TL;DR
- The Filecoin Foundation and FilOz launched Onchain Cloud, a decentralized cloud platform that supports full cloud workloads and onchain applications.
- The system integrates verifiable storage, fast retrieval, the USDFC stablecoin, and the IPFS and Filecoin Pin networks.
- Early partners such as ENS, Safe, Monad, and Agent0 are testing DeFi frontends and auditable AI models.
The Filecoin Foundation and the FilOz team introduced Onchain Cloud, a decentralized cloud platform designed to create more resilient and programmable onchain applications.
Objectives of the Initiative
The initiative aims to support full cloud workloads, from storage and retrieval to data transformation and processing, without relying on centralized providers. The announcement was made during Devconnect in Argentina, coinciding with a major Cloudflare outage that took dApps, explorers, and wallets offline.
The system allows data to be stored verifiably and retrieved quickly, integrating the native USDFC stablecoin and using the IPFS and Filecoin Pin networks to ensure integrity and global portability.
According to Molly Mackinlay, lead at FilOz, the platform leverages the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) to program smart contracts around storage, not only for basic use cases but also for data retrieval and advanced processing. The architecture also enables the creation of storage markets and policies tailored to specific needs.
Early Companies Testing Filecoin Onchain Cloud
Several early partners are already testing the infrastructure. ENS and Safe are developing decentralized DeFi frontends as easy to use and update as traditional websites. AI and blockchain teams, such as Monad and Agent0, use the cloud to train and deploy transparent, auditable, and self-verifying AI models. Filecoin Pay functions as a settlement layer, enabling verifiable pay-per-use services in FIL, USDFC, or any ERC-20 token.
The platform allows users to fully own their stack and operate portably across the global network of independent storage providers. The retrieval egress feature compensates providers for delivering content within the ecosystem, ensuring that data cannot be tampered with or silently replaced.
The platform is currently operational, although still in a basic version. Nevertheless, it represents a key step toward building more reliable, secure, and adaptable decentralized applications in an ecosystem increasingly oriented toward smart contracts and onchain services.
