At the beginning of the new year, the field of distributed storage welcomes new opportunities. The Filecoin ecosystem has achieved significant results in shipment, scale expansion, and technological strength over the past year, but the real show is still to come.

Now, Filecoin Beam has become a core component of the retrieval layer, but this is just the beginning. 2026 will be the true watershed—project teams plan to achieve on-chain data access worldwide, breaking down data silos. What does this mean? Simply put, any developer will be able to innovate based on this infrastructure, greatly expanding the imagination space from storage to application layers.

This global data access capability will turn decentralized storage from a concept into a fundamental service that everyone can use. For developers and users, this is truly good news.