Lighthouse is a permanent decentralized storage protocol and developer platform built on IPFS and Filecoin, co-founded by Nandit Mehra and Ravish Sharma. Lighthouse's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #48,517 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Lighthouse was co-founded in 2021 and raised $1 million from investors including Protocol Labs, LongHash Ventures, NGC Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, and Balaji Srinivasan. Its core mechanism uses a smart-contract-based endowment pool to fund recurring Filecoin storage-provider deals, enabling files to remain stored permanently without requiring users to renew manually.
Lighthouse provides developers with an SDK and smart contracts for storing data through IPFS and Filecoin, with built-in replication, renewal, and repair services. The platform supports encrypted storage and token-gated access across EVM-compatible chains and Solana, and its documentation also covers Walrus storage on Sui and database-backup tooling. A whitepaper outlines a $HOUSE token and a perpetual-storage model for token emissions. The SDK is actively maintained, with a recent npm release published shortly before this writing.
Lighthouse is affiliated with Ocean Protocol, having integrated with its Decentralized Backend Storage to provide a pathway from the Ocean ecosystem into Filecoin storage. Additional affiliations include SingularityNET, Aethir Cloud, StackOS, and Destra Network. Lighthouse published a monthly update in June 2026, reflecting continued development activity. With 24,159 followers as of August 2026 and 3,632 posts, the account has been mentioned by 78 accounts a total of 440 times.
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The accounts that follow Lighthouse include 82 founders, 22 angel investors, 28 influencers and 9 VCs, among them Sreeram Kannan, Matthew Graham, Cuy Sheffield, Vinny Lingham, OhhShiny and Marc Weinstein.