filecoin Network’s Most Significant Upgrade Yet

    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.

    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 45

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

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    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.

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    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.

    180Protocol: Confidential Cloud Computing with Decentralized Storage

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

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    Filecoin News 44

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

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    FIL-Singapore Tickets Are Live!

    The Filecoin community comes together in August for presentations, workshops, and meetups on the latest in Web3 - grab your tickets now.

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    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.

    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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 43

    Funding the Commons is Back!

    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

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    New Filecoin Storage Provider Mentorship Grants (FSPM) Available

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

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    Filecoin News 42

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

    Building Worlds, not Walls, with Mona

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

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    Filecoin News 41

    Filecoin Kicks-off Mentorship Grants for Storage Providers

    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.

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    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.

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    Announcing Filecoin Storage Provider Mentorship Grants (FSPM)

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

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    Announcing FIL-Singapore Summit!

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

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    Filecoin News 40

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

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    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.

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    Introducing the FVM Milestone 1 Bug Bounty Program & Audits

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    FVM M0.5: Run your own FVM node!

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

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    Filecoin News 39

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

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    Filecoin News 47

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

    Why Become a Filecoin Storage Provider?

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 38

    Introducing the Official Filecoin Green Website for Blockchain Sustainability

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 37

    Vivid Labs Takes NFTs a Step Further with Filecoin.

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    A Deep Dive into the Storage Provider Ecosystem

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin Deal Making AMA Recap

    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.

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    SnapDeals Circuits Verification is Complete

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

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    Vivid Labs: Using Filecoin to Preserve Advanced Multimedia NFTs

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

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    Filecoin News 36

    Fostering Metaverse Development with Filecoin and Polygon Studios

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    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.

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    PiKNiK’s ESPA Makes Way for Web3 Enterprise Storage on Filecoin

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

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    Filecoin News 35

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

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    Filecoin for Large Data

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

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    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.

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    Orbit Community Program

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

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    Filecoin News 34

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

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    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.

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    MetaMask Flask: A Snap for Filecoin Devs

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

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    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.

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    LongHashX and Protocol Labs Launch First-Ever Metaverse Demo Day

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

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    Filecoin Green

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

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    Filecoin News 33

    Filecoin Green Shows How Web3 Can Help Fight Climate Change

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    Filecoin News 32

    The Projects Building the Next Wave of Web3 Developer Tools

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    Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II: Gaming and the Metaverse

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

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    Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II: Infrastructure and Dev 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.

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    Filecoin News 31

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

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    Introducing the Filecoin Virtual Machine

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

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    Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II: NFTs

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II: DeFi

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

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    Filecoin Orbit 2021 Recap: Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of Mainnet Liftoff

    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.

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    Textile: Intro to the Filecoin Bridge

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

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    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!

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    Filecoin Orbit: Filecoin Year One in Review

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

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    Filecoin Becomes Official Storage Collaborator for Flow Blockchain

    Filecoin is now the official storage collaborator of Flow blockchain.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin’s “Island Economy”

    Understanding the economic interconnectedness of the Filecoin storage network.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin Project Gravity, a Sales Referral Program

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

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

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

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    Filecoin News 26: Filecoin Network capacity surpasses 10 EiB, and more!

    Welcome to Filecoin News 26!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Announcing Asia Hackathon Season 2021

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

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    Filecoin News 25: JigStack Gallery Integrates IPFS and Filecoin, Mask x Filecoin, Lotus Release v1.11.1 and More

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

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    Announcing Filecoin-Polygon Bridge and Free Storage for Developers

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

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    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.

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    17 Winning Projects from DoraHack’s Filecoin Grant Hackathon

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

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    Filecoin News 24: Near Grant Program, Asia Hackathon Season '21, SXSW Panel Voting Open, and More

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Building Web3: Filecoin + Ethereum Better Together

    The Filecoin network is ecosystem oriented, aligning with Protocol Labs’ tendency to build modular solutions. Designed to be used by others, Filecoin has found a natural fit with other stacks, applications, and ecosystems within Web3.

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    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.

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    Zero Knowledge and the Filecoin Network

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

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    Filecoin News 23: Hedera, Filecoin Base Camp, Juan at EthCC, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 23, our roundup of the latest updates and happenings in the world of Filecoin.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Open Web Community Summit: The Future of Storage Capacity

    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.

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    Filecoin News 22: Techstars Accelerator, Filecoin Base Camp, HackFS, and More

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

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    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.

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    More than just Storage: Business Opportunities on Filecoin

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

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    Filecoin Quadratic Funding Grant Round-1 at DoraHacks

    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.

