Filecoin Station is a consumer-oriented desktop application that will act as an entry point to a selection of modules in the Filecoin ecosystem. Station users will be able to earn FIL for contributing their resources and services to each module.
Modules are independent services that can run “inside” Station. Some modules will be able to interact with other modules, like the Wallet module.
The first module that Station will house is a Saturn L2 node. Saturn is a decentralised content delivery network for the Filecoin Storage Network.
In the future, Station will also act as an entry point to other retrieval networks like Meson or Titan, or even to the Compute over Data initiative, allowing for edge computation as well as caching.
The following are examples of modules that we envisage running in the Station.
More generally, it can also act as a deployment target for p2p network builders.
Users will be able to search the catalogue of Station Modules, install them easily to their Station, and keep them automatically up to date.
In the more distant future, we would like the Station to provide a secure sandbox for running untrusted Module code, isolating modules from each other and the user’s computer resources.