--- title: The Rich History of Filecoin Network's FIL Token | daily.dev description: Protocol Labs has a rich history dating back to Protocol Labs' vision for decentralized storage. The 2017 FIL Sales raised over $205 million for Filecoin's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rich-history-of-filecoin-network-s-fil-token-6mdtbpzrn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Rich History of Filecoin Network's FIL Token | daily.dev og:description: Protocol Labs has a rich history dating back to Protocol Labs' vision for decentralized storage. The 2017 FIL Sales raised over $205 million for Filecoin's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-rich-history-of-filecoin-network-s-fil-token-6mdtbpzrn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6MdTBPzRn.png og:image:alt: The Rich History of Filecoin Network's FIL Token og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Rich History of Filecoin Network's FIL Token **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Protocol Labs has a rich history dating back to Protocol Labs' vision for decentralized storage. The 2017 FIL Sales raised over $205 million for Filecoin's development, with investors anticipating growth. With a capped supply of 2 billion FIL, the mainnet launched in 2020. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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