Filecoin is much more than just a file storage network. It aims to be a decentralized, robust, and efficient foundation for humanity’s information. This vision is ambitious, and we can’t do it alone! The Filecoin network needs a vibrant and diverse community of participants working together to build the ecosystem of tools and services needed to improve Filecoin and make it usable in countless real-world applications. Today, we are delighted to announce the Filecoin Dev Grants Program…

We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.3.2. This release is a big step towards completing the filecoin storage protocol…

We are excited to announce that we are sponsoring the SNARK Challenge, an open challenge to speed up zk-SNARK provers…

We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.2.2. This release is heavy on behind-the-scenes upgrades, including support for filesystem repo migrations and storage disputes, a better message pool, proofs improvements, bumps to libp2p and go-libp2p-kad-dht versions for more reliable relays and DHTs, and CLI improvements.

We are excited to announce our upcoming community call specifically focused on mining. In this call, we will bring together implementers, contributors, researchers, prospective miners, and curious minds to engage with one another…

Today, Protocol Labs is announcing a research collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation to design and develop at least one secure, efficient, and usable Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) construction…

We’re happy to announce go-filecoin 0.1.4. This release contains a better install experience, Proof-of-Spacetime integration, more reliable message sending and networking, and many other improvements…

Today, we are excited to open several repos on GitHub, and invite everybody to join us on GitHub. Come learn about Filecoin, play with the code, and contribute to development. As described in this prior update, we made the hard choice of starting our repos privately to avoid distractions and develop quickly. Now, we have reached our next big milestone. If you are a developer, researcher, adventurous miner or user, or just want to support our efforts, this is an exciting time to get involved …

As we announced here, we recently opened up the Filecoin project repos on GitHub. You can visit the GitHub repos to explore the codebase, development tools, community resources, and more. If you’re ready to jump straight in, here are some of the ways you can learn more …

Opening up go-filecoin, rust-fil-proofs,and research repos. Good news! After many months building things privately, we are ready to open up a number of codebases and community forums. This is right on schedule as predicted in our Project Roadmap and last update. Read our announcement blog post for more. Filecoin Project Roadmap Update. …