Filecoin Foundation 2022 Annual Report: Filecoin's total storage capacity is nearly 19 EiB, accounting for 1% of the global total storage capacity

ChainCatcher news, the Filecoin Foundation's 2022 annual report shows that Filecoin's total storage capacity is close to 19 EiB, accounting for 1% of the world's total storage capacity; over 300 PiB of data is stored on the network through the social layer Filecoin Plus; nearly 4,000 storage providers have contributed data capacity to the Filecoin network; storage services are provided to individuals, organizations, and government agencies such as the University of California, Berkeley Underground Physics Group and Starling Lab, and collaboration with Lockheed Martin to deploy IPFS in space.

In 2022, the Filecoin Foundation approved more than 150 grants through the Dev Grants program; the Filecoin Foundation is collaborating with ECC to create a joint grant pool for Filecoin and Zcash through a new protocol, and is working with Unfinished to launch the Explorer Scholarship, as well as collaborating with Chainlink to launch a joint grant program to support decentralized off-chain computation, data, and storage.

Additionally, in the spring of 2023, the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) will receive an update, allowing developers to deploy user-defined smart contracts on the Filecoin blockchain and storage network for the first time. (Source link)