Filecoin mainnet third anniversary: ecological projects exceed 3,050, storage capacity exceeds 10EiB
Original source: Filecoin Network
On October 15, the Filecoin Foundation celebrated the third anniversary of the launch of the Filecoin Network mainnet. Our vision for a better, more distributed network has never been more urgent.
The current Internet is largely centralized, and most people say they don’t like having their personal data in the hands of a few powerful companies. In fact, according to a 2022 Filecoin Foundationinvestigation, 65% of Americans say they have no control over how the information they share with websites and companies is used.
Since 2020, the Filecoin open ecosystem composed of developers, storage providers, storage users and other network participants has become the worlds largest distributed storage network:
Massive Data
Ecological momentum is strong
There are over 14,700 contributors on GitHub
More than 3,050 ecological projects
450+ organizations are building on the web
Community Highlights
Over the past three years, the community has grown tremendously and achieved some incredible results. Here are some of the latest highlights of storing data on the web:
UC Berkeley partners with Seal Storage to store on the webPhysics research results。
CERN’s Atlas Experiment has partnered with Seal Storage on a pilot project to explore distributed cloud storage as an efficient and cost-effective option for archival data storage. In this research and development project, Seal Storage Technology provided 10 pebibytes (PiBs) of cloud storage capacity for the ATLAS Experiment.
GenRAIT is using Filecoin toStore critical genomic data。
Starling Lab and Rolling Stone created aInteractive Web3 Archives, used to verify and preserve records of alleged war crimes, with complete digital records stored on Filecoin and IPFS.
China’s fastest growing website for photos, illustrations and vector filesEwesion uses Filecoin to save data。
DeSci Labs is using Filecoin and IPFSSolving the “replication crisis” in scientific research. Results reported in scientific papers often cannot be replicated and independently verified by other researchers—DeSci is using distributed data storage to help solve this problem.
Democracys Library has uploaded over 1 PB to the Filecoin networkdata set, which includes information collected by the Internet Archive during a sixteen-year project called End of Term Crawl, which captured and preserved U.S. government websites at the end of a presidential term.
The Filecoin Foundation (FF) is one of the many contributors to the Filecoin ecosystem. It promotes Filecoin network governance, funds research and development projects, and supports Filecoin ecosystem and community development.
Over the past three years, FF has given hundreds of developers bounties to encourage more builders to participate in the Filecoin network. Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation Distributed Network ProjectPartner, like Distributed Press, Guardian Project, OpenArchive, MuckRock, and Prelinger Archives, are creating and supporting better technologies to protect humanity’s most important information.
The road ahead
Humans only generated 1 ZB of data in 2011. Today, according to Holon Global Investmentspredict, by 2040, humans will generate 75,000 ZB of data. Data drives the advancement of artificial intelligence and computing, and distributed storage provides a fairer and more reliable solution for processing massive amounts of data.
Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
This spring, the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) launched on the Filecoin Network, solidifying the Filecoin Network’s unique positioning as L1, powering the open data economy. As data, artificial intelligence, and computing evolve, there’s more to come for FVM!
For more information, please visit https://fvm.filecoin.io/.
Search
The Saturn project is a distributed CDN network based on Filecoin launched in 2022 and is committed to democratizing the CDN market. In less than a year, Project Saturn has grown to over 4,800 global points of presence, capable of serving 478 million requests per day, with an impressive time-to-first-byte of IPFS content of 80 milliseconds.
For more information please visit https://retrieval.market/.
Data calculation
Compute on Data (CoD) platforms like Bacalhau are designed to move computing resources to where the data is stored, rather than moving the data for processing. This approach, especially when deployed on a distributed protocol like Filecoin, provides a flexible and scalable solution for data processing, providing a more efficient alternative to traditional centralized systems in the era of big data and artificial intelligence.
For more information please visit https://www.cod.cloud/.
interstellar consensus
Interstellar Consensus (IPC) is the next frontier of Filecoin scalability, unlocking unparalleled capacity and customizability and enabling new use cases.
For more information visit https://fil.space/.
governance
The FIP 001 v2 program is a project led by the Filecoin Foundation to make changes to the Filecoin Improvement Processes (FIPs) and governance processes.
Acknowledgments
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to storage providers, builders, researchers, enterprises, users and everyone who helps build a better Internet and preserve mankinds most important information!
To celebrate this event, we areFilecoin Foundation Swag StoreOffer 10% off with code HBDFILECOIN (through Friday, October 20).
Please join us at the Filecoin Foundation Network Base in Istanbul on November 14-16 with LabWeek and Devconnect as we celebrate crossing this milestone. (Registration link）
