A decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity's information

Filecoin is the world's largest decentralized storage network, built to keep data secure, verifiable, and free from centralized control.

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Filecoin by the numbers

1.95 EiB
network storage capacity
Enough to store Wikipedia's text 22 million times over
482
large clients
With more than 1TiB active data
+5,000
smart contracts
Deployed via the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM)

Filecoin is reshaping how the world stores data

A better foundation for the next generation of the web.

Today, a small handful of corporations control most of the world's data, creating centralized gatekeepers that introduce single points of failure.

Filecoin offers a fundamentally different approach to data storage: distributing data across a decentralized, global network secured by cryptographic proofs, ensuring greater security and resilience.

From cultural archives to scientific research, petabytes of data are already stored on Filecoin. The decentralized model empowers users with true autonomy over their information, building a foundation for a more open, resilient, and user-controlled web.

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How Filecoin storage stacks up

How decentralized storage compares to traditional cloud storage

Filecoin

Resilience through global redundancy
Censorship resistance by design
Open, permissionless participation
Verifiable storage commitments
Economic incentives for participants
Data outlives institutions

Traditional Cloud

Single points of failure
Susceptible to censorship and takedowns
Controlled by corporate gatekeepers
Opaque trust models
Profits flow to shareholders
Data loss if provider fails

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The incentive layer for IPFS

Filecoin adds incentivized, persistent storage to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer network for content-addressable data, creating a powerful, versatile, and long-term home for data.

Filecoin makes it easy for IPFS users to reliably store their data directly on the Filecoin network. The result is a decentralized, storage layer opening up an entirely new class of applications and use cases.

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Open, scalable, and built for the future

A decentralized, verifiable storage layer that scales effortlessly.

Power chain storage, dApps, data-heavy SaaS platforms, immutable archives, and beyond. Accelerate development with open source tools, native IPFS integration, cross-chain data bridges, and FEVM for programmable smart contracts. Build without compromise, knowing you control your data, not centralized gatekeepers.

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Latest news

Insights, updates, ecosystem spotlights, and community stories, directly from the teams building Filecoin.

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ProPGF Batch 3: Call for Builders
Filecoin's FIL-ProPGF Batch 3 offers grants for teams building customer-facing products, SP growth tools, AI infra, and more.
Jun 7, 2026 ProPGF Team
Updates
Announcing Filecoin ProPGF Batch 3 Selection Committee
A diverse group of ecosystem contributors will help guide milestone-based funding decisions for core infrastructure initiatives and projects responding to targeted RFPs
May 28, 2026 ProPGF Team
Updates
Filecoin’s NV28 Fire Horse Network Upgrade is Here
The Filecoin network upgrade NV28 "Fire Horse" is now live on mainnet, making the network more usable, trustworthy, and performant for the real businesses running real workloads on the network today.
May 27, 2026