The IPFS Foundation
Today's internet has become fragmented and fragile — when servers go down or platforms change ownership, content disappears forever. The IPFS Foundation is building a different kind of web where information persists, users control their data, and the internet remains accessible even when individual services services. We support next-generation protocols and advocate for digital ecosystems that enhance choice, transparency, and autonomy for all.
Our primary avenue for this work is long-term stewardship of the open-source IPFS Project and community.
- Building the protocol foundation. We collaborate with developers worldwide to design and refine IPFS protocols, ensuring they remain robust, efficient, ready for tomorrow's internet challenges.
- Making IPFS accessible. We maintain and support comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and specifications so developers can easily integrate IPFS components into their projects — from small apps to enterprise systems.
- Driving real-world adoption. We work directly with organizations to deploy IPFS-based solutions, demonstrating how content addressing creates faster, more resilient applications that users and actually want to use.
- Integrating with web standards. We sponsor multi-year efforts to embed IPFS-compatible technologies directly into browsers and internet infrastructure, working with global technical standards bodies such as W3C and IETF.
- Investing in long-term stewardship and breakthrough innovations. Through targeted grants and collaborations, we fund research and software development that equips IPFS for the challenges of today and tomorrow — from improving performance to enabling new use cases.
The internet's future depends on systems that put users first. Through research, writing, education, and collaboration with like-minded organizations, we are demonstrating that decentralized technologies can deliver better user experiences while preserving privacy, choice, and resilience.
Who We Are
IPFS, an open source software project created in 2014 by Protocol Labs, has been used to organize and distribute many exabytes of data across the globe, with 250,000 public peer-to-peer nodes, and over 2.5 million daily users. IPFS is used by technologists, archivists, activists, artists, governments, scientists, and many other technical communities, for solutions ranging from verifiable preservation of important historical archives to enabling communication in the face of censorship or low connectivity.
After 10 years of incubation at Protocol Labs, the IPFS Foundation was established as an independent, nonprofit organization in 2024.
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