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Applications
Feeding external data to smart contracts, Oracles are critical blockchain infrastructure for the growth of DeFi applications.
Automated Market Makers connect Filecoin with other ecosystems, enabling on-chain swaps, deeper liquidity, and more.
FVM staking protocols increase capital access to storage providers while simultaneously enabling token yield. More details on staking options available on our How To Stake Filecoin Page.
Collateralized Debt Positions let users lock crypto assets as collateral, adding dimensions for decentralized applications to build on FVM.
Decentralized derivatives (e.g. options, fixed income) are financial contracts that derive value from underlying assets while eliminating intermediaries like traditional financial institutions.
Cross-chain bridges facilitate bridging assets and interaction with the Filecoin Blockchain.
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Filecoin DeFi Update: One Year of FVM
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The Filecoin community celebrated the first anniversary of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) launch on March 14, 2024. The FVM has brought programmability to Filecoin’s verifiable storage and opened up a unique DeFi ecosystem anchored around improving on-chain collateral markets. Liquid Staking, for example, as a subset of Filecoin DeFi, has hit over $500 million in TVL. […]

State of Filecoin 2024
Feb 2, 2024
2023 marked significant shifts in technology and adoption for the Filecoin network. From the launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) to developments across retrievals and compute, 2023 lay the foundation for Filecoin’s continued expansion.

The Economics of Filecoin Staking
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The launch of a programmability layer on a seasoned blockchain generally comes with a lot of excitement.