In a world where scientific progress is the key to solving humanity’s most pressing issues, one initiative stands out in its mission to revolutionise the landscape of research: DeSci Labs and the DeSci Foundation. Led by Philipp Koellinger, a...
An excerpt from The Holon Data Report, Part 6 Filecoin, the invention of Stanford graduate Juan Benet (Figure 1) is a peer-to-peer cloud storage network designed to incentivise participants to store data reliably over time using a blockchain and...
During this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, unveiled a ground breaking collaboration with the Filecoin Foundation. Together, they are embarking on a mission to showcase the...
An excerpt from The Holon Data Report, Part 5 Global data storage capacity is rapidly becoming a substantial limiting factor on our ability to retain data that might be valuable in the future. The world produced almost 100 ZB...
In a recent spotlight at FIL Vegas, a Filecoin community event, Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries, and the USC Shoah Foundation showcased the pivotal role of Filecoin decentralised storage in preserving...
An excerpt from The Holon Data Report, Part 6 For Web 3.0 to reach its potential, it must operate at a significantly greater scale than what it does today. Tokenomics can be critical in this regard by helping bootstrap...
An excerpt from The Holon Data Report, Part 5 The world’s operating system for data storage and retrieval is archaic due to the system’s reliance on location-based addressing. This system is enormously inefficient both in terms of energy usage...
An excerpt from The Holon Data Report, Part 4 In our Data Report series, we outline the enormous growth in data generation from 2011 to 2021. It took us over 70 years to reach 1 zettabyte (ZB) of annual...
In an era where data breaches loom like a dark cloud over our digital lives, a new paradigm has emerged, promising both security and autonomy. The stage is set for the grand entrance of decentralised data storage, a transformative...
In this digital age, data is the lifeblood of progress, propelling innovation and transforming industries. As we hurtle through the second half of 2023 (yes, already), data storage stands at a crossroads, grappling with what we believe to be...
In today’s digital landscape, data has emerged as the hottest commodity, sparking a modern-day gold rush. From the intimate details of our lives to the inner workings of corporations, the loudest voices are saying that data holds the key...
In the ever-evolving landscape of blockchain technology, Filecoin has emerged as a formidable player in decentralized storage. As we pass the halfway point of 2023, Filecoin’s progress and impact continue to captivate industry insiders, tech enthusiasts – and even...
Along with the celebration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last six months or so, there has also been a great number of concerns raised. From jobs being replaced, all the way to killer robots – leave it to...
Welcome to the future of the Internet, where Web 3.0 is changing the way we do almost everything – including how we deal with money. Web 3.0 is unique in that you can create, share, and trade without relying...
We know, just when you feel on top of the latest tech jargon, another term comes along. But this one is a biggie: DeSci, or Decentralised Science – and it’s solving a significant problem. The scientific research community has...
In the words of Jeff Bezos. Ouch. Filecoin, the open-source, public cryptocurrency and data storage digital payment system – declined approximately 90% in value over the course of 2022. This is equivalent to Amazon, who after the tech wreck...
There isn’t much use for a decent retirement if the world is practically unhabitable by the time you retire. And at Holon, we believe that the technological advances of Web 3.0, or more simply the digitisation of the world,...
Holon and Filecoin Green, a Protocol Labs initiative to decarbonize the Filecoin Network, have now released their first comprehensive Web 3.0 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report. It not only creates the sustainability framework of the future, but it...
David Fedirchuk: Can you tell us your background and how you ended up with Holon? Jonathan Hooker: I started with Holon around about two and a half years ago. Before that I was actually consulting at the University of...
You’re likely to have heard the rumblings: there will be exponentially more data created, in the very near future. But, how much? How much is too much, i.e. can we store it all? Do we need to? And how...
Filecoin has been labelled the Airbnb of cloud storage and, within the digital asset space, there is a lot of excitement about the potential of Filecoin. But what does it mean to be the Airbnb of cloud storage, and...
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” -Charlie Munger. Web 3.0 innovation, Filecoin, is a decentralised cloud platform that is set to become the ‘Airbnb’ for cloud storage. Like Airbnb, Filecoin lets you rent out storage..
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