CAIP-23: Blockchain Reference for Filecoin Namespace


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Status: SupersededStandardCreated: 2020-08-26
Authors
Sergey Ukustov (@ukstv)
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Simple Summary


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


Links


Copyright


Copyright and related rights waived via CC0.