Forest 🌲 Roadmap 2023

[lerajk]

This is a living document, Last updated: July 2023

Forest 🌲 Vision

Client diversity - Forest 🌲 is the rust client for the Filecoin network.

Summary

• Forest 🌲 client is in consensus with the latest version of the Filecoin network (the current one being NV21)
• Forest 🌲 maintains the latest snapshots and the entire archival history for a) main network b) Calibration test network

Forest 🌲 Milestones 2023

• Forest Testnet - a test network solely focused on the needs of Forest development. ✅
• Mining Capability - the ability to run Lotus miner on Forest client. 🟡
• Enhanced account management
  • decoupling the wallet from Forest node for enhanced security
  • using external signature for transactions
• Network node statistics - a libP2P crawler to determine Forest’s network share in the Filecoin network.
• Filecoin Archival Node ✅
  • the ability to sync from genesis block
  • archival database layout design and development
  • protocol upgrade transitions
  • use case through a block explorer / APIs
• Node Infrastructure
  • Benchmarking Forest against Lotus 🟡
  • Running permanent Forest nodes ✅
  • Forest performance regressions testing 🟢
• Faucet
  • Build a calibration network faucet [managed by Forest 🌲 node]
• Forest RPC endpoints 🟢
  • host open public RPC end points
  • provide an Infura/Alchemy like service for the Filecoin community

Refer to Forest 🌲 milestones

Other Work Streams

Builtin Actors Maintenance

• ongoing maintenance of the built-in actors repo
• development and maintenance of fil-actor-state interface
• owing up the testing infrastructure
• improvement, follow-up versions, and patch releases of the built-in actors
• audits and follow-up bug fixes

Filecoin Governance (FIPs), network upgrades

• Support FIP governance planning
• Implement network changes on time

ChainSafe and Forest 🌲

• Build Forest 🌲 Website 🟢
• Start Filecoin miner in Berlin

Legend

✅ Completed 🟡 Currently re-evaluating 🟢 Currently working on