{"id":30489,"date":"2020-10-22T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30489"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:34:09","slug":"consensys-and-protocol-labs-partner-to-integrate-ethereum-with-filecoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/consensys-and-protocol-labs-partner-to-integrate-ethereum-with-filecoin\/","title":{"rendered":"ConsenSys and Protocol Labs partner to integrate Ethereum with Filecoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum studio ConsenSys announced a partnership with Protocol Labs, the team behind the decentralized data storage platform Filecoin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The result will be the integration of the new project with ConsenSys products Infura and MetaMask.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With new and upcoming features from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infura_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@infura_io<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConsenSysCodefi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ConsenSysCodefi<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metamask_io?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@metamask_io<\/a>, miners, developers, and users of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Filecoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Filecoin<\/a> network can now access essential <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a> tools and access the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeFi?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DeFi<\/a> ecosystem. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2U95vyMwo\">https:\/\/t.co\/m2U95vyMwo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ConsenSys (@Consensys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Consensys\/status\/1318972846589214722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ConsenSys noted that by storing data in Filecoin, Ethereum applications will become &#8220;fully decentralised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We aim to extend IPFS functionality and introduce new tools that will allow developers and consumers to easily use Filecoin and IPFS to build their applications and meet data-storage needs,&#8221; said Joseph Lubin, the head of the studio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Codefi Activate platform for launching new blockchains introduced the Filecoin Storage tool to monitor storage prices. A bridge was also released that will enable transferring the native Filecoin (FIL) token to ERC-20.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on October 15 at block 148,888 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/filecoin-mainnet-goes-live\">the launch of the Filecoin mainnet took place<\/a>. FIL listings were announced by cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi, OKEx and Binance.<\/p>\n<p>On October 17, reports surfaced of a miners&#8217; strike over the project&#8217;s economic model. Protocol Labs CEO Juan Benet <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/filecoin-calls-miner-strike-claims-nonsense\">called<\/a> their claim absurd.<\/p>\n<p>For details on how justified the community&#8217;s claims are, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/unprofitable-mining-and-dump-accusations-how-the-filecoin-community-greeted-the-launch\">read<\/a> ForkLog&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum studio ConsenSys announced a partnership with Protocol Labs, the team behind the Filecoin decentralized data storage platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[246,46,1488,1889],"class_list":["post-30489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-consensys","tag-ethereum","tag-filecoin-fil","tag-protocol-labs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30491,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489\/revisions\/30491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}