Decentralized storage cryptocurrencies

Chains whose consensus rewards providers who reserve and prove storage rather than compute or stake. Filecoin, Arweave and Sia issue payment against durable retention, not blockspace alone.

Chains counted
6
Combined market cap
$1.6B
Snapshot
24 September 2026
#AssetConsensusMarket cap
32 FilecoinFIL PoRep + PoSt (Expected Consensus) $773M
40 Bitcoin SVBSV SHA-256 $446M
46 ArweaveAR SPoRA (proof of access) $286M
83 SiacoinSC Blake2B $48M
194 SignumSIGNA Proof of Commitment (PoC+) $2M
221 ScPrimeSCP Blake2b (Sia-derived, Proof of Storage) $780,770

Methodology — the rules under which each chain's purpose was decided. Assets that don't fit one of the categories are left unclassified rather than filed under a guess.