IPFS Data Utilities Grants, Year 1: Primitives in Motion
Last year, we introduced the new DASL protocol suite and grants program to meet the moment. Here's what we funded in Year 1, what shipped, and what we learned.
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Protocol Handler Registration in Chrome 146 and the Browser as OS
Manifest-declared protocol handlers in Chrome 146? The web that's coming is built on keys, hashes, and verifiable data. Browsers need to meet it there.
Matadisco: Can We Bootstrap Public Data Discovery with ATProto?
Let's talk about a system for universal data discovery, that doesn't depend on any single institution staying funded or online.
IPIP-0499: Updating IPFS Standards for Consistent, Reproducible CIDs
If you've worked with IPFS, you know that a content identifier (CID) is supposed to be a fingerprint for your data: feed in the same data, get the same CID. In practice, that hasn't been true. The same file or directory uploaded with Kubo, Helia, or
Content-Addressing: 2025 In Review
It's hard to believe that it was 2025 only two weeks ago, but all the same we'd like to wrap the year up tidily and look back at what happened in content addressing leading up to 2026!
"Content addressing?" you say. "Is there
IPLD: 2025 In Review
Whether you're building on IPFS, Filecoin, or ATProto, IPLD (InterPlanetary Linked Data) — a shared data model for the self-certifying, content-addressable web — ensures your data is portable and verifiable across platforms. This post covers the past year's progress in the IPLD ecosystem and a preview of what
IPFS at Eurosky Live Berlin: Highlights From A Bright Future
The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto or AT), which sits under Bluesky and many other emerging projects, has tremendous potential. At the IPFS Foundation, we're big fans, and not just because AT builds on the IPFS stack through IPLD and DASL (though admittedly building on DASL is one of
Hypha ♥️ DASL: the test suite
Following the completion of the last session of the IPFS Utilities grant we are reposting this blog from our most excellent friends at the Hypha Worker Co-operative in which Cole explains the work they did for the DASL test suite.
Writing 102 tests for science
Recently, Hypha got the exciting
Finding Your Files in Decentralized Storage Just Got Easier
Following the completion of the last session of the IPFS Utilities grant we are reposting this blog from our friends at The Starling Lab in which they explain how their new CAR Content Locator solves the challenge of tracking individual files in large archives across Filecoin and IPFS networks.
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Ed25519 Support in Chrome: Making the Web Faster and Safer
We're happy to share that Ed25519 is now supported in Chrome (version). Following Ed25519 support in Firefox 129 in August 2024 and Safari 17.0, Chrome finally following suit in 137 in May of this year. Ed25519 is now supported in every major browser engine, reaching 79% and