Filecoin Foundation 2025 Vision and Strategic Priorities

This October, we celebrated the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Filecoin mainnet. It has been an incredible four years. Today, the Filecoin network has hundreds of teams and thousands of storage providers around the world and has become the world's largest decentralized file storage network.

Welcome to read this article to learn more about the vision and strategic priorities of the Filecoin Foundation. Looking forward to 2025, the primary goal of the Filecoin Foundation is to mobilize the Filecoin community to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit.

Vision and Role in the Ecosystem

The mission of the Filecoin Foundation is to protect humanity's most important information by promoting open source governance of the Filecoin network, funding research and development projects related to Filecoin and decentralized technologies, and supporting the development of the Filecoin ecosystem and community. The Filecoin Foundation's vision is to create a world where 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 powerful foundation for the future of the network.

The Filecoin ecosystem is fully decentralized, which means that the Filecoin Foundation will not lead or determine the direction of the Filecoin ecosystem. Instead, like other open source governance bodies, the Filecoin Foundation aims to bring together and empower the Filecoin community, including storage providers, data users, token holders, developers, and other ecosystem participants. The main initiatives are to promote the open source governance process of the Filecoin network, provide funding for ecosystem team building, hold events to convene ecosystem participants, and other ways to support the Filecoin community.

In 2025, the Filecoin Foundation's primary goal for the ecosystem is to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit, but the Filecoin Foundation cannot dictate what the Filecoin community should do to achieve these goals. Instead, the Filecoin Foundation's strategic focus in 2025 is to bring the community together to achieve these goals, including facilitating the process of reaching consensus on the most important actions, making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieving product-market fit, supporting projects that help achieve these goals, and playing a greater coordination and convening role in the ecosystem to help the right people discuss the right things at the right time.

Strategic Focus in 2025

In 2025, the Filecoin Foundation's highest goal for the ecosystem is to mobilize the Filecoin community, make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit.

To achieve the above goals, the main measures are as follows:

• Fight pain points; drive the community to reach consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Shift from a "release" culture to an "iteration" culture, emphasizing quality, precision and stability

• Support open source data storage tools, focusing on stability

• Maintain community activity through high-profile and high-quality integrations and collaborations (including platform integration and AI collaboration)

• Support storage providers to find profitable business models and promote paid storage transactions, including by supporting trading channels

• Substantially increase on-chain activities

• Play a greater role in coordinating ecosystem participants around ecosystem-wide communications

The Filecoin Foundation cannot achieve making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieving product-market fit alone; instead, our strategic focus is on bringing the Filecoin community together to achieve these goals.

Progress Measurement: 2025 Objectives and Key Results

To measure the ecosystem’s progress towards our primary 2025 goal (making Filecoin run seamlessly and achieving product-market fit), we have developed a new set of ecosystem-focused Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for 2025.

We hope to continuously track ecological progress, promptly identify and resolve obstacles, identify areas for improvement, and celebrate ecological achievements in the process by setting ambitious, clear and measurable goals.

Here’s how we’ll measure ecosystem progress in 2025:

Goal: Make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Result 1:Network storage usage increases by 5 PIB per day

  Strategic Focus:Support open source data storage tools with a focus on stability

• Key Result 2:75% of on-chain transactions are renewed before expiration

  Strategic Focus:Go after pain points; drive community consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Results 3: The number of paid transactions increased by 25% month-on-month

  Strategic Priority: Support storage providers in finding profitable business models and promote paid storage transactions, including by supporting transaction channels

• Key Result 4: Solve at least half of the major pain points (identified and prioritized through a process involving ecosystem stakeholders’ input)

  Strategic Priority: Go to war on pain points; drive community consensus on the most important actions to make Filecoin run seamlessly and achieve product-market fit

• Key Result 5: Allocate at least 25% of funds to iteration or ongoing maintenance of previous projects rather than new projects

  Strategic Priority: Move from a “release” culture to an “iteration” culture, emphasizing quality, precision, and stability

• Key Result 6: Create and foster at least 12 new major partnerships, each with at least two media mentions (with positive sentiment) in top crypto media and at least three appearances in mainstream media

  Strategic Priority: Maintain community engagement through high-profile and high-quality integrations and partnerships, including platform integrations and AI partnerships

• Key Result 7: On-chain activity increased by 25% month-over-month

  Strategic Priority: Substantially increase on-chain activity