The collaboration enables Flow users to mint NFTs, leverage InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) content addressing and store tokens in the decentralized storage hosted by Filecoin.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/flow-integrates-filecoin-storage-services-to-make-nfts-more-decentralized According to Filecoin, IPFS content addressing is a solution to location addressing, which retrieves online information from specific locations on the web, such as from behind URLs. Filecoin asserts that this method has “obvious downsides” as the data relies on the centralized entities who own the locations and can “control the content.” “In content-based addressing, content is no longer retrieved from single locations on the web. Rather, content is retrieved from any participating nodes on the IPFS network that have the content you’re requesting,” Filecoin outlined.
