Filecoin marks 6 years of mainnet, pivots storage stack to AI workloads with new S3 offering
juanbenet · x · 2026-10-16
Filecoin founder Juan Benet marked six years since mainnet launch with an ecosystem retrospective highlighting a year of revenue and demand-side upgrades aimed at AI-era storage:
- FilFoundation launched Fil One: managed S3 object storage for AI workloads with multi-Gbps sustained reads, $0 egress, $5.99/TB/month, targeting checkpoints, data lakes and backups
- FilOz upgraded Filecoin's storage services for AI, including on-demand retrieval and paid dataset access
- FIDL built automated storage for large archives; IntegralSpace aims to convert data-rich businesses into customers
- The ecosystem sunset FIL+ in favor of a revenue-based subnet economy to close the economic flywheel
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