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Filecoin Ecosystem Update 2020
Filecoin's Mission
- To create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity's information — Humanity most valuable resource
Goals
- Decentralize the Cloud
- Give users control of their data
- Turning data storage pricing into an efficient market, allow the network to set prices rather than a corporate pricing department
- Making storage verifiable
- Ensure that when someone says they're storing your file, they are actually storing them
- Optimizing the world storage
- The amount of data we generate is growing at an alarming rate, but only a tiny portion of the world's generated data is actually stored.
- In 2020: total of 58 ZB, only 7% of global data is stored
- In 2024: expected to be a total of 175 ZB, where only 5% of global data is stored
- The amount of data we generate is growing at an alarming rate, but only a tiny portion of the world's generated data is actually stored.
Summary
- Cloud companies control how data is stored and priced -> A global open market
- Content move right to the edge where it's needed the most by the set of clients
Storage Provider
To be a storage provider
- Not only will you need to have disks, tapes, server admins, good connectivity and competitive pricing, you'll also need good customer support, sales and marketing.
- Filecoin offload the business related aspects so you can focus on the core tech.
- Filecoin vs AWS / Azure (Cloud) is like Airbnb vs Marriot / Hilton
Ecosystem Overview
- Filecoin is not just software but an ecosystem
- Miners
- No miner has more than 7% of the network power
- Applications
- Slate
- Fleek Space: Filecoin, IPFS and Powergate
- Private P2P version of dropbox
- Voodfy: Livepeer and Filecoin
- Starling
- Filecoin Discover
- Developer Tools
- Powergate
- Truffle Preserve
- ProtoSchool
- Infura
- Wallets
- Metamask
- Ledger
- Implementations
- go-filecoin
- lotus
- forest
- fuhon
Filecoin Ecosystem
IPFS Ecosystem
