Original source: Filecoin Network

This October, we celebrated the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Filecoin mainnet. It has been an incredible four years. Today, the Filecoin network has hundreds of teams and thousands of storage providers around the world, making it the world’s largest decentralized file storage network.

Welcome to read this article to learn more about the Filecoin Foundation's vision and strategic priorities. Looking ahead to 2025, the Filecoin Foundation's primary goal is to mobilize the Filecoin community to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit.

Vision and role in the ecosystem

The mission of the Filecoin Foundation is to protect humanity's most important information by promoting open source governance of the Filecoin network, funding research and development projects related to Filecoin and decentralized technologies, supporting the development of the Filecoin ecosystem and community. The Filecoin Foundation's vision is to create a world where Filecoin and related decentralized technologies preserve and protect humanity's most important information, empower users, and embed core civil liberties and human rights (such as freedom of speech and privacy) into the fabric of the world's technological infrastructure. We hope to build a decentralized, efficient, and powerful foundation for the future of the network.

The Filecoin ecosystem is fully decentralized, which means that the Filecoin Foundation does not lead or determine the direction of the Filecoin ecosystem. Instead, like other open source governance bodies, the Filecoin Foundation aims to bring together and empower the Filecoin community, including storage providers, data users, token holders, developers, and other ecosystem participants. The main initiatives are to promote the open source governance process of the Filecoin network, provide funding for ecosystem team building, hold events to convene ecosystem participants, and other ways to support the Filecoin community.

In 2025, the Filecoin Foundation's primary goal for the ecosystem is to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit, but the Filecoin Foundation cannot dictate what the Filecoin community should do to achieve these goals. Instead, the Filecoin Foundation's strategic focus in 2025 is to bring the community together to achieve these goals, including promoting a process for the community to agree on the most important actions, making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit, supporting projects that help achieve these goals, playing a greater coordination and convening role in the ecosystem, and helping the right people discuss the right things at the right time.

Strategic Priorities for 2025

In 2025, the Filecoin Foundation’s highest ecosystem-oriented goal is to mobilize the Filecoin community to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit.

To achieve the above goals, the main measures are as follows:

• Fighting pain points; driving community consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Shift from a "release" culture to an "iteration" culture, emphasizing quality, precision, and stability

• Support open source data storage tools and focus on stability

• Maintain community engagement through high-profile and high-quality integrations and partnerships, including platform integrations and AI partnerships

• Supporting storage providers in finding profitable business models and facilitating paid storage transactions, including by supporting transaction channels

• Significantly increase on-chain activity

• Play a greater role in coordination and convening in the ecosystem, allowing the right people to discuss the right things at the right time

• Play a greater role in coordinating ecosystem-wide communications among ecosystem participants

The Filecoin Foundation cannot achieve making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit alone; instead, our strategic focus is on bringing the Filecoin community together to achieve these goals.

Measuring progress: 2025 targets and key results

To measure the ecosystem’s progress towards our main 2025 goals (making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieving product-market fit), we have developed a new set of ecosystem-focused goals and key results (OKRs) for 2025.

We hope to continuously track ecosystem progress by setting ambitious, clear and measurable goals, promptly identify and resolve obstacles, identify areas for improvement, and celebrate ecosystem achievements in the process.

Here’s how we’ll measure ecological progress in 2025:

Goal: Make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Result 1: Increase network storage usage by 5 PIB per day

  Strategic focus: Support open source data storage tools and focus on stability

• Key Result 2: 75% of on-chain transactions are renewed before expiration

  Strategic focus: Fighting pain points; driving community consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Result 3: 25% month-over-month growth in the number of paid transactions

  Strategic focus: Support storage providers in finding profitable business models and facilitate paid storage transactions, including by supporting transaction channels

• Key Outcome 4: Address at least half of the major pain points (identified and prioritized through a process involving ecosystem stakeholder input)

  Strategic focus: Fighting pain points; driving community consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Result 5: Allocate at least 25% of funding to iterations or ongoing maintenance of previous projects rather than new projects

  Strategic focus: Shift from a "release" culture to an "iteration" culture, emphasizing quality, precision, and stability

• Key Result 6: Create and promote at least 12 new major partnerships, each of which generates at least 2 media mentions (with positive sentiment) in top crypto media and at least 3 appearances in mainstream media

  Strategic focus: Maintain community engagement through high-profile and high-quality integrations and partnerships, including platform integrations and AI partnerships

• Key Result 7: On-chain activity increased by 25% month-on-month

  Strategic Focus: Dramatically Increase On-Chain Activity

Budget 2025

The Filecoin Foundation looks forward to supporting the community in 2025, and we have outlined a 2025 budget to support these goals, key results, and strategic priorities. Below is the Filecoin Foundation’s planned budget for fiscal year 2025 (subject to change):

We will further describe the Filecoin Foundation’s impact in 2024 and plans for 2025 in our upcoming annual report, and we look forward to working with the entire Filecoin community in 2025 to achieve our shared vision. We welcome you to join us in building a resilient, decentralized, and user-empowered network.