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  1. Networks

Mainnet

Mainnet is the primary Filecoin network. Mainnet began on block 148,888. It supports 32 GiB and 64 GiB sectors.

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Maintainer:

Genesis

  • CAR File: QmavMCf95w2UMYGD1J5GpHcWBWXR2jTFYmtAkgeroMmpk1

  • Reset Timestamp: 2020-08-24T22:00:00Z

  • Genesis Block CID: bafy2bzacecnamqgqmifpluoeldx7zzglxcljo6oja4vrmtj7432rphldpdmm2

  • SHA-1 Digest: 4782cb42b4b01793b5cd9f593cc3dc87b6d3c7b4

Network parameters

  • Supported Sector Sizes: 32 GiB and 64 GiB

  • Consensus Miner Min Power: 10 TiB

  • Epoch Duration Seconds: 30

  • Expected Leaders per Epoch: 5

  • WindowPoSt Proving Period: 2880

  • WindowPoSt Challenge Window: 60

  • WindowPoSt Period Deadlines: 48

  • Pre-Commit Challenge Delay: 150

Bootstrap peers

Bootstrap peers for mainnet can be found at:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/release/[latest release]/build/bootstrap/mainnet.pi

The latest Lotus release can be found at https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/releases/latest/

Resources

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Mainnet RPCs
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Complete Filecoin blockchain archival data
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