Welcome to the IPFS Weekly

Here’s what’s happening lately in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy and beyond! 🚀

Coming soon to a core API near you, the async/await refactor

Read all about the ongoing refactor (opens new window) in the js-ipfs, js-libp2p and js-ipld codebases to use Promises and remove Node.js streams and pull streams from the code base entirely. Consider this your early warning that the releases of these next two modules will have BIG breaking changes. 🤯

Top 5 recent highlights

• go-ipfs 0.4.23 (opens new window) was released 🚀
• There was also new release of ipfs-update (opens new window), version 1.5.3 which fixed a ton of bugs when running on Windows
• The path to landing Bitswap in go-ipfs (opens new window) has been discovered!
• You’re going to want to see this [absolutely amazing IPFS deck]9https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yJEKH2BQRp5SnuGYNf7R9n7pobfMHF78tsfHJK6LFxI/edit) by Kelsey Breseman
• New tutorial: Using a Node.js Script to Upload a Folder to a Remote IPFS Node (opens new window)

People are building cool stuff with IPFS

• Want to try Filecoin? Textile is building tools to make it even easier (opens new window)
• Peergos shipped v0.1.5 (opens new window) – 5X faster!! New CLI and more! Keep your stuff private on IPFS
• Let Qri be your Personal Data Portal (opens new window)
• Announcing Forest: ChainSafe’s Implementation of Filecoin in Rust (opens new window)
• Shop at the Origin Swag Store (opens new window) and Earn OGN
• Check out this Recycling System using IOTA (opens new window)
• The Play to Earn website (opens new window), built on IPFS, launched!

Recommended viewing

Check out “A Technical Introduction to IPFS,” by Hector Sanjuan.

Check out our mentions

• Interview with Hayden Young, founder of KnowledgeArc. (opens new window) 03 Feb 2020
• Building & Deploying a Gatsby Website to IPFS Using Azure Pipelines (opens new window), 02 Feb 2020
• Efficient online ad management on ethereum (opens new window), 30 Jan 2020
• ‘Digital Art’ Framed And Collected On Blockchain (opens new window), 30 Jan 2020
• Translated: What is IPFS? A decentralized World Wide Web? (opens new window) 30 Jan 2020
• A Look Into Origin Protocol (opens new window), 29 Jan 2020
• Add editable, IPFS-based user profiles to your dapp in less than 30 mins (opens new window), 29 Jan 2020
• 5 things you can do with the Blok on Blok smartphone (opens new window), 28 Jan 2020
• Throwback from the first edition of P2P Festival! (opens new window) 27 Jan 2020
• Predicting the 2020s in frontier tech (opens new window), 27 Jan 2020
• Interview With Michael Sena And Danny Zuckerman - Founders of 3Box (opens new window), 27 Jan 2020
• OPUS — Your questions answered! (opens new window) 26 Jan 2020
• How to Decentralize Twitter (opens new window), 20 Jan 2020

Open positions working on IPFS

• Senior Backend Engineer, IPFS (opens new window), Infura
• Research Engineers and Scientists (opens new window), ResNetLab
• 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

Quote of the week

Love all these new annonced tools with decentralized data using #IPFS like @AnytypeLabs .

Seriously curious on how far this tech could go, and wondering if I should use it to implement my future apps...

— Morgan Msrn (@MorganMsrn) February 3, 2020

Join the community at these upcoming events

• Paris P2P #6 (opens new window), 05 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
• Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020 (opens new window), 19-20 Feb 2020, Stanford (CA), US
• Ethereum Community Conference 3 (opens new window), 03-05 Mar 2020, Paris, France
• Open Data Day 2020 (opens new window), 07 Mar 2020, 35 events registered so far!
• Cryptoeconomic Systems Conference '20 (opens new window), 07-08 Mar 2020, Cambridge (MA), US

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