According to Filecoin official news, the Filecoin mainnet will be officially launched at epoch 148888. It is expected that this epoch will be reached around October 15th, and then a period of monitoring and problem solving will be started to ensure the normal operation of the network after the transition (in line with expectations). In addition, a week-long Filecoin launch event will be held from October 19th to October 23rd.
In the past month, the entire Filecoin ecosystem was completely focused on the space race. During the entire space race, more than 500 miners landed more than 325 PiB of storage in Orbital Burn, and 265 user applications were performed in Slingshot. More than 40,000 storage and retrieval transactions, and a comprehensive test of the network's functionality, security and resilience. 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, instead of setting up from scratch (this will lose all storage capacity).
Filecoin stated that it will use a segmented approach to launch the mainnet, adding different groups and communities to the network in a period of time until the mainnet is launched. Various groups in the Filecoin community-including miners, users, custodians, applications, network services, etc., will join the network before the main network is launched. Of course, various groups still need to make a lot of preparations to ensure that the network is launched.
Storage miners-continue to add storage to the network during the ignition phase, prepare for operation for the mainnet launch, and perform stress testing on storage and retrieval transactions.
Users & Applications-Participate in our ongoing space race-Slingshot, the purpose is to use Filecoin's distributed storage capabilities to provide usable and resilient data storage.
Custodian & Eco-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.
Implementation plan developers-Strengthen the testing, enhancement and interoperability between different implementations of Filecoin, including lotus[PL], forest[ChainSafe], fuhon[Soramitsu] and go-filecoin[The Force Zone].
In addition, Filecoin said that the mainnet ignition phase is an opportunity for the Filecoin community to participate in network improvements and make decisions. Storage miners, community leaders, developers, users and ecological partners can participate in the enhancement of the network through the open Filecoin Improvement Process, and upgrade through cross-discussion on the implementation plan of the core development meeting held every two weeks, as well as through inter-miners Consensus approves new changes.
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