Filecoin (@Filecoin): This Week in Filecoin: Funding, Infrastructure, and Verifiable Compute (Mar 2 – Mar 9)

This Week in Filecoin: Funding, Infrastructure, and Verifiable Compute (Mar 2 – Mar 9) 1. Filecoin Foundation FY2025 Impact In FY2025, @FilFoundation supported more than 150 teams and received 386 hackathon submissions connected to Filecoin projects. RetroPGF Round 3 allocated 500,000 FIL to 91 projects. The previous round allocated 270,000 FIL to 97 projects across infrastructure and developer tooling. Read more 2. Akave Engineering Update @AkaveCloud released versions v0.4.2 through v0.4.5. The updates address protocol correctness, stability of the Proof of Data Possession loop, SDK connection control, memory behavior, and contract safety. The work focuses on predictable performance under production workloads. Read the full article 3. Snowflake External Stages and Filecoin Records An article from @AkaveCloud explains that Snowflake external stages can point to its S3-compatible endpoint backed by Filecoin. Each governed write creates a blockchain record that documents the storage location and access parameters. Auditors can review this record instead of relying only on configuration screenshots. Read the full article 4. Filecoin Network Strategy for 2026 Filecoin already operates at exbibyte scale. The next phase focuses on revenue from storage capacity. The network strategy emphasizes paid onchain deals, stronger cryptoeconomic incentives, and the addition of large clients that run production workloads. Read the full article 5. Akave Funding Round @AkaveCloud raised $6.65 million to build storage infrastructure for sovereign AI workloads. Investors include Protocol Labs, No Limit Holdings, Blockchange, Lightshift, Blockchain Builders Fund, Big Brain Holdings, and the Avalanche Foundation. The company plans to expand enterprise storage performance, audit controls, and portability of the data layer. Read the announcement 6. Filecoin Public Goods Funding Filecoin Public Goods Funding Batch 2 allocated $3,220,200 to 16 projects across infrastructure, developer tools, ecosystem coordination, and financial infrastructure. The program reviewed 102 applications and advanced 42 proposals to the final review stage. Read more 7. Verifiable Compute on Filecoin Onchain Cloud Research and compute marketplaces can operate on verifiable infrastructure. Scientists submit simulations, model training jobs, or data labeling tasks to Filecoin Onchain Cloud. When proofs of computation appear onchain, the system settles payment and links the result to the proof. Learn more