Expand 🧵Storacha & FareSide In short: Storacha Network partners with FareSide to handle multi-chain x402 payments. FareSide manages cross-chain transactions and maintains the x402-rs library, while Storacha provides a storage API that can be brokered and supports verifiable data access to Filecoin. 1/ Overview @storachanetwork partners with FareSide to add payment infrastructure to decentralized storage. FareSide handles multi-chain x402 transactions and maintains the x402-rs library. Soracha contributors can focus on core development. 2/ FareSide FareSide handles cross-chain payments such as @solana, @base, and @0xPolygon. The platform uses the x402 specification for verifiable API access. AI agents can accept payments using any token and settle in the provider's preferred currency, ensuring reliable transaction processing. 3/ Storacha Storacha provides x402 middleware and a storage API that supports agents, along with quota management capabilities. The platform runs on top of Filecoin and enables rapid retrieval of frequently used data from IPFS. Verifiable proofs ensure data availability. 4/ Technical Integration The x402 protocol creates a standard for cross-blockchain metering API payments. Storacha storage nodes persist unsealed data to Filecoin and provide cryptographic proofs. The @faresidehq infrastructure handles cross-chain settlement.

Expand Filecoin Weekly Statistics: 2026-01-29 Verified Transactions: 43.3k New Unique Data: 0.12 PiB Unique Data Ratio: 8.6% Unique Project CIDs: 11.5k Unique Transaction Initiators: 16 Initiators with Computing Power: 989 Active Sectors: 67.6 million

Expand 🧵Filecoin Weekly Update: January 19 – January 26 Summary: Filecoin Plus 2026 Plan, New On-Chain Identity for Early Contributors, Prioritized BYOS Initiative, Integration of Storage and Compute, and Technical Analysis of Filecoin On-Chain Cloud. 2/ CloudPaws @CloudPaws_NFT officially launched its on-chain identity as an early contributor to Filecoin On-Chain Cloud. This identity tracks verifiable user engagement in storage, retrieval, programmable payments, and Filecoin-related developer tools. 3/ BYOS Web3 Compass introduced the BYOS initiative for Filecoin On-Chain Cloud. The team defines a real-world project, focusing on essential components and delivering them within a week. This initiative emphasizes the practical application of Filecoin primitives, rather than abstract instructions.

Expand Filecoin Weekly Statistics: January 22, 2026 Verified Transactions: 619,000 New Unique Data: 0.27 PiB Unique Data Ratio: 16.6% Unique CIDs: 182,000 Unique Transaction Initiators: 24 Initiators with Computing Power: 4,307 Active Sectors: Approximately 69.9 million

Expand 🧵Storacha and Phala: Private AI Agent Memory In short: Storacha and Phala support encrypted memory for AI agents. Stracha handles fast, verifiable storage on Filecoin. Phala runs confidential computation. Filecoin provides persistence, proof, and data integrity for the agent memory. 1/ Background @storachanetwork and Phala share a setup for private AI agent memory. The focus is on encrypted data, persistent storage, and confidential execution. This model is geared towards agents that run for long periods and require memory retention after sessions. 2/ Storage Storacha provides hot storage based on IPFS addresses and Filecoin support. Data is always under user control, and content is addressable and verifiable. Filecoin supports persistence and redundancy, ensuring agent memory remains available across different nodes and in case of failure. 3/ Computation @PhalaNetwork provides confidential computation through trusted hardware. Code and data remain hidden from node operators. Agents can use private memory and keys in execution paths not supported by public smart contracts. 4/ Roles Each layer strictly adheres to its respective responsibilities. @Filecoin uses decentralized proofs to protect data at rest. Stracha manages fast access. Phala handles off-chain private execution. This architecture lowers the trust assumptions across the entire technology stack.