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    Filecoin News 21: Wave 8 Dev Grants, Browsers 3000 Hackathon, ETHOdyssey, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 21!

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    The Evolution of a Lotus Node

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 20: HackMoney, Web3 Weekend, Starling Lab, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 20!

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    Slingshot Phase 2.3 Recap

    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.

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    Filecoin v13 HyperDrive AMA 1 Recap

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    IPFS, Filecoin, and ‘Content Persistence’

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

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    Filecoin News 19: Filecoin v13 'Hyperdrive', Baseline Sustainability, Chainsafe, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 19!

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    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) !

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    Filecoin Network Crosses Baseline Sustainability Target for First Time

    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.

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    Filecoin Frontier Accelerator Demo Day: DeFi & Consumer Tech

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

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    Filecoin News 18: Web3 Weekend, Launchpad Accelerator, Frontier Accelerator Demo Day, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 18!

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    Filecoin Frontier Accelerator Demo Day: NFT and Media Startups

    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 17: Launchpad Accelerator II, Frontier Accelerator Demo Day, MetaMask, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 17!

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    Filecoin Network v12

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    VideoCoin and Filecoin to Power the Video NFT Market

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

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    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.

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    Filecoin News 15: MetaMask Preview, Filecoin & Chainlink Integration, Truffle's Filecoin Box, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 15!

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    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.

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    Decentralized Data Markets with Filehive

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

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    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.

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    Livepeer x Filecoin Co-Mining Pilot

    Co-locating decentralized video transcoding with decentralized storage.

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    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.

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    Incident Report: Accurate Bookkeeping with Lotus APIs

    On March 18, the Lotus team received a report from an exchange about the incorrect use of a Lotus API for evaluating transfers/deposits in the Filecoin Network. The team investigated and found no issues with the Filecoin network or the RPC API code. The exchange in question has already reverted the incorrect transaction (there was no loss of funds) and is reviewing their deposit processing logic to correct their API usage.

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    Filecoin News 14: Gitcoin GR9 Hackathon, Chainlink Hackathon, NFT Hackathon, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 14!

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    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.

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    How storage and retrieval deals work on Filecoin

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

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    Filecoin News 13: Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, NFT Hackathon, Space Beta, and More

    Welcome to Filecoin News 13!

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    Filecoin for Treasuries, Wills, Financial Access, and more

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

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    Filecoin for Content, DevOps, Trust, and more

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

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

    Welcome to the twelfth issue of Filecoin News!

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    Filecoin for Media, Video, Gaming, and more

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

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    Reputation Systems in Filecoin

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

    The Future of DeFi with Filecoin

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

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    Tracking 78 Days of the US Presidential Election on Filecoin

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

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    The Future of DataDAOs

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

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Getting Started With the Infura Filecoin API

    Filecoin nodes expose APIs that make it easy for developers to interact with and query the Filecoin blockchain. Learn how the Infura Filecoin API simplifies the process even further!

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    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.

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    The Fenbushi Ecosystem Fund for Filecoin Development

    An overview of the recently-announced Fenbushi Fund to accelerate Filecoin development and growth.

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    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.

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    A Look Back at Filecoin in 2020

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

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    Empowering Filecoin Startups

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

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    Filecoin Community Highlights: Slate

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

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    Investing in the Filecoin Ecosystem

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

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    Filecoin Ecosystem Growth & Innovation

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

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    Meet the Filecoin Foundation

    Meet the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, two organizations committed to driving forward the growth and development of the network.

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    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!

    Filecoin Network Economics

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

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    From Storage to Justice

    The role of Filecoin and distributed storage in the preservation of justice on a global scale.

    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.

    Filecoin Collaborative Resource and Risk Management

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

    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.

    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.

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    A Milestone in Storage: Filecoin Surpasses 1 Exbibyte

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

    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.

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    Highlights from Shanghai Blockchain Week

    Looking back at our week in Shanghai with the awesome Filecoin community in China.

    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!

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    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.

    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.

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    The Journey to Filecoin Mainnet Liftoff

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

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    Looking Back on Filecoin Liftoff Week

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

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    Filecoin Liftoff Week Closing AMA

    To conclude Filecoin Liftoff Week, the Filecoin Team hosted a live AMA with the Filecoin community.

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    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.

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    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.

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    How Filecoin Supports Video Storage

    Since its inception, Filecoin’s mission has been to store the world’s most valuable information. Today, video is a prominent source of communication and content on the web.

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    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.

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    Filecoin Liftoff Week AMA

    As a part of Filecoin Liftoff Week, the Filecoin team are hosting live AMAs with the Filecoin community.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Join us for Filecoin Liftoff on October 19-23 2020

    The Filecoin Network is now LIVE! This marks the culmination of years of innovation and hard work, and we thank everyone who dedicated their time, ideas, and expertise to make Filecoin a reality.

