Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, gnomAD, Project Gutenberg, and OpenAQ are just some of the treasured data archives stored on the Filecoin network. Worth exploring some of these projects on the Filecoin website.

For clarity, Filecoin facilitates the foundation for critically important public data like open access scientific data, creative commons media, historical archives, preservation, and lot more.

It is well known that storage providers compete vigorously for business from those who are looking to store their data and also to provide for flexible options at the best prices.

Being a hypercompetitive marketplace for storage, Filecoin brings down the barriers to entry for storage providers and they have converted cloud storage into a commodity. This makes it possible for new entrants to easily compete with well-established cloud storage players.  And it’s all done on a transparent, global marketplace by Filecoin.

Filecoin recently introduced Filecoin Box from Trufflesuite, which is used to simulate and test a complete NFT storage and gallery environment all through the Filecoin Box, powered by Ganache.

For clarity, Ganache is a simulator which provides developers with a personal, locally running blockchain instance. The Developers make use of Ganache to build, deploy, and test their Dapps in a secure and realistic environment before they can launch it on public networks.

The Filecoin Box is a template that is used to build, deploy, and transact NFTs, by using both the Filecoin Ganache and the Ethereum Ganache simulators. By making use of Filecoin Box, Truffle facilitates a solid foundation for developers to come up with solutions for NFT storage to further continue bridging the Ethereum, IPFS, and Filecoin ecosystems.

The Filecoin Box makes it possible for developers to build a decentralized art gallery in a test environment. It consists of Lotus and IPFS nodes.  This they make possible in addition to an Ethereum node to deploy the ERC-721based NFTs. Further the Filecoin Box consists of a front-end environment to view the assets.

Filecoin are a large community of developers, miners and users who are all coming together to collaborate to further build something greater than themselves. This it is possible to engage with the active Filecoin community of builders, miners, users, and enthusiasts of all kinds through Github, Slack, Matrix, WeChat, Twitter and in other discussion forums.

Filecoin also supports Filehive, which is on a mission to make data more accessible, available, and sustainable. Filehive is an open source data marketplace which is now in Beta.