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DeFi is rapidly evolving, with millions of users adopting it since the summer of DeFi in Ethereum 2020. While the market has matured, the demand for secure and reliable financial solutions continues to rise. Experts estimate that by 2025, the number of DeFi users could exceed 50 million, enhancing its long-term potential.
With billions of dollars flowing through DeFi protocols, security remains a major concern. While smart contracts provide automation and transparency, they also introduce risks. Many past exploits stem from private key leaks, admin control vulnerabilities, and unauthorized contract upgrades, leading to massive losses for users and protocols.

Solana and Filecoin represent two of the most important forces in the blockchain ecosystem. While Solana is known for its high-speed, low-cost blockchain infrastructure, Filecoin has become the leading decentralized storage network. Both networks individually address fundamental issues related to blockchain scalability and efficiency. However, together they set a new standard for decentralized data management, providing solutions far beyond what either could achieve independently.
At the core of this partnership is a key question: how to manage Solana's massive data demands in a cost-effective, verifiable, and decentralized manner. To understand the significance of this collaboration, let's examine how Solana leverages Filecoin's unique capabilities and its broader impact on Web3 infrastructure.

灰度投资公司（Grayscale Investment Trust）由数字货币投资集团（Digital Currency Group）于 2013 年设立，DCG 是全球最强大的币圈投资机构，几乎你知道的大多数币圈的顶层交易所、项目都有它的身影。
而灰度作为DCG的子公司，管理着BTC、ETH等多支基金，其中BTC和ETH先进通过了SEC认证，成为机构合法投资和美股散户接盘的唯二选择。
灰度持仓就是指基金经理通过使用基金里面的资金，面对股票或者是债券等业务进行投资的一种形式，在投资是用户该股待涨的一种过程。一般是运用在基金投资里面，是基金投资里面一种常见的操作方式。灰度持仓是指投资者通过购买灰度资产信托（Grayscale Trust）所持有的加密货币。灰度资产信托是一种机构级别的投资工具，它允许个人和机构以相对简单的方式获取加密货币市场的暴涨回报。这种持仓方式常用于比特币、以太坊等主流加密货币的长期投资策略中，具有分散风险、杠杆效应和便利的交易特点，为投资者提供了多样化的投资选择和收益机会.
早在FIL上线没多久，就被灰度基金纳入持仓，进行了购买。2021年3月15日，灰度基金成立F

🚀 Proposal: Simplify costs, improve efficiency
Filecoin's economic model evolves with its growth, balancing efficiency, scalability, and sustainability. In response to community feedback and operational insights, we are excited to introduce FIP-0100, a key proposal that reshapes how Filecoin handles storage onboarding costs while improving network efficiency. This FIP proposes:
• Remove Batch Balancer: Eliminate batch fees for all precommit and provecommit methods.
• Introducing sector-based charges: Replacing Batch Balancer with a stable, predictable mechanism to support long-term economic sustainability.

Introduction
As the Filecoin community looks forward to 2025, the Filecoin Foundation (FF) seeks to unite the Filecoin ecosystem around FF's top ecosystem goal: mobilizing the Filecoin community to ensure seamless operation and find product-market fit. But first, we want to reflect on 2024 and celebrate the achievements of the Filecoin Foundation and the broader ecosystem, from network upgrades and infrastructure improvements to data onboarding partnerships, governance initiatives, and more.
We are proud to share our progress and grateful for the opportunity to continue supporting the Filecoin ecosystem in 2025.

Grayscale Investment Trust was established by Digital Currency Group in 2013. DCG is the most powerful investment institution in the cryptocurrency space, with most of the top exchanges and projects you know being associated with it.
As a subsidiary of DCG, Grayscale manages multiple funds, such as BTC and ETH. BTC and ETH have both passed SEC certification, making them the only two legal investment options for institutions and retail investors in the U.S. stock market.
Grayscale holdings refer to the way fund managers invest using the funds within the fund in stocks or bonds. This is a process where users anticipate a rise in the stock. It is commonly used in fund investments and is a typical operational method within fund investments. Grayscale holdings refer to investors acquiring cryptocurrencies held by Grayscale Trust. Grayscale Trust is an institutional-level investment tool that allows individuals and institutions to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency market's high returns in a relatively simple manner. This holding method is commonly used in long-term investment strategies for mainstream cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, featuring risk diversification, leverage effects, and convenient trading characteristics, providing investors with diverse investment options and profit opportunities.

