The token of Filecoin is FIL, and the total amount is constant at 2,000,000,000, which is called FIL_BASE. 10% is allocated to the fund-raising of Filecoin Chuangshi Block, of which 7.5% is sold on 20 17, and the remaining 2.5% is used for ecosystem development and potential future financing. 15% of FIL_BASE is allocated to the protocol lab (including 4.5% of PL team and contributors) and 5% to the Filecoin Foundation. The remaining 70% tokens are distributed to miners as mining incentives to provide data storage services, maintain blockchain, distribute data and run contracts.

70% is allocated to miners, of which 78.6% (about 55% of the total) is allocated to storage mining, which mainly includes block incentives, blockchain maintenance, code operation of participants and subsidies for reliable and available storage. At the same time, it will also be used for the early storage of mining rewards, such as those in the space race, and other possible types of initialization of storage miners, such as faucets.

70% is allocated to miners, of which 2 1.4% (about 15% of the total) is used for mining reserves. The Filecoin ecosystem must ensure that all types of miners have the motivation to support a strong economy. In order to ensure that the network can provide incentives for other types of miners, this part has been reserved as a mining reserve. In the future, the community will decide how to allocate these tokens through FIP or similar decentralized decision-making process.