2024 Filecoin Ecosystem Review
As 2024 comes to a close, it is time to reflect on and celebrate a year of progress, milestones, and innovation across the entire Filecoin ecosystem. This year, developers built more applications on Filecoin than ever before, storage providers expanded their services, and AI teams found new ways to collaborate with the Filecoin ecosystem to integrate decentralized storage and computing into their products. Let's dive in and replay the highlights.
A milestone year: Space and cross L1
At the beginning of this year, we announced that the Filecoin Foundation (FF) successfully completed a pioneering mission to deploy the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) in space. This demonstration involved the implementation of an IPFS protocol designed specifically for space communication, sending files from Earth to orbit and back.