Filecoin's 2026 strategy shifts the question from how much data the network can hold to how much it is paid to store and serve. Revenue Development is the program behind that shift. It funds two pods directly: there is no open call and no public application.
Revenue Development doesn't run an open call. It funds two pods, each with a specific product and go-to-market mandate, each accountable for revenue in its slice of the ecosystem. Capital follows their six-month roadmaps and is released as milestones land.
If you see something a pod's roadmap is missing, R&D is the program that funds it. Work aimed at a gap in the network is requested through published RFPs there, and what proves out can become part of a pod's roadmap later.
A pod is a small, mission-focused team with a specific product and go-to-market mandate. Pods own product and revenue for their slice of the ecosystem, and Revenue Development milestones are scoped against their six-month roadmaps.
Developer platform
Filecoin's developer-facing storage platform: warm storage, verifiable retrieval, and proof-gated payments, plus the SDK surface teams build against. Also carries demand from builders at the intersection of AI, DePIN, and Web3.
Enterprise object storage
Enterprise sales into traditional storage buyers: S3-compatible object storage on Filecoin, aimed at the petabyte-scale workloads that move on price, durability, and compliance. Also carries large dataset onboarding.
Each pod is funded against a six-month roadmap rather than an annual budget, with payouts released as milestones land. Nothing arrives up front, and a roadmap that stops moving stops drawing down.
Pod scopes the roadmap
Six months of work against a named KPI
Review and allocation
Assessed against the 2026 network objectives
Milestones land
Payouts released as delivery is verified
Published progress
Bi-weekly reports, monthly roll-up
Re-scope
Next roadmap set against results
Revenue Development funds the two pods directly, so there's nothing to apply for here. R&D is where outside teams can pick up work that supports them.