Filecoin Foundation

Clara Tsao

Finance

Strategy

Operations

Hunter Treseder

Management

Marta Belcher

Legal

Megan Klimen

Product

Aaron Stanley

Marketing & Creative

Alan Ransil

Engineering

Research

Cryptoeconomics

Allan Cabasa

Ashwin Prithipaul

Baldemar Loza

Beau Hollingsworth

Brynn O'Donnell

Danielle Cassagnol

Danny O'Brien

Fundraising

Elizabeth Raible

Elsa Nguyen

Erin OConnor

Frank Ang

Galen McAndrew

Gary Moran

Hannah McGowan

Holly Anne Hicks

Recruiting

People

Ivanka Majic

Jacob Hample

Jamie Lee

Jefferson Sankara

Jenks Guo

Joe Thornton

Jordan Fahle

Jordan Lynn

Kaitlin Beegle

Education

Kaitlin Donovan

Katrina Daley

Kurt Opsahl

Lucky Nwachukwu

Matt Hendrian

Matthew Zimmerman

Meghan Gavis

Meredith Pallante

Olivia Sigler

Parth Shah

Paul Wagner

Porter Stowell

Rachel Horn

Robert Dowling

Shannon Horton

Sherif A. Louis

Sofia Kathryn Spieler

Sonia John

Stefan Magdalinski

Tabitha Wubbena

Trey Carson

Vanessa Sugiarto

Yuliia Deriuhina

Compute

Verifiable Storage & Privacy

Blockchain Infrastructure

The Filecoin Foundation is the steward of the Filecoin community. It does not own Filecoin, operate it, or manage it, rather it has a unique position within that ecosystem to help cultivate research, development, and community engagement.

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FIDL:  Filecoin Incentive Design Labs is building tools and incentives to empower good participants in the Filecoin ecosystem.

FIDL: Filecoin Incentive Design Labs

Building tools and incentives to empower good participants in the Filecoin ecosystem.

Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized storage network. Today, Filecoin provides cost-effective enterprise-grade cloud storage that’s used by leading universities and research organizations like UC Berkeley, the University of Utah and CERN. A Protocol Labs project.

DeStor

Protect your most important data with decentralized cloud storage from Filecoin.

Bacalhau seeks to address deep rooted gaps in managing big data by giving developers low cost, decentralized tools that unlock a new collaborative ecosystem. It is a network of open compute resources made available to serve any data processing workload. Bacalhau enables users to run arbitrary docker containers and wasm images against data stored in IPFS.

Bacalhau

Bacalhau seeks to address deep rooted gaps in managing big data by giving developers low cost, decentralized tools that unlock a new collaborative ecosystem.

Lilypad is a powerful trustless distributed compute platform which leverages key features of blockchain to enable developers to call arbitrary verifiable compute jobs directly from their smart contracts! 

Lilypad's initial focus is on bringing together the current demand for GPUs (from AI & ML) with decentralised physical infrastructure networks like Filecoin which can supply this demand.

Lilypad

Lilypad is part of a movement to unlock the next generation of web-scale dApps in Web3 to enable affordable, trustless compute — brought to you by the compute over data team behind The Bacalhau Project.

DeSci Labs is a passionate group of builders who are working to create a radically transparent ledger of scientific record that is reproducible, secure, permanent, interoperable and resistant to cross-national censorship. 

Their first project, Research Nodes, is an interface for interactive research objects living in an open state repositories. These research objects give scientists the ability to store a variety of components including manuscripts, code, data, videos, images and more. These components can be linked together to showcase reproducibility through an imbedded annotation system and in-browser compute functionality on a familiar IDE interface.  The entirety of a Research Node is citeable, from the entire object down to a specific annotation in a past version history.

DeSci Labs

Creating a radically transparent ledger of scientific record

Curio is a new component in the Filecoin ecosystem that aims to simplify the setup and operation of storage providers. It currently supports WindowPoSt and WinningPoSt. On the near term development map, multiple MinerIDs and sealing is of the highest priority.

Curio Storage

Unleashing Filecoin Storage’s Potential.

Huddle01 provides holistic video solutions with simple UI, powerful SDK, custom domain and in-depth analysis dashboard.

Huddle 01

A decentralized video conferencing platform.