Grayscale Investment Trust was established by Digital Currency Group in 2013. DCG is the most powerful investment institution in the cryptocurrency space, and almost all the major exchanges and projects you know are associated with it.
As a subsidiary of DCG, Grayscale manages multiple funds including BTC and ETH, both of which have passed SEC certification, becoming the only two choices for institutional legal investment and retail investors in the U.S. stock market.
Grayscale holdings refer to a form of investment where fund managers use the funds within the fund to invest in stocks or bonds. It is a common operational method within fund investments. Grayscale holdings mean that investors acquire cryptocurrencies held by Grayscale Trust. Grayscale Trust is an institutional-grade investment tool that allows individuals and institutions to gain significant returns from the cryptocurrency market in a relatively simple way. This holding method is commonly used in long-term investment strategies for mainstream cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, featuring risk diversification, leverage effects, and convenient trading characteristics, providing investors with diversified investment options and profit opportunities.

We’re excited to share the latest on the Filecoin-powered stablecoin project, as we continue our strategic marketing efforts. The project has been in beta testing on the Filecoin Calibration testnet since its launch. Highlights this week include enhanced contract reliability, UI updates based on community feedback, and a new year in the works.
Latest developments:
-Smart Contracts: Launch external security audits to ensure the integrity of contracts and compliance with industry standards. Support pFIL as collateral to prepare for lending market integration.
- Front-end development: Incorporating community feedback into ongoing U updates, including optimizations to bridge functionality and enhancements to recovery mode maps.

What is Filecoin?
Filecoin: Decentralized Storage Network
Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that allows users to store, retrieve, and share data securely and efficiently. It is based on blockchain technology and uses its cryptocurrency (also called Filecoin, ticker symbol FIL) to incentivize and reward participants for contributing storage space or accessing storage space. Filecoin aims to create a global market for data storage, where anyone can offer or rent out unused storage space without relying on centralized storage providers like Google, Amazon, or Dropbox.

Technology Optimization and Innovation
- Enhance Network Performance: The upcoming Fast Finality (F3) technology in January 2025 is expected to achieve a 450 times speed increase and near-instant transaction processing capability, which will greatly improve transaction efficiency, making data storage, retrieval, and smart contract execution more efficient.
- Optimize Storage Technology: Develop more efficient data compression algorithms, intelligent storage management systems, etc., to reduce storage costs, enhance storage efficiency and quality, and strengthen competitiveness in the distributed storage field.
- Strengthen Security Protection: Continuously enhance network security mechanisms, adopt advanced encryption technologies, access control, data backup and recovery strategies, etc., to ensure the security and integrity of data, and prevent security incidents such as data leakage and tampering.

2024 is a pivotal year for Filecoin, with significant progress in the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), storage, retrieval, and compute. In this blog post, we’ll review key milestones from 2024 and look at the main growth drivers that will shape Filecoin’s path into 2025.

Source: Filecoin Success Chart, 2024
2024 Retrospective
In our previous blog post (Filecoin 2024 Success Chart), we listed three key priorities for the ecosystem in 2024:
1. Accelerate paid transactions: Improve paid services (storage, retrieval, computing) on ​​Filecoin to create cash flow for service providers. This helps support more sustainable hardware funding beyond token incentives.

Grayscale Investment Trust was established in 2013 by Digital Currency Group, the world’s most powerful cryptocurrency investment institution. It is involved in almost all of the top cryptocurrency exchanges and projects that you know of.
Grayscale, as a subsidiary of DCG, manages multiple funds including BTC and ETH. Among them, BTC and ETH have passed the SEC certification, becoming the only two options for legal institutional investment and retail investors in the US stock market.
Grayscale holdings refer to a form of investment by fund managers in stocks or bonds by using the funds in the fund. Investment is a process in which users wait for the stock to rise. It is generally used in fund investment and is a common operation method in fund investment. Grayscale holdings refer to the cryptocurrencies held by investors through the purchase of Grayscale Trust. Grayscale Trust is an institutional-level investment tool that allows individuals and institutions to obtain skyrocketing returns in the cryptocurrency market in a relatively simple way. This holding method is often used in long-term investment strategies for mainstream cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. It has the characteristics of risk diversification, leverage effect and convenient trading, providing investors with diversified investment options and income opportunities.

industry
Astronomical research.
Use Cases
Backup and recovery storage of sensitive data.
challenge
Highly scalable data storage solution that provides:
- Data integrity
- Data security
- Data persistence
Solution
Store the institute’s data on Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network.
result
The institute is using Filecoin to store 60+ GiB of “extraterrestrial” data, including decoded ET transmissions.

Overview
Humanity has long been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life. With recent technological advances and the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, the search for life beyond Earth has become more realistic than ever. So... what would happen if we received a message from an alien civilization? The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, artist Daniela de Paulis, an international team of experts, and Filecoin have collaborated to find out.

