Tagged: filecoin

February 16, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

FileCoin, a token issuer that completed one of the most successful offerings on record raising $205 million, says that available storage now tops 2.5 billion gigabytes (2.5 exbibytes (EiB)). In November, it was reported that Filecoin had 1 billion gigabytes of storage. Filecoin is a… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto-asset exchange Coinbase will begin supporting Filecoin (FIL) on Coinbase Pro, the trading platform for professional or experienced traders. The Coinbase team stated in a blog post: “Starting … Monday December 7, [2020,] transfer FIL into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading…. Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage, a company that aims to help institutional investors with adopting digital assets, has partnered with Tokensoft to bring wrapped Filecoin (wFIL) to the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President at Anchorage, states that his organization is looking forward to welcoming wrapped Filecoin… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Decentralized storage network Filecoin has announced that its community of miners has dedicated an exbibyte (EiB) of storage capacity (or 1024 Pebibytes) to the network less than 4 weeks since its launch. Filecoin provides several real-world examples of what this type of digital warehouse means…. Read More

October 22, 2020 @ 3:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Several years after completing a $200+ million token offering, Filecoin flipped on the switch to its Mainnet this month. Filecoin is creating a decentralized cloud storage network seeking to compete with the likes of AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. The mission is to be faster and… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

There is a bit of a Twitter fight going on between Protocol Labs CEO, Juan Benet, creator of Filecoin, and Justin Sun – the creator of TRON, and the owner of BitTorrent. Last week, Sun posed the question as to whether Filecoin (FIL) was an… Read More

October 19, 2020 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

This past week, the ambitious Filecoin project finally went live. Filecoin seeks to become the world’s largest decentralized storage network. Several years ago, Filecoin raised capital via CoinList in a token offering that raised over $200 million. CoinList was one of several listing marketplaces and… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset exchange Gemini and CoinList will commence trading in Filecoin (FL) tomorrow (October 15, 2020). Deposits and withdrawals will be available at 10:30 am ET on Thursday when the Filecoin Mainnet launches. Filecoin is the native token of the Filecoin Network – a distributed… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 1:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin has entered a phased mainnet launch, according to a company release. Network participants can now set up systems and deployments before full mainnet launch. Filecoin is a decentralized network that allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a marketplace – kind of… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin, a project initiated by Protocol Labs seeking to create the world’s largest decentralized storage network, has published a crypto-economics report outlining how Filecoin will work for its users. Entitled Engineering Filecoin’s Economy the document outlines the initial parameters of the protocol as well as future… Read More

August 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

David Dias, research engineer at Protocol Labs and the drand project lead, along with Nicolas Gailly, research scientist at Protocol Labs and the original author of drand, recently explained how they’re developing randomness solutions that are able to generate random numbers. This is important because… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An “investor revolt” and legal dispute might further delay the launch of Filecoin, a highly-anticipated cryptocurrency project that broke the all-time record of capital raised via controversial initial coin offerings (ICOs) when it secured $257 million+ by September 2017. (Filecoin’s record was later shattered by… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

  CoinList, a top primary digital asset issuance platform, has announced the launch of CoinList Pro – a full-stack crypto exchange designed to challenge established incumbents. While CoinList commenced basic digital asset trading earlier this year, CoinList Pro is described as a fully-featured crypto spot… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys Labs, an organization that aims to solve real-world problems with Ethereum blockchain-based solutions for enterprises, announced on July 30, 2020 that it’s accepting applications for the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, which is being powered by Tachyon, an accelerator program by ConsenSys Ventures that takes early-stage… Read More

June 27, 2020 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinList, a platform for conducting digital asset token sales, is planning to distribute Filecoin (FIL) tokens after the initiative’s mainnet goes live at some point in August 2020 or later this year. At the time of the mainnet launch, FIL tokens will be sent directly… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The controversial Facebook-led Libra project is reportedly the most active project in terms of developer activity, according to CoinCodeCap data. There are 41 active developers working on Libra, meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has 36 active developers, the data site… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin, a digital asset issuer that raised a whopping $205.8 million in 2017 in a Reg D coin offering, has announced an “incentivized testnet” designed to boost participation prior to the launch of its mainnet. Filecoin said a collaborative competition will run over a three… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 7:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Filecoin, a decentralized storage network that raised over $200 million in a coin offering, has announced Filecoin Discover – a push to encourage miners to join the Filecoin network. According to the company, the Filecoin Discover store is a “continuously-growing catalog of several petabytes of… Read More

April 20, 2020 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Filecoin, a highly-anticipated decentralized storage network (under development), announced that there will be more delays before its mainnet can be officially launched. Filecoin’s developers have postponed the release date for their mainnet to between late July and late August 2020. As mentioned in a recent… Read More

March 1, 2019 @ 2:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Wong Ching-kit, 25, known on social media as ‘Coin Young Master,’ and a 20-year-old accomplice, have been arrested in Hong Kong by officers from the Commercial Crime Bureau, South China News reports. They have reportedly been charged with conspiracy to defraud for selling cryptocurrency ‘mining… Read More