🧵Why FilCDN was renamed Filecoin Beam In short: The team's goal is not to build a CDN alternative. Filecoin Beam's true mission is to build an incentivized data transfer layer that rewards storage providers for retrieval activities and supports fast, stable access to Filecoin data. 1/ Background of the Rebranding FilCDN confined the project to the narrow framework of CDN and suggested direct comparisons to edge networks. But the reality is much more complex. The team needed a name that reflected the broader goal of reliable access to Filecoin data. 2/ Mission Focus @filecoinbeam builds an incentivized data transfer layer. Storage providers are rewarded for retrieval activities, thereby improving retrieval success rates and reducing response times through global caching. In the event of a failure, a backup route will automatically activate to ensure stable access. 3/ Role in Filecoin Beam will not replace a CDN. It enables reliable access to data from Filecoin. Teams supporting intelligent agents, AI tasks, computational jobs, or data retrieval-intensive applications can access their data faster and more reliably. 4/ Why "Beam"? The name aptly reflects the rapid and direct transmission of data. It avoids narrow classifications such as CDN or gateways and encapsulates the development direction of the Filecoin project.