What
Filecoin's vision is built around three core pillars: storage, retrieval and transformation of data.
The goal is to form a credible alternative to the legacy cloud infrastructure, that matches it in scale and suite of data services.
An open market where individuals and organizations can contract with storage providers to store their data.
The Filecoin community started with Storage Markets as the first step. As data has gravity, starting with Storage makes it easier to build Retrieval and Compute over the data.
An open market where individuals and organizations can contract with retrieval providers to deliver content.
This unlocks the universe of use cases which need faster retrieval speeds, such as video streaming.
Learn more and follow our progress at Retrieval Market.
An open market where compute power can be contracted to run over data.
This is a growing topic of interest given the immense amount of compute resources needed for AI models. Filecoin's vision includes different subnets emerging specializing in different kinds of compute jobs.
Learn more and follow our progress at Cod.cloud.
Key protocol upgrades to enable these services include Smart Contracts (the Filecoin Virtual Machine) and Scaling (Interplanetary Consensus).
Why