A truly trustless, decentralized storage network is made possible by the core primitives offered by the Filecoin protocol. These primitives and features include a public blockchain, crypto-economic mechanisms, and publicly verifiable cryptographic storage proofs. The extremely difficult task of building a trustless decentralized storage network is solved by Filecoin’s primitives.
Many layer 2 solutions, many of which also use IPFS, are available on top of the core Filecoin protocol to enable a wide range of use cases and applications. Powergate, Textile Hub, and other options are among these solutions. With the aid of these approaches, any use case that can be built on top of IPFS can also be built on Filecoin!
Some of the primary areas for development on Filecoin are:
Libraries, layer-2 solutions, and additional developer tools that improve the ecosystem and developer platform of Filecoin.
IPFS applications seeking both a decentralized storage solution and a decentralized method of data persistence
Wallets, signing libraries, and other financial tools and services are available on Filecoin.
applications that guarantee users timestamped and trustless storage through the use of publicly verifiable cryptographic proofs provided by Filecoin.