Blockchain Reference for Filecoin Namespace - Chains

CAIP-2

This document is about the details of the Filecoin network namespace and reference for CAIP-2.

Abstract

In CAIP-2 a general blockchain identification scheme is defined. This is the implementation of CAIP-2 for Filecoin network.

Motivation

See CAIP-2.

Specification

Filecoin Namespace

The namespace “fil” refers to the wider Filecoin ecosystem.

Reference Definition

The reference relies on Filecoin’s current designation of addresses belonging to test or main networks by prefixing them with t or f correspondingly.

Reference could only be populated with f or t symbols.

Rationale

Blockchains in the “filecoin” namespace are Filecoin blockchains, i.e. Filecoin mainnet, Filecoin testnet, and few devnets.

Backwards Compatibility

Not applicable

Test Cases

This is a list of manually composed examples

# Testnet and Devnets
fil:t

# Mainnet
fil:f

References

• Filecoin Specification

Rights

Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.

Citation

Please cite this document as:

Sergey Ukustov, "namespaces/fil-caip2: Blockchain Reference for Filecoin Namespace - Chains [DRAFT]," Chain Agnostic Namespaces, fil-caip2, August 2020 / March 2022. [Online serial]. Available: https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/namespaces/fil-caip2.md