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As we wave goodbye to 2023, we should seriously think about the transformation process that the Filecoin ecosystem has experienced. In this year full of global changes and challenges, the Filecoin community has persevered and worked together towards our common goal: to build the largest decentralized storage network, load and protect human data, and bring computing to data to realize the network scale applications. In this article, you will learn about the ecological and community updates that continue to contribute in this year of network change, as well as the outlook for Filecoin’s development prospects in 2024. If you are interested in learning about developments and technological achievements from 2023 onwards, check out this article seriesfirst part。
Filecoin Community Development
FIL activities
In 2023, the global Filecoin community witnessed a series of exciting activities, both community-led andFilecoin Foundation(hereinafter referred to as FF) organizes events that bring together enthusiasts, developers and stakeholders from all over the world.
Community-led FILJakarta, FILSeoul andFILBangaloreFIL activities such as FIL provide participants with a dynamic platform to participate in in-depth discussions, practical seminars and exchange opportunities, promoting cooperation and knowledge sharing awareness.
Organized by FFFIL Paris、FIL VegasandFIL HongKongEvents such as these provide attendees with a carefully curated experience including expert lectures, project demos, and in-depth research into the latest developments in the Filecoin ecosystem. These events are strategically organized around the world and focused on enhancing communication, driving innovation, and promoting broad adoption of Filecoin. Overall, these FIL events demonstrate the global reach and collaborative spirit of the Filecoin community. Whether initiated by passionate community members or orchestrated by the Filecoin Foundation, these events are writing stories, fostering relationships, and propelling the Filecoin ecosystem to new heights in 2023.
FIL Dev Summit
Inaugural editions held in Singapore and IcelandFIL Dev SummitBrings together developers, builders, and community members to discuss how to improve the Filecoin core protocol and network evolution (reference to the IPFS Thing event, but on a larger scale).
These summits sparked meaningful and impactful conversations, from protocol scalability and network improvements, to the intricacies of data loading and governance structures, continuing to drive the Filecoin network forward. Over a period of 6 days, more than 200 developers, researchers and community members came together to share and refine improvements, gain insights from different perspectives and challenge assumptions, and jointly find innovative solutions to the challenges facing the Filecoin ecosystem . For more information, check out the conference recap below:
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Filecoin Orbit
2023,Filecoin Orbit ProjectIt has trained thousands of builders around the world and played a key role in nurturing the Filecoin ecosystem. Driven by 147 Orbit Ambassadors, the project hosted 190 workshops and community hackathons in 40 countries, introducing the Filecoin ecosystem to approximately 10,000 early-career developers, students, and enthusiasts. The program’s global reach has expanded to cities such as Austin, Mumbai, Seoul, and more, with a focus on underrepresented areas. As the entry point to the Filecoin Builders Funnel, Orbit facilitates the transition of projects into funded startups. Prior to the launch of FVM, Orbit Ambassadors organized more than 30 FVM workshops and 10 hackathons, facilitating the deployment of 150 new projects on Filecoin, IPFS or FVM testnets and mainnets. In addition, Orbit has expanded its reach to top universities around the world and hosted large conferences in Jakarta, Seoul and Cape Town, attracting hundreds of developers and storage providers. The program will continue to thrive with upcoming events around the world, and we hope enthusiasts will actively participate in these free and open events.
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Filecoin Insights (Filecoin TL;DR)
Filecoin TL;DRPlayed a key role in disseminating information and promoting community engagement. Since its launch in February 2023,filecointldr.ioIt has been a hub for more than 430,000 visitors, who viewed 1.9 million pages. Covering topics such as using FIL in FVM and comparing staking/lending protocols, the platform’s comprehensive guide, coupled with a collaborative marketing strategy, has generated an impressive 3800 backlinks. This strategic approach has resulted in the TL;DR team’s information appearing prominently in search rankings for key user queries such as “Filecoin Staking” and “How to Buy Filecoin”. Recently established Filecoin TL;DRblogThe ecosystem is further enriched by 14 articles, which range from research analysis to practical how-to guides.
In terms of social media,@Filecoin X(formerly Twitter) account has seen significant growth. From January 1 to December 31, 2023, community followers surged from 256,000 to 667,000, an increase of 160%. This increase exceeded any tracked L1/L2 competition agreement page. Community engagement on the platform is also noteworthy, with 890 unique brand messages posted resulting in 1.9 million interactions, averaging thousands of interactions per post. Filecoin has a net sentiment score of 7.31, ranking in the top three of the ten tested L1/L2 protocols.
at the same time,@FilecoinTLDRThe creation of also provides a centralized communication channel for token holders and web3 enthusiasts. The channel quickly grew to 9,800 followers, and 476 unique brand messages posted there generated 572,000 community engagements. It is worth noting that FilecoinTLDR continues to support the development of the ecosystem through the Ecosystem Spotlight activity. TL;DR Ecosystem serves as a backbone dedicated to raising awareness, spreading information, and actively contributing to the thriving Filecoin community.
