Summary of IPFS events in 2020

IPFS New Documentation — IPFS Docs beta It has a simple interface, better navigation, and most importantly, it introduces a key feature: search.

IPFS's first set of public collaborative clusters This is an easy way to connect and help improve the distribution and data availability of specific data sets in the IPFS network. Users can join these clusters by running a single ipfs-cluster-follow command.

The world's first private home security camera was born. It was developed with the help of IPFS technology and Amazon's security camera Choice. The release of this camera is a new paradigm for consumer data ownership and also marks a major step forward for the Internet of Things.

The official release of go-ipfs 0.4.23 fixed an error in TLS transmission, giving participants greater peace of mind.

IPFS 1.5.3 version update fixes a large number of errors when running on Windows, further ensuring system stability.

The IPFS Big Refactor is not just a move to commits, it is also primarily to provide a smaller, first-class js-ipfs core API, thereby providing the IPFS team and community with an easier to debug, understand, and maintain codebase.

js-libp2p 0.27 released This improvement consolidates many of js-libp2p's core modules into js-libp2p itself to make it easier for community members to contribute. Overall, this version has a 30% to 40% improvement in memory usage compared to the previous version 0.26.

The IPFS team is attending ETHDenver, one of the largest Ethereum and decentralized web developer-centric events in the US.

IPFS Distributed Network Summit speakers come from the following organizations and institutions: IPFS Core; Protocol Labs; Textile; ProtoSchool; 3Box; RTrade Technologies; Pinata; Althea; Quorum Control; Kauri, etc.

Created Testground, a general-purpose platform for testing large-scale distributed software.

js-ipfs 0.41.0 has been released. This version has completed a huge reconstruction of the js-ipfs internal component HU, which can switch to using Promises and async/await over Callbacks and using asynchronous iterable objects.

New improvements to IPFS Bitswap Bitswap is IPFS's mechanism for transferring file fragments between two or more peers. To speed things up further, the IPFS team cut the transfer time in half for a benchmark use case around container distribution.

In order to improve the performance and efficiency of Bitswap, the IPFS team made some changes to the way Bitswap extracts blocks. In addition, a performance comparison table before and after the improvements was made.

To simulate this environment, Netflix and IPFS collaborated to create p2plab to measure the throughput of data transfer on the IPFS network in a multi-region cluster.

Berty released gomobile-ipfs which aims to provide packages for Android, iOS, and React-Native that allow them to run and use IPFS nodes on mobile devices.

New browser based on IPFS The newly launched browser supports non-custodial decentralized networks such as IPFS, can access peer-to-peer based websites, and can also run a local instance of IPFS with files hosted on IPFS.

Protocol Academy launches CID tutorial This is the first multi-choice content and the first to explore multi-format. Officials explore all the data revealed by content-addressed identifiers and delve into multi-hashes, multi-codecs, multi-libraries, and version prefixes.

Unstoppable Domains, a Chrome browser extension with IPFS support, has released a Chrome browser extension with built-in support for IPFS.

IPFS-based hosting platform ethoFSethoFS is a fully decentralized hosting platform that combines blockchain indexing technology and IPFS to provide decentralized content on demand. Users will eventually be able to upload content or websites through a simple UI that will be decentralized hosted by ethoFS.

The IPFS team has announced that Rust-IPFS has officially begun full-time work on the Rust-IPFS implementation, rust-libp2p, and is looking for additional Rust developers to help build a new language implementation of the InterPlanetary File System that combines Rust's performance and resource utilization advantages with its keen eye for consistency.

IPFS Team Creates Collaborative Cluster for CORD-19 Dataset In response to COVID-19, the Allen AI Institute has worked with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, making 29,000 scholarly articles, including more than 13,000 full-text articles on COVID-19 and viruses in the coronavirus family, freely available for use by the global research community.

Pinata, a simpler way to use IPFS now allows users to replicate content across multiple nodes and multiple regions, which undoubtedly provides a simpler and more practical way to use IPFS.

Opera for Android now supports IPFS With 360 million users worldwide, Opera for Android 57 is now available on the Google Play Store with IPFS support by default! This release is a huge leap for the IPFS project and marks an important milestone.

Protocol Labs is providing $200,000 to support officials in contributing to improved technological solutions around testing, treatment, mitigation, and prevention of COVID-19 and future pandemics.

Ethereum official website is hosted on IPFS The Ethereum.org website is now hosted on IPFS and can be accessed through ethereum.eth on ENS.

IPFS Mobile Design Research This is an initiative to study the use of existing P2P protocols in mobile applications and create a set of informed and research-backed design guidelines and best practices for IPFS and the wider space.

js-ipfs 0.42.0 released This version brings many bug fixes and other small stability improvements. It reduces the size of the minified bundle by 7.5% to enable faster downloads and more responsive web applications.

IPFS Grant Platform The IPFS Grant Platform aims to help the community coordinate and fund the production of WEB3.0-friendly tools to increase the adoption and usability of IPFS.

Textile launched Powergate, a development tool to enable people to build on IPFS and Filecoin, which received unanimous praise from the market.

