v0.1

This is an alpha release featuring end to end retrieval market capabilities including content routing, replication and transfer.

Base features:

• Free and paid data transfers.
• Gossipsub based content routing using recursive message forwarding to send responses.
• Publish records to a remote index if an optional url is provided.
• Light wallet interface to interact with the local keystore and send messages to a remote lotus node RPC in order to transfer funds in and out of the node's wallet.
• Access a key in the local keystore to sign a new payment channel message.
• Send chain messages to a remote lotus node RPC.
• Manage the lifecycle of payment channels, store vouchers locally.
• Retrieve content from a Filecoin storage provider.
• Maintain a log of all request to rank content by usage frequency
• Ability to sync provided blocks from a nearby peer when joining the network for the first time.
• Dispatch new content to cache providers given a replication factor.
• Decision mechanism for deciding whether to store an incoming block or not. (accept all by default)
• Priority cue to garbage collect least frequently used content.
• Set different strategy levels for selecting providers including:
  • First response with given price ceiling.
  • Cheapest price in given time period.
• Import content from CAR file.
• HTTP gateway for posting and getting content.
• TLS certificate generation via Certmagic to enable secure websocket transport with browser clients.
• Observability and benchmarks for retrieval operations.
• Testground plans to test the network at different scales.