Building the On-Chain Future
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Arbitrum: froze $71M this week.
Me: freezing outside a parking garage, having just discovered its closing time the hard way.
Different scale. Same lesson about reading the fine print.
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Benchmarks, Forest vs Lotus: notion.so/chainsafe/Forest-C…
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How do we measure Forest against Lotus?
In this video I demonstrate how we benchmark #Filecoin nodes using our Filecoin Benchmark Suite. I’ll explain the setup, resource monitoring with Grafana, and how to generate performance reports.
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While we're talking about recent benchmark numbers, it's worth noting that @getblockio had already integrated ChainSafe’s Forest @Filecoin client into their RPC infrastructure long before that.
They moved to a Rust-based stack early to lock in better performance and long-term stability for their users.
Proud to see top-tier providers hardening their stack with Forest. 🤝
Trusting RPC behaviour without measurements is pure optimism.
In December, we published a Forest report with conformance results and RPC benchmarks compared to Lotus.
I wanted to add some engineering context to explain our approach to this.
Most RPC problems don’t show up as failures.
They show up later as drift you wish you had noticed earlier.
That’s why we continuously compare Forest RPC behaviour against Lotus:
Drift gets detected early instead of leaking into production.
Benchmarks are what make side-by-side comparisons trustworthy.
We benchmark and validate RPCs side by side with Lotus, on the same hardware and configuration, publishing raw latency numbers.
This is the kind of data I personally trust when evaluating RPC infra: reproducible results I can inspect and reason with myself.
Next iterations will add resource consumption data to make infrastructure costs visible.
Full report ↓
chainsafe.notion.site/Forest…
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My ultimate goal with @ChainSafeth is to make @Filecoin an ecosystem that actually makes economic sense to build apps on. The value of Filecoin is there, we just need a better user experience to bring these values to the world!
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This Month in Forest – September Edition is live! 🌲
Highlights include NV27 upgrade support with two major releases (Eärendil & Laurelin), the launch of v2 snapshots containing F3 data, the new F3 light client, and multiple tooling improvements and RPC enhancements. Check it out!
github.com/ChainSafe/forest/…
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This Month in Forest – August Edition is live! 🌳
Highlights include full F3 support, a deep dive into memory analysis in Rust, experimental StateMarketDeals methods delivering up to 10x performance gains, plus a range of other exciting updates. Check it out!
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I like where @Filecoin is going with Onchain Cloud. It’s taking us from "your data is securely stored" to "your data can be live, accessible, and part of a service you control on-chain."
🚀 The Filecoin Services Alpha Cohort has lifted off!
In our kickoff, @momack28 walked us through the vision for the Filecoin Onchain Cloud, delivering storage services with ONCHAIN ownership, verifiability, and programmability.
Here’s some interesting updates and what's coming next:
✅ Q2’25: First-ever Filecoin Warm Storage prototype - SLA-backed by Proof of Data Possession + @FilecoinCDN Retrieval Gateway.
💳 Q2’25: Filecoin Pay + Synapse SDK → Trustless, SLA-native payments & seamless access for builders.
🛠 Q3’25: Mainnet hardening, dApp integrations, dashboards, explorers & more.
📌 Q3’25: Filecoin Pin - Pin & preserve your IPFS content long-term.
🌎 Q4’25: Onchain Cloud Liftoff @EFDevcon Argentina!
@Filecoin Onchain Cloud is more than storage, it’s a framework to aggregate global resources, enable resale, and power the next wave of decentralized services.
The future of Web3 storage is being built now and we’re just getting started.
This week I released filecoin-requests-builder - a tool that generates real JSON-RPC request payloads from the current @Filecoin chain state.
Useful for benchmarks, tests, and keeping docs accurate.
Built it because I needed it. Maybe you do too. 🧵
👉 github.com/ChainSafe/filecoi…
Big news for the @Filecoin network
FRC-0104: The Common Node API, was approved!
This is a huge step toward stronger interoperability between clients like Forest and @lotus_web3
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blog.chainsafe.io/frc-0104-f…
My networking manager Bali and I are attending Protocol Berg during Berlin Blockchain Weeks. I’m genuinely impressed by the quality of the event - strong speakers, important topics, and a great crowd. If you’re around, let’s connect!
#BerlinBlockchainWeeks #ProtocolBerg
Excited to be speaking at the virtual track of FIL Dev Summit 6!
Join me on April 28 for “Tools & Builders: Supercharging Innovation in the Filecoin Ecosystem.”
We’ll talk about RPC benchmarking, performance optimization - and even meet Leshy, the spirit of the Forest!
🗓️ Full schedule: fildev.io/FDS-6
#FDS6 #Filecoin #FILDevSummit
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