Filecoin Powers Bermuda Government Data Initiative

• Bermuda and the Filecoin Foundation began storing the country’s public datasets on Filecoin, with labour publications uploaded first.
• Internet Archive supports the work via Democracy’s Library, and over 1 petabyte of public materials is already on the network.

The Government of Bermuda and the Filecoin Foundation have announced a joint initiative to place publicly available government datasets on Filecoin, a decentralized storage network. The effort is being led by the country’s Ministry for the Cabinet Office and Digital Innovation and was announced in Davos, Switzerland.

Notably, the project will increase the resilience, transparency, and verifiability of public records by storing them across a decentralized network of independent storage providers. Public datasets are being prepared for long-term availability so that citizens and researchers can retrieve files and confirm their integrity.

Bermuda’s initial uploads include employment and labour publications that track trends in the local labour market. The government said additional datasets are planned for later phases as more public materials are prepared for storage on the network.

This partnership with Bermuda comes just weeks after Filecoin ranked second in Santiment’s top 10 list for 30-day developer activity, only behind MetaMask. CNF noted that Filecoin logged 343.6 GitHub commits over the period, ahead of StarkNet at 259.13.

Filecoin: Public Records Preservation Through Democracy’s Library

The Bermuda uploads are being carried out with the Internet Archive through Democracy’s Library, an online collection that provides access to government documents, research, and publications from multiple jurisdictions. The Filecoin Foundation and the Internet Archive previously collaborated on the preservation of public datasets under the same program.

More than one petabyte of government materials has already been stored on Filecoin through related work, according to the announcement. Examples cited include the End of Term Web Archive, which preserves U.S. government websites during administration transitions, and the Aruba Collection, which includes over 100,000 items from Aruba’s memory institutions, such as the National Library and National Archives.

Premier and Minister of Finance E. David Burt said the collaboration will strengthen the durability of public records while allowing verification of data integrity by Bermuda’s residents and other users.

The Foundation’s President and Chair Marta Belcher added: 

The announcement listed features associated with the model, including replication across providers to reduce outage risk and the use of cryptographic content identifiers that change if a file is altered, enabling detection of tampering. Officials said files can be retrieved and independently verified, supporting transparent access and preservation for public archives.

Bermuda also linked the initiative to its broader digital policy, noting that since 2018, it has maintained a regulatory framework for digital asset activity through the Digital Asset Business Act and the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s principles-based approach.

Additionally, CNF recently reported that Filecoin topped Santiment’s crypto AI and big data development rankings with a score of 348.03. It ranked ahead of Chainlink and Internet Computer, based on filtered GitHub events.

At press time, FIL was trading at $1.28, up 2% in 24 hours, while its trading volume rose 22% to about $92.52 million in the same period.