PL Creator
Protocol Labs Builders Funnel offers free builder programming from education to investment, including pitches, university events, hackathons, bounty grants, accelerator programs, and early-stage investments. In 2023, Funnel continues to expand its support for builders and startups in the Filecoin ecosystem, as well as laying the foundation for FVM’s growth. By the end of 2023, Builders Funnel supports:
More than 63,000 hackers have hosted more than 120 hackathons with more than 40 partners, submitting more than 4,500 submissions and earning more than $1.6 million in prizes.
There are a total of 602 award grant recipients, including open awards, targeted awards, RFP and joint awards, and small grants.
There are currently 316 teams that have joined or graduated from one of PL’s 36 accelerators, which to date are run with 23 leading technology partners.
The accelerator team has raised more than $420 million in venture capital.
Inject early-stage capital into 100+ Funnel startups that have MVPs and show early PMF.
Looking forward to 2024, Builders Funnel will continue to support the development of early-stage teams and become a venture-backed startup in the Filecoin ecosystem.
Filecoin building block
Within Filecoin’s complex framework, the basic building blocks serve as a solid foundation, strengthening the network’s infrastructure and driving its growth toward increased decentralization, enhanced security, and continued innovation. These key components include IPFS, lib p2p, and drand, which each play a role in shaping the foundation of the network.
IPFS & libp2p
existIPFSandlibp2pfield, 2023 is a year of significant progress, milestones, and community engagement. Since 2022, IPFS continues to fulfill its mission of enabling the web peer-to-peer and has made significant progress. Introduced for the IPFS communityprobelab.io observatory, published asNabuJavas fast IPFS implementation and launch of js-a composable lightweight alternative to IPFSHelia— both demonstrate the platform’s commitment to innovation. IPFS gains wider adoption, Brave expands support for IPFS in its privacy-first browsersupportand integrate IPFS functionality into widely usedcurl toolmiddle. The results of these efforts were held in BrusselsIPFS Thing 2023 Showcased at the event, the IPFS implementer community came together for 5 days of discussions, talks, and demos to showcase the latest progress and chart new directions for the future.
Looking forward to 2024, the IPFS roadmap includes the implementation of the new Interplanetary Foundation, further improving the resiliency and decentralization of network applications and dApps, and supporting larger blocks for enhanced compatibility with existing content-addressed data.
At the same time, libp2p, the network stack for web3 and an integral part of projects such as IPFS, Filecoin, Ethereum Beacon Chain and Polkadot, has made significant progress since 2022. along withlibp2p foundation, the launch of core funds and independent engineering teams, andjs-lib p2p 1.0 release and support for http-p2pExperimental support, the stack has solidified its position as the cornerstone of decentralized protocols. The community is still growing, with more than 321,000 independent libp2p nodes every month,libp2p Day 2023 The event brought together 8 community speakers to share insights.
In 2024, the libp2p roadmap aims to further build the foundation and align funding and structure, address key open issues for enabling strong browser connectivity, and prioritize community and contributor activation. As IPFS and libp2p continue to shape the decentralized web, we encourage community members, enthusiasts, and developers to explore these advancements, participate in discussions, and contribute to continued development.
Drand
This year is fordrandIt’s been a very busy year for the team and League of Entropy! In the past 12 months, as expected, our drand nodes have served over 60 billion (600, 000, 000, 000!) random requests while maintaining 100% uptime as a distributed threshold network. Through 15 distributed key generation and re-sharing ceremonies, League of Entropy has evolved from running a default beacon chain on its testnet and mainnet networks to running two beacon chains of different frequencies on both networks ( 30 s and 3 s). The League of Entropy has also grown from 17 partners to 21 today, with more and more organizations joining it, committed to providing free, fair, and verifiable public randomness so that anyone can use public products.
At the same time, the drand team also participated in 9 different events and organized 2 summits, thus continuing its efforts to spread the word about drand, provide the best DevEx possible when using it, and educate smart contract developers about using it on the chain The importance of appropriate, unbiased and unpredictable randomness.
We are also building new applications using drand on all networks that currently support drand, from Filecoin to Sui to Cosmos (via the Nois network). The team is busy bringing BLS precompilers to FVM and EVM, thereby reducing gas costs for on-chain verification on Filecoin and Ethereum. Stay tuned for more Ethereum-related news in 2024! For updates on the project, check outdrand blogor@drand\_loetwitter account, if you urgently need to use drand in your code base, please check outdrand Github repos。
Filecoin Roadmap – Looking Ahead to 2024
2024 is feeling more like spring and Filecoin is set for a huge growth trajectory! Here are four exciting breakthroughs Filecoin will achieve in 2024:
1. New high-value applications and computing L2 based on Filecoin
along withInterstellar Consensus (IPC)Entering the Filecoin mainnet in 2024, we will see the rise of Filecoin L2, especially applications that build on Filecoin’s massive storage, computing, and infrastructure advantages.
