The Filecoin community celebrated the first anniversary of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) launch on March 14, 2024. The FVM has brought programmability to Filecoin’s verifiable storage and opened up a unique DeFi ecosystem anchored around improving on-chain collateral markets. Liquid Staking, for example, as a subset of Filecoin DeFi, has hit over $500 million in TVL. […]

2023 marked significant shifts in technology and adoption for the Filecoin network. From the launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) to developments across retrievals and compute, 2023 lay the foundation for Filecoin’s continued expansion.

Key takeaways from Filecoin Labweek 2023:
1) InterPlanetary Consensus and how it enables planetary-level scalability
2) Filecoin’s explosive DeFi growth unlocked by Filecoin Virtual Machine 
3) New Filecoin projects/toolings: DeStor REST API, SPARK and Lilypad

The Filecoin TL;DR team was thrilled to be back in Singapore for Asia’s much-awaited blockchain week. Read all about FIL Dev Summit and token2049.

In this post, we dive into the Retrieval markets that Filecoin is developing and one of its lighthouse projects.

The launch of a programmability layer on a seasoned blockchain generally comes with a lot of excitement.

2023 marked significant shifts in technology and adoption for the Filecoin network. From the launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) to developments across retrievals and compute, 2023 lay the foundation for Filecoin’s continued expansion.

In this post, we dive into the Retrieval markets that Filecoin is developing and one of its lighthouse projects.

The launch of a programmability layer on a seasoned blockchain generally comes with a lot of excitement.

Editor’s Note: This article draws heavily from David Aronchick’s presentation at the Filecoin Unleashed Paris 2023. David is the CEO of Expanso and former head of Compute-over-data at Protocol Labs which is responsible for the launch of the Bacalhau project. This blog post represents the independent view of the creator of the original content, who has given permission […]

Until recently, startups led the way in technological innovation due to their speed, agility, entrepreneurial culture, and freedom from organizational inertia. However, this is no longer the case in the rapidly growing era of AI.

Distributed Storage Networks (DSNs) offer a way to coordinate and utilize these latent resources and turn them into productive assets. These networks have the potential to bring the first real commerce vertical into Web 3 ecosystems.

Unlike proof-of-stake cryptocurrency protocols that directly provide rewards for locking staked tokens, “staking” FIL is much more akin to a lease.

This guide outlines how to transfer FIL from your Ledger wallet to your MetaMask wallet, and how to use Ledger to secure your Metamask wallet for the FVM. Transfer FIL From Ledger to Metamask To access dApps on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), you need FIL in a 0x/f410 wallet address. However, Ledger Live has […]

In order to access dApps on the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), you need to have FIL in a 0x/f410 wallet address. However, several popular exchanges have not yet been updated to support the direct transfer of FIL to a 0x/f410 address. If you need to move FIL from an exchange that does not yet support 0x/f410 addresses […]

Key takeaways from Filecoin Labweek 2023:
1) InterPlanetary Consensus and how it enables planetary-level scalability
2) Filecoin’s explosive DeFi growth unlocked by Filecoin Virtual Machine 
3) New Filecoin projects/toolings: DeStor REST API, SPARK and Lilypad

The Filecoin TL;DR team was thrilled to be back in Singapore for Asia’s much-awaited blockchain week. Read all about FIL Dev Summit and token2049.