Forest is an implementation of Filecoin written in Rust. The implementation will take a modular approach to building a full Filecoin node in Rust from the Filecoin Protocol Specification, specifically the virtual machine, blockchain, and node system.
Our crates:
component | description/crates |
---|---|
forest |
the command-line interface and daemon (1 crate/workspace) |
node |
the networking stack and storage (7 crates) |
blockchain |
the chain structure and synchronization (8 crates) |
vm |
state transition and actors, messages, addresses (9 crates) |
key_management |
Filecoin account management (1 crate) |
crypto |
cryptographic functions, signatures, and verification (1 crate) |
encoding |
serialization library for encoding and decoding (1 crate) |
ipld |
the IPLD model for content-addressable data (9 crates) |
types |
the forest types (2 crates) |
utils |
the forest toolbox (12 crates) |
No need to install Rust toolchain or other dependencies, you will need only Docker.
β― docker run --init -it ghcr.io/chainsafe/forest:latest --help
Follow other instructions for proper forest
usage. You may need to mount a volume to import a snapshot, e.g.
β― docker run --init -it -v $HOME/Downloads:/downloads ghcr.io/chainsafe/forest:latest --import-snapshot /downloads/minimal_finality_stateroots_latest.car
Use dockerized Forest with host database:
β― docker run --init -it -v $HOME/.forest:/root/.forest --rm ghcr.io/chainsafe/forest:latest --target-peer-count 50 --encrypt-keystore false
- Rust
rustc >= 1.58.1
- Rust WASM target
wasm32-unknown-unknown
rustup install nightly
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
- OS Base-Devel/Build-Essential
- Clang compiler
- OpenCL bindings
# Ubuntu
sudo apt install build-essential clang ocl-icd-opencl-dev libssl-dev
# Archlinux
sudo pacman -S base-devel clang ocl-icd openssl
# Fedora (36)
sudo dnf install -y clang-devel ocl-icd-devel cmake
# Clone repository
git clone --recursive https://github.com/chainsafe/forest
cd forest
# Install binary to $HOME/.cargo/bin and run node
make install
forest
To create release binaries, checkout the latest tag and compile with the release feature.
git checkout $TAG
cargo build --release --bin forest --features release
Run the node with custom config and bootnodes
forest --config /path/to/your_config.toml
Example of config options available:
data_dir = "<directory for all chain and networking data>"
genesis_file = "<relative file path of genesis car file>"
[network]
listening_multiaddr = "<multiaddress>"
bootstrap_peers = ["<multiaddress>"]
Example of a multiaddress: "/ip4/54.186.82.90/tcp/1347/p2p/12D3K1oWKNF7vNFEhnvB45E9mw2B5z6t419W3ziZPLdUDVnLLKGs"
Forest will look for config files in the following order and priority:
- Paths passed to the command line via the
--config
flag. - The environment variable
FOREST_CONFIG_PATH
, if no config was passed through command line arguments. - If none of the above are found, Forest will look in the systems default configuration directory (
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME
on Linux systems). - After all locations are exhausted and a config file is not found, a default configuration is assumed and used.
The Forest logger uses Rust's log filtering options with the RUST_LOG
environment variable.
For example:
RUST_LOG="debug,forest_libp2p::service=info" forest
Will show all debug logs by default, but the forest_libp2p::service
logs will be limited to info
# To run base tests
cargo test # use `make test-release` for longer compilation but faster execution
# To pull serialization vectors submodule and run serialization tests
make test-vectors
# To run all tests and all features enabled
make test-all
Select the builtin calibnet configuration with the --chain
option:
# Run and import past the state migrations to latest network version
./target/release/forest --chain calibnet --import-snapshot snapshot.car
Importing the snapshot only needs to happen during the first run. Following this, to restart the daemon run:
./target/release/forest --chain calibnet
When the Forest daemon is started, an admin token will be displayed. You will need this for commands that require a higher level of authorization (like a password). Forest, as mentioned above, uses multiaddresses for networking. This is no different in the CLI. To set the host and the port to use, if not using the default port or using a remote host, set the FULLNODE_API_INFO
environment variable. This is also where you can set a token for authentication.
FULLNODE_API_INFO="<token goes here>:/ip4/<host>/tcp/<port>/http
Note that if a token is not present in the FULLNODE_API_INFO env variable, the colon is removed.
Forest developers will prepend this variable to CLI commands over using export
on Linux or its equivalant on Windows. This will look like the following:
FULLNODE_API_INFO="..." forest auth api-info -p admin
Work in progress.
- Check out our contribution guidelines: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Have questions? Say hi on Discord!
We take all security issues seriously, if you believe you have found a security issue within a ChainSafe project please notify us immediately. If an issue is confirmed, we will take all necessary precautions to ensure a statement and patch release is made in a timely manner.
Please email a description of the flaw and any related information (e.g. reproduction steps, version) to security at chainsafe dot io.
Forest is dual licensed under MIT + Apache 2.0.