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From the experimental first round that distributed [200,000 FIL to 99 projects](blog/posts/unveiling-fil-retropgf-1-retroactively-funding-filecoin-public-goods/), to the refined second round that allocated [300,000 FIL across 97 projects](blog/posts/amplify-the-impact-fil-retropgf-2-with-drips/), the Filecoin community has consistently demonstrated that public goods funding drives real innovation.
From the experimental first round that distributed [200,000 FIL to 99 projects](/blog/unveiling-fil-retropgf-1-retroactively-funding-filecoin-public-goods/), to the refined second round that allocated [300,000 FIL across 97 projects](/blog/amplify-the-impact-fil-retropgf-2-with-drips/), the Filecoin community has consistently demonstrated that public goods funding drives real innovation.

[RetroPGF](https://app.optimism.io/retropgf) is an upgrade to Filecoin’s core economic mechanisms that addresses a gap in funding for public goods. It sets out to fund contributions that have generated recognized impact for Filecoin using Optimism-style retroactive public goods funding. In essence, funding in recognition rather than anticipation.

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October 15 marks five years since the launch of Filecoin mainnet. Since then, Filecoin has grown into the world’s largest decentralized storage network, supporting exbibytes of capacity, thousands of active storage deals, and a thriving community of developers, storage providers, and clients. Together, we’ve unlocked new frontiers for Filecoin, from [scaling chain bandwidth](/blog/posts/filecoin-v13-hyperdrive-network-upgrade-unlocks-10-25x-increase-in-storage-onboarding/) 10-25x in 2021, to launching smart contract programmability in 2023.
October 15 marks five years since the launch of Filecoin mainnet. Since then, Filecoin has grown into the world’s largest decentralized storage network, supporting exbibytes of capacity, thousands of active storage deals, and a thriving community of developers, storage providers, and clients. Together, we’ve unlocked new frontiers for Filecoin, from [scaling chain bandwidth](/blog/filecoin-v13-hyperdrive-network-upgrade-unlocks-10-25x-increase-in-storage-onboarding/) 10-25x in 2021, to launching smart contract programmability in 2023.

Since Liftoff, Filecoin has been on a mission to bring fully verifiable, incentive-aligned, and decentralized storage to the world. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is the open protocol used by a massive community of over half a million developers who use decentralized content IDs (CIDs) for everything from ENS websites to NFTs to trustless onchain agents and beyond. From day one, Filecoin was designed as an open incentive layer for anyone to persist their IPFS content-addressed data across a global network of cryptographically audited storage providers. 

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4. **[Filecoin Pin](https://pin.filecoin.cloud/):** Bringing IPFS and Filecoin closer than ever for fast, decentralized data persistence.
5. **[Filecoin Beam](https://filbeam.com/):** A service bridging verifiable data movement across onchain and offchain systems.

![](/uploads/filecoin-onchain-cloud-stackanimation.webp)
![Layered architecture diagram of Filecoin Onchain Cloud showing the unstoppable stack: user applications at the top (Your App or Cloud Service, Filecoin Beam, Filecoin Pin), Synapse SDK integration layer, Onchain Service Layer with SP Registry, Warm Storage, PDP Verifier, and Filecoin Pay, Core Filecoin layers including F(e)VM, Storage Providers with PoRep and PoSt, IPFS, IPLD, and LibP2P, all built on the Filecoin L1 foundation](/uploads/filecoin-onchain-cloud-stackanimation.webp)

## Speed Meets Verifiability: New Era of Filecoin Storage Arrives

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Filecoin Pin is simple, composable infrastructure: usable like a pinning service, but verifiable like a blockchain and preserved with decentralized storage. When you pin a file through Filecoin Pin, your IPFS content is uploaded to an audited Filecoin storage provider. Each provider must verify continuous data storage and access. Payments and uptime are handled automatically through Filecoin Pay, so if proofs fail, streaming payments pause.

