The centralized cloud is cracking beneath the weight of new demands: AI is generating and consuming data at unprecedented scale, governments are asserting jurisdiction over where data can live, and AI agents are waking up –– autonomous, borderless, and unwilling to rely on vendor gatekeepers.
The next wave of builders aren’t asking for permission; they’re demanding proof. They need infrastructure and services that won’t break under Big Cloud’s constraints. The centralized cloud is opaque and fragile. The next cloud must be verifiable, composable, and unstoppable.
Introducing Filecoin Onchain Cloud
→ Imagine a world where your app’s cloud bills settle themselves onchain, automatically and based on what’s actually delivered.
→ Where service performance, reliability, and uptime aren’t marketing claims but publicly auditable onchain.
→ Where AI agents fetch data directly, pay-per-request, and verify its origin and provenance.
Built for openness and ownership by default, Filecoin Onchain Cloud delivers verifiable storage with content-addressed data, transparent service delivery, programmable payments, and freedom from vendor lock-in. Filecoin Onchain Cloud is built for a world that demands proof, not promises.
With Filecoin Onchain Cloud, developers can now build and operate at cloud scale with onchain guarantees. Every interaction is auditable, every payment conditional, and every service composable. For the first time, builders can run real workloads in an open, verifiable cloud where data, logic, and payments live together onchain. The same guarantees that secure smart contracts now apply to the data they use.
Why Filecoin Onchain Cloud?
Builders are choosing Filecoin Onchain Cloud because it delivers something traditional cloud can’t: verifiable ownership, programmable performance, and an unstoppable future.
- You own what you build. Ownership is enforced onchain through smart contracts and programmable payments, so your stack is permanent, portable, and fully yours to fork or scale –– without asking permission. Your data lives across a global network of independent storage providers and not in a single company’s data center, so reliability and control are built in from day one.
- You can verify everything you use. Every file is content-addressed — identified by what it is, not where it’s stored — so data can’t be tampered with or quietly replaced. Each action, from storage to retrieval to payment, produces a matching onchain attestation that creates a transparent, verifiable record of your app’s operations. Ship with confidence and know every component does exactly what it claims, verifiably.
- You can program the cloud. Logic and payments live side by side: pay only if it’s stored and pause billing when proofs fail. The network enforces the rules, so your team can focus on product and not infrastructure. The result? A self-auditing, self-executing cloud that works for you, not the other way around.
Filecoin Onchain Cloud Building Blocks and Services
Filecoin Onchain Cloud expands Filecoin from a decentralized storage network into the verifiable foundation for a fully decentralized cloud.
Developers can store data on a global decentralized network, pay for services seamlessly via wallet or smart contract, retrieve data through fast delivery services, and verify onchain attestations proving that services were delivered. Together, these capabilities make it possible to build applications that are verifiable, composable, and fully decentralized from the ground up.
The core of this new onchain cloud starts with five open source, verifiable, and composable building blocks:
- Filecoin Pay: Enabling onchain payments for verifiable service performance.
- Filecoin Warm Storage Service: Powered by Proof of Data Possession (PDP) to guarantee your data is actually stored and available.
- Synapse SDK: Connecting builders to Filecoin Onchain Cloud with simple APIs.
- Filecoin Pin: Bringing IPFS and Filecoin closer than ever for fast, decentralized data persistence.
- Filecoin Beam: A service bridging verifiable data movement across onchain and offchain systems.
More details on filecoin.io.