Filecoin Foundation’s Vision and Strategic Priorities for 2025
Dec 6, 2024
In October, we celebrated the four-year anniversary of Filecoin mainnet launch. It’s been an incredible four years; today, the Filecoin network includes hundreds of teams and thousands of storage providers around the world, and Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized file storage network.
As Filecoin Foundation (FF) looks ahead to 2025, we want to offer a closer look at FF’s vision and strategic priorities. In 2025, FF’s top objective is to mobilize the Filecoin community to make Filecoin work seamlessly and find product-market fit.
Filecoin Foundation’s Vision and Role in the Ecosystem
FF’s mission is to preserve humanity’s most important information by facilitating the open-source governance of the Filecoin network, funding research and development projects related to Filecoin and decentralized technologies, and supporting the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community. FF’s vision is to create a world in which Filecoin and related decentralized technologies preserve and protect humanity’s most important information, empower users, and embed core civil liberties and human rights—such as free speech and privacy—into the fabric of the world’s technological infrastructure. We want to build a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for the future of the Web.
The Filecoin ecosystem is fully decentralized, and that means that FF does not lead or dictate the direction of the Filecoin ecosystem. Rather, like other open-source governance bodies, FF’s goal is to bring together and empower the Filecoin community – including storage providers, data clients, token-holders, developers, and other ecosystem participants. This includes facilitating the Filecoin network’s open-source governance process, providing funding to teams building in the ecosystem, and hosting events to convene ecosystem participants, as well as supporting the Filecoin community in other ways.
FF’s top ecosystem-facing objective in 2025 is to make Filecoin work seamlessly and find product-market fit – but FF cannot dictate what the Filecoin community should do to achieve those goals. Rather, FF’s strategic priorities in 2025 are about bringing the community together to achieve those goals – including driving a process to align the community on the most important actions to take to make Filecoin work seamlessly and find product market fit, supporting projects that will help accomplish those goals, and shifting towards playing a larger role in convening the Filecoin ecosystem to get the right people in the room talking about the right thing at the right time.
Filecoin Foundation’s Strategic Priorities in 2025
In 2025, FF’s top ecosystem-facing objective is to mobilize the Filecoin community to make Filecoin work seamlessly and find product-market fit.
To achieve this objective of making Filecoin work seamlessly and finding product-market fit, FF has outlined the following strategic priorities that will be FF’s laser-focus for 2025:
- Wage a war on pain points; drive a process to align the community on the most important actions to take to make Filecoin work seamlessly and achieve product market fit
- Shift from a “launching” culture to an “iterating” culture, emphasizing quality, polish, and stability
- Support open-source data onboarding tools, with an eye towards stability
- Keep the community excited through high-profile and high-quality integrations and partnerships (including platform integrations and AI partnerships)
- Support storage providers in finding profitable business models and boosting paid storage deals, including through supporting a deal pipeline
- Dramatically increase on-chain activity
- Shift towards FF playing a larger role in coordinating and convening across the ecosystem, getting the right people in the room talking about the right thing at the right time
- Shift towards FF playing a larger role in coordinating ecosystem participants around ecosystem-wide communications
FF can’t achieve the objective of making Filecoin work seamlessly and finding product-market fit alone; rather, our strategic priorities are about bringing the Filecoin community together and supporting the community in accomplishing these objectives collectively.
Measuring Progress: 2025 Objectives and Key Results
To measure the ecosystem’s progress toward our primary 2025 objective of making Filecoin work seamlessly and achieving product market fit, FF has a new set of ecosystem-facing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for 2025.
We hope that by setting ambitious, clear, and measurable targets, we can track the ecosystem’s progress, find and fix roadblocks, identify areas for improvement, and celebrate ecosystem successes along the way.
Here's how we're measuring our ecosystem progress in 2025:
Objective: Make Filecoin work seamlessly, and find product market fit
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Key Result (KR) 1: Network storage utilized increases 5 PIB per day
Strategic priority this relates to: Support open-source data onboarding tools, with an eye towards stability
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KR2: 75% of on-chain deals are renewed before expiring
Strategic priority this relates to: Wage a war on pain points; drive a process to align the community on the most important actions to take to make Filecoin work seamlessly and achieve product market fit
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KR3: The number of paid deals grows 25% QoQ
Strategic priority this relates to: Support storage providers in finding profitable business models and boosting paid storage deals, including through supporting a deal pipeline
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KR4: At least half of the top pain points (identified and prioritized through a process that involves ecosystem stakeholder input) are addressed
Strategic priority this relates to: Wage a war on pain points; drive a process to align the community on the most important actions to take to make Filecoin work seamlessly and achieve product market fit
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KR5: At least 25% of funding is allocated to iterations or ongoing maintenance of previous projects rather than new projects
Strategic priority this relates to: Shift from a “launching” culture to an “iterating” culture, emphasizing quality, polish, and stability
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KR6: Land and promote at least 12 new major partnerships, resulting in at least two media hits in top-tier crypto outlets (with positive sentiment) per collaboration and at least 3 mainstream media placements
Strategic priority this relates to: Keep the community excited through high-profile and high-quality integrations and partnerships (including platform integrations and AI partnerships)
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KR7: On-chain activity increases by 25% quarter over quarter
Strategic priority this relates to: Dramatically increase on-chain activity
Filecoin Foundation’s 2025 Budget
FF is looking forward to supporting the community in 2025, and we have designed FF’s budget to support these objectives, key results, and strategic priorities. Here is a look into FF’s planned budget for its 2025 fiscal year (subject to change):
| Categories | USD | FIL |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem Grants - General & Support | $4,837,869 | 1,331,814 |
| Ecosystem Grants - Network Metrics | $1,380,000 | 156,000 |
| Ecosystem Grants - FVM-Related | $354,020 | 0 |
| Data Onboarding, Storage Provider, and Enterprise Programs & Grants | $3,279,842 | 131,412 |
| Token Holder-Related Grants and Research | $563,700 | 0 |
| Use Case Grants and Support | $709,453 | 88,836 |
| Solutions Architecture | $419,655 | 31,100 |
| Developer Relations | $615,641 | 42,307 |
| User Experience Improvement | $831,000 | 0 |
| Protocol Implementation Grants | $2,821,000 | 0 |
| Network Security (Including Bug Bounty and Network Audits) | $2,206,955 | 119,988 |
| Network Governance | $927,608 | 46,596 |
| Filecoin+ Grants and Support | $1,354,763 | 63,648 |
| Network Infrastructure Grants | $1,484,000 | 0 |
| Network Tooling Grants | $960,000 | 0 |
| Events, Comms, Marketing, and Design | $7,799,258 | 373,096 |
| Regulatory and Policy | $1,656,712 | 36,374 |
| Enablement (Legal, Finance, HR, IT, etc.) | $3,757,148 | 545,813 |
| Other Operating Expenses (Insurance, Taxes, etc.) | $4,609,723 | 71,579 |
| Cross-Functional Personnel | $762,087 | 409,995 |
We’ll be sharing more about FF’s impact in 2024 and our plans for 2025 in our upcoming annual report. We are looking forward to working alongside the entire Filecoin community in 2025 to bring our shared vision to life. Join us in building a resilient, decentralized, and user-empowered Web.