Shipyard Winds Down IPFS Work After Protocol Labs Ends Funding

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The Shipyard team, responsible for maintaining and developing key components of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), will cease its engineering work, maintenance, and infrastructure management on September 30. This follows Protocol Labs' decision not to renew its funding for the team. Projects like Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion will be left without a dedicated maintenance crew as a result. Shipyard, formed in 2024 by experienced former Protocol Labs IPFS developers, will also stop maintaining public infrastructure, including ipfs.io and dweb.link. Protocol Labs owns these domains and will decide their future. While IPFS itself is not shutting down, the move leaves many popular implementations and services without consistent support unless other developers take them over. A Protocol Labs representative stated that IPFS will transition to a "more lightweight maintenance" model using grants from the IPFS Foundation to fund individual maintainers, with development continuing on decentralized public infrastructure.

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) maintenance team at Shipyard will wind down engineering work, maintenance, and infrastructure management on September 30, after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding.

The loss of funding will leave projects like Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion without a dedicated maintenance team, Shipyard said in a blog post on Monday.

IPFS is an open-source protocol for storing and sharing data in peer-to-peer networks. Protocol Labs is the research and engineering organization that created IPFS and Filecoin — a blockchain network for incentivizing decentralized data storage.

The engineering team will cease maintenance of public infrastructure, including ipfs.io, dweb.link, delegated-ipfs.dev, and IPFS bootstrap nodes. According to Shipyard, Protocol Labs owns the relevant domains and infrastructure and will determine their future.

IPFS is not shutting down, but Shipyard winding down operations will leave many popular implementations and services without ongoing maintenance unless other developers take them over.

Protocol Labs Head of Engineering and Research, Molly Mackinley, said in a discussion on an online forum that IPFS will transition to "more lightweight maintenance" through IPFS Foundation grants to individual maintainer developers. She added that development will continue on decentralized public infrastructure.

Shipyard emerged in 2024 as an independent team of experienced IPFS developers who previously worked at Protocol Labs.

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Perguntas relacionadas

QWhy is Shipyard winding down its work on IPFS?

AShipyard is winding down its engineering work, maintenance, and infrastructure management for IPFS because Protocol Labs has decided not to renew its funding.

QWhich popular IPFS implementations and projects will lose their dedicated support team?

AProjects like Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion will be left without a dedicated support team due to the funding cut.

QWhat will happen to the public IPFS infrastructure like ipfs.io and dweb.link?

AThe maintenance of public infrastructure such as ipfs.io, dweb.link, delegated-ipfs.dev, and IPFS bootstrap nodes will cease. Protocol Labs, which owns these domains and infrastructure, will decide their future.

QHow will the IPFS protocol be maintained after Shipyard steps down?

AAccording to Protocol Labs, IPFS will move to a 'more lightweight maintenance' model via grants from the IPFS Foundation to individual maintainers, and development will continue on decentralized public infrastructure.

QWhat is the relationship between Shipyard, Protocol Labs, and IPFS?

AShipyard was formed in 2024 as an independent team of experienced IPFS developers who previously worked at Protocol Labs. Protocol Labs is the research and engineering organization that created both IPFS and Filecoin.

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