CanonFilecoin
Filecoin: paper, then practice.
The 2017 Filecoin paper pays miners who prove they still hold bytes. A storage proof is not a promise that a user can fetch the file.
Protocol Labs. 2017. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.
- The paper. Protocol Labs' July 2017 paper. Storage is an algorithmic market: clients pay miners to store data, miners prove replication and spacetime, and a retrieval market is specified beside the storage market. The historic library's filecoin.pdf is an earlier, different sketch. This is the 2017 document.
- DePIN.
- Filecoin profile.
- What changed.
- Storage archive.
What this chain does not claim
It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: Filecoin 2017 paper.