As we’ve written about previously, Filecoin is building an economy of open data services. While today, Filecoin’s economy is primarily oriented around storage services, as other services (retrieval, compute) come online, the utility of the Filecoin network will compound as they all anchor in and can be triggered from the…

Introduction The Filecoin network launched in October 2020, introducing an incentive layer to the IPFS protocol and enabling open services for data. …

Overview There is an overwhelming amount of work going on in the Filecoin ecosystem, and it can be difficult to see how all the pieces fit together. In this blogpost, I’m going to explain the structure of Filecoin and various components of the roadmap to hopefully simplify navigating the ecosystem. …