【Popular Science】The Development History of IPFS/Filecoin

【Popular Science】The Development History of IPFS/Filecoin

After the announcement of the Filecoin test reward plan, it has been all over the WeChat Moments and group chats. The long wait of miners is finally going to bear fruit. While everyone is excited, let’s review the development history of IPFS/Filecoin.

2014.5

️Juan Benet (Juan) initiated the IPFS project and the laboratory was established.
2014.7.16

July 16, 2014: The lab received $120,000 in seed round incubation funding.

2015.1

IPFS Protocol Laboratory was established and IPFS was released globally.


2016

2016: The IPFS team created modules such as libp2p, IPLD, multiformats, and Orbit.

2017.6

IPFS has stored 5 billion files.


2017.7

The IPFS team announced the establishment of the Filecoin project.


2017.8

Filecoin's first ICO raised $257 million. Eight major venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital on Wall Street unanimously invested in IPFS.

2018.2

libp2p, a modular peer-to-peer IPFS network protocol layer, was released.

2018.5

The first ever IPFS conference was held; personal IPFS that can run on your mobile device, realizing true decentralized storage.

2019.2.14

Filecoin code is open source, and the go-filecoin development and test version is launched.


2019.4.19

Protocol Labs announced its collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation.

2019.5.10

The IPFS official protocol laboratory held the first Filecoin global miner community video live broadcast meeting. The IPFS&Filecoin team redefined Web3.0 and announced that the global Filecoin community fans have reached one billion.

2019.10.16

The Filecoin team opened the first backup Filecoin network Lotus, which includes functions such as mining, storage, and retrieval.

2019.11.27

The head of Filecoin's official technical development revealed that GPU mining will be enabled in the next version.

2019.12.12

Filecoin Phase 1 Testing December 12, 2019


2020/05/15

The second phase of Filecoin public beta will be launched on May 15, 2020


2020

Filecoin mainnet launch in July/August 2020




Once IPFS/Filecoin comes out, it will create two unique things in the world:


  • The only blockchain project in the world that meets IPO standards!

  • Breaking the global ICO record, in August 2017, just 10% of Filecoin raised $257 million in 60 minutes!


Judging from the extremely high return rates of the first batch of Bitcoin and Ethereum miners, the best gold-digging opportunity for the IPFS network is coming, and Filecoin mining machines are about to leverage IPFS's hundreds of billions of wealth!



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