Filecoin FIL
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CM Profile: Filecoin
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about FIL, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.25% and 0.26%, on 9 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold FIL. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell FIL
Selling $100,000 of FIL into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase FIL/USD | 0.25% | $99,746 | 2026-10-09 |
| Kraken FIL/USD | 0.26% | $99,741 | 2026-10-09 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps FIL on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Filecoin is
Filecoin is a decentralised storage network launched in 2020 by Protocol Labs, the team behind IPFS. It creates a market for disk space: providers offer storage, clients pay to have files kept, and the network verifies that the data is still being held rather than taking anyone's word for it.
The verification is the interesting engineering. Providers must lock collateral and continuously produce cryptographic proofs that they still hold the exact data they agreed to store. Fail to produce them and the collateral is slashed. That turns a promise into something enforceable without a contract or a court.
The honest caveat is about what all that capacity is used for. A large share of the network's committed storage has historically held no real client data — providers can pledge capacity and earn rewards for proving they could store something, which inflates the headline numbers considerably against actual paying demand. Retrieval speed and cost are a separate problem from storage and have been slower to mature. And running a storage business here means locking up FIL, so provider economics are exposed to the token price as much as to the storage market.
What Filecoin can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 0.25% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 October 2026
FIL pays nothing for being held. New FIL goes to storage providers, who earn it by offering storage space to the network.
Source: Filecoin docs: crypto-economics · checked 2 October 2026
No more than 2 billion FIL will ever exist. Most of it is created only as the network grows, and some is permanently removed through fees and penalties, so the docs say the maximum will never be reached.
Source: Filecoin docs: crypto-economics · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Filecoin has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
Filecoin data synced 3m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell FIL.