The centralized cloud is cracking due to new demands: artificial intelligence generates and consumes data on an unprecedented scale, governments are starting to have jurisdiction over where data is stored, and AI agents are awakening—autonomous, borderless, unwilling to rely on vendor gatekeepers.
The next wave of builders are not seeking permission; they demand evidence. They need infrastructure and services that won't collapse under the limitations of the big cloud. Centralized clouds are opaque and fragile. The next generation of clouds must be verifiable, composable, and unstoppable.
Introducing Filecoin Onchain Cloud
→ Imagine a world where your application's cloud bills are automatically settled on-chain, based on actual delivered content.
→ Service performance, reliability, and uptime are not marketing hype, but publicly auditable on-chain data.
→ AI agents directly obtain data, pay per request, and verify data sources and origins.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud is built with openness and ownership in mind, providing verifiable storage that includes content-addressed data, transparent service delivery, programmable payments, and freedom from vendor lock-in. Filecoin Onchain Cloud is designed for a world that demands proof, not promises.
With Filecoin Onchain Cloud, developers can now build and operate at cloud scale, enjoying on-chain guarantees. Every interaction can be audited, every payment is conditional, and every service is composable. Builders can now run real workloads in an open, verifiable cloud for the first time, with data, logic, and payments coexisting on-chain. Similarly, security smart contracts are now applicable to the data they use.
Why choose Filecoin on-chain cloud?
Developers choose Filecoin Onchain Cloud because it offers what traditional clouds cannot: verifiable ownership, programmable performance, and an unstoppable future.
You own everything you build. Ownership is enforced on-chain through smart contracts and programmable payments, making your tech stack permanent, portable, and entirely yours to fork or extend—no permission required. Your data is stored in a global network of independent storage providers, not a single company's data center, ensuring reliability and control from day one.
You can verify everything you use. Each file has content addressing—identified by content rather than storage location—making data immutable and resistant to silent replacement. From storage to retrieval to payment, every action generates matching on-chain proof, creating transparent and verifiable application records. Be confident that every component can do what it claims, and that it is verified.
You can program the cloud. Logic and payments coexist: pay only when saving money, pause billing when proof fails. The network enforces rules, allowing your team to focus on products rather than infrastructure. The result? A self-auditing, automated cloud that works for you, not the other way around.
Filecoin on-chain cloud building modules and services
Filecoin Onchain Cloud expands Filecoin from a decentralized storage network to a verifiable fully decentralized cloud foundation.
Developers can store data on a globally decentralized network, seamlessly pay for services through wallets or smart contracts, obtain data through fast transfer services, and verify that on-chain proof services have been delivered. These capabilities together make it possible to build verifiable, composable, and fully decentralized applications from scratch.
The core of this new on-chain cloud starts with five open-source, verifiable, and composable building blocks:
Filecoin Pay: Supports on-chain payments to achieve verifiable service performance.
Filecoin Preservation Service: Driven by Proof of Data Ownership (PDP), ensuring your data is actually stored and available.
Synapse SDK: Connect builders to Filecoin cloud on-chain through a simple API.
Filecoin Pin: Bringing IPFS and Filecoin closer than ever, achieving fast, decentralized data persistence.
Filecoin Beam: A service connecting on-chain and off-chain systems for verifiable data flows.
Speed and verifiability coexist: The new era of Filecoin storage arrives
The new Filecoin warm storage service provides verifiable storage, easy access, and guarantees data online, with verifiable availability. Warm storage is programmed in smart contracts to handle service details, storage proofs, payments, and on-chain verification. The storage capacity behind these services comes from a decentralized network of Filecoin storage providers—validated every hour through lightweight proofs generated in seconds.
This new storage service is the data layer of Filecoin Onchain Cloud; it is the foundation for retrieval, verifiable payments, and future computing and AI services that can further develop. Each file, dataset, and proof is part of a real-time, verifiable storage economy.
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Storage prices starting from just $2.50 per TiB per month (for at least two copies)
Additional services: Fast transfer exit through Filecoin Beam, priced as low as $0.014 per GiB.