The biggest upgrade of IPFS, IPFS 0.5.0, greatly improves the speed of finding and sharing data in the network. More efficient routing and provision (2-3 times faster) reduces bandwidth usage and background traffic.

The partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Opera means that users can now view .crypto sites as easily as .com sites.

Brave Launches Origin-Powered Store Based on IPFS

Textile launches The Hub The goal of the Hub is to make it easy for developers to experiment quickly and then scale successful experiments efficiently.

js-ipfs 0.44.0 released. This version supports request cancellation and leaner browser data storage, and brings the new data storage area to the browser.

OrbitDB released v0.24, which supports both go-ipfs 0.5 and js-ipfs 0.44.

The IPFS team launched Testground v0.5, a platform for large-scale testing, benchmarking, and simulation of distributed and p2p systems. It is designed to be multi-language and runtime-agnostic, and has scaled from 2 to 10,000 instances, which is undoubtedly a huge milestone.

The IPFS Pinning Summit brought together pinning services and infra providers for two days of talks and workshops to discuss the current state of IPFS infrastructure, services, and tools, as well as future opportunities in the field.

The New DHT Road DHT is like a system for IPFS to catalog and help the network track and find data. It distributes and stores these key and value pairs in small tables in many nodes or peers throughout the network. Peers store information about where to physically locate specific content.

Gossipsub v1.1 is officially released. In addition to the fast message propagation guarantee of v1.0, this new version also has multiple hardened extensions that make Gossipsub more defensive against various attacks.

Fleek has released the Fleek Storage SDK, which can upload files to the Web programmatically. One of its functions is to store NFT assets.

The IPFS team hosted the 2020 Distributed Conference. The two-day Distributed Camp is a unique event designed to allow everyone to be introduced to the technologies that will influence the future of the Internet and has certain features.

js-ipfs 0.46.0 released js-ipfs 0.46.0 released, with faster bitswap, more compatible with go-ipfs 0.5, and faster file transfers.

Looking ahead to libp2p in 2020 A big focus for libp2p in 2020 will be improving stability, scalability, and ease of use to meet the requirements of such a large-scale blockchain.

IPFS Mobile Design Guidelines Released As IPFS adoption continues to grow, and the next thousand designers and developers using it will increasingly be used for mobile apps and services, this guide is designed to help mobile app designers and developers using P2P systems like IPFS.

Microsoft's ION uses IPFS technology In recent years, Microsoft has been increasingly involved in open source tools and services, and has launched ION, a standards-based decentralized identity service.

IPFS Africa Hosts a Virtual Community Meetup for the Nairobi IPFS Community

Release go-ipfs 0.6.0 This version includes a small configuration migration and can listen for QUIC transports in addition to TCP transports. This is an exciting time for IPFS and the entire network.

IPFS GUI has received numerous improvements

The IPFS-based distributed database AvionDB has the following features: each AvionDB instance can have multiple databases; each database can have several collections; each library can have multiple documents.

Evaluation report of GossipSub-v1.1 This report shows us the new logo of Gossipsub v1.1 and more substantial content.

IPFS Case Study Series AudiusAudius is a decentralized music and audio sharing platform designed to provide artists and creators with a direct link to their listeners. In order to create its censorship-resistant, privacy-friendly platform, it is key to have a distributed cloud storage network as the foundation of the system. Audius uses IPFS as the core decentralized storage component in its mission, allowing everyone to freely share, monetize, and listen to any audio.

js-IPFS 0.48.0 released This version enables delegate nodes in the configuration by default, which means that as a user you can see more peer nodes than before and be able to find content faster and more reliably.

In-depth study of IPFS 0.5 The official team took us to deeply understand the ins and outs of the IPFS DHT implementation, how DHT works, and how we can make the implementation used by IPFS faster and more flexible.

InfiNFT based on IPFS This is a platform based on IPFS minting and a simplified market for NFT loans using Nryptos as collateral. This allows NFT recipients to borrow money from idle digital collectibles, while lenders can provide liquidity to these borrowers, and the underlying NFT can be used as payment in the event of any default.

Build your own Flappy Birds game on IPFS. Did you know that the Flappy Birds game has been very popular recently? Can IPFS build a Flappy Birds game? Of course you can, and it has become a reality now.

GitHub has a new action that pins a directory to a remote IPFS cluster by pinning it to IPFS using the ipfs-cluster-ctl command. It sets the IPFS URL to the state of the commit that triggered the action, making it easy to preview a static site rendered on the dweb.

IPFS Community Meetup On August 3, IPFS held a community meetup. The one-hour community meetup consisted of two parts: communication and speeches, and lightning demonstrations.

Filecoin Mainnet Progress Update

According to the latest roadmap, the mainnet is expected to be launched between August 31 and September 21. Since the testnet was opened, miners around the world have joined the Filecoin testnet mining army.

The "Filecoin Accelerator" is now open for application. The Filecoin Accelerator will focus on building more open, interoperable, and programmable tools, infrastructure, and startup applications for distributed networks through IPFS and Filecoin. It is reported that from September to December this year, 15 to 20 teams will receive 12 weeks of funding benefits, programming guidance around business and blockchain-specific issues, and fundraising support.