A curated list of useful resources for Filecoin

Contents

• Documentation
• Nodes
• Libraries and tools
• Filecoin explorers
• Apps
• Wallets
• Filecoin Virtual Machine
  • Tutorials
  • Libraries and tools
  • Documentation
  • Other resources
• Resources
  • Articles
  • Videos
  • Other resources

📄 Documentation

• Filecoin website - Official Filecoin website
• What is Filecoin - Official Filecoin intro
• Filecoin Spec - Filecoin specification
• FIPs - Filecoin Improvement Proposals
• Networks - Available Filecoin networks
• Network Upgrades - Network upgrades (FIPs included, bugfixes, improvements)

🌐 Nodes

• 🪷 Lotus - Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go

  • Lotus docs - Lotus node website, tutorials, knowledge base

• 🌲Forest - Implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Rust

• 🪐 Venus - Implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go

🧰 Libraries and Tools

• Filecoin status - Filecoin (mainnet, calibnet, butterfly-snapnet) status page
• built-in actors - On-chain built-in actors code
• FilSnap - MetaMask snap for interacting with Filecoin dapps
• Lily - A wrapped Lotus node designed specifically for indexing the Filecoin blockchain.
• Lotus Docker images

🧭 Filecoin explorers

• Filfox
• Beryx Explorer
• Starboard FVM explorer
• Filscan
• dev.storage explorer
• Glif Explorer

Apps 📱

• Station

👛 Wallets

• Brave Wallet
• GLIF Wallet

FVM(Filecoin Virtual Machine)

📢 FVM cheatsheet - for builders/devs to get started building on FVM.

📄 Introduction

• FVM Docs
• What is FEVM - Ethereum-compatible FVM.
• Quickstart with Remix - Tutorial on deploying your first FEVM actor.

🏫 FVM starter kits

• FEVM Hardhat Kit - A starter hardhat project for developing, deploying, and testing Solidity smart contracts on the FEVM.
• FEVM Foundry Kit - A starter foundry project for developing, deploying, and testing Solidity smart contracts on the FEVM.
• FVM Deal Making starter kit - use the client contract here to make a deal proposal directly with the Storage Provider for data >4GB.
• DataDao starter kit - quickly spin up a DataDAO using client contract & OpenZepplin's Dao contracts.

🧰 FVM Libraries and Tools

• Filecoin.solidity - Solidity library for FEVM development to call methods on system/built-in actors on Filecoin.
• ref-fvm - Reference Filecoin VM implementation
• fvm-rs-sdk - FVM Rust SDK for building actors
• FVM AssemblyScript SDK
• FVM Go SDK

🦝 FVM Other resources

• FVM Conceptual Overview
• FVM resources list from Protocol Labs
• EVM to FVM Address Management (F4 Addressing)
• FEVM Technical Overview presentation

Resources

📰 Articles

• How storage and retrieval deals work on Filecoin

📹 Videos

• Filecoin Foundation YouTube channel - Talks from Filecoin conferences/events
• Filecoin Project YouTube channel - Talks/recordings from the Filecoin ecosystem
• How Filecoin Actors Work - Deep dive into the actors by zenground0
• The EVM-compatibility of FVM aka FEVM

🦝 Other resources

• Launchpad Curriculum - PL Launchpad bootcamp resources