It is officially announced that the FIL (Filecoin) mainnet will go live around October 15, 2020. Filecoin mainnet will officially open at block 148888 and is expected to reach this block around October 15.

The first round of the Filecoin space race ended with the global computing power exceeding 218 petabytes and the storage success rate increasing to 78%.

FIL official Blog announces the launch of the second space race.

The Filecoin Space Race is officially underway as miners around the world compete for global and regional prizes totaling 4 million tokens.

Filecoin announced that it is extending the launch date of its beta network incentive program from July 20 to August 3 (for a period of three weeks). In addition, the main network launch window will be pushed back to August 31 to September 21.

Filecoin will launch on time as long as I don't die from the coronavirus.

Beta network phase 3 is open.

Beta network phase 2 is open.

Beta Network phase one is open.

Implement Filecoin's first alternate network, Lotus.

Update Filecoin2019 Q2 & Q3 to announce the estimated time of mainnet launch.

Start test network phase 2. The launch of the second phase of the Test network heralded the Filecoin code freeze and the final code security audit and stability testing phase.

The Filecoin test network has been running for four months, and it has achieved a maximum of 5 petabytes of computing power.

First Filecoin mining online video conference.

Filecoin code is open source.

Implement the first Filecoin protocol: Go-Filecoin.

FIL presales closed, raising $205 million (19:00 UTC), a record for the year's ICO fundraising.

The IPFS project team announced the creation of Filecoin.

Juan Benet founded Protocol Labs to focus on IPFS and joined prestigious startup incubator Y Combinator.

Juan Benet of Stanford University has published a draft white paper describing the idea of a "peer-to-peer distributed file system", the earliest form of the IPFS protocol.