# Welcome to the IPFS Weekly
Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀
# Top 10 recent highlights
- IPFS Companion v2.10.0 (opens new window) shipped, it now adds files to your MFS rather than just pinning them, so you can find them later!
- Missed the Local Offline Collaboration Monthly meeting? Catch up on the video here (opens new window)
- Why build this blog—or anything—on IPFS (opens new window)?
- ProtoSchool (opens new window) celebrated their 1 year anniversary!
- New tutorial: Decentralizing your Website (opens new window)
- Read this survey of social applications that have incorporated a blockchain into their design in Blockchain Social Networks (opens new window)
- Hands-on IPLD Tutorial in Golang: PART 2 (opens new window) available now on Simple as Water
- Vue.js + IPFS = VIPFS (opens new window). Create unstoppable applications
- Anytype.io has launched, join the beta here (opens new window)!
- “Is There Any Hope…Only If We Work Together...” Sharing Everything Always (opens new window)
# Project updates
- Qri shipped a new docs page (opens new window) 🎉
- Peergos asks what would the perfect social network look like (opens new window)?
- Cyber (opens new window) is a consensus computer on top of IPFS that uses IPFS hashes to create cyberlinks. In other words, it is a decentralized search engine built with the help of IPFS. They have recently released their testnet: Euler-5 (opens new window). It is an incentivized testnet that allows launching validator nodes, searching for content on IPFS and most importantly create cyberlinks (semantically link IPFS hashes to create a semantic core). Watch this video (opens new window) to learn more!
- Introducing Tipsets (opens new window): A closer look at Filecoin building blocks
# Win the Decentralized Future Prize
Nesta is launching an open call for essays (opens new window) that explore how the next decade of decentralization could change the way we work together towards shared goals, how we structure organizations and the societal impacts of these changes. We want these essays to inform policymakers and the public about the potential of these new technologies and inspire a new wave of innovators to experiment with different organizational structures for social good. The writer of the best essay will secure a £3,000 prize; to enter, you’ll need to send us a short written pitch for your essay (500 words max) by Sunday 26th January.
# Work in progress
- Coming soon: the js-ipfs async-await refactor. It’s currently closer than it’s ever been to being done.
- Can you write great docs? There’s never been a better time to help the global IPFS community by contributing to our new docs beta site (opens new window)!
- gomobile-ipfs (opens new window) is almost ready!
# Recommended viewing
Watch this recent video of Alessandro Segala, from Microsoft, “JavaScript Apps Going InterPlanetary” from NodeJS Interactive.
# Check out our mentions
- ARTICLE: Status introduces beta version of web3 crowdfunding tool Assemble (opens new window), 18 Jan 2020
- POST: Car Lifecycle on the Blockchain (opens new window), 16 Jan 2020
- TUTORIAL: Configuring IPFS part 2 (opens new window), 16 Jan 2020
“...the website for Elon Musk’s SpaceX project is hosted on IPFS. So when you type in SpaceX.eth, Blockchain Router will decode it into a 32-byte link, look up the website on a blockchain, verify it, and download the site, piece by piece, from a bunch of nodes in the network.” – A new, easier way to access Web3 (opens new window): The “blockchain router. 13 Jan 2020
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Temporal Partners with Rivet Utilizing IPFS APIs and Powerful Infrastructure (opens new window). 13 Jan 2020
- TUTORIAL: How to Use Unstoppable Domains (opens new window), 12 Jan 2020
- POST: Distributed Internet — IPFS & Blockchain (opens new window). 06 Jan 2020
“Take a look at what happens when you add a file to IPFS. Your file, and all of the blocks within it, is given a unique fingerprint.” – Live Chat Application With IPFS & Pubsub & React (opens new window), 03 Jan 2020
- POST: Polkadot 2019: Year in review (opens new window), 29 Dec 2019
- POST: Docker, Kubernetes and the Butterfly Protocol (opens new window), 18 Dec 2019
- POST: Off-Chain Data (opens new window): Why traditional clouds don’t work for blockchain data, 17 Dec 2019
- TUTORIAL: Create a Decentralized Database using Tangle and IPFS for beginners (opens new window), 17 Dec 2019
# Quote of the week
#ipfs users: Did You Know that you can vote for features you'd want on the IPFS docs site? True Fact! https://t.co/CmKRAXX8UN
— Eric Ronne (@ericronne) January 17, 2020
# Open positions working on IPFS
- Research Engineers and Scientists (opens new window), ResNetLab
- Golang Engineer (opens new window), focused on p2p systems and immutable data types, Qri
- IPFS Community Lead (opens new window), Protocol Labs
- Project Operator, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs
- Specifications Engineer, libp2p (opens new window), Protocol Labs
- Senior Software Engineer, IPFS or libp2p (opens new window), Protocol Labs
- Engineering Manager, IPFS (opens new window), Protocol Labs
# Join the community at these upcoming events
- DWeb SF Meet Up Explores Decentralized Social Media (opens new window), 21 Jan 2020, San Francisco (CA), US
- DWeb Talks: Kelsey Breseman–a DWeb Primer, Decentralized Web Seattle (opens new window), 30 Jan 2020, Seattle (WA), US
- WEBINAR: Do you dare to know how IPFS and Blockchain work? (opens new window) 30 Jan 2020
- FOSDEM 2020 (opens new window), 1-2 Feb 2020, Brussels, Belgium
- Paris P2P #6 (opens new window), 5 Feb 2020, Paris, France
- Distributed Networks Summit – IPFS & Friends (opens new window), 13 Feb 2020, Denver (CO), US
- #BUIDL Week Colorado – ETHDenver 2020 (opens new window), 13-17 Feb 2020, Denver (CO), US
- Open Data Day 2020 (opens new window), 7 Mar 2020, 35 events registered so far!
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