What use is computing without storage? For too long, blockchains have been defined by a frustrating tradeoff—should my decentralized network focus on compute, or on storage? We've seen incredible innovation on both sides—Ethereum the world's largest computer—and IPFS & Filecoin, the world's largest decentralized storage networks.

While we've seen thousands of groundbreaking DApps developed harnessing the power of these technologies, under the hood, they require complex scaffolding, disjointed layers, or complicated developer patterns. Sometimes even, decentralized storage is disregaded, opting instead to return to the "easier" centralized methods.

A small team of builders at Protocol Labs set out to change that, and with the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM), have turned the Filecoin blockchain into a programmable platform that developers can deploy programs to, finally uniting compute and data on a single network.

But they did not stop there... The FEVM creates a runtime within the FVM which simulates the Ethereum Virtual Machine, making all smart contracts which compile to EVM bytecode, such as Solidity contracts, executable on the Filecoin blockchain.

With completely decentralized compute and storage united once more—we're more excited than ever for this new frontier—and for what you'll build.