![](/uploads/filecoin-pin-architecture.webp)
![Filecoin Pin architecture diagram showing three layers: user actions (Wallet, Upload, Verify, Retrieve), intermediate components (dApp/CLI, PDP Explorer, IPFS Network, IPNI), and Filecoin L1 foundation (Smart Contracts, Storage Providers). Arrows show data flows including funding, uploading, verifying storage, and retrieving data, with bidirectional flows for storage proofs and payments](/uploads/filecoin-pin-architecture.webp)

Filecoin Pin contains a forkable [demo dapp](https://docs.filecoin.io/builder-cookbook/filecoin-pin/dapp-demo), a [CLI](https://docs.filecoin.io/builder-cookbook/filecoin-pin/filecoin-pin-cli) for custom integrations, a [GitHub Action](https://docs.filecoin.io/builder-cookbook/filecoin-pin/github-action) to back up sites, repos, or frontends automatically, and a [simple web app](https://filecoin-pin-website.vercel.app/) for any IPFS user to upload and pin data directly from the browser.

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Filecoin Beam users get fast retrieval while providers get paid for onchain attestable egress. Each retrieval request is verified through Beam’s onchain verifier, a smart contract that records delivery metrics like time-to-first-byte, success rate, and egress volume. Those proofs connect directly to Filecoin Pay, streaming payments automatically to providers for verified performance. Beam is fully composable with Filecoin Onchain Cloud’s warm storage, but builders can also use it independently to add retrievals to their applications.

[Storage](https://dealbot-ga.fwss.io/) and [retrieval](https://github.com/filbeam/bot) deal checkers continuously test retrievals across the Filecoin network, executing real deals with providers to track latency, success rates, and throughput. [Public dashboards](https://dashboard.filbeam.com) rank providers by performance, giving builders transparent benchmarks and helping the retrieval market stay competitive and accountable.
Storage and [retrieval](https://github.com/filbeam/bot) deal checkers continuously test retrievals across the Filecoin network, executing real deals with providers to track latency, success rates, and throughput. [Public dashboards](https://dashboard.filbeam.com) rank providers by performance, giving builders transparent benchmarks and helping the retrieval market stay competitive and accountable.

Filecoin Beam completes the Filecoin data lifecycle by making retrievals as verifiable as storage, transforming content delivery into a performance-based market where speed and quality determine rewards.

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## Who’s Building

![](/uploads/filecoin-onchain-cloud-partners.webp)
![Logos of teams building on Filecoin Onchain Cloud including ecosystem integrations (ERC-8004, ENS, Safe, Monad, KYVE), storage services (Akave Cloud, Storacha), and alpha builder cohort projects (Eastore, Filosign, Cha-Ching, Groundline, Cairn), displayed in white against a dark cosmic background](/uploads/filecoin-onchain-cloud-partners.webp)

A growing number of teams are already integrating and building on Filecoin Onchain Cloud.

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Batch 2 launches next month, carrying forward these learnings into an improved and more predictable cycle.

![](/uploads/screenshot-2025-10-17-at-1.55.24-PM.webp)
![Batch 2 timeline showing applications open November–December 2025, review in January 2026, and KYC and payouts from February to March 2026](/uploads/screenshot-2025-10-17-at-1.55.24-PM.webp)

## Closing

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The FIL PGF maps the current flows of funding from diverse sources - Protocol Labs, the Filecoin Foundation, service providers, apps, L2s into coordinated funding programs.

![](/uploads/09-16-25_Screenshot1.webp)
![FIL PGF network diagram showing funding flows: onchain sources (Filecoin Foundation, Protocol Labs, Storage Providers, Apps, L2s) feed into central FIL PGF mechanism, which distributes through FIL RetroPGF and FIL ProPGF to ecosystem projects including FilOz, FIDL, Chainsafe DevOps, Akave, Storacha, GLIF, and others](/uploads/09-16-25_Screenshot1.webp)
_(diagram credit: Juan Benet)_

At the heart of this network sit two complementary pillars:
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### Our “What’s Next” Goals

![](/uploads/09-16-25_Screenshot2.webp)
![Future FIL PGF network diagram showing funding flows: onchain sources (Filecoin Foundation, Protocol Labs, Storage Providers, Apps, L2s) feed into central FIL PGF mechanism, which distributes through FIL RetroPGF, FIL ProPGF, and FIL DRIPS to ecosystem projects including FilOz, FIDL, Chainsafe DevOps, Akave, Storacha, GLIF, and others. Filecoin Network is prominently highlighted with yellow outline](/uploads/09-16-25_Screenshot2.webp)
_(diagram credit: Juan Benet)_

Where we’re heading is bigger than just scaling existing programs. We want to:
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