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Storage providers in the Filecoin network are in charge of storing, providing content and issuing new blocks.

Wallets provide a way to securely store digital assets and interact with decentralized networks.

FIL is the native token of the Filecoin network. FIL tokens are used as an economic incentive to ensure data is stored reliably over time.

libp2p is a modular system of protocols, specifications and libraries that enable the development of peer-to-peer network applications. Because of the way libp2p is architected, a lot of the needs and considerations that the web2 network was built on no longer apply.

IPLD is the data model of the content-addressable web. It allows us to treat all hash-linked data structures as subsets of a unified information space, unifying all data models that link data with hashes as instances of IPLD.

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting IPFS hosts.