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There's no direct relationship between the two currently. They share a lot of underlying technology but Filecoin doesn't directly incentivize IPFS, and IPFS itself isn't directly used by Filecoin either.

The basic reason why is because the protocol to request a file from Filecoin is a lot more complicated than simply fetching a URL, so IPFS can't simply sit atop, at least not without other changes.



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