As we charge into the second half of 2022, we’ve found ourselves looking back to the first six months of what’s been a packed year and all that’s taken place within the rapidly growing Filecoin community. From spotlights highlighting over a dozen developer grantees and Filecoin storage providers to exploring…

Earlier this month, the Filecoin community convened for the first-ever FIL Toronto. From July 4–6, attendees gathered to discuss new features, partner tools, and other developments in the Filecoin ecosystem. The collaborative three-day event was hosted by FilSwan, with support from Filecoin Foundation through the Filecoin Orbit Community program. Speakers…

This is the latest post in our series highlighting the builders and innovators creating new tools and services on the Filecoin network. Learn more about Filecoin Foundation’s Dev Grants program. If you build it they will come. That’s the aim of Renovi, a metaverse marketplace and design studio that works…

Though geographically distant, Berlin, Dar es Salaam, Lagos, and Nairobi, are cities unified through the Filecoin Orbit Community Program, a program powered by Filecoin Foundation and Protocol Labs to amplify the voice of the Filecoin, IPFS, and libp2p communities. Filecoin Orbit Ambassadors work to organize events, create content around their…

Filecoin Foundation (FF) and Electric Coin Co. (ECC) are now accepting grant proposals for projects that increase utility for Filecoin and Zcash projects. Together, we’re working to empower the Filecoin, Zcash, and greater Web3 ecosystems through a new grants pool that funds Filecoin and Zcash projects. Proposals can be submitted…

The much-anticipated v16 Network upgrade — nicknamed ‘Skyr’ — went live on Wednesday, July 6. By introducing Milestone 1 of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), Skyr is one of the largest upgrades in Filecoin network history. An Ethereum-compatible (EVM), WASM-compilable virtual machine, the FVM provides core functionality for developers to…

The only thing hotter than the Austin weather was the slate of programming at FIL Austin, a week of Filecoin community events set against the backdrop of Consensus, CoinDesk’s annual crypto conference in June. On Tuesday, June 8, Filecoin storage providers gathered at The LINE Austin to learn, collaborate, and…

This is the latest post in our series highlighting the builders and innovators creating new tools and services on the Filecoin network. Learn more about Filecoin Foundation’s Dev Grants program. The Webrecorder project builds and maintains an ecosystem of open-source Web archiving tools that can be used by anyone to…

This is the latest post in our series highlighting the builders and innovators creating new tools and services on the Filecoin network. Learn more about the Filecoin Foundation’s Dev Grants program, and read more about recent grant recipients. Arlequin — the Artists Metaverse — is a community-driven, ‘Paint-to-Earn’ system where…