The Upload: Vol 1

The Upload: Vol 1

Welcome to the Filecoin Foundation newsletter, where twice a month we cover one big idea and a variety of news across the Filecoin ecosystem and decentralized web. Today’s edition includes saving the planet, K-Pop stars, and how you can see us in person at FIL-Singapore.

The Big File: Building Real-Life Value

Some may say Web3 orgs have their heads in the clouds. And look, we get the temptation more than most β€” after all, Filecoin is a cloud storage network.

But sky-eyed puns aside, builders in the Filecoin ecosystem must prove that the value we create on the decentralized web is also valuable here on earth.

Luckily, there is no shortage of real-life examples for us to choose from.

Decentralization is returning value to those who create it, from Move-to-Earn joggers to Play-to-Earn gamers β€” and it has expanded the geography of economic opportunity, using Web3 tokenomics to help users in developing countries make a solid living.

Of course, those of us in the Filecoin community don’t have to look so far to see the real-life power of Web3.

The Filecoin ecosystem now includes hundreds of projects, addressing the opportunities and obstacles in everything from data markets and decentralized identities to consumer storage and NFTs. A few notable initiatives:

  • 🌿 Filecoin Foundation (FF) is working to bring the ecosystem’s environmental impacts down to zero through the Filecoin Green Initiative.
  • πŸ€“ Wejoined forces with UNFINISHED to offer funding for projects that catalyze learning in Web3.
  • πŸ“š FF’s sister non-profit, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW), is supporting Harvard University's Library Innovation Lab in exploring how decentralized storage could preserve cultures for centuries.

Those are just a few of our more recent examples. And one of our greatest proof points for Web3’s value came in March, when a Telegram user posted a photo detailing the smoldering wreckage of what used to be a Ukrainian classroom.

Understanding that this could potentially be evidence of a war crime, researchers uploaded to the blockchain using Filecoin’s decentralized storage network β€” knowing that doing so would keep it from being tampered with by bad actors or government censors.

In difficult times, it’s not hard to understand the value of having a decentralized storage system, one in which no one person or entity can decide what is worth saving and what is deleted.

We are here to help show people the power of a decentralized web, and will continue to do so in this newsletter. We hope you will join us, both by reading and by sending us your thoughts at [email protected].

The Event File

See what’s coming up and follow our full programming lineup here.

See you in Singapore

Registration for FIL-Singapore is open! The two-day conference takes place at Marina Bay Sands from Sept. 26-27, in preparation for Token2049. Register today using the promo code FFVIP for free registration.

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Filecoin Fall is in full swing

Filecoin is also sponsoring GBBC’s Blockchain Central UNGA in New York, Sept. 16-17, and Unfinished Live, Sept. 21-24.

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File it away

Planning a bit further in the future? We’ll be headed to Portugal for both FIL-Lisbon and Web Summit 2023 from Oct. 30-Nov.4.

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From the Fil-ing Cabinet

Discover news from across the Filecoin ecosystem.

Come BUIDL With Us

Learn about the latest in Filecoin grants.

Yatima - Sitting at the intersection of formal proofs and zero-knowledge proofs, Yatima is integrating Lurk, a programming language for Turing-complete recursive zkSNARKs with Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM). Learn more about Yatima’s FVM project.

Zondax - Combining FVM and Assemblyscript, Zondax is developing an easy-to-use software development kit (SDK) for developers that are more familiar with Javascript-like languages. Learn more about Zondax’s FVM project.

Get in Touch

The decentralized web is nothing without community. To keep updated, subscribe to this newsletter and follow us @filfoundation and @FFDWeb on Twitter. Connect with us on Filecoin Slack. If you have a big idea for the next edition, or just want to leave us your thoughts, email us at [email protected].

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