In today's world, people have become unable to leave the Internet, and the Internet itself is ushering in an important turning point, gradually changing from Web2 to Web3 architecture. As the storage network of Web3, Filecoin is doing its best to try to accelerate the development process of Web3.

The Filecoin network was officially launched on October 15, 2020, and its storage space has reached an astonishing 10EiB in less than a year.Filecoin can be seen as a two-sided market. On one side are storage customers, who can be individual users, enterprises with large amounts of data, or various applications, etc.; on the other side are storage providers, who are constantly adding to the network storage device and capacity.

Protocol Labs, the company behind Filecoin, hopes to help more developer communities, so that Web2 applications can be transferred to Web3 faster, or new Web3 applications can be built from scratch. The following is the recent efforts made by Filecoin to accelerate the development of Web3, organized by Blue Shell Cloud Storage, for reference.

In-depth cooperation with NEAR

NEAR is a decentralized application platform that builds a bridge for today's Internet users to the blockchain-based web of the future. existIn July 2021, Textile released the Filecoin-NEAR bridge, so that applications, smart contracts, and NFT-related data on NEAR can be easily integrated into the Filecoin storage system.

In order to encourage more developers to use this bridge, Filecoin and NEAR decided to provideFree storage.In addition, Filecoin and NEAR also released$300,000 Joint Funding Program, to support developers interested in Filecoin and the NEAR protocol so they can explore more opportunities. This cooperation will undoubtedly accelerate the further growth of the Web3 ecosystem.

Filecoin x Mask Network

Mask Network is a leading protocol for connecting Web2 platforms with Web3 principles, and the Mask browser extension allows anyone to interact with others on traditional social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter through Web3 principles and schemes.

Filecoin and Mask Network onThe collaboration between them was officially announced on August 17, 2021, to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 by providing decentralized storage solutions to Mask users. This way, Mask users can enjoy the opportunities offered by decentralized storage without having to migrate to other platforms or use other products.By integrating well-known existing social media products, Mask and Filecoin can more easily access content and data streams in the Web2 network.This collaboration bridges the gap between Web2 and Web3 and provides an accelerated path to Filecoin's vision of storing humanity's most important information.

Announcing the Filecoin-Polygon Bridge

Polygon is a protocol and architecture for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. It combines the advantages of Ethereum and other independent blockchains to form a mature multi-chain system without sacrificing security. Under the premise of security, it solves many pain points in blockchain projects, such as high gas fees and low efficiency.

Textile created a Filecoin-Polygon bridge to provide developers and their Polygon application users with a simple, permissionless storage terminal.To further encourage developers to use this bridge, all projects using this Textile bridge can enjoyFree storage.At the same time, Filecoin and Polygon also prepared twoJoint Hackathon, developers can try to use the bridge and build related applications. The interoperability between the two ecosystems will bring a series of new Web3 applications, and developers can combine the unique functions of different blockchains according to their specific needs.

With so many cooperations, Blue Shell Cloud Storage believes that Filecoin will greatly accelerate the development of Web3, and the transformation of the Internet from Web2 to Web3 may be faster than we imagined.