Filecoin: A one-week mainnet launch event will be held from October 19 to October 23

According to Blockbeats, on September 27, Filecoin officially released a blog post to update the project status.

According to official disclosures, Filecoin also uses a phased approach to launch the mainnet, which is to add different groups and communities to the network in phases until the mainnet is launched. So far, at least 85 organizations are collaborating on the Filecoin network - creating applications, developer tools, infrastructure, and more.

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 the written works of human society since ancient times.

Over the next few weeks, various groups in the Filecoin community — including miners, users, custodians, applications, network services, and more — will join the network before the mainnet is launched. This pre-launch period, called Mainnet Ignition , gives network participants time to initialize, learn, set up their systems, and optimize their deployments.

As the countdown to the mainnet launch continues, it does not mean that all work is done. The community still needs to do a lot of preparation to ensure a wonderful launch of the network:

Storage Miners - Continue to add storage to the network during the Ignition phase and prepare operations for mainnet launch as well as stress test storage and retrieval transactions.

Users & Applications - Participate in Slingshot, the team’s ongoing space race to leverage Filecoin’s distributed storage capabilities to provide available, resilient data storage.

· Hosts & Ecosystem Partners - Use this time to onboard operations and stakeholders to the network.

SAFT Holders - Please check CoinList and your chosen custodian's emails for instructions on how to get set up on the network prior to mainnet ignition and during the mainnet transition phase. If you encounter any issues, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

· Implementation Developers - Enhance testing, hardening, and interoperability between different Filecoin implementations, including lotus[PL], forest[ChainSafe], fuhon[Soramitsu], and go-filecoin[元力区].

Officials said that the Filecoin mainnet will be officially launched at epoch 148888, and the official expectation is to reach this epoch around October 15, and then begin 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 week-long Filecoin launch event from October 19 to October 23.