Welcome to the IPFS Weekly. 👋

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) (opens new window) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Since that’s a pretty large scope, we track development across the ecosystem in this weekly dispatch.

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Here are some of the highlights since the last IPFS Weekly.

The latest

• Announcing IPFS Cluster v0.10.0 (opens new window), a release with major changes under the hood that will make the IPFS Cluster perform significantly faster with larger pinsets and less memory demanding. Get all the details in the release notes (opens new window), and congrats on the hard work!
• Continuing with the announcement of cool, new things, introducing go-libp2p workspace (opens new window)! If you contribute to go-libp2p you want to check this out.
• Have you seen The Decentralized Web Primer (opens new window)? If you’ve been searching for a series of tutorials explaining IPFS, Merkle Trees and the Decentralized Web, look no further.
• The first IPFS meetup in Hangzhou (opens new window) was a success! Here’s to many more to come. 🎉

IPFS in the wild

Do you follow IPFS on Twitter (opens new window)? For the latest mentions of IPFS in the news, check our Twitter feed or see the latest articles on Awesome IPFS (opens new window).

• VIDEO: Decentralized Dapp Scaling with IPFS! (opens new window) Everything EOS, 11 Mar 2019
• VIDEO: Web3 stack, what’s next for developers? (opens new window) Fluence, IPFS, NuCypher Meetup Paris Blockchain Week, 8 Mar 2019
• RTrade Launches Temporal: A Cloud Suite for Decentralized and Blockchain-Based Applications (opens new window), Crypto Slate, 7 Mar 2019
• VIDEO: In Depth Introduction to IPFS (opens new window), Polycode, 7 Mar 2019
• Decentralized Data Storage (opens new window), The Yellow Bit Road, 7 Mar 2019
• A Coder’s Diary 4 (How I finally got IPFS working) (opens new window), Good Audience, 6 Mar 2019
• Coin Spotlight: district0x (opens new window), a cooperative network of decentralized marketplaces and communities powered by Ethereum, Aragon, and IPFS. 6 Mar 2019
• NuCypher + CoinList Hackathon launches March 11 (opens new window), 6 Mar 2019
• How Graphite Manages IPFS Content Availability (opens new window), Graphite, 5 Mar 2019
• Review of BitTube : A Decentralized Blockchain project Looking to Substitute YouTube (opens new window), 5 Mar 2019
• Opera is integrating IPFS and ENS (opens new window), 5 Mar 2019
• VIDEO: Robot-as-a-service experiment: ROS + IPFS + Ethereum (opens new window), Airalab, 5 Mar 2019
• Intro to The Graph: Indexed Data for dApps (opens new window), QuikNode, 5 Mar 2019
• libp2p in a Nutshell (opens new window), 5 Mar 2019

Updates and new releases

See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.

• Neocities (opens new window) has released an update on some recent small improvements.
• Graphite V2 Architecture (opens new window) includes support for IPFS as a storage provider.
• qri 0.7.1 (opens new window) includes shipping fixes and features aimed at doing more with datasets.

Questions from the community 🤔

Here are some questions folks are discussing in the IPFS ecosystem.

• Is it possible to run IPFS directly from a USB key or from html file? (opens new window)
• I’ve played around a bit with IPFS using Go, and I’m asking for advice... (opens new window)
• What does “pin” really mean? (opens new window)

Tools and projects we ❤️

Awesome IPFS (opens new window) is a community maintained and updated list of projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. To see more, or add yours to the list, visit Awesome IPFS on GitHub (opens new window).

• Multilogue (opens new window): libp2p non-simultaneous p2p chat protocol
• Radicle (opens new window): A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS
• Introducing Kraken (opens new window), an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry
• Starlog (opens new window): IPFS Metadata Blockchain based on Substrate. The goal of Starlog is to research and develop an open source solo chain or potential parachain, which stores metadata for IPFS as non-fungible tokens.
• Gage.app (opens new window): Fast, secure, distributed, decentralized and everlasting InterPlanetary storage. An app, service, API and CLI.
• Ethereum IPFS Buidl Experiments (opens new window)

Coming up in the Community

Did you know IPFS has a community forum at discuss.ipfs.tech (opens new window)? Sign up to participate in discussions about coding, tutorials, see announcements and learn about upcoming community events.

• 12 Mar 2019: Decentralized Web SF Meet Up—March (opens new window), hosted by the Internet Archive, 6-9pm.
• 12 Mar 2019: IPFS and Digital Content Distribution in Blockchain (opens new window): During this Meetup, DECENT’s Technical Consultant, Michal Stančík, will elaborate on how data on blockchain is secured, how keys are transferred through the network and more. 6pm, hosted by DECENT and Romana Figerova.
• 14 Mar 2019: Data Jam! Topic: NYC Transportation Data (opens new window) hosted by Qri. We’ll hack on (build, archive, synch, play with, analyze) interesting open datasets.
• 27-28 Mar 2019: C3 Crypto Conference (opens new window) is not only focused on blockchain companies and projects but also extends to topics on new technology. C3 Crypto Conference 2019 is also Berlin’s first large-scale crypto conference.
  24 Apr 2019: Introducing Hackboat (opens new window), an afternoon cruise along the beautiful Willamette river while enjoying awesome infosec presentations, Portland, Oregon.
• 17-18 May 2019: Data Terra Nemo (opens new window) is a technical conference about decentralized protocols and the software built on top of them.

Thanks for reading ☺️

That’s it for this week’s news on all things IPFS. If we missed something, reply to this email and let us know! That way we can feature you in next week’s edition.