What is a Filecoin storage provider?

Equally important to the Filecoin Storage Provider ecosystem are the actors who service large data needs. They are responsible for storing the valuable information that lies with organizations such as the USC Shoah Foundation, Wikipedia, and Internet Archive who trust the Filecoin Network for persistent storage.

What is Filecoin support ecosystem?

Thanks to Filecoin’s open source approach, this support ecosystem emerges organically as SPs and developers grow together. Lotus:Developed by Protocol Labs, this tool serves as the primary reference node implementation for Filecoin Storage Providers. It is the quintessential tool at their disposal.

Is Filecoin the largest decentralized storage network?

While many recognize Filecoin as the largest decentralized storage network, the Filecoin community’s vision has always been larger than storage – storage was just the first step. The vision encompasses building decentralized infrastructure to enable programmable storage (via smart contracts), retrieval and large scale computation over data.