F3 will activate at epoch 4920480, officially launching on the mainnet on Tuesday, April 29, 2025! At that time, Filecoin's speed will increase by 100 times! We look forward to all Filecoin L2s, bridges, exchanges, and users enjoying fast final confirmation speeds! Rapid finality (FIP0086: Rapid Finality in Filecoin (F3)) is one of the most transformative upgrades to the Filecoin consensus layer since the launch of the autonomous network. After nearly two years of in-depth research and development, F3 is now nearly ready for mainnet deployment, promising groundbreaking improvements for the entire ecosystem! By reducing the finality time from 900 epochs to about 2, F3 introduces substantial benefits: • Faster transaction confirmation: Token holders and Dapp users will see transactions completed in minutes instead of hours. • Enhanced cross-chain experience: Oracles and cross-chain bridges will complete transactions and state changes more quickly. Imagine a future where Dapps can seamlessly publish storage transactions from other chains to Filecoin and receive confirmation within minutes after the data has been successfully stored on Filecoin!
• More efficient light clients: Node operators such as RPC providers and storage providers can use lightweight resource clients, improving accessibility. • Simplified onboarding process for storage providers: F3 simplifies the onboarding training for provider storage without the need for additional hardware or operational changes. SP clients like Lotus Miner, Venus, or Curio, or storage providers participating in the Ramo network can significantly enhance their onboarding efficiency. By reducing the publication storage transaction time by more than 2 minutes through rapid finality, providers can achieve a faster data loading pipeline and offer improved SLA performance to their customers.
