Filecoin’s mission is “to create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information.” Dubbed a paid version of ipfs, it creates a free market to bridge between storage users and crowd sourced storage providers. Filecoin (FIL) is a utility token that enables mining as well as paying for storage services. Filecoin aims to compete with centralized storage services like Amazon AWS, as well as other blockchain projects like storj and sia. Filecoin mainnet went live on October 15th, 2020 and FIL is listed on most major exchanges.

If you have ever watched a movie on Netflix or listened to a song on Spotify, you have used a Content Delivery Network or CDN. With all the performance and business benefits of using a CDN, it’s important to understand the CDN solutions available in 2020 and how you can best take advantage of it.

Let’s look at 3 different industries and see how companies in these industries applied an App-centric Virtual Network approach to adapt to modern applications and to improve their user experience. These industries include SD-WAN, Gaming, and Network Security.