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Forest

Forest is a high-performance implementation of the Filecoin protocol, developed in Rust to prioritize safety, speed, and resource efficiency. It serves as a critical alternative for RPC API and node operators seeking a robust and modular client to interact with the Filecoin network.

Memory Analysis in Rust

Memory Analysis in Rust

A practical rundown of tools and techniques for tracking down memory use in Rust, drawn from profiling the Forest Filecoin node. From heaptrack and gperftools/pprof to dhat and valgrind, here’s what worked, what didn’t, and how to spot OOM risks.

FRC-0104: Making Filecoin nodes speak the same language

FRC-0104: Making Filecoin nodes speak the same language

FRC-0104: Common Node API, defines a standard API for Filecoin nodes using OpenRPC. It streamlines core methods across clients like Lotus and Forest, reducing guesswork and improving compatibility. With clear schemas and conformance testing, apps target one spec and work across compliant clients.

What Does Immutability Mean to Filecoin?

What Does Immutability Mean to Filecoin?

Immutability was never just technical. From stone tablets to CIDs, we’ve always tried to make memory last. In blockchains, it’s a core tenet, data sealed by consensus. In Filecoin, it's a web of incentives, proofs, and people choosing not to forget.

Into the Forest 🌲

Into the Forest 🌲

Authored by Lee Raj Since our last update, we've covered a lot of ground—from a powerful snapshot process, a fully functional Filecoin wallet (beta), and our new Forest CLI functionalities - we have some exciting developments to share! If you're just catching up, Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of

Glow of the Canopy #3: Sprucing Up

Glow of the Canopy #3: Sprucing Up

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our progress from Q3 2022 Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such,

Glow of the Canopy #2 🌱: Launching Forest into the Skyr 🌲

Glow of the Canopy #2 🌱: Launching Forest into the Skyr 🌲

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our progress from Q2 2022 Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such,

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

Glow of the Canopy #1 🌱: Nourishing the Filecoin Virtual Machine with help from Forest 🌲

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho An update from the Forest team on our latest progress Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such, a Rust

ChainSafe launches Forest, the Rust Filecoin Client

ChainSafe launches Forest, the Rust Filecoin Client

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho Announcing the alpha release of the Filecoin Rust node implementation Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol, an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. As such, a Rust

Forest Growth

Authored by Ben Adar An update from the last month of work on Forest Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer

Back Into The Forest

Back Into The Forest

Authored by Ben Adar The latest from ChainSafe's Filecoin implementation in Rust Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer by former

A walk into the Forest

A walk into the Forest

Authored by Timothy Hao Chi Ho The latest from ChainSafe's Filecoin implementation in Rust Forest is ChainSafe's Rust implementation of the Filecoin protocol. Rust provides a foundation for building blockchains with memory safety and performance as a priority. Filecoin is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized storage network. Check out this primer

Forest Update

Authored by Ben Adar Forest Update A lot has been accomplished since we began this project nine months ago. The team is making great progress towards having a complete Filecoin node implementation written in Rust. During the first six months, the majority of our effort went towards building the Virtual

Announcing Forest: ChainSafe’s Implementation of Filecoin in Rust

Announcing Forest: ChainSafe’s Implementation of Filecoin in Rust

Authored by Amer Ameen ChainSafe is excited to announce that we were awarded a grant by Protocol Labs to build an additional implementation of Filecoin in Rust. We are thrilled to be contributing to the Filecoin ecosystem and grateful to be working so closely with Protocol Labs! What is Filecoin?