Filecoin is the world's largest decentralized storage network, built to keep data verifiable and free from centralized control.
network storage capacity
Enough to store Wikipedia's text 36 million times over
clients
With more than 1TiB active data
smart contracts
Deployed via the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)
Today, a small handful of corporations control most of the world's data, creating centralized gatekeepers that introduce single points of failure and limit transparency.
Filecoin offers a fundamentally different approach to data storage: distributing data across a decentralized, global network protected by cryptographic proofs, ensuring greater security and resilience.
From cultural archives to scientific research, petabytes of data are already stored on Filecoin. The decentralized model empowers users with true autonomy over their information, building a foundation for a more open, resilient, and user-controlled web.
Filecoin adds incentivized, persistent storage to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer network for content-addressable data, creating a powerful, versatile, and long-term home for data.
Filecoin makes it easy for IPFS users to reliably store their data directly on the Filecoin network. The result is a decentralized, storage layer opening up an entirely new class of applications and use cases.
How decentralized storage compares to traditional cloud storage
Power chain storage, dApps, data-heavy SaaS platforms, immutable archives, and beyond. Accelerate development with open source tools, native IPFS integration, cross-chain data bridges, and FEVM for programmable smart contracts. Build without compromise, knowing you control your data, not centralized gatekeepers.
Insights, updates, ecosystem spotlights, and community stories, directly from the teams building Filecoin.
Across three events, hundreds of builders gathered to celebrate a major milestone for the Filecoin network: the launch of Filecoin Onchain Cloud.
Dec 3, 2025
ProPGF Batch 2 is a milestone-based funding round designed to support the teams building critical open-source improvements across the Filecoin ecosystem.
The Filecoin Onchain Cloud roundup brings together all content from the launch—including the technical deep dive and press release—covering how developers can now build on a verifiable, decentralized cloud.
Nov 18, 2025
