What’s next on Filecoin’s roadmap?

Improving accessibility and driving demand is critical to Filecoin’s growth — here are 3 takeaways that will positively impact the ecosystem.

Improvements to Filecoin Proofs

One of the notable developments over the past year has been “sealing as a service”, which allows storage providers to perform sector sealing on behalf of others. This enables Filecoin providers to focus on different parts of the value chain (e.g. sealing, onboarding), making it more cost-effective for storage providers to operate and onboard new data on Filecoin.

Expanding Filecoin Storage Services

Projects like @BanyanComputer , @SealStorage , @web3mine offer hot layer offerings on top of Filecoin’s cold storage layer, along with services like end-to-end encryption, data recovery, or access control. The expansion of services expands opportunities to leverage the Filecoin network, including enterprise use, providing data assets to physical resource networks (e.g. @WeatherXM , @tableland ), or caching data for compute networks.

Synergistic partnerships with compute networks

Projects like @fluence_project and @ionet are working with Filecoin providers to leverage their hardware (GPUs) for the required compute processing on their network. These projects benefit from leveraging available crypto-native hardware from providers willing to accept deals.

This number is expected to grow by 2024 as fundamental improvements to the network increase Filecoin’s ability to combine with the rest of the ecosystem (e.g. fast finality, customizable subnets).