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Filecoin Foundation Says Tech Luminaries Will Help Project Suceed

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

Justin Sun Slams Filecoin, Protocol Labs Founder Juan Benet Responds

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

Filecoin Live: “It’s been a long road, but paradigm-shifting technology takes time”

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

Gemini, CoinList to Trade Filecoin

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

Filecoin Now in Phased Mainnet Launch

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

Filecoin Readies Mainnet Launch, Publishes Report in Advance of Go-Live

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

Researchers from Protocol Labs Explain how the Drand or Distributed Randomness Project can Help with Cybersecurity, Election Audits

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

An “Investor Revolt” and Legal Dispute Might Further Delay Filecoin (FIL) Launch, Anonymous Investors Claim

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

Crypto Exchange: CoinList Pro Wants to be the One Place to Buy Hold & Trade Crypto

  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

ConsenSys Labs Is Accepting Applications for Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, will Develop Open, Interoperable Tools

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

Digital Asset Token Sales Platform CoinList to Distribute Filecoin (FIL) Tokens Following August 2020 Mainnnet Launch

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

Facebook’s Libra Stablecoin Project, Ethereum (ETH), Near, Bitcoin Cash are Currently Most Active Development Projects: Report

  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

Filecoin Testnet Launch Includes Incentives to Boost Participation

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

Filecoin Seeks to Boost Mining with Filecoin Discover

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

Filecoin, a Decentralized Storage Network, Delays Project Launch Again After Reviewing Recent Code Security Audit Results

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

Police Arrest Crypto Promoter Who Threw Cash off Hong Kong High Rise

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

ICO Platform CoinList Raises $9.2 Million Series A

CoinList, an initial coin offering (ICO) platform for accredited investors and quality Blockchain projects, has announced a $9.2 million Series A funding round. CoinList previously raised funding from VC Accomplice and Protocol Labs, a research, development and deployment lab for network protocols. This additional funding… Read More

Crowd Machine ICO: Like Filecoin but with Functional Technology in Place

Crowd Machine is gearing up for their public crowd sale on April 1st. The private sale is ongoing with minimum participation of $100,000. Accredited investors only. Same holds true for the public sale for US investors – you must be accredited. But the FAQ appears… Read More

An Estimated $4.9 Billion Went into ICOs During 2017, Two Tokens Accounted for Nearly $1 Billion

In the land of initial coin offerings (ICO), a world that is starting to look a bit like Xanadu, an estimated $4.9 billion was raised. This number was buttressed by several sources. WSJ.com reported in December that ICOs had topped $4 billion. Crunchbase augmented that… Read More

Heads Down: Filecoin Distributes Significant Update on Progress to Date

Filecoin, one of the largest initial coin offerings ever, has distributed a significant update on platform process since raising over $200 million on CoinList last fall. Having raised such an incredible sum means Filecoin has a big war chest with which to develop their vision of… Read More

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