Fleek is building an Open Web services interface and protocol layer to make the base layer of web services of the new internet (storage, hosting, billing etc.) accessible to anyone so that it is as easy to build on as the current web is.

Fleek

Making it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web.

Livepeer is a decentralized video streaming network built on the Ethereum blockchain. They aim to build the world’s open video infrastructure.

Livepeer

A decentralized video streaming network built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Dharma is the easiest place to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies — anywhere in the world, instantly and securely. Our secret sauce lives on the Ethereum blockchain: a system of smart contracts that enable any two Internet-connected parties in the world to engage in a peer-to-peer loan without having to trust or know their counter-party.  

OpenSea (Dharma Labs)

The easiest, simplest way to invest in the growing world of DeFi, Web3, and NFTs.

Starling is innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in the most sensitive digital records, such as the documentation of human rights violations, war crimes and testimony of genocide.

Starling Lab for Data Integrity

A three module framework for data integrity - capture, store and verify.

Audius is owned and run by an open-source community of artists, fans, and api around the world. Audius gives artists the power to share never-before-heard music and monetize streams directly. With the Audius API, developers can build their own apps on top of Audius, giving them access to unique audio catalogs.

Audius

A digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music.

Textile is a set of open-source tools to help developers use the Filecoin network. This includes high-throughput storage APIs, permissionless storage bridges to Layer 1 blockchains, and more.

Textile

Providing data infrastructure for the decentralized web.

NFT.Storage is a long-term storage service designed for off-chain NFT data (like metadata, images, and other assets) for up to 31GiB in size per individual upload. Data is content addressed using IPFS, meaning the URI pointing to a piece of data (“ipfs://…”) is completely unique to that data (using a content identifier, or CID). IPFS URLs and CIDs can be used in NFTs and metadata to ensure the NFT forever actually refers to the intended data (eliminating things like rug pulls, and making it trustlessly verifiable what content an NFT is associated with).

NFT.Storage stores many copies of uploaded data on the public IPFS network in two primary ways: in dedicated IPFS servers managed by NFT.Storage, and decentralized on Filecoin. Since IPFS is a standard used by many different storage services, it's easy to redundantly store data uploaded to NFT.Storage on any other IPFS-compatible storage solution from pinning services, to your local IPFS node, to other storage networks like Arweave or Storj. And as time goes on, NFT.Storage will increasingly decentralize itself as a public good!

NFT.Storage

NFT.Storage is a long-term storage service designed for off-chain NFT data (like metadata, images, and other assets) for up to 31GiB in size per individual upload. Data is content addressed using IPFS, meaning the URI pointing to a piece of data (“ipfs://…”) is completely unique to that data (using a content identifier, or CID). IPFS URLs and CIDs can be used in NFTs and metadata to ensure the NFT forever actually refers to the intended data (eliminating things like rug pulls, and making it trustlessly verifiable what content an NFT is associated with).

Elliptic Research members have been responsible for the zk-SNARKs that enable the Filecoin blockchain since the start of its development.  We currently maintain this system.

Elliptic Research

Elliptic Research is focused on the design and efficiency of cryptographic proofs enabling blockchains.

FilOz is an independent public good Filecoin protocol design & development team working on Filecoin improvement, security, maintaining core codebases like lotus & ref-fvm, and helping support & grow the Filecoin OSS developer community. It is focused on maintaining the stability and growth of the Filecoin network, deployment of scheduled improvements and network upgrades, and enabling protocol design and development to happen smoothly across many teams in the Filecoin ecosystem.

FilOz

FilOz is an independent public good Filecoin protocol design & development team working on Filecoin improvement, security, maintaining core codebases like lotus & ref-fvm, and helping support & grow Filecoin OSS developer community.

Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network that stores files, with built-in economic incentives and cryptography to ensure files are stored reliably over time. In Filecoin, users pay to store their files on storage providers. Storage providers are computers responsible for storing files and proving they have stored them correctly over time. Anyone who wants to store their files or get paid for storing other users’ files can join Filecoin. Available storage, and the price of that storage, are not controlled by any single company. Instead, Filecoin facilitates open markets for storing and retrieving files that anyone can participate in.

Filecoin is built on top of the same software powering IPFS protocol, which is a peer-to-peer distributed storage network that leverages content addressing to allow permanent references to the data, and avoids relying on specific devices or cloud servers for addressing the content. 