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  • Welcome to Filecoin Docs
  • Basics
    • What is Filecoin
      • Crypto-economics
      • Blockchain
      • Storage model
      • Storage market
      • Retrieval market
      • Programming on Filecoin
      • Networks
    • The blockchain
      • Actors
      • Addresses
      • Blocks and tipsets
      • Consensus
      • Drand
      • Proofs
    • Assets
      • The FIL token
      • Wallets
      • Metamask setup
      • Get FIL
      • Transfer FIL
    • Interplanetary consensus
    • How storage works
      • Filecoin plus
      • Storage onramps
      • Filecoin and IPFS
    • How retrieval works
      • Basic retrieval
      • Serving retrievals
      • Saturn
    • Project and community
      • Chat and discussion forums
      • Filecoin compared to
      • Filecoin FAQs
      • Related projects
      • Social media
      • The Filecoin project
      • Ways to contribute
  • Storage providers
    • Basics
      • Quickstart guide
    • Filecoin economics
      • Storage proving
      • FIL collateral
      • Block rewards
      • Slashing
      • Committed capacity
    • Filecoin deals
      • Storage deals
      • Verified deals
      • Filecoin programs and tools
      • Snap deals
      • Charging for data
      • Auxiliary services
      • Return-on-investment
    • Architecture
      • Software components
      • Storage provider automation
      • Sealing pipeline
      • Sealing rate
      • Sealing-as-a-service
      • Network indexer
    • Infrastructure
      • Storage
      • Network
      • Backup and disaster recovery
      • Reference architectures
    • Skills
      • Linux
      • Network
      • Security
      • Storage
      • Sales
      • Industry
  • Nodes
    • Implementations
      • Lotus
      • Venus
    • Full-nodes
      • Pre-requisites
      • Basic setup
      • Node providers
    • Lite-nodes
      • Spin up a lite-node
  • Smart contracts
    • Fundamentals
      • The Filecoin Virtual Machine
      • Filecoin EVM runtime
      • ERC-20 quickstart
      • Roadmap
      • Support
      • FAQs
    • Filecoin EVM-runtime
      • Actor types
      • Address types
      • FILForwarder
      • Difference with Ethereum
      • How gas works
      • Precompiles
    • Programmatic storage
      • Aggregated deal-making
      • Direct deal-making
      • Data replication, renewal and repair (RaaS)
      • RaaS interfaces
    • Developing contracts
      • Get test tokens
      • Remix
      • Hardhat
      • Foundry
      • Solidity libraries
      • Call built-in actors
      • Filecoin.sol
      • Direct deal-making with Client contract
      • Using RaaS
      • Verify a contract
      • Best practices
    • Advanced
      • Wrapped FIL
      • Oracles
      • Multicall
      • Multisig
      • Cross-chain bridges
      • Aggregated deal-making
  • Networks
    • Mainnet
      • Explorers
      • RPCs
      • Network performance
    • Calibration
      • Explorers
      • RPCs
    • Local testnet
      • Get test tokens
    • Deprecated networks
  • Reference
    • General
      • Glossary
      • Specifications
      • Tools
    • Exchanges
      • Exchange integration
    • Built-in actors
      • Protocol API
      • Filecoin.sol
    • JSON-RPC
      • Auth
      • Chain
      • Client
      • Create
      • Eth
      • Gas
      • I
      • Log
      • Market
      • Miner
      • Mpool
      • Msig
      • Net
      • Node
      • Paych
      • Raft
      • Start
      • State
      • Sync
      • Wallet
      • Web3
  • Builder Cookbook
    • Overview
    • Table of Contents
    • Data Storage
      • Store Data
      • Retrieve Data
      • Privacy & Access Control
    • dApps
      • Chain-Data Query
      • Oracles
      • Cross-Chain Bridges
      • Decentralized Database
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Welcome to Filecoin Docs

Filecoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network enabling anyone to store and retrieve data over the internet. Economic incentives are built in, ensuring files are stored and accessible reliably over

Choose your own path to start exploring Filecoin:

💡 Learn the basics

New to Filecoin and looking for foundational concepts? Start with the Basics section to understand the essentials and kick off your journey!

🔧 Build with Filecoin

Ready to develop on the Filecoin network? Head to the Developers section for guides and examples to help bring your project to life.

🏗️ Become a Storage Provider

Thinking about running a provider node on Filecoin? Visit the Provider section for comprehensive guidance on getting started.

📊 Store data

Looking to store large volumes of data? Explore the Store section to review the various storage options Filecoin offers.

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