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Launching the Filecoin Accelerator Recently, Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, tweeted that Filecoin Launchpad, an accelerator project powered by TachyonAccel, is now open to applicants. This project aims to implement the application of Filecoin. In the first phase, this project will support 15 to 20 startup teams to use IPFS or Filecoin to implement Ethereum projects for file sharing and website construction. Those who are familiar with Filecoin and IPFS are no strangers to Protocol Labs, and those who are familiar with Ethereum should also be familiar with the ConsenSys team. This is a heavyweight Ethereum application support team with very strong strength. It was established with the birth of Ethereum and has always played a pivotal role in the Ethereum application community. Ethereum and Filecoin have been working together for a long timePrior to this collaboration with ConsenSys to support applications, the ongoing HackFS project was also jointly initiated by ETHGlobal, an important Web3 community, and Protocol Labs. This is a one-month hackathon, which is also aimed at supporting the development of Ethereum + IPFS/Filecoin applications, and provides more than $125,000 in bonus support. The cooperation between IPFS/Filecoin and the Ethereum community is a mutual help and collaboration. Many projects in the Ethereum ecosystem use IPFS as the storage of their projects, and the largest of these projects is the Ethereum official website. On April 1 this year, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin posted on Twitter: Ethereum's official website is now on the IPFS network. At the same time, Ethereum's human-friendly domain name ENS function has also been realized. With the support of IPFS and MetaMask projects, ethereum.org can better achieve globalization. The ethereum.org website can be easily accessed in IPFS, and everyone can find the website on ethereum.eth on IPFS. In fact, the two sides also have a lot of cooperation in the field of technology, such as VDF, which has been very popular in the blockchain field recently, and Libp2p, which has made great progress in 2020. In April last year, the Filecoin team officially announced that it would cooperate with Ethereum on VDF, with the goal of designing and developing a secure, efficient, and usable VDF system. VDF was first proposed in June 2018 and has attracted great attention in the blockchain field. It is widely used in many occasions such as replication, node election, and random number generation in consensus mechanisms. VDF will inevitably be widely used in encryption technology, but there is still a lot of work to be done to make it truly practical. In this regard, Filecoin and Ethereum are exploring in their respective fields, and both parties hope to develop VDF technology into a common technology in encryption technology and distributed systems. Libp2p is an important module in the IPFS project, which implements a set of standards for peer-to-peer networks. Ethereum 2.0 has determined to use Libp2p for links and communications between chain nodes. Libp2p is also the network layer used by Filecoin. Of course, Libp2p also provides support for many other chains. Throughout the first half of this year, the official priority of the Libp2p project was to support the needs of current and on-board adopters, especially IPFS, Eth2 and Filecoin. For the security of Ethereum 2.0 and Filecoin networks, Libp2p has made many efficiency and security improvements in the past year. In addition, Ethereum smart contract development tool Truffle previously announced on Twitter that it has reached a cooperation with Filecoin to help developers around the world create and deploy fully decentralized applications. Through this cooperation, Truffle will integrate the Filecoin network into its tool suite to help users deploy directly to Filecoin. Then, Truffle will add new features to Ganache so that users can easily simulate the Filecoin network during development and testing. Powerful cooperation to open Web3.0Only by combining technology and projects can we achieve new breakthroughs and break boundaries. Innovation drives blockchain forward and brings new development explorations to blockchain. Whether it is the technology used by IPFS or the functions that Filecoin can achieve, they perfectly match what developers want to solve and use, and are also what Web3.0 needs most. We know that if the entire blockchain ecosystem is to be established, it actually requires a trusted network, trusted computing, and trusted storage. The blockchain itself is a trusted network, and trusted computing can be completed by smart contracts like Ethereum, but what is lacking is trusted storage. To achieve trusted storage, only Filecoin can do it. Filecoin has established a decentralized storage market, allowing content to flow freely, circulate and trade freely in a decentralized market. In this way, Filecoin decentralized storage is combined with blockchain trusted computing (such as Ethereum smart contracts, etc.). It is foreseeable that many applications will begin to land in the future. In addition, the last chapter of the Filecoin white paper mentions the "bridge" function, which allows Filecoin to run smart contracts of other blockchain projects and other blockchains to run Filecoin's smart contracts. In the future, Filecoin will perfectly support applications in the blockchain field. Filecoin will be launched in September. In the future, the combination of Filecoin and Ethereum will promote the application of blockchain and open another door for the application of blockchain, so that blockchain applications can break through the current limitations of only financial-related light data applications and allow more data-related applications to be implemented. The opening of this door marks the true beginning of Web3.0.
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