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Filecoin in Year One - Then and Now

One of the largest data storage networks on the planet
- As of October 23, 2021, roughly the size of Google Cloud in 2018
The cheapest large scale storage network in the world
Network storage capacity — 20x in the past year
Chain bandwidth — Hyperdrive, SnarkPack
Network Securing Implementations
- Lotus (Official)
- Venus
- Forest
Filecoin upgrades — 20 FIPs by 33 people
Storage Costs & Accessbility
- Filecoin Plus
- Filecoin Reptuation System
- Indexing
  - Make all the data in Filecoin retrievable from any node or Gateway in the IPFS network
Developer on-ramps
- NFT.storage
  - A hosted service for NFT storage, addressed by IPFS & backed up in Filecoin
  - 6.7M NFTs
  - 6.6K users
  - 40TB of NFTs
  - Used by most major NFT platforms
    - e.g. OpenSea, Foundation, Palm, OneOf, Zora, MakersPlace, Gala Games
- Web3.storage
  - A hosted service to store web3-scale data on Filecoin, with simple developer-friendly APIs
- Estuary
  - A new kind of IPFS-Filecoin node for medium-large data storage on Filecoin
Textile's Filecoin Storage bridges to NEAR, Polygon and ethereum
Filecoin <-> Web3 cross-chain bridges
Apps & Tools
- slate, fleek, Powergate v2.0
Upcoming
- SnapDeals — Easier for storage providers to take large deals
- FVM - Adding EVM smart contract to Filecoin Network
- Turing Complete SNARKs via Recursive Computation

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