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    Learning to Store Data on Filecoin: Slingshot and Beyond

    Over the last three weeks, members of the Filecoin community have participated in Phase 1 of the Slingshot competition, storing 450+ TiB of data through more than 350,000 storage deals on the network.

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    Filecoin Mainnet is Live

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

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    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.

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    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!

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    Filecoin Features: Block Rewards

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

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    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.

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    Valuable Datasets Being Stored through Filecoin Slingshot

    Over the last two weeks, the Filecoin community has stored more than 170 TiB of valuable data through more than 200,000 storage deals on the Filecoin network.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Space Race AMA #5 Summary

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

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    Want to Learn More about Filecoin? Start here.

    Just in time for back to school, we’re here to get you up to speed on all things Filecoin.

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    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.

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    Announcing Mainnet Ignition & Liftoff

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

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    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.

    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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).

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    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.

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    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.

    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.

    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)!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin Mining Community Call, July 2020

    We are excited to announce the next Filecoin Mining Community Call. It will begin with a Filecoin ecosystem update and an overview of the progress that has been made since the last mining call.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    June Q & A Summary

    On June 25, 2020, the Filecoin team hosted an AMA with Juan Benet. Over the course of an hour, we answered 41 questions, covering topics like testnet incentives, the most recent roadmap update, and the path to mainnet launch. During the session we were joined by 968 Filecoin community members from across the globe. Many thanks to all who participated!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin roadmap update June 2020

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

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    Filecoin virtual community meeting recap

    The Filecoin team hosted our very first Filecoin virtual community meetup! Thank you to all who attended and made it such a success. Our community meetups are an opportunity to meet the people behind the many tools and projects being built in the Filecoin ecosystem.

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    Announcing: Filecoin Ignite and HackFS!

    We are thrilled to announce Filecoin Ignite, a series of events gathering the community, to learn, show, and build together.

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    Spark University Hackathon

    Filecoin is excited to be a challenge partner in the Spark University Hackathon, an 8 week online competition bringing together developers from universities around the world, to learn, build, and launch new applications and storage solutions on the Filecoin network.

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    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.

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    Filecoin mining community call thank you

    On May 28, 2020, the Filecoin team hosted our second Filecoin Mining Community Call; we were joined by over 160 live attendees globally. Find the overview of the questions and answers.

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    Announcing Filecoin's Testnet incentives

    After years of research and development, Filecoin’s mainnet launch is within sight. Today, we’re announcing Filecoin’s testnet incentives program and inviting miners all over the world to compete to earn global and regional pools totaling up to 4 million Filecoin tokens.

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    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.

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    Filecoin mining community call, May 2020

    We are excited to announce our second Filecoin Mining Community Call. We’ll kick off with an overview of Testnet Phase 2 then provide an update on the Filecoin Discover program. To conclude, we will answer your questions about mining on the Filecoin network.

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    May Q&A thank you and summary

    On May 18, 2020, we hosted another AMA with Juan Benet and other developers of the Filecoin Project. Thanks to everyone who joined! Over the course of one hour, we received 291 questions and were able to answer 46, ranging from roadmap and timing updates to details on verified clients, hardware requirements, and the latest on testnet incentives. Nearly 1,400 Filecoin community members participated in the session or checked the recap on Slido.

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    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.

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    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!

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    Introducing Filecoin Discover

    Today, we are pleased to launch Filecoin Discover – a project to help seed Filecoin as the home for humanity’s most important datasets and make it accessible to others, to grow our knowledge base and forge new ideas.

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    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.

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    Filecoin's cryptoeconomic constructions

    Today, we’re pleased to provide an overview of the cryptoeconomic structures that will allow Filecoin to create that foundation. Filecoin uses a combination of existing cryptoeconomic structures and many new ones to meet the network’s unique requirements. If you’re interested in Filecoin’s long-term success as a storage marketplace, you should find these mechanisms encouraging. While we’re still conducting extensive testing to finalize parameters, we’re excited to share these details on how the system works.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    go-filecoin 0.1.4 is released

    We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.1.4. go-filecoin is the Go implementation of the Filecoin protocol. The up-to-date changelog can always be found at go-filecoin/CHANGELOG.md.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Opening the Filecoin project repos

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Filecoin 2018 Q1 & Q2 update

    Filecoin 2018 Q1 & Q2 Update

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    Token Sale Completed

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

    Filecoin is an open-source cloud storage marketplace, protocol, and incentive layer.
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