Welcome to the IPFS Weekly

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

Improvements to IPFS Bitswap, or how Netflix is experimenting with IPFS

After IPFS Camp 2019, Netflix and IPFS began collaborating (opens new window) on ways to incorporate peer-to-peer services into Netflix’s developer tooling. Together, we figured out a way to leverage IPFS to speed up cloud builds, designing and testing solutions for faster Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines powered by efficient p2p container image distribution. Read more on the IPFS blog (opens new window).

js-ipfs 0.41.0 released

We’ve completed a HUGE refactor to js-ipfs internals 🥳 (opens new window), switching to using Promises and async/await over Callbacks and using async iterables instead of Node.js Streams and Pull Streams. BUT, this release brings big breaking changes to the core API so please consult the full release notes!

Top 5 recent highlights

• Berty released gomobile-ipfs!! (opens new window) This repo aims to provide packages for Android, iOS and React-Native that allow one to run and use an IPFS node on mobile devices.
• IPFS Web UI E2E tests (opens new window) are now run as a part of go-ipfs and js-ipfs regression test suites.
• Introducing Terminal V2 (opens new window): The easiest way to build, deploy, and host websites & apps on IPFS.
• Catch up on the latest IPFS Weekly Call (opens new window), featuