Rust implementation of the Filecoin Protocol
Run Forest to access Filecoin, the decentralized storage network.
With Forest, you can...
Validate the Filecoin blockchain
Gain access to Filecoin chain data
Generate blockchain snapshots
Send and receive FIL with a built-in wallet
All this is available with minimal hardware.
The Forest beta awaits testers
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Requirements to run a Filecoin node on the mainnet:
Forest (minimal)
2-core
CPU
8 GiB
RAM
128 GiB
SSD
none
GPU
Forest (recommended)
4-core
CPU
16 GiB
RAM
512 GiB (NVMe)
SSD
none
GPU
Lotus (minimal)
8-core
CPU
32 GiB
RAM
512 GiB (NVMe)
SSD
none
GPU
Lotus (storage miner)
8-core
CPU
256 GiB
RAM
2 TiB (NVMe)
SSD
Nvidia (11GiB VRAM)
GPU
Forest comes with different command-line binaries.
forest
The Forest daemon to connect to the Filecoin network and synchronize the latest tipset of the blockchain.
forest-cli
The Forest command-line interface to interact with the daemon, querying the Filecoin blockchain, network, and state.
forest-tool
A set of utilities to manage databases, snapshots, and state migrations.
forest-wallet