Resources

If you are a researcher, miner, developer, investor or just curious, here are some resources to help you get started.


Filecoin is under active development. Follow our progress on Github.
You can currently experiment with Filecoin on our testnet.
Mainnet has not yet launched.

Protocol Design

Filecoin protocol design and ongoing research efforts.

See our open research challenges including the Replication Game, SNARK challenge and VDF FPGA competition.

Specification

Specifies details of the Filecoin protocol. This is currently a work in progress.

Proposals are discussed in the spec repo on Github.

Research

Ongoing research on Filecoin, including Proof-of-Replication, Proof-of-Spacetime and SNARKs.

Join us on Github if you are a specialist in any of these topics!

Mining Filecoin

Filecoin is currently under active development. You can test mining and storing files on our Devnets and join our community.

Mining FAQ

Answers to common questions about Mining.

Filecoin Docs

Install lotus or go-filecoin and connect to one of the Filecoin developer networks, i.e., Devnets.

lotus Network   |   go-filecoin Network

See network stats and top miners on the Devnets.

Development

Earlier this year we open sourced the Filecoin repos on Github. Here are our most active repositories.

lotus

An experimental, lightweight implementation of the Filecoin protocol in Golang. This is a work in progress and not ready for production use.

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go-filecoin

The original full-node reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol in Golang. This is a work in progress and not ready for production use.

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rust-fil-proofs

The Filecoin Proving Subsystem which provides the storage proofs required by the Filecoin protocol, implemented in Rust.

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rust-fil-sector-builder

The interface between the proving subsystem and nodes for sector storage containers used in storage mining.

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For Investors

Investor FAQ

Answers to common questions from Investors.

Filecoin SAFT

If you participated in the Filecoin token sale, this guide will show you how to view your final SAFT.

About Filecoin

Whitepaper

Introduces Filecoin and provides an overview of the protocol.

Filecoin Primer

Prospectus for the Filecoin network and token. Published July 2017.

Videos

Filecoin talks and demos to date, including motivations, protocol overview and research.

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