Tagged: filecoin

February 19, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana‘s recently announced integration with Filecoin is described as a significant move away from centralized storage solutions and a key step towards enhancing the reliability and scalability of the Solana blockchain. Solana developers explain that they are utilizing Filecoin to “make its block history more… Read More

August 5, 2023 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LongHashX, which claims to be one of the world’s leading Web3 accelerators with the strong network in Asia, is continuing its partnership with Protocol Labs, the creator of Filecoin and IPFS, in order “to launch the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Genesis Accelerator.” The 12-week program,… Read More

October 28, 2022 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

AWS competitor Filecoin has announced the availability of its CDN labeled “Filecoin Saturn.” Filecoin, a project from Protocol Labs, harkens back to the initial coin offering (ICO) days when it raised a whopping $200+ million with the assistance of Coinlist. While most coin offerings of… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledger, the hardware and software security company focused on crypto and Web3, recently revealed that they’ve integrated Filecoin into Ledger Live Desktop. Ledger explained that Filecoin is powering a “decentralized” Internet “where storage is owned and operated by its users.” We just integrated @Filecoin into… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets firm Gemini are pleased to further their partnership with  Australian fund manager Holon Global Investments, “serving as the custodian partner for their unlisted retail Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Filecoin (FIL) funds.” The BTC, ETH, and FIL held by the… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin was an early coin issuing star raising around $200 million in a CoinList-hosted token offering back in 2017. In the past years, the company has periodically issued updates on its progress in creating the world’s largest decentralized storage network. Today, Filecoin is once again… Read More

May 19, 2022 @ 1:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With worldwide demand for storage set to increase exponentially, users of both personal and enterprise storage will likely “look toward Web3 storage technologies to fulfil their needs, particularly as data privacy concerns escalate, signaling a shift away from centralized storage providers.” This trend, in addition… Read More

February 21, 2022 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm BlockFi has added six new crypto-assets for their non-US clients via BlockFi International. They include Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), Avalanche (AVAX), Cosmos (ATOM), and Filecoin (FIL). The new assets will be available to buy, sell, and trade… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Creator of Filecoin, Protocol Labs, has announced the creation of a $38 million Filecoin NNI Renewable Energy Fund in partnership with Nelnet. The Fund is focused on investments in solar energy throughout the United States, with Nelnet Renewable Energy Services (NYSE: NNI). Dr. Alan Ransil,… Read More

January 22, 2022 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Protocol Labs and Faber are collaborating to help with supporting the development of the next-gen of the Internet. The partnership combines Faber’s experience as early-stage deep tech VC and Protocol Labs’ Web3 expertise to “help entrepreneurs create the building blocks of successful new companies in… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 6:38 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Snoop Dogg, deadmau5 and Polygon Network founder Sandeep Nailwal are among the new members to join VC Outlier Ventures’ Outlier Ventures Partnership. They will invest in and advise startups going through Outlier Ventures’ Base Camp accelerator, dubbed the Y-Combinator of the Metaverse. Established in 2014,… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Casper Association, the not-for-profit entity that oversees the Casper Network, this week announced a solution to security challenges that threatened to slow or halt the adoption of NFTs. Using a trusted execution environment (TEE) in combination with hardware security modules provided by NFT infrastructure provider… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DODO, the decentralized or non-custodial exchange platform that’s being powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm, has introduced the Stable DODO token. The new stable token, worth “exactly $1 USD,” has been developed to serve as a new base asset for the DODO community… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, recently announced a cross-chain bridge to decentralized storage network Filecoin to accelerate Web 3 interoperability between both ecosystems. The bridge will connect Filecoin and Polygon data stores and allow ecosystem projects pro gratis usage of the bridge and storage… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) and its distributed ledger technology have integrated with Filecoin and IPFS in seeking a decentralized storage solution. WBL provides distributed ledger technology ecosystems with the tools for the development of smart contract-based applications. WBL is the DLT-focused subsidiary of Wolfram Research,… Read More

March 22, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx recently explained how Filecoin (FIL) aims to disrupt the file storage sector in the “age of decentralization.” OKEx confirms that Filecoin made its highly-anticipated launch last year. As noted by the crypto exchange, the aim of FIL tokens is “to be… Read More

February 16, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

FileCoin, a token issuer that completed one of the most successful offerings on record raising $205 million, says that available storage now tops 2.5 billion gigabytes (2.5 exbibytes (EiB)). In November, it was reported that Filecoin had 1 billion gigabytes of storage. Filecoin is a… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto-asset exchange Coinbase will begin supporting Filecoin (FIL) on Coinbase Pro, the trading platform for professional or experienced traders. The Coinbase team stated in a blog post: “Starting … Monday December 7, [2020,] transfer FIL into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading…. Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage, a company that aims to help institutional investors with adopting digital assets, has partnered with Tokensoft to bring wrapped Filecoin (wFIL) to the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President at Anchorage, states that his organization is looking forward to welcoming wrapped Filecoin… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Decentralized storage network Filecoin has announced that its community of miners has dedicated an exbibyte (EiB) of storage capacity (or 1024 Pebibytes) to the network less than 4 weeks since its launch. Filecoin provides several real-world examples of what this type of digital warehouse means…. Read More