A powerful and dynamic distributed cloud storage network for your data.
Filecoin is for
The Filecoin network is made up of a large number of diverse storage providers and developers. This creates a robust and reliable service.
Cryptographic proofs guarantee your data remains available and unchanged over time
Filecoin provides the foundation for critically important public data, such as open access scientific data, creative commons media, historical archives, preservation, and more.
Explore some of the treasured data that will be stored on the Filecoin network below.
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia with over 20 billion page views per month. Every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. A copy of Wikipedia’s database will be stored on the Filecoin network, helping to ensure this valuable public data is preserved.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. Contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more. The Filecoin network will store a copy of the full OSM dataset, contributing to map preservation and distribution.
The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) is a coalition of investigators seeking to aggregate and harmonize exome and genome sequencing data from a variety of large-scale sequencing projects, and to make summary data available for the wider scientific community. The Filecoin network will store a copy of the v3 short variant data set, which spans 71,702 genomes from unrelated individuals sequenced as part of various disease-specific and population genetic studies.
Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library in the world and has over 60,000 free eBooks. Thousands of volunteers digitize and diligently proofread the eBooks, adding an average of 50 new books per week. The Filecoin network will store copies of the public domain works digitized by Project Gutenberg – ensuring that much of the world’s great literature is robustly preserved and available to all.
OpenAQ is the world’s first open, real-time and historical air quality platform, aggregating and serving government-measured and research-grade data from multiple sources. The Filecoin network will contribute to the OpenAQ mission of making this data accessible to all, in support of clean air for everyone.
A hypercompetitive marketplace for storage
Filecoin reduces the barriers to entry for storage providers and turns cloud storage into a commodity. This allows new entrants to easily compete with entrenched players.
Storage providers compete vigorously for your business, to store your data, and provide flexible options at the best prices.
And it’s all done on a transparent, global marketplace.
Filecoin creates an incentivized market to put extra storage to work. With significantly more supply, we meet growing demand while lowering the price of storage.
