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DISCOVER WHAT'S
OUT THERE WITH IPFS

IPFS IS AN OPEN SYSTEM TO MANAGE DATA WITHOUT A CENTRAL SERVER


A UNIVERSE OF USES


IPFS'S VERSATILITY SHINES ACROSS DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES – MAKING IT THE
MULTI-PURPOSE TOOL FOR THE DECENTRALIZED AGE.


 1.  DEVELOP OFFLINE-NATIVE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
     
     Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build
     personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others
     
     Read how they do it


 2.  MAKE ARCHIVES AND CONTENT LIBRARIES CENSORSHIP RESISTANT
     
     When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the
     site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people
     
     Read the story


 3.  SPEED UP GAMEPLAY FOR YOUR SUPERFANS
     
     3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of
     a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes
     
     Read the their story


 4.  GUARANTEE A PERMANENT HOME FOR YOUR DIGITAL ART
     
     Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art
     assets using IPFS through NFT.storage
     
     Watch her presentation


 5.  PUBLISH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT INVITES GLOBAL COLLABORATION
     
     WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client
     functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the
     world
     
     Watch the presentation


 6.  ENABLE DATA TRANSPARENCY IN WEB3
     
     Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for
     more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
     
     Read the case study


 7.  EXPAND OUR UNIVERSE
     
     We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for
     what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible
     
     Join the community


 8.  LITERALLY STORE YOUR DATA OUT OF THIS WORLD
     
     Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate
     more efficient interplanetary communication
     
     Learn more


 9.  DEVELOP OFFLINE-NATIVE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
     
     Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build
     personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others
     
     Read how they do it


 10. MAKE ARCHIVES AND CONTENT LIBRARIES CENSORSHIP RESISTANT
     
     When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the
     site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people
     
     Read the story


 11. SPEED UP GAMEPLAY FOR YOUR SUPERFANS
     
     3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of
     a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes
     
     Read the their story


 12. GUARANTEE A PERMANENT HOME FOR YOUR DIGITAL ART
     
     Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art
     assets using IPFS through NFT.storage
     
     Watch her presentation


 13. PUBLISH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT INVITES GLOBAL COLLABORATION
     
     WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client
     functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the
     world
     
     Watch the presentation


 14. ENABLE DATA TRANSPARENCY IN WEB3
     
     Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for
     more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
     
     Read the case study


 15. EXPAND OUR UNIVERSE
     
     We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for
     what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible
     
     Join the community


 16. LITERALLY STORE YOUR DATA OUT OF THIS WORLD
     
     Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate
     more efficient interplanetary communication
     
     Learn more


 17. DEVELOP OFFLINE-NATIVE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
     
     Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build
     personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others
     
     Read how they do it


 18. MAKE ARCHIVES AND CONTENT LIBRARIES CENSORSHIP RESISTANT
     
     When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the
     site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people
     
     Read the story


 19. SPEED UP GAMEPLAY FOR YOUR SUPERFANS
     
     3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of
     a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes
     
     Read the their story


 20. GUARANTEE A PERMANENT HOME FOR YOUR DIGITAL ART
     
     Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art
     assets using IPFS through NFT.storage
     
     Watch her presentation


 21. PUBLISH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT INVITES GLOBAL COLLABORATION
     
     WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client
     functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the
     world
     
     Watch the presentation


 22. ENABLE DATA TRANSPARENCY IN WEB3
     
     Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for
     more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
     
     Read the case study


 23. EXPAND OUR UNIVERSE
     
     We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for
     what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible
     
     Join the community


 24. LITERALLY STORE YOUR DATA OUT OF THIS WORLD
     
     Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate
     more efficient interplanetary communication
     
     Learn more

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WHY IPFS?


OUR PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK IS BUILT AROUND THE INNOVATION OF
CONTENT ADDRESSING: STORE, RETRIEVE, AND LOCATE DATA BASED ON THE FINGERPRINT OF
ITS ACTUAL CONTENT RATHER THAN ITS NAME OR LOCATION.


OPEN

The IPFS network is distributed and participatory, which reduces the problem of
data silos that plague central servers.


VERIFIABLE

The integrity of all data is verified using hash functions, so you can trust
that you always get the data you’re looking for.


RESILIENT

Files and data can be stored across multiple nodes, which keeps content at the
ready even during critical outages.

Learn how it works


GET STARTED


JOIN THOUSANDS OF DEVELOPERS WHO CHOOSE IPFS TO BUILD SOFTWARE THAT’S OPEN,
VERIFIABLE, AND RESILIENT.


BUILD PEER-TO-PEER APPS WITH IPFS

Our most popular implementations are written in Go, Rust, and JavaScript – and
we also have support for desktop, browsers, mobile, embedded devices, and more.

   
 * Developers
 * Documentation
 * Read Case Studies
   


STORE AND MANAGE YOUR DATA ON IPFS

Use content addressing to give your data unique identifiers, and use IPFS for
large-scale data storage and compute.

   
 * Publish with IPFS
 * Retrieve CIDs with IPFS
   


USE IPFS APPS

Share files, stream music, publish your website, store NFTs, and much more
through hundreds of applications built on IPFS.

   
 * Install IPFS Desktop
 * Install IPFS Browser Extension
 * Browse IPFS Applications
   


DEVELOP TOOLING FOR IPFS

Design storage, compute, encryption, and implementation layers to optimize the
way developers use IPFS.

   
 * Kubo (Go)
 * Cluster
 * Iroh (Rust)
 * Helia (JavaScript)
   


CONNECT THROUGH COMMUNITY


WE'VE SPARKED THE MOST ROBUST OPEN-SOURCE ECOSYSTEM ON EARTH, AND TOGETHER WE'RE
ACHIEVING INTERPLANETARY ASPIRATIONS.

