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Blockfrost Integrates Filecoin, Empowering Cardano Builders

Blockfrost Integrates Filecoin, Empowering Cardano Builders

The Upload V47

December 03, 2024

Blockfrost has integrated Filecoin, bringing enhanced data resilience and decentralization to Cardano app builders. This collaboration leverages Filecoin's infrastructure to improve data quality, scalability, and redundancy across the Cardano ecosystem.

This work between these established layer-1 blockchain ecosystems marks a significant step toward making decentralization the standard for next-generation blockchain applications.

Data Redundancy

By storing Blockfrost’s existing InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) node cluster on Filecoin, developers building on Cardano gain enhanced data redundancy and resilience, ensuring critical data is securely stored across a distributed network and protected against loss, corruption, or manipulation.

Quality Assurance

Blockfrost’s new service tier, which offers decentralized storage via Filecoin, gives developers the choice to store their data on Filecoin while ensuring scalable, seamless access. By extending storage capabilities and adding a premium backup layer, Blockfrost gives developers more tools to build reliable, data-driven applications.

Data Verifiability

The integration of Filecoin provides secure data provenance. With Proof-of-Replication, Filecoin ensures data is uniquely stored, while Proof-of-Spacetime validates continuous storage over time. These essential features facilitate the creation of tamper-proof, auditable datasets, paving the way to deploying trustworthy AI applications with Blockfrost and empowering reliable, decentralized model training.

Commitment to Decentralization

Both Blockfrost and Filecoin Foundation share a commitment to decentralizing the internet. Securing Cardano applications’ onchain data on Filecoin enables developers to build on a decentralized, redundant, and resilient storage infrastructure.

Network News

Filecoin recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of its “Next Big Things in Tech.” The magazine featured the Filecoin network in its fourth annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring emerging technology that has a profound impact on industries including education, sustainability, robotics, and artificial intelligence. This year, 138 technologies were recognized for their potential to revolutionize the lives of consumers, businesses, and society. The Filecoin network was highlighted as a key piece of internet infrastructure powering decentralized AI.

Check out our special episode of DWeb Decoded, featuring Juan Benet. Recorded at FIL Bangkok, Ansa Research Co-founder Jonathan Victor spoke with Juan Benet about the Filecoin network’s growth and the future of decentralized systems. Learn more about their reflections on four years of Filecoin, AI agents, substantive infrastructure, DePIN, advice for founders, and more!

Coming in 2025: Fast Finality in Filecoin. After nearly two years of intensive research and development, F3 has entered passive testing and will launch as part of the NV25 upgrade. F3 marks a significant enhancement in the usability of the Filecoin network, particularly for applications that demand quick and reliable finality –– making the future of Filecoin fast, secure, and accessible to a wider range of applications than ever before. To get the latest testing updates, subscribe to this discussion or join the #fil-fast-finality Slack channel.

Build with Us

Introducing FIL Builder Next Step Grants. Filecoin Foundation is working with FIL-B to provide between $5,000 and $10,000 in support for builders taking their Filecoin projects to the next level! Focus areas include developer and data tooling, integrations, storage, retrieval, technical content creation, and FVM. Learn more.

Join the Filecoin Developer Working Group, a place for community members in the Filecoin ecosystem to link arms and discuss the topics most important to devs in the Filecoin community. Join us on Thursday, December 6, to hear about takeaways from devs building together at FIL Bangkok; connection opportunities within the Filecoin community through the Orbit program; and a showcase of FIL-Frame from FIL-B.

Kickstart your next Filecoin dApp in just 10 minutes with FIL-Frame. FIL-Frame unlocks several unique features that make it an ideal starting point for developers looking to build decentralized applications (dApps) on the Filecoin network. FIL-Frame is a powerful and versatile tool for developers entering the Filecoin ecosystem, providing all the necessary components to build robust and scalable decentralized applications.

Governance

On November 20, the NV24 upgrade went live on the mainnet, marking another significant step in enhancing the network's security, efficiency, and developer capabilities. This upgrade introduces important changes aimed at maintaining the network's stability and future-proofing its infrastructure, all while improving the developer experience for those building on the platform. Read more.