Highlights from the Storage Market Summit with Filecoin and ETH Global on Dec. 11

This blog post aims to unpack how Filecoin tokens enter circulating supply, provide more insights on how various stakeholders take part in its economy, and shed light on how one should approach and think about Filecoin token economics.

Huobi Group and Protocol labs have partnered to launch the Huobi Filecoin Incubation Center with a $10M USD fund.

The Filecoin network has just surpassed 1 exbibyte of storage fewer than four weeks after launch.

Filecoin’s combination of cryptographic and economic mechanisms are designed to align participants’ incentives with the goals and mission of the network. With block reward and deal payment as the main incentive drivers, slashing is the main form of mitigating bad behavior when participants deviate from the promises they made to the network. Slashing uses game theory and decision science to help solve one of the most important challenges for a decentralized storage network like Filecoin. ...

In this blog post, we are introducing Phase 2 of the Slingshot competition. If you are interested in earning FIL rewards for storing valuable data on the Filecoin network, Slingshot is for you!

Looking back at our week in Shanghai with the awesome Filecoin community in China.

Highlights from a conversation with Stani Kulechov of Aave, Corbin Page of ConsenSys Codefi, and Loong Wang of Ren Protocol about Filecoin’s position in the DeFi ecosystem.

Phase 1 of Space Race 2: Slingshot is in the books! Slingshot is a two-part community competition for storage clients and developers that rewards the storage of real, valuable, and usable data onto the Filecoin network. The goal is to onboard 10PiB of valuable data to the Filecoin network. Teams are rewarded for storing more useful data, as well as building interesting, novel, and functional user interfaces (UIs) or applications associated with the data they store.

After years of work, the Filecoin mainnet is officially live!🚀 As we shared last week, this Mainnet Liftoff transition is an awesome milestone for the whole community that’s been years in the making. Join us as we recap the journey from where things began - and the immense progress and innovation required to reach Filecoin Mainnet Liftoff.