# Filecoin

**Published by:** [shashi](https://paragraph.com/@shashi/)
**Published on:** 2023-03-20
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@shashi/filecoin

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Filecoin is widely recognised as an open-source, public cryptocurrency and digital payment system. It is intended to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method. Filecoin, made by Protocol Labs, is an open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants, with transactions made using FIL, the blockchain’s native currency.

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