Internet Archive Moves U.S. Web Records to Filecoin

• Internet Archive now stores U.S. government web archives on Filecoin for better resilience during presidential transitions.
• Filecoin’s decentralized network helps safeguard public data from loss, censorship, or server failure.

Something interesting happened ahead of the change of administration in the United States. The Internet Archive, an institution we usually know through the Wayback Machine, began storing US government web archives into the Filecoin network.

Not just any data, this is part of the End of Term Web Archive project which includes more than 500 terabytes and 100 million pages of .gov and .mil sites. This step is not only about data backup, but also answers an old challenge: how to keep public data alive even though the administration changes?

If usually big data is stored in traditional server centers, Filecoin offers a different approach: data is spread across a decentralized storage network. Imagine, as if the important pages were stored in thousands of places at once, so the risk of being lost or sabotaged is smaller. And not only that, Filecoin is also known to be cost-effective in storage—something that is certainly tempting for a large-scale project like this.

The @internetarchive used Filecoin to preserve U.S. government web data through its End of Term Web Archive. Decentralized storage offers resilience where centralized hosting can’t.

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— Filecoin (@Filecoin) May 31, 2025

Filecoin Rises Through Real Innovation

On the other hand, what the Internet Archive is doing can be said to further strengthen Filecoin’s position as the backbone of decentralized web storage technology. A few weeks before this announcement, Filecoin had made a breakthrough with Lockheed Martin.

They successfully sent and stored data into space using the IPFS protocol, a system that is also the foundation of Filecoin. The effect? ​​Latency in interplanetary data communication can be reduced. This is not a science fiction dream, it is already happening.

Furthermore, on May 27, 2025, the Filecoin Foundation and Ava Labs announced the first cross-chain data bridge between the Avalanche C-Chain and Filecoin via the FVM virtual machine. In essence, data from the Avalanche blockchain can now be stored on Filecoin complete with cryptographic proof. This bridge reduces storage costs, increases scalability, and does not sacrifice network performance.

In addition, the CNF previously reported that Filecoin and Bagel Labs are working together to combine privacy technology with AI development. With support for GPU restaking and cross-chain smart contract integration, Filecoin can now be the backbone of storage and computing for AI applications without making user data open for grabs.

At the end of May, this platform was also named by Analytics Insight as one of the four best crypto projects in 2025. The reason is clear: not just promises, but real utility that has been proven in various sectors.

Meanwhile, as of press time, FIL is changing hands at about $2.52, down 1.90% over the last 24 hours and its market cap is about $1.70 billion.

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