✨ Highlight ✨
Celebrate 100 Issues of Filecoin News!
This is the 100th edition of Filecoin News, a milestone showcasing the growth, innovation, and milestones of the Filecoin ecosystem. Over the past 100 events, we have celebrated technological breakthroughs, new collaborations, and the outstanding work of our global community. Thank you for being part of this journey - cheers to the next 100! 🎉
Bridging Blockchains: Cross-Chain Transactions on Filecoin
Filecoin is breaking down the barriers of decentralized storage through cross-chain transactions, enabling seamless interaction between Filecoin and other blockchain ecosystems. This innovation allows builders to integrate Filecoin storage without leaving their native chains, leveraging scalable Layer 2 solutions for low-cost and efficient transactions while creating new revenue streams for storage providers. With secure, verifiable storage now accessible across blockchains, Filecoin simplifies storage for web3 users and offers limitless possibilities for developers. Dive deeper into the architecture and opportunities of cross-chain storage in our latest blog. Learn more here.

The decentralized storage space is rapidly evolving, and Filecoin is at the forefront, offering powerful and verifiable storage solutions. But in the world of web3, no blockchain is an island. To unlock its full potential, Filecoin is expanding its capabilities to seamlessly collaborate with other blockchains through cross-chain transactions. This innovation promises to simplify decentralized storage for builders, improve accessibility for web3 users, and open up new revenue streams for storage providers.
Let's dive into the 'why' and 'how' of this exciting development—and why it matters to you.

Eight core points, further discussing why Filecoin is a target worthy of attention in the altcoin bull market!
From the monthly line, Filecion has been horizontal for a very long time. The longer the horizontal, the higher the vertical. After the main decline in the bear market, it has been horizontal for two years. The main chips have been collected and the turnover of retail investors has been very sufficient. The first goal is to see if it can break through the previous high in March this year and hit $15. Later, it depends on whether the bull market can start the trend and open the terrifying upward flywheel of Fil. Fil created the most powerful flywheel effect in the history of encryption in the last bull market, pushing Fil's total market value to a maximum of 500 billion US dollars. Of course, it is the same mechanism that makes it severely oversold in the bear market. Its mechanism is an amplifier of bull and bear markets.

Latest news: FilFoundation and blockfrost_io are collaborating to power Filecoin & Cardano applications!
Blockfrost will archive its IPFS gateway cluster on Filecoin, introducing a new service layer for Cardano builders that combines IPFS and Filecoin storage.  🌐
The collaboration enhances application resiliency and unites two leading layer-one ecosystems: Cardano and Filecoin.
Blockfrost and the Filecoin Foundation (FF) are collaborating to integrate Filecoin’s decentralized storage capabilities as a powerful backup layer for Cardano applications built with Blockfrost. This collaboration will enhance data redundancy, quality assurance, and decentralization for Cardano applications.

It's announcement time for Filecoin this week! Learn about the latest updates from the past 7 days.
1. Filecoin 🤝 humanode_io; Galxe tasks are now live - stay ahead. Check out our latest post for all the details!

2. FILBangalore is back! The top blockchain conference in India is here! Join Huddle01com and Filecoin to explore the latest developments in Web3. December 6, 2024. Register: http://fil-bangalore.io

3. Rapid finality (F3) updates transform Filecoin: completed in minutes. Faster cross-chain transactions. Efficient light client onboarding. Stay tuned!

Friends, have you heard of #Filecoin? The most comprehensive deep dive into Filecoin's history, the surge and return of the king!
Recently, the recovery of the crypto market has shifted people's attention back to Filecoin, the king of altcoins, a unique Web3 infrastructure project. With the recent launch of the IO project, which was incubated by Filecoin, on Binance, and as Filecoin's price begins to break out from a significant drop of 98%, this once-trillion-level project is officially back in the public eye. As one of the few large-scale developments that has remained low-key in recent years, with the amount of code updates only second to Ethereum's vast ecosystem, how will Filecoin narrate the story of enduring hardship and returning as a king in the future?

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- Filecoin ($FIL) experienced a significant price increase of over 68.3% this month, recovering nearly half of the losses from a 7-month decline. Currently, the price is above the major resistance level, showing a strong bullish trend. The next resistance level is at $7.44, close to the 100-week EMA; if the bullish trend continues, the target could be $10.
- Key indicators like Awesome Oscillator and Chaikin Money Flow show active buying. Additionally, the dollar DeFi ecosystem of Filecoin is expanding, with expectations that by the end of 2024, the Total Value Locked (TVL) will exceed $90 million, indicating further adoption of decentralized applications. The outflow trend from exchanges suggests a long-term accumulation by investors, consistent with the growth of the ecosystem.