Expand Filecoin Weekly Statistics: January 22, 2026 Weekly New Transactions: 619,000 Transaction Launch Rate: 1.64 PiB/week Verified Transaction Percentage: 100% Active Storage Providers: 2,279 Sector Launch: 0.017 PiB (Raw Computing Power) Sector Expiration: 0 PiB

Expand With its technological innovation, ecosystem expansion, and capital backing, Walrus has become a core benchmark in the Web3 programmable storage field, unlocking high-value scenarios such as AI, rich media, and cross-chain collaboration. Technically, Red Stuff's two-dimensional erasure coding technology compresses storage redundancy to 4.5 times, reducing costs by 80%-99% compared to Filecoin and Arweave. Combined with Seal's native access control functionality, it achieves end-to-end encryption of sensitive data and programmable on-chain permissions, perfectly adapting to compliance requirements. Deep integration with Pipe Network, leveraging its 280,000 global PoP nodes, keeps data read/write latency within 50 milliseconds, completely solving the pain point of large file transfers in edge regions. Ecosystem deployment continues to break through barriers; the generative AI video platform Everlyn migrated its 50GB training dataset and over 5,000 HD videos to Walrus, replacing centralized services like AWS and Azure, significantly reducing operating costs. The injection of $140 million in funding further accelerates protocol expansion and application development. Currently, Walrus hosts over 800 TB of encoded data and has attracted more than 100 professional node operators. Through its end-to-end "storage + distribution" service and deep collaboration with the Sui ecosystem, it has become the preferred infrastructure for AI model storage, RWA compliant notarization, and cross-chain rich media distribution, continuously leading the programmable evolution of decentralized storage. #Walrus $WAL @WalrusProtocol

Expand 🔥 Latest news: Santiment data shows that Filecoin, Chainlink, and Dfinity are leading in cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and big data project development activity, followed by Near Protocol, Oasis Protocol, and Livepeer.

Expand 🧵The Bermuda Government Uploads Public Datasets to Filecoin In short: The Bermuda government, in collaboration with the Filecoin Foundation and the Internet Archive, has uploaded public datasets to Filecoin. This move aims to ensure the transparency and verifiability of public records, starting with labor market data and gradually expanding to include more. 1/ Public Data The Bermuda government uploaded public datasets to the Filecoin network. @FilFoundation supported this work through the Cabinet Office and the Department of Digital Innovation. The focus is on ensuring the reliability and verifiability of public records. 2/ Democracy Library This upload was conducted through @internetarchive's Democracy Library, a free global repository of government documents. Filecoin already holds over 1PB of public data, including archives from the U.S. and Aruba governments. 3/ Initial Datasets The initial datasets include employment and labor publications tracking the Bermuda labor market. These records form part of the national public archive. More datasets will be added in subsequent phases. 4/ Verifiable Records @Filecoin distributes data to various independent storage providers. Each file receives a cryptographic identifier that changes as the data is modified. This makes public records verifiable and allows for direct detection of tampering. 5/ Public Infrastructure Bermuda has built its public infrastructure on top of its digital asset frameworks (DABA and BMA). The government positions decentralized storage as a core infrastructure for transparent public services and persistent access to official records. @FilFoundation @internetarchive @Filecoin Read more:

Expand Driven by both technological innovation and ecosystem development, Walrus continues to solidify its core position in Web3 programmable storage, becoming the preferred data platform for diverse scenarios such as AI, cross-chain transmission, and privacy computing. Its core advantages lie in three dimensions: Technologically, Red Stuff's two-dimensional erasure coding technology compresses storage redundancy to 4-5 times, reducing data recovery costs by an order of magnitude compared to traditional RS coding, resulting in annual storage costs as low as $0.02/GB, providing an absolute cost advantage over Filecoin and Arweave; Ecosystem-wise, recent major collaborations include OpenGradient migrating over 100 AI models to Walrus to replace the IPFS architecture, Everlyn completing the migration of 50GB of training data and over 5,000 HD video clips, and Pipe Network's 280,000 global PoP nodes enabling low-latency cross-chain access within 50 milliseconds; Functionally, the Seal access control feature makes Walrus the first decentralized data platform natively supporting fine-grained on-chain permission management, enabling end-to-end encryption and programmable access control for sensitive data. Currently, Walrus hosts over 800 TB of encoded data and has attracted more than 100 professional node operators. Through deep collaboration with Sui and cross-chain compatibility, it continuously unlocks high-value scenarios such as AI dataset trading, RWA compliant notarization, and cross-chain rich media distribution, becoming a core infrastructure of the Web3 data layer. #Walrus @WalrusProtocol $WAL