Blockchain
Filecoin (FIL) celebrates public goods and community growth
Filecoin, a decentralized storage system, has highlighted the significant growth of its network and the vital role its community plays in the development of public goods. The network has seen exponential growth since its mainnet launch in October 2020, becoming the largest decentralized storage network in the world.
The Filecoin network and community have grown tremendously since 2020
Filecoin is a global community, boasting a diverse ecosystem of storage providers, developers, data customers, token holders and ecosystem partners. The network is home to approximately 3,000 storage providers that store humanity’s most valuable information. Over 1,800 data clients, from organizations like CERN to Solana at the Internet Archive, they store their data on the Filecoin network. The network has millions of unique stakeholders, with thousands leasing their tokens to enable more decentralized storage services.
A number of successful, independent teams and projects around the world are building on the Filecoin ecosystem, further enhancing its utility. Filecoin Foundation (FF) helps with steward grant programs, Filecoin’s improvement proposal process, and the Orbit Community Ambassador program.
Highlighting 10 public goods teams dedicated to maintaining and growing Filecoin
Numerous thriving teams within the Filecoin community work to improve and maintain the Filecoin protocol, ecosystem, network infrastructure, and open source projects. These teams include FilOz, Curio Storage, FilPonto, Elliptic Research, Ansa Research, CryptoEconLab, NFT.Storage, Chainsafe DevOps, Filecoin Incentive Design Labs (FIDL), and Starboard Networks.
These teams, each with a unique focus, are made up of experienced Filecoin engineers, operators, researchers, and builders with in-depth knowledge of the protocol. They work on a variety of initiatives including improving and securing protocols, supporting ecosystem partners, and developing and managing network infrastructure services.
Expand and support more Filecoin public goods initiatives
Filecoin recently launched the FIL-RetroPGF-1 funding round to support and finance the growth of public goods in the Filecoin ecosystem. Over 100 teams were nominated by the community to apply for retroactive funding to reward their impactful contributions. The community is also invited to participate in Filecoin’s public goods through network governance, sponsoring research projects, joining an ecosystem team, or hosting an event at the upcoming FIL Dev Summit.
Filecoin thanks its community supporters for their dedication to the collective good of the Filecoin ecosystem. Their efforts are critical to driving Filecoin’s growth and innovation forward.
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