Why Filecoin Onchain Cloud?
Traditional cloud storage solutions present several challenges:
- Centralized Control: Data and services are controlled by a single provider
- Limited Transparency: Operations and pricing are opaque
- Vendor Lock-in: Difficult to migrate between providers
- Trust Requirements: Users must trust providers to handle data properly
- Fixed Payment Models: Inflexible billing tied to specific providers
The FOC Solution
Section titled “The FOC Solution”Traditional cloud services offer performance and usability but lack transparency, auditability, and user ownership. Filecoin Onchain Cloud bridges this gap by introducing a trustless execution layer for decentralized services. Each service in the Onchain Cloud — from storage to payment — operates as a smart contract, ensuring that every action, transaction, and proof is verifiable on the Filecoin blockchain.
FOC is designed to:
- ✅ Enable hot and verifiable data storage and retrieval with Proof of Data Possession (PDP) & Filecoin Beam
- 🧩 Simplify developer integration through the Synapse SDK — a TypeScript library for building Filecoin-native dApps
- 💰 Power programmable payments via Filecoin Pay — a token-agnostic payment rail for decentralized services
- 💻 Provide programmable services — Smart contract-based, composable service primitives on top of the Filecoin network
- 🚀 Foster innovation by letting teams build, fork, and combine services into new decentralized applications
Key Differentiators
Section titled “Key Differentiators”| Feature | Traditional Cloud | Filecoin Onchain Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Data Control | Provider controlled | User owned |
| Transparency | Limited | Full blockchain verification |
| Programmability | Provider APIs | Smart contracts |
| Payment Models | Fixed | Flexible & programmable |
| Trust Model | Provider trust | Cryptographic proofs |
| Vendor Lock-in | High | None |
Use Cases
Section titled “Use Cases”Filecoin Onchain Cloud opens the door for new classes of verifiable applications:
- Decentralized data storage and pinning platforms (e.g., Filecoin Pin)
- AI and compute services tied to verifiable data pipelines
- Autonomous agents that own, store, and pay for their data
- Regulatory-compliant archiving systems with proof-of-retention
- Data DAOs and programmable marketplaces for shared data sets
By unifying data, payments, and verifiability, FOC provides the foundation for the next generation of decentralized applications — where storage is not just a service, but a verifiable primitive.
Getting Started
Section titled “Getting Started”Ready to start building with Filecoin Onchain Cloud? Check out our Getting Started guide to learn how to integrate the Synapse SDK into your application.
The Synapse SDK provides a simple, familiar API that abstracts away the complexity of blockchain interactions, allowing you to focus on building your application while leveraging the power of decentralized storage.