# Introducing the Filecoin Virtual Machine

<https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/introducing-the-filecoin-virtual-machine/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is a year away still but it is interesting to see additional blockchains adopting Ethereum VM compatibility. 

> Also to be noted is that EVM compatibility is targeted at the bytecode layer, hence preserving the ability to fully leverage the mature Ethereum toolchain in the context of Filecoin, e.g. Truffle, Remix, Hardhat, VSCode plugins, and more. Besides deploying existing smart contracts, developers can write new actors in Solidity to get going quickly, or upgrade to use native actors if they require performance optimization.

For Filecoin, the idea of being able to run code close to the data makes a lot of sense. Or having NFTs where the smart contract, or actor, is on the same blockchain as the assets.

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/introducing-the-filecoin-virtual-machine/