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Filecoin
An incentive layer turning spare disk space into a storage market.
Token
FIL
Sector
Decentralized storage
Category
Infrastructure
Organizations
0
Why it matters
Filecoin builds an economic market on top of IPFS: storage providers commit disk capacity and continuously prove they still hold the data they were paid to keep, using cryptographic proofs rather than trust. It is one of the largest DePIN networks by committed capacity, and its more recent direction has extended toward compute over stored data rather than storage alone.
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Token utility
Payment for storage deals between clients and providers
Collateral staked by storage providers
Governance and network participation
Key risks
Paid demand has historically lagged far behind committed capacity
Competes with cheap, reliable centralized cloud storage
Provider economics depend on token price and collateral costs
References
Last verified:
- Filecoin | World's Largest Decentralized Storage Network for Humanity's Data
Filecoin · filecoin.io · primary source
The project's official site, retrieved on the date shown, supporting how it describes itself. It does not establish supply, governance or issuance mechanics.
Accessed
Linked organizations
MapPending linkage to a concrete organization on the map.
Relationships
Developed by
Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs originated the Filecoin project and continues to support its open-source technology network.
Relationship documented by the official source.
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