The Filecoin ecosystem is discussing Solstice, draft FIP-0118, which could significantly change the network’s reward model. The proposal would remove the Filecoin Plus verified-versus-unverified distinction for new sectors and place new storage onboarding on equal terms for consensus rewards.
Today, Fil+ uses datacap and a verification process intended to direct enhanced rewards toward useful data. The Solstice proposal argues that this process has become operationally heavy and is no longer a consistently strong signal of real demand. Under the proposed model, every new sector would earn consensus rewards in proportion to committed storage without a separate verified tier. Existing sectors would keep their current power and terms.
The second change would programmatically redirect part of block rewards toward Service Orchestrators, a service layer responsible for bringing paying customers, data and commercial usage to storage providers. The proposal points to on-chain payment volume as a more direct demand signal than an administrative verification process.
FIP-0118 remains a draft and is open for community feedback, so Solstice is not yet an adopted token-economics change. Its significance is the direction being considered: moving Filecoin incentives away from verification-heavy classification and toward explicit support for services that generate paid network demand.