Expect to see the first Filecoin L2 computing network entering the mainnet (such as Fluence and Lilypad), the first Lambda network powered by Filecoin (Filecoin Station), the first search market (Filecoin Saturn), and more!
Especially with the proliferation of generative AI and specialized computing networks for AI inference and training, we expect to see more specialized computing networks leveraging Filecoin data storage as well as FVM and IPC to build blocks.
All of this L2 will flow more utility, storage usage, staking demand, and transaction volume back to the Filecoin mainnet.
IPC subnets are designed to be highly interoperable, so each new subnet will bring new features and superpowers to the entire Filecoin network, as well as build its own communities, tokens, and applications on Filecoin L1.
These L2s will also take advantage of new breakthrough features in FVM, such as leveraging custom WASM actors and new runtimes to power new high-quality games, computing systems, and more.
2. Filecoin as the basic storage layer of web3
In 2023, Filecoin data storage has experienced massive growth, totaling over 1.8 EiB from thousands of unique clients! In 2024, we will see Filecoin become an even more integral part of web3 - from being the storage layer for all blockchain state, to DePIN network infrastructure data, to smart contract data.
With the proliferation of rollup, DA layers, etc., the total amount of web3 chain states is growing explosively. By 2024, we expect to see more and more blockchains and DePIN networks follow in Solana’s footsteps and store their complete archive chain state in Filecoin, enabling cheaper, more verifiable long-term storage, and enabling Easier access to dapps, smart contracts and node operators.
The Filecoin virtual machine launched last year unlocked new programmable storage tools such as automated storage and repair contracts. By adding IPC and fast finality to unlock seamless bridging and cross-chain interoperability, we will see the new L2 data aggregation network come online to automate and scale Filecoin data loading, making it easier and faster for any web3 developer or project Store data on Filecoin.
With these building blocks, more paid data loading tools will emerge focusing on service aggregation, data availability services, and L1 blockchains with more efficient, decentralized, and on-chain native state storage.
Over the next cycle, the overall growth of chain state will drive more applications to choose low-cost, decentralized storage on Filecoin as their state archiving solution (currently Infura, Alchemy and some particularly centralized AWS dominate $791.52 billion market).
This will enable Filecoin to be more tightly integrated with many other blockchain ecosystems (such as Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, etc.) so that any web3 developer can use Filecoin to retrieve historical data for analysis in each ecosystem , applications, etc.
The DePIN network will also leverage Filecoin to ensure that its critical infrastructure data about local weather conditions, city maps, or WiFi routers are well integrated with on-chain data and status.Tableland has partnered with WeatherXM, leading the way in this regard!
3. Filecoin is used to quickly retrieve hot data
More high-performance applications and paying storage customers will drive the need for fast, reliable retrieval of data stored in Filecoin. In 2023, Filecoin built tools (boost + IPNI + FilPlus reputation) and measurement systems (SPARK + Station) for large-scale search incentives. In 2024, we will see reliable retrieval become the standard for Filecoin storage clients, enhancing Filecoin’s utility and scope.
SPARK search monitoring systemLaunched in November 2023, it has been collecting decentralized metrics on Filecoin data retrieval at scale through the Station network. By 2024, we will see these retrieval metrics integrated into Filecoin + datacap approval and retrieval provider incentives via the new Filecoin Plus allocator, bringing retrieval incentives full circle. To date, SPARK has been completed over 660 million times.
Projects like Tableland, web3.storage, and Banyan have been building popular storage products on Filecoin, enabling use cases like s 3 to be deployed to the Filecoin network! These new layers allow Filecoin as an ecosystem to replace more parts of the infrastructure stack.
4. DeFi on Filecoin continues to grow
Filecoin is unique in that it incorporates core economic flows as part of its economy. In 2023, demand for Filecoin collateral through protocols such as (GLIF and StFIL) will increase significantly, and we expect that as builders begin to leverage FVM to pull more funds flow on the chain (such as payment for storage transactions, computing services, retrieval work, etc. ), new use cases will appear.
Summarize
Looking back in 2023, Filecoin has undergone a transformational journey, evolving from a decentralized storage network into a programmable open data service platform. During the year, events such as FILJakarta, FIL Dev Summit, and initiatives such as Filecoin Orbit and the TL;DR Platform played a key role in community engagement and saw significant community growth and technological advancement.
Looking ahead to 2024, Filecoin will further revolutionize the decentralized web with new applications and compute L2, and focus on becoming the fundamental storage layer for web3. Integrating with various blockchain ecosystems and enhancing data retrieval, Filecoin will continue its growth momentum and play a key role in shaping a more open and connected digital world.
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