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- Free allowance
- Was: DataCap granted by allocators, deals free or near-free for a user because SPs got 10x quality-adjusted power
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-21checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-21
| Free tier | was: DataCap granted by allocators, deals free or near-free for a user because SPs got 10x quality-adjusted power unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution institution |
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| Egress | never free; retrieval is a separate paid market |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown Boost deal-making, allocator applications |
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| Tooling | lotus/boost, allocator registry |
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| Composes with | none any more |
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| Reliability | Pending DataCap allocations became unusable at activation; unclaimed allocations are simply lost. |
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| Evidence note | documented The page states the number in the record; the claim is documented, not measured. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0118.m | Fil+ is deprecated and no new datacap is minted. Re-read https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0118.md: HTTP 200, 180635 bytes, sha256 ae552419811ef0cd. Quoted: 2026-07-14 | | spec-sections | | # FIP-0118: (Solstice) Deprecate Fil+ and Fund Services via Block-Reward Split ## Simple Summary This FIP deprecates the Filecoin Plus (Fil+) datacap minting and allocation system and replaces it with a two-part mechanism: - PoRep sector quality no longer depends on content at L1. Every new sector onboarded from the activation epoch automatically receives 10× QAP over its lifetime, realized immediatel |
| 2026-10-21 | www.coindaro.com/filecoin-upgrade-solstice-nv29/ | 'FIP-0118 ends Fil+ and DataCap: every new sector gets 10x quality-adjusted power'; 'From activation, DataCap goes away in one step. No new DataCap is minted, unused balances become inert, pending allocations can no longer be claimed' |
| 2026-10-21 | bitquery.io/investigations/filecoin-storage-in-numbers | 'The program gives providers a bigger share of block rewards for storing vetted client data, so clients usually pay nothing'; also 'Providers Down 87%, Deals Down 97%' |
| 2026-10-21 | github.com/filecoin-project/Allocator-Governance/discussions | 'Documenting Client-SP Payments ... one of the simplest ways to show that deals are active' - i.e. the free era was already being wound down in Q1 2026 |
More fields 2
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "was: DataCap granted by allocators, deals free or near-free for a user because SPs got 10x quality-adjusted power","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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| verified | [{"url": "https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0118.md","date": "2026-10-22","via": null,"http_status": 200,"bytes": 180635,"sha256": "ae552419811ef0cdb702173b4cd75e2aeca8ae4b6be3ab9877d252cced460ab3","pattern_found": true,"what_changed": "no change: the page still states the claim","capture": null}] |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read