As you may know, the deployment of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (#FVM) to Filecoin mainnet is upcoming on 🥧day, March 14!

🧵 incoming – here is all you need to know about the FVM 👇 1/ FVM is the execution environment for running custom code on Filecoin. It is multi-runtime, secure, and efficient. As of March 14th, you’ll be able to deploy EVM smart contracts (and more) on the Filecoin network. 🤝

1/ The Countdown to #FVM kicked off with a jam-packed event at #ETHDenver. Hear directly from pioneers building on FVM and learn about all the possibilities FVM unlocks in the sessions below. 🧵

2/ 🗣️ @ColinEvran
🗓️ FVM in the context of Filecoin’s Masterplan

1/ 🌍 Our mission to decentralize the world’s storage via resilient, #P2P networks means the ENTIRE world. 🌍

In Africa, we’ve been meeting, educating, & inspiring thousands of #developers with a growing passion for #decentralization & #Web3. Peep some of the amazing events 👇 2/ ⚡ CodeUp Blockchain Festival Nigeria ⚡

On Oct 1, concurrently with 🇳🇬 Nigeria Independence Day 🇳🇬, @charliecodes presented an introduction to #Filecoin & @IPFS to over 200 people at @CodeUpAfrica's #blockchain festival in Nigeria!! 🙌

1/ Say hello👋 to @numbersprotocol, a #Web3 Photo Network that’s creating community, value & trust in #digital media.

With trust in digital media at an all-time low, Numbers Protocol aims to bring integrity & authenticity to the digital content space. Read on to discover how👇👀 2/ @numbersprotocol created a network where assets are both traceable & verifiable through its innovative Capture, Seal, Trace process – the #Web3 Photo Network.

1/ Since its launch in Jun 2021, the Starling Lab for Data Integrity has been introducing historians, journalists, & activists to #Web3. 🙌 2/ Founded by the @USCShoahFdn & @stanford_ee, Starling Lab is proud to be the first academic research center dedicated to exploring how #Web3 can transform #humanrights & #digital trust. 🎓

Watch this video to learn more 👇

1/ Since 2017, @force_ipfs has focused heavily on tech research & development in Web3, with a strong focus on Filecoin & @IPFS. Their vision? 👀 Being a top #Web3 infrastructure service provider & make storage more efficient, economical, open, & safe. 🙌 2/ @force_ipfs maintains & develops Venus, one of the four @Filecoin Implementations that helps secure the distributed storage network. 💪

1/ In 2021, @Brave, the privacy browser, shipped support for a full @IPFS node, becoming the first ever major browser to do so! 🚀 2/ @Brave is growing at an incredible pace, reflecting the community’s excitement & interest in online privacy becoming a default browser feature. 📈

As of Nov 2021, Brave has surpassed 46M monthly active users! 🙌 🔥

1/ @NFT_Storage – ensuring that the world’s most valuable digital assets are secure & safe 🔐

Get provable, perpetual, #NFT storage on #Filecoin & @IPFS for large to small data, tools to help you properly mint your NFTs to prevent rug pulls, & more!

👉 nft.storage 2/ Since Apr 2021, there have been over 15.7M uploads to NFT.Storage!! 🤯

1/ Estuary, built by @aresearchgroup, wraps a clean, simple API & high-performance optimizations around #Filecoin & @IPFS.

As a user, you can…
✅ Store & retrieve content quickly
✅ Automatical
✅ Verify your stored data
…& more. 2/ Under the hood, Estuary is a special type of node that wraps #Filecoin & @IPFS together.

The Estuary team runs a hosted service with an HTTP API. Or you can run your own Estuary node 🤖!

1/ 🙌 30 Days of Filecoin Builders 🙌

The Filecoin community is grateful for the incredible folks & projects that have joined the ecosystem in 2021!

Here is just a glimpse of all the builders that make up #Filecoin 👇 👀 2/ As of the Nov 30, the Filecoin has had...
⭐ 270+ incredible apps building on the network
⭐ 650+ new projects entering the ecosystem
⭐ 13.85 EiB of network storage power
⭐ 3.5K storage providers
⭐ 33 PiB+ of data stored on the network
⭐ 8K devs contributing on GitHub