Filecoin is a decentralized storage market and network. It is considered to be the first blockchain project with a landing application scenario. Since the mainnet went live on October 15 last year, the high gas fee indicates that it is receiving It is sought after by many miners, and as the FIL price in the secondary market drops, more miners are participating. V|jasonbody
The current main network has been online for more than three months. Now everyone is more concerned about whether Filecoin's network performance can support the landing of practical applications, because this determines whether Filecoin can realize its early promised vision and whether it can realize its value.
Filecoin provides persistent data storage on the blockchain through a decentralized protocol and a publicly verifiable storage certificate. The current network performance of Filecoin mainly depends on security parameters and Filecoin authentication structure.
There is no doubt that Filecoin is still in the early stages of development. Although the storage capacity of the main network has reached 1.97EB, it is still far from the official target of 1ZB, but it is worth a surprise that it was achieved in three months Achievement. But in theory, Filecoin is still not stable enough at present. It is a distributed system. It is currently difficult to provide high-performance standards for the network. However, in addition to the criticized problem of network congestion since the launch of the autonomous network, the security has also There is no major difference.
At present, in terms of performance, Filecoin's most basic transaction performance has far exceeded Bitcoin and Ethereum, and at the same time, it can ensure the security of transactions.
In another aspect of data storage, generally speaking, the hero of data storage is largely related to the efficiency of data transmission, and the data transmission speed depends on the network bandwidth of the client and the storage service provider. To put it bluntly, it is the network. Speed determines the data storage speed.
Generally speaking, small-volume data storage speed is very fast (less than tens of GB), and when the data is large, it is limited by the network speed. Generally, this time needs to be delayed to more than one hour, which is different from the traditional Cloud storage speeds are almost the same. But the impact of speed does not change the storage requirements, it fully meets the requirements. I believe that with the development of new Internet technologies and new infrastructure, Internet speeds will further increase in the future, and Filecoin's data storage time will also be further shortened.
As a data storage network, Filecoin is designed to directly access data from the network, which shows that it can provide users with data retrieval functions. This is also an important function in the later development of the Filecoin network, which provides important value support for the Filecoin network.
Generally speaking, Filecoin has many retrieval functions, such as fast retrieval. In addition to storing sealed copies, Filecoin clients can also store unsealed copies of data. Because miners need to provide time and space proofs to the network, they are generally sealed copies. , And the unsealed copy can retrieve data faster, which is called fast retrieval in Lotus.
Retrieve after unblocking: Due to the design of the Filecoin protocol, it is basically guaranteed that encrypted storage miners store client data in a sealed format. Therefore, if the storage miner does not have an unsealed copy of the data stored, they will have to unseal the sealed data (ie, decode the encoded data) and then provide it to the requester, the retrieval client.
If you directly retrieve the sealed data in the network, you need to decode the data, and the process also takes about 1 hour (32GB).
The above are the three most basic functions provided by Filecoin. It is currently at an early stage and the retrieval market has not been fully established. Therefore, the current file retrieval can only achieve performance standards similar to cold storage.
In order to obtain the same performance as other hot storage solutions, most users currently combine Filecoin and IPFS caching. use together. These hybrid multi-tier storage solutions use IPFS for hot storage and Filecoin for affordable, frequent and versioned backups, which can achieve retrieval performance comparable to traditional hot storage, while being safer and cheaper. There are currently hybrid storage products, including Powergate and Textile Buckets.
Filecoin is essentially a data storage network. Only when valid data is stored can it exert greater value, not just a blockchain project for mining . So we see that since the beginning of the space race, officials have spared no effort to promote the development of the Filecoin ecosystem and applications.
The Space Race Slingshot Track is dedicated to the incubation and landing of applications; the entry of various capital institutions has brought a lot of funds to accelerate this process. Filecoin Plus and the validator mechanism encourage miners to store valid data from the perspective of miners. So we will soon be able to see a variety of innovative applications based on Filecoin bloom and apply to our lives.
Conclusion: Through the narrative of this article, we can see that Filecoin's technology is the most adequate to support the landing of applications, and its various performances are sufficiently powerful. However, compared with the huge network storage capacity, the amount of effective data is not enough, so the retrieval market cannot be established quickly. I believe that with the increase in the amount of effective data in the future, the true performance of Filecoin will be fully displayed in front of the public. ! At that time, Filecoin will shine and surprise more people!