what's Filecoin Foundation?
The Filecoin Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to stewarding the Filecoin network, a decentralized storage protocol built on blockchain technology. Established to support the long-term growth and governance of Filecoin, the Foundation funds research and development projects, facilitates community-driven decision-making, and promotes the adoption of decentralized web technologies. It operates similarly to other open-source foundations, ensuring the network remains open, sustainable, and accessible to developers worldwide. Filecoin itself incentivizes participants to provide storage through a marketplace where users pay in FIL tokens for data storage and retrieval, verified via proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime consensus mechanisms. The Foundation plays a key role in ecosystem building by granting resources to builders creating tools, applications, and integrations that leverage Filecoin's storage layer, fostering innovations in data permanence, cross-chain interoperability, and secure archiving for the decentralized web.
Filecoin Foundation partnered with Bermuda to store over 1PB of public government data.
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x.com/filfoundationCo-hosts Agentic Brunch event on February 25, 2026 in San Francisco with Ethereum Foundation and Protocol Labs, focusing on agent identity, reputation, coordination, and proofs during Genesis Month following ERC-8004 mainnet release.
Partnered with the Government of Bermuda to place public government data on the Filecoin network, with over one petabyte of public materials already stored through this initiative.
Is the world's largest decentralized storage network by capacity as of five years after mainnet launch.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud product launches at DePIN Day Buenos Aires, co-hosted with Fluence.
Collaboration with Blockfrost adds Filecoin storage as a backup layer for Cardano apps, providing data redundancy and decentralization through Blockfrost's infrastructure.
Partnership with Avalanche delivers native cross-chain data bridge through Filecoin Virtual Machine, integrating Avalanche C-Chain execution with Filecoin storage infrastructure.
Partnership with GSR Foundation supports cohort of projects applying decentralized storage for science, art, and human rights through verifiable data infrastructure.
Multi-organization panel on July 24 to discuss machine data generation, storage, and sharing systems.