February 2025 FIL Implementer Call

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The FIL implementer call notes are public, unpublisized security issues shall not be disclosed in this doc.

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Aync updates

• FIP-0100 actors/ref-fvm work. | - Finish implementation work for F3 and FIP-0100
• Get nv25 train rolling | | Forest | [email protected] | - RPC fixes & benchmarking
• internal refactoring
• backfilling archival snapshots
• F3 params handling

More in the monthly update here | - RPC benchmarking

• NV25 | | ChainSafe Infra | [email protected] | | | | Venus | [email protected] | - Review required for PR 12929 for FIP100. | | | Curio | [email protected] | | | | Elliptic Research | [email protected] | - 2025 Planning | - Coordinate Proofs release timing with Lotus/Orjan | | Filecoin Monitoring & Analysis | [email protected] | | | | Filecoin Spark (Retrieval Check) | [email protected] | | | | FIPs | [email protected] | - FIP0100 still in last Call until 28 Feb | FIP0101 to enter Last Call this week | | FF Security | [email protected] | - Wrapped up 2 weekly IR sync with ecosystem members.
• Reported and fixed a nil pointer deference in go-f3 via continuous testing initiative. (https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-f3/pull/890).
• Slackcident slack bot to track open sevx channels. Will be published on Github once Ken is back from OOO. | - Continuing p2p fuzzing (chain exg, pubsub), and RPC testing in Antithesis.
• Happy to chat if anyone wants to test any particular feature.
• Bug bounty program updates with more clarity for researchers on how and what to test.
• Security blog on fil.org. |

Sync Agenda & Notes

NV25 🚞:

• F3 contract activation integration:
  • Estimates on when implementation is complete?
    • Forest side: PR open and ready to be review - estimated today or tomorrow
      • https://github.com/ChainSafe/forest/issues/5307
    • Venus: Integration estimated to be complete first week of March
    • Done by EOW? Or EOW starting 2025-03-03
    • 🎬 AI: Contract in Calibnet - when will it be ready? Get answer and post in #fil-implementers
    • Calibration net:
      • F3 is already active and running
      • Message format change → Topic has been seperated
        • In the latest go-f3 release (v0.8.2)
      • Some potential downtime during network upgrade as topics is gaining quorum.
• FIP-0100: Mining software removing BB: https://github.com/orgs/filecoin-project/projects/129/views/2?sliceBy[value]=FIP-0100&pane=issue&itemId=97978661
  • Estimates on implementation completeness?
  • Waiting for builtin-actors to be code-complete
    • Estimate completed next week.
  • PR is up, awaiting review.
  • 🎬 Get status update and share in #fil-implementers so implementation teams have a sense of when ref-fvm, builtin-actors, go-state-types, etc. are ready to be consumed.
• FIP-0098: Simplify termination fee calculation to a fixed percentage of initial pledge
  • Hubert has a draft (public draft),
  • Some outstanding comments with regards implementation.
    • A PR outstanding for FIP itself.
      • https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/pull/1128
    • Draft PR: https://github.com/filecoin-project/builtin-actors/pull/1639

New Proofs release:

• Is that out now?
  • Can be released whenever
• Lotus will pick it up post the RC for Calibnet nv25