   
 * Application-Developers
 * Scientists
 * Infrastructure Developers
 * Researchers
 * Designers
 * Archivists
 * Yes, Even the occasional Astronaut
 * Artists
   




OUR PROTOCOL'S SUCCESS HINGES ON PARTICIPATION FROM ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS: EACH
NEW NODE THAT JOINS IPFS MAKES THE NETWORK STRONGER FOR EVERYONE.

Join the Community


IPFS BY THE NUMBERS


2000+

active contributors


280,000+

unique nodes


1 BILLION+

CIDs published to network


WHAT'S HAPPENING


ON OUR BLOG

30 April 2024


IPFS NEWS ISSUE 204



18 April 2024


VERIFIED IPFS RETRIEVAL IN BROWSERS WITH @HELIA/VERIFIED-FETCH



11 April 2024


ANNOUNCING THE IPFS CAMP 2024 TRACK LIST



08 April 2024


IPFS & LIBP2P DEVS GO INDEPENDENT: MEET INTERPLANETARY SHIPYARD




IN THE MEDIA

16 Jan 2024


FILECOIN FOUNDATION SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS IPFS IN SPACE



14 Nov 2023


ADVANCING IPFS AND LIBP2P GOVERNANCE



2 May 2023


BRAVE ANNOUNCES AUTOMATIC NFT BACKUPS AND ENHANCED IPFS/FILECOIN SUPPORT IN
BRAVE WALLET




RECENT VIDEOS

13 Nov 2023


BUILT WITH IPFS - MINTTER AND THE HYPERMEDIA PROTOCOL

Video

23 Mar 2023


THIS MONTH IN IPFS - MARCH 2023

Video


FROM THE COMMUNITY

 1.  “IPFS gives us a set of flexible building blocks for connecting devices and
     exchanging data. The plethora of IPFS documentation and community members
     contributes toward our goal at Agregore of making peer-to-peer web apps
     easy to use.”
     
     Mauve Signweaver, Founder - Agregore

 2.  “It's crucially important to have a distributed file system in our open
     hypertext system. IPFS is the missing piece that allows for a truly
     decentralized and open web.”
     
     Gabo H Beaumont, Co-Founder - Mintter inc

 3.  “As people learn about IPFS, they also get a view of IPFS as a component in
     a broader ecosystem. It's not an island. It's not a technology that lives
     entirely on its own, it's a piece of a broader stack of something. We see
     it as an onramp to broader decentralization.”
     
     Wes Floyd, Bacalhau

 4.  “I use NFT.storage for my digital art. It was such a relief to know that I
     could store my videos in one place—each one with its own IPFS URL and CID.
     Resilience is important to me and having the work backed up to Filecoin
     means they'll be around for a long time.”
     
     Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist

 5.  “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build
     full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees
     integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
     
     Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs

 6.  “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having
     every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and
     effectively forever.”
     
     Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission

 7.  “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the
     Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS
     really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are
     comfortable with.”
     
     Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare

 8.  “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices
     communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central
     infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
     
     Roland Kuhn, Actyx

 9.  “IPFS gives us a set of flexible building blocks for connecting devices and
     exchanging data. The plethora of IPFS documentation and community members
     contributes toward our goal at Agregore of making peer-to-peer web apps
     easy to use.”
     
     Mauve Signweaver, Founder - Agregore

 10. “It's crucially important to have a distributed file system in our open
     hypertext system. IPFS is the missing piece that allows for a truly
     decentralized and open web.”
     
     Gabo H Beaumont, Co-Founder - Mintter inc

 11. “As people learn about IPFS, they also get a view of IPFS as a component in
     a broader ecosystem. It's not an island. It's not a technology that lives
     entirely on its own, it's a piece of a broader stack of something. We see
     it as an onramp to broader decentralization.”
     
     Wes Floyd, Bacalhau

 12. “I use NFT.storage for my digital art. It was such a relief to know that I
     could store my videos in one place—each one with its own IPFS URL and CID.
     Resilience is important to me and having the work backed up to Filecoin
     means they'll be around for a long time.”
     
     Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist

 13. “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build
     full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees
     integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
     
     Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs

 14. “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having
     every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and
     effectively forever.”
     
     Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission

 15. “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the
     Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS
     really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are
     comfortable with.”
     
     Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare

 16. “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices
     communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central
     infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
     
     Roland Kuhn, Actyx

 17. “IPFS gives us a set of flexible building blocks for connecting devices and
     exchanging data. The plethora of IPFS documentation and community members
     contributes toward our goal at Agregore of making peer-to-peer web apps
     easy to use.”
     
     Mauve Signweaver, Founder - Agregore

 18. “It's crucially important to have a distributed file system in our open
     hypertext system. IPFS is the missing piece that allows for a truly
     decentralized and open web.”
     
     Gabo H Beaumont, Co-Founder - Mintter inc

 19. “As people learn about IPFS, they also get a view of IPFS as a component in
     a broader ecosystem. It's not an island. It's not a technology that lives
     entirely on its own, it's a piece of a broader stack of something. We see
     it as an onramp to broader decentralization.”
     
     Wes Floyd, Bacalhau

 20. “I use NFT.storage for my digital art. It was such a relief to know that I
     could store my videos in one place—each one with its own IPFS URL and CID.
     Resilience is important to me and having the work backed up to Filecoin
     means they'll be around for a long time.”
     
     Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist

 21. “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build
     full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees
     integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
     
     Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs

 22. “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having
     every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and
     effectively forever.”
     
     Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission

 23. “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the
     Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS
     really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are
     comfortable with.”
     
     Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare

 24. “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices
     communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central
     infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
     
     Roland Kuhn, Actyx

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