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

IPFS on Zero Knowledge

Last week, @jbenet was featured on Zero Knowledge, a podcast focused on the emerging Web3 and the community researching and building it. Check it out to hear more about IPFS (opens new window), libp2p and what’s new with the Filecoin project lately.

DAppNode’s IPFS Pinner Package Demo

In case you missed it, DAppNode created an IPFS-pinner! Watch this demo (opens new window) on the creative combo of IPFS Cluster, ENS, and IPFS for collaborative community mirrors of your favorite package registry.

Catch up on the IPFS Weekly call, Mondays!

Yesterday, @parkan was on hand to walk us through a demo of EthDNS (opens new window), and @alanshaw covered some highlights of the recent js-ipfs v0.40.0 release. Catch up on the call recording, and join us next Monday, December 16 (opens new window) when @ianopolous shares about Peergos. Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted filesystem with secure sharing of files designed to be resistant to surveillance of data content or friendship graphs.

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: How to Host Your Website Using ENS+IPFS (opens new window), Yahsin Huang, 5 Dec 2019
• On Video Content Monetization and Blockchain (opens new window), Dmitriy Kim, 5 Dec 2019
• VIDEO: How & Why You Should Get An .ETH Address With ENS (opens new window), Scott Cunningham, 5 Dec 2019
• Hydro dApp Store — 3rd Party Partner Developer Tools (opens new window), Hydro, 5 Dec 2019
• Community Spotlight: Meeting Merwane (opens new window), The Arweave Project, 5 Dec 2019
• TUTORIAL: 3Box Edit Profile Plugin (opens new window), 3Box, 4 Dec 2019
• China’s Ban on EtherScan Is a Sign of Things to Come (opens new window), BTC Manager, 4 Dec 2019
• Distributed workflow on file-based blockchain (opens new window), EVEN Foundation, 3 Dec 2019
• Temporal Kubernetes Stack — Scaling IPFS Clusters & Sharding the Pinset (opens new window), RTrade Technologies, Ltd., 2 Dec 2019
• Video streaming from IPFS for Property tokens media content by GeeSome (opens new window), Galt Project, 2 Dec 2019
• Host a website using IPFS, IPNS, and DNSLink (opens new window), Simple as Water, 2 Dec 2019
• TUTORIAL: NixOS, ROS and p2p tech on Raspberry Pi 4 (opens new window), Airalab Robonomics, 1 Dec 2019
• OpenAPI: connect to any public API with Band Protocol (opens new window), Band Protocol, 20 Nov 2019
• PAPER: Incorporating Blockchain into RDF Store at the Lightweight Edge Devices (opens new window), Anh Le-TuanEmail authorDarshan HinguManfred HauswirthDanh Le-Phuoc, 4 Nov 2019

Take a look at these open issues 👀

• Via ipfs/docs, should we include pointers for “non-official” ways of installing IPFS (opens new window)?
• Help create a short concept doc about what a “swarm” is in IPFS (opens new window).
• Take on the herculean effort of making sure every repo has a description and a README (opens new window)!

Open Positions working on IPFS

• Senior Backend Engineer (IPFS) - Golang/Python or Golang/JavaScript (opens new window), Infura, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Remote
• Tech Lead, Distributed Systems Test Infrastructure (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote
• Distributed Systems Engineer, IPFS Cluster (Go) (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote
• Distributed Systems Technical Lead, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs, Remote

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).

• data,together.org (opens new window). Exploring Community-Driven Data Stewardship!
• radicle (opens new window) launched their community forum, where several interesting discussions about IPFS are going on. 👀
• Denarius Jupiter POD — IPFS Timestamping (opens new window)
• GruPur.com (opens new window), an uncensored permanent public record, is now running on IPFS and supports IPFS file uploads.

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.

• 11 December 2019: Lyon P2P (opens new window) is a meetup to discuss the topics of peer-to-peer (P2P), decentralization, offline-first applications, networks, confidentiality, anti-surveillance, anti-censorship, security, and more! Lyon, France.
• 8 January 2020: Paris P2P Festival (opens new window) is an opportunity to federate and allow the meeting of Peer-2-Peer actors in all its forms to meet around all themes related to Peer-to-Peer. For more information on the free four day festival, visit p2p.paris (opens new window).

Thanks for reading ☺️

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