Founded in early 2017, Upfiring was established to create an alternative to traditional P2P file-sharing protocols by incentivizing seeders through the use of a tokenized file-sharing economy. How does Upfiring incentivize seeders? Traditional P2P file-sharing and networks offer no incentives for seeders, resulting in frequent issues such as low file availability and slow downloading speeds. Upfiring aims to address this by incentivizing seeding, which creates a healthier file-sharing network. Content creators and seeders are rewarded directly for sharing content without any third-party intermediaries.

Upfiring's first usable dapp prototype launched on mainnet in December 2018, with the full application launching on 5 February 2019. The dapp is cross-platform and available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It allows users to generate encrypted .ufr files with embedded price data and seed them on the Upfiring network. Users earn UFR tokens in exchange for seeding and keeping files online. Seeder smart contracts deployed to the Ethereum network mediate the movement of files across the network, maintain seeder UFR balances, and allow for the decryption of files when warranted.

Upfiring primarily targets content creators by enabling them to promote their content directly to users without relying on any third-party intermediaries. UFR tokens are used within the dapp to unlock encrypted content. The dapp can be downloaded from https://www.upfiring.com, and the corresponding documentation can be found at https://www.upfiring.com/documentation.html