Filecoin's first appearance and future goals
Back in 2014, when Filecoin first appeared, "web3" was still in its infancy. Vitalik Buterin has just launched the Ethereum white paper, and the "blockchain" has just begun to attract a large number of followers. When Gavin Wood released "Dapps: The Idea of Web 3.0", he proposed the four components of the next-generation Web: "Static content publishing, dynamic messaging, decentralized transactions, and integrated user interfaces. "This lays the foundation for new projects that meet these needs.
In 2014, protocols such as IPFS (content-addressed file sharing), libp2p (peer-to-peer network) and IPLD (hash-linked data structure), which form the basis of Filecoin's data storage network, have just started.
It all started with a dream: What if we can use the tools of the p2p revolution in the early 1990s to prevent disasters like the burning of the Alexandria Library? The destruction of the knowledge of generations will hinder hundreds of years of progress and innovation. As more and more people communicate online, this has become an increasing survival risk. If we can make knowledge more accessible, more effective, and more flexible, then we can lay a better foundation for our future vision, and scientific research is accompanied by a basis for reproducing this knowledge or reanalyzing the exact data required.
This vision can be traced back to the establishment of the Internet, a decentralized but interconnected network of nodes and routers without a single point of failure. At the 2016 Distributed Network Summit, Vint Cerf (one of the inventors of the TCP/IP protocol), Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the World Wide Web), Juan Benet (creator of IPFS and Filecoin), and others published "Total Renewal Inventing the core technology supporting the network" insights and vision.
Filecoin, IPFS, libp2p and similar protocols have emerged as a new generation of tools to reshape the Internet and make it faster, safer and more open.
And Filecoin also officially launched on the mainnet on October 15, which is a huge milestone. We stand at the door of the new era of dweb. Any application, smart contract or NFT of dweb can store and access its own data in a decentralized storage layer without any middleman.
Filecoin unlocks unprecedented applications, such as a decentralized machine learning database that can fund its storage costs through pay-per-use model training fees, or a decentralized social media platform that can increase the speed of copying by adding voting videos, thereby Increase the playback speed. The next innovative application in web3 will use the new foundation laid by Filecoin, IPFS and libp2p to build applications and networks that we cannot even imagine.
With the growth of Filecoin-based projects and the network gaining new features, the Filecoin ecosystem already has tremendous momentum. Since the launch of the network, there have been 5 FIPs (Filecoin improvement proposals), for example, the Filecoin Plus program (FIP-0003), which aims to stimulate all miners to search for the most important data sets in the world and load them into the network. Ensure that Filecoin is a valuable, high-growth, useful storage network.
When the Filecoin network started, the goal was to build an Alexandria library to preserve the most precious knowledge of mankind, which will never be burned. At present, due to the participation of the global storage miner community and enthusiastic customers, we are getting closer and closer to realizing this vision, and it has also brought countless new use cases.