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Filecoin was founded by Juan Benet, who also created the Interplanetary File System. Benet is an American computer scientist who studied at Stanford University... |
CVIX | 79 |
Current price | $5.32 |
Change 24h | -6.20% |
Change 7d | -0.84% | Market Cap | $2 016 890 684 |
Available supply | 378 988 742 FIL |
Volume 24h | $163 984 237 |
Updated | Sunday, February 5, 2023 2:00:08PM UTC |
Nature | Coin |
Mineable | Yes |
Discussion | |
WWW | Website |
After | Price | Change |
1 day | $5.37 | 0.86% |
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General FIL facts, technical details and Filecoin Cryptocurrency information
Filecoin is a decentralized storage system that aims to “store humanity’s most important information.” The project raised $205 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017, and initially planned a launch date for mid-2019. However, the launch date for the Filecoin mainnet was pushed back until block 148,888, which is expected in mid-October 2020.
The project was first described back in 2014 as an incentive layer for the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer storage network. Filecoin is open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants, with transactions made using FIL, the blockchain’s native currency. The blockchain is based on both proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime.
Filecoin was founded by Juan Benet, who also created the Interplanetary File System. Benet is an American computer scientist who studied at Stanford University. After founding Protocol Labs in May 2014, he attended Y Combinator in the summer of 2014 with the intention of supporting both IPFS and Filecoin, as well as other projects.
Filecoin aims to store data in a decentralized manner. Unlike cloud storage companies like Amazon Web Services or Cloudflare, which are prone to the problems of centralization, Filecoin leverages its decentralized nature to protect the integrity of a data’s location, making it easily retrievable and hard to censor.
Decentralized storage systems like Filecoin allow people to be their own custodians of their data, as well as makes the web more accessible to people worldwide. Since participating in the Filecoin network by mining and storing is directly related to winning more block rewards, Filecoin incentives participants to act honestly and store as much data as possible
Protocol Labs describes Filecoin’s tokenomics, or economic model, as a “market for data” where users can sell their storage space to other users, who are looking to rent. Five stakeholders will be able to trade tokens: developers, clients, miners, token holders and ecosystem partners. There will also be three Filecoin markets, according to Protocol Labs: file storage, file retrieval and on-exchange token trading.
In fall 2020, 400 miners participated in what was called the “Space Race” testnet phase, increasing Filecoin’s network data capacity by over 325 pebibytes; approximately 3.5 million FIL tokens will be released to the Space Race participants.
Filecoin is secured through proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime. In the Filecoin network, nodes that are also known as retrieval miners are in competition to serve clients with data as quickly as they can. They are then rewarded with FIL fees, which encourages a network of nodes that want to replicate and preserve files.
Storage miner nodes are constantly competing for contracts to provide storage to clients to a specific length of time. When a storage miner and their client agree on a deal, the storage miner holds the client’s data in a sector and “seals” it to create a unique copy of that sector’s data. Storage miners are rewarded with FIL by clients as deal fees, and these miners can also mine blocks and receive a block reward.
Ahead of the Filecoin mainnet launch, Gemini and Kraken have announced support for FIL. Huobi will list FIL after the mainnet goes live.
Date | Open, $ | Min, $ | Max, $ | Market cap, $ |
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Jan 27 | 5.45 | 5.24 | 5.45 | 1 998 534 387 |
Jan 28 | 5.38 | 5.22 | 5.57 | 1 951 765 026 |
Jan 29 | 5.28 | 5.28 | 5.52 | 2 052 365 929 |
Jan 30 | 5.50 | 4.99 | 5.51 | 1 895 046 730 |
Jan 31 | 5.11 | 5.03 | 5.38 | 1 971 288 482 |
Feb 01 | 5.22 | 5.10 | 5.73 | 2 162 841 188 |
Feb 02 | 5.69 | 5.52 | 5.79 | 2 087 598 601 |
Feb 03 | 5.46 | 5.46 | 5.68 | 2 147 155 549 |
Feb 04 | 5.68 | 5.56 | 5.68 | 2 121 205 389 |
Feb 05 | 5.53 | 5.32 | 5.54 | 2 016 890 684 |
* Crypto Rating accepts no liability for any errors in the Filecoin information, FIL Prices and FIL's Market Cap. For the most up-to-date prices please visit the Filecoin's official website.
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