→ Store and verify your data now
Filecoin Pay: Payment track for verifiable services
Filecoin Pay is the fuel for Filecoin Onchain Cloud—automatically releasing payments with on-chain service verification. In traditional cloud systems, billing relies on invoices, credit cards, and trust. Filecoin Pay replaces this with smart contract payments, settling transparently and verifiably in every era.
With Filecoin Pay, bills become code. Payments only trigger when on-chain proofs confirm that storage, retrieval, or computation has actually been delivered. No middlemen, just cryptographic authentication and automatic settlement. Customers retain full ownership of their data, and builders can finally monetize infrastructure directly without relying on billing teams or third-party processors.
At the core, every Filecoin on-chain cloud service runs on a programmable payment track between customers and service providers, with funds flowing automatically as service proofs come in. Payments can seamlessly integrate across chains using FIL, USDFC (FIL-backed USD stablecoin), or any ERC-20 token, based on service preferences. All balances and transactions are supported on-chain, queryable, and auditable, supporting one-time jobs and continuous epoch-based payment streams.
As the settlement layer for cloud on the Filecoin chain, Filecoin Pay connects verifiable services with economic flows. It turns proof into payment, making a new type of verifiable, pay-per-use service possible, where work is not just a promise; it's proven. Any developer can use Filecoin Pay to build their own verifiable on-chain services.
→ Start using Filecoin Pay to create verifiable pay-per-use services
Synapse SDK: On-chain cloud developer interface
Filecoin Synapse SDK is an easy-to-use Javascript SDK for builders to access Filecoin Onchain Cloud flagship services, supporting new dApps and smart contracts. It allows developers to upload, retrieve, and pay for storage fees through simple, high-level APIs. Synapse runs from Node.js to browsers, designed to be composable and scalable.
Developers need only a few lines of code to get started:
→ Build with Filecoin Synapse SDK
Filecoin PI: A simple path from IPFS to verifiable and persistent storage
Filecoin Pin, built on Synapse SDK, realizes part of Filecoin's original vision: to truly persist the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) supported by cryptographic proof, on-chain payments, and a decentralized storage community. Filecoin Pin connects IPFS and Filecoin, seamlessly storing content-addressed data through a decentralized, verifiable storage network.
Filecoin Pin is designed for thousands of developers relying on IPFS-hosted websites, applications, datasets, or proxies. It is open-source, forkable, and built on Filecoin on-chain cloud. Major IPFS users have begun leveraging Filecoin Pin to create their own ecosystems:
ENS builders are using Filecoin Pin to directly store and verify ENS metadata, websites, and content records on-chain. Build unbeatable websites with ENS and Filecoin Pin now.
ERC-8004 trustless agent developers are using Filecoin Pin to persist agent data, such as registration and verification files, ensuring autonomous agents' actions are repeatable and tamper-proof. Please start from the complete ERC-8004 building guide.
Filecoin Pin is a simple, composable infrastructure: usable like pinning services, verifiable like a blockchain, and preserved through decentralized storage. When you pin a file with Filecoin Pin, your IPFS content is uploaded to audited Filecoin storage providers. Each provider must verify continuous data storage and access. Payments and uptime are automatically handled through Filecoin Pay, and if the proof fails, streaming payments are paused.
Filecoin Pin includes branchable demo dapps, CLI for custom integrations, GitHub Actions for automatic backup of websites, repositories, or frontends, and a simple web app for any IPFS user to upload and pin data directly from the browser.
→ Try Filecoin pin
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Want to host a website or personal blog? Recover? NFT collection? → Start with Filecoin Pin GitHub actions
Use Filecoin Pin CLI to pin verifiable agent audit logs entirely on-chain
Filecoin Beam: Incentive retrieval for open networks
The Space Meridian team is launching Filecoin Beam, the first native infrastructure enterprise built and running on Filecoin on-chain cloud, demonstrating how developers can create new on-chain services in the cloud. Filecoin Beam provides an incentive-based data transfer service that measures, verifies, and rewards fast, reliable data flows from storage providers while delivering data to end users. Retrieval has taken its first steps towards verifiability and directly enables on-chain payments through Filecoin Pay, making retrieval a measurable and economically aligned service.
Through Filecoin Beam, developers can build:
High-performance content API supporting reliable and low-latency data access to Filecoin.
Pay-per-use datasets and automatic tracking of retrieval AI data pipelines make content monetizable.
dApps, users own the audit trail of data transfers.
Filecoin Beam users can quickly retrieve, while service providers are rewarded for verifiable on-chain exits. Each retrieval request is verified through Beam's on-chain validators, which record delivery metrics such as first byte time, success rate, and exit volumes. These proofs connect directly to Filecoin Pay, automatically streaming payments to service providers to verify performance. Beam can fully compose the warm storage of Filecoin Onchain Cloud, but developers can also use the software independently to add retrieval content to their applications.
Storage and retrieval transaction checkers continuously test retrieval in the Filecoin network, executing real transactions to track latency, success rates, and throughput. Public dashboards rank providers by performance, offering developers transparent benchmarks to help the retrieval market remain competitive and accountable.
Filecoin Beam completes the lifecycle of Filecoin data by making retrieval verifiability equivalent to storage verifiability, transforming content delivery into a performance-based market where speed and quality determine rewards.
→ Explore Filecoin Beam and start using the SDK.
Who is building
An increasing number of teams have integrated and built on Filecoin on-chain cloud.
Ecosystem integration
From AI agents to trustless frontends, leading Web3 projects from various networks are integrating Filecoin on-chain cloud to make their data on-chain verifiable.
ERC-8004: The Ethereum trustless agent-building community is using Filecoin Pin for on-chain agent identity, reputation, and discovery. Agent0, created by ERC-8004 author Marco De Rossi, is an open-source SDK that enables developers to easily create and manage on-chain AI agents. By pinning the 8004 metadata and other agent data on Filecoin on-chain cloud, Agent0 ensures each agent's information is verifiable and tamper-proof, enabling open discovery without a central directory or barriers.
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and SAFE: By combining ENS's on-chain naming system with Filecoin Onchain Cloud's verifiable storage and Safe's multi-signature governance, projects can now deploy and manage frontends that remain open, transparent, and fully on-chain owned. Filecoin Onchain Cloud provides persistent and cryptographically verified storage, ENS provides naming functionality, and Safe wallet supports secure, multi-party update approvals—ensuring smooth coordination and trusted governance without intermediaries. Filecoin, ENS, and Safe together build a seamless network stack, creating a resilient, user-controlled network experience supported by open, verifiable infrastructure.
List: Filecoin Onchain Cloud supports Monad to drive decentralized AI infrastructure. As an EVM-based L1, it provides over 10,000 transactions per second, offering a low-latency environment for smart applications. By combining Monad's high-speed computation layer with Filecoin Onchain Cloud's verifiable storage and payment tracks, developers can now build, train, and deploy transparent, auditable, and self-verifying AI models. As part of the Monad AI blueprint project, Monad applications can connect directly to Filecoin storage features on Monad, simplifying data management and unlocking powerful new use cases. Anyone can easily deploy their own Filecoin storage endpoint: for example, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) or built-in agents, and fully control through wallets for maximum flexibility and ownership of data workflows. Filecoin and Monad build a verifiable foundation for AI data and computation—bridging high-performance infrastructure with fully open on-chain intelligence.
KYVE: KYVE utilizes Filecoin Onchain Cloud for resilient storage of chain data from Celestia and Story Protocol through a decentralized Filecoin storage network. After starting in the Arweave ecosystem, they are expanding to a more scalable decentralized storage platform supporting PB-level chain data and fast validator synchronization.
Geo Podcasts: Based on the Geo Knowledge Graph protocol, Geo Podcasts helps users discover popular podcasts by topic, presenting the most interesting conversations globally. By storing podcast data, images, and knowledge graph records on Filecoin Onchain Cloud, Geo Podcasts ensures all information is verifiable across applications.
Storage services
The first storage services based on Filecoin Onchain Cloud are launching in various regions, expanding Filecoin's verifiable storage network and providing new high-performance storage options for developers and clients. This marks a significant shift from off-chain coordination. Filecoin is no longer just powering external networks; it powers the core Filecoin storage channel, enabling on-chain direct building, payment, and coordination of storage.
Akave Cloud: Utilizing Filecoin Onchain Cloud's warm storage services, extending verification from hot storage to new decentralized backup and archiving tiers. This new tier is designed for durable, auditable, and cost-effective AI, IoT, machine learning, and compliance workloads. Akave has already provided a compatible S3 platform, integrity proofs, and erasure coding durability, with Filecoin integration further expanding these guarantees, offering users an affordable and scalable long-term retention option without sacrificing verifiability.
Storacha: Launching Forge on Filecoin Onchain Cloud, providing IPFS-compatible high-throughput warm storage and supporting UCAN-based programmable access control and on-chain data holding proofs. Proof verification and payments are based on Filecoin on-chain cloud, ensuring long-term data integrity without relying on centralized systems. Storacha Forge offers encrypted audits and owner-controlled storage at $5.99 per TB per month, accessible to any organization managing data at scale.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud Alpha builder queue
In the past three months, over 100 early builders have been trying Filecoin on-chain cloud, building new dApps, tools, and communities supporting on-chain verifiable storage and services. Key project review:
Eastore: A chain-agnostic decentralized hard drive that provides users with private client-encrypted storage and data ownership through Filecoin on-chain cloud.
Filosign: A decentralized on-chain DocuSign alternative that provides businesses with cryptographic and verifiable electronic signatures that are immutably stored on Filecoin.
Cha-Ching: Turning GitHub activity into rewards, allowing organizations to reward verified developers and AI agents.
Groundline:
A decentralized knowledge graph database where AI and research teams can query, store, and monetize verifiable graph data directly on Filecoin Onchain Cloud.Cairn:
Achieving verifiable data storage through Filecoin Onchain Cloud and Filecoin Pay brings impact rewards, tracking and rewarding repeatable AI research.
Potential
A new era of global, resilient, and flexible applications and agents requires composable and programmable building blocks. With Filecoin Onchain Cloud, developers can build more intelligently by constructing the exact stack they need, rather than compromising on others' architectures and closed environments. Here’s what Filecoin Onchain Cloud unlocks for developers:
Artificial intelligence and autonomous agents: Build agents that can automatically store and retrieve models, execute tasks, and settle payments. Every action from inference to data access is verifiable on-chain, laying the foundation for transparent and auditable AI systems.
DePIN network: Launch new verifiable infrastructure services directly from smart contracts—whether sensors, bandwidth, or maps. Through Filecoin on-chain cloud, you can leverage on-chain storage, retrieval, and payments without rebuilding your own network.
Web3 dApps: From social platforms and DAOs to media and marketplace applications, builders can guarantee the persistence and auditability of everything their applications depend on, without centralized pinning or opaque intermediate servers.
Pay-per-request API: Developers can launch decentralized APIs from AI endpoints to NFT metadata sources, with each query triggering on-chain delivery proofs. The Graph can be combined with Stripe to make usage-based billing verifiable and open.
Research and compute market: Scientists and engineers can run computational jobs, simulations, or labeling tasks on verifiable infrastructure, with automatic settlement upon the release of computation proofs. Verifiable work can turn into verifiable payments.
Local and sovereign cloud infrastructure: Build your SaaS business or enterprise services on local infrastructure for auditing and management. Choose local storage providers, audit on-chain performance proofs, and offer services that do not rely on large cloud infrastructures.
Roadmap
Filecoin Onchain Cloud is just the beginning of Filecoin's network expanding into a fully composable on-chain cloud. We look forward to continuing this journey together! Join us for upcoming milestones.
Automated repair and replication: Upcoming service contracts and replication layers will enable storage to achieve self-repair and redundancy.
Bring Filecoin on-chain cloud to your chain: New payment and exchange terminals will allow developers to pay using their native tokens and utilize verifiable storage on Filecoin on-chain.
Start building
Filecoin Onchain Cloud has gone live on the testnet and will launch on the mainnet in January 2026. This is a verifiable network foundation, where developers own the cloud—storage, retrieval, and payments all run on-chain.
The future of the cloud begins with us. Open the cloud.
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The Filecoin on-chain cloud team is led by FilOz, responsible for advancing the core development team of the Filecoin protocol, established to expand the Filecoin network and provide cloud services with on-chain guarantees.
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