In the past few months, the Filecoin network has created wonderful progress:
1. Core protocol functions . In August, we completed the second phase of the main network and Cloudflare prove credible and configuration of Ethernet Square and other partners launched together drand main network, published an article on Filecoin encryption depth interpretation of economic and deliver a full-featured, can be used Filecoin launched on the mainnet implements lotus 0.5.0, which not only supports storage and mining, but also supports storage and retrieval of transactions.
2. Ecological development . At least 85 organizations are currently collaborating on the Filecoin network-creating applications, developer tools, infrastructure, and more. The Filecoin Ignite Project hackathon series of events and accelerators attracted thousands of community members to participate in learning, building and launching their projects on the Filecoin network. Activities include HackFS Hackathon (https://hackfs.com/) (hosted by EthGlobal), Spark University Hackathon (https://filecoin.io/blog/spark-challenge-two/) (by En[code] Club Host), Apollo (https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/filecoin/onboard) (hosted by Gitcoin), and Filecoin Launchpad (https://labs.consensys.net/tachyon/) (hosted by Tachyon) — jointly at More than 230 new projects and more than 1,000 talented developers have been cultivated on Filecoin.
3. Store users . As part of the space race: Slingshot (https://slingshot.filecoin.io/), many storage users have already landed on the Filecoin network—including users like Slate (https://slate.host/), allowing its users And applications to store and retrieve files. These users are based on the Filecoin developer API and Fleek's Storage Daemon (https://blog.fleek.co/posts/daemon-release ) and Textile's Power gate (https://docs.textile.io/power gate /) And Pinata's upcoming Filecoin retrieval service (https://docs.filecoin.io/build/filecoin-pinning-services/) supported by IPFS.
4. Storage miners . In the past four weeks, more than 400 miners from 34 countries and regions across six continents uploaded 325+PiB of storage capacity to the Filecoin network. This is enough to hold 90 million 1080p movies, more than 1,400 copies of Wikipedia, or 7 times all written works of human society since ancient times. This is indeed an extraordinary achievement. Never in the history of the Internet has a community that can coordinate such a large storage capacity in a trustless distributed storage network.
Transition to main network ignition
Today, when we enter the ignition phase of the mainnet and are ready for the launch of the Filecoin mainnet, we are very happy to share with you the phase and timetable of the Filecoin launch. Starting a blockchain is a complex and long process, like many other networks (such as Polkadot (https://polkadot.network/launch-roadmap/), NEAR (https://near.org/blog/mainnet-roadmap/) ) Etc.) Similarly, Filecoin uses a segmented method to start the main network, adding different groups and communities to the network in a period of time until the main network is launched.
In the next few weeks, various groups in the Filecoin community-including miners, users, custodians, applications, network services, etc., will join the network before the mainnet is launched. This pre-launch phase is called the main network ignition phase, which allows network participants time to initialize, learn, set up their systems and optimize their deployment. We are all counting down the mainnet launch, but this does not mean that all work has been completed. We still need to do a lot of preparations to ensure that the network achieves a wonderful start:
Storage miners -continue to add storage to the network during the ignition phase, prepare for operation for the mainnet startup, and perform stress testing on storage and retrieval transactions.
Users & Applications -Participate in our ongoing space race-Slingshot (https://slingshot.filecoin.io/), the purpose is to use Filecoin's distributed storage capabilities to provide usable and flexible data storage.
Custodian & Ecological Partner -Use this time to connect operations and stakeholders to the network.
SAFT holders -please check the CoinList and the email of the custodian of your choice to learn how to set up on the network before the mainnet ignition and the transition phase of the mainnet. If you encounter any problems, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
Implementation plan developers -Strengthen the testing, enhancement and interoperability between different implementations of Filecoin, including lotus (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus) [PL], forest (https://github. com/ChainSafe/forest) [ChainSafe], fuhon (https://github.com/filecoin-project/cpp-filecoin) [Soramitsu] and go-filecoin (https://github.com/filecoin-project/go- filecoin) [The Force Zone].
The main network ignition phase is also a good time to consolidate the Filecoin community’s participation in network improvement and decision-making. Storage miners, community leaders, developers, users and ecological partners can all participate in the enhancement of the network through the open Filecoin Improvement Process (https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs), and through the core The implementation plan of the development conference (https://github.com/filecoin-project/tpm) was cross-discussed for upgrading, and new changes were approved through the consensus between miners (https://spec.filecoin.io/#algorithms__expected_consensus). Filecoin has complete functions, but we hope that the community can continue to develop and improve the Filecoin network through continuous software updates after the mainnet launch.
Transition to mainnet
In the past month, the entire Filecoin ecosystem has completely focused on the space race-our multi-track testnet reward competition. This is the key stage for the Filecoin project to adjust and upgrade the network to prepare for the launch of the mainnet-the entire ecosystem has accumulated valuable knowledge and operating experience through large-scale real-time stress testing. In the entire space race, more than 500 miners landed more than 325 PiB of storage in Orbital Burn (https://stats.testnet.filecoin.io/), of which 265 user applications were in Slingshot (https:// slingshot.filecoin.io/) has carried out more than 40,000 storage and retrieval transactions, and jointly conducted a comprehensive test on the function, security and resilience of the network.
We are very happy to be able to launch the Filecoin network based on the solid foundation of the space race. Everyone has invested a lot of work (manpower and machines!) to increase storage capacity to make the Filecoin network safer and more distributed. Early miners invested a lot of money to find vulnerabilities, accumulate operational knowledge, and lay the foundation for the network to invest a lot of packaging and storage hardware. The space race test network will continue to operate and will gradually enter the main network through protocol upgrades and state transitions in the next 3 weeks, rather than setting up from scratch (this will lose all storage capacity). After the mainnet is launched, we still need to make some improvements and state transitions, but we will build it in the chain upgrade instead of a hard reset. If you are a miner and want to join the Filecoin network, the second round of space race: Orbital Burn (https://filecoin.io/blog/space-race-2/) is the best way for you to start now!
Mainnet start countdown
The culmination of all our efforts is coming. The Filecoin mainnet will be officially launched at epoch 148888! We expect to arrive at this epoch around October 15th, and then we will start a period of monitoring and problem solving to ensure the normal operation of the network after the transition (in line with expectations). In a few days, we will hold the Filecoin mainnet launch: a one-week launch event from October 19th to October 23rd .
From cutting-edge cryptographic research to complex protocol design and development discussions, to many sleepless nights during the debugging of real-time networks during the space race-we have jointly created amazing results in the past 3 years. Starting a blockchain is like launching a software rocket, requiring the entire interstellar community to work together to achieve this goal. Thank you for participating in this epic journey!
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thx for the article - do i as an end user need the tokens? Or just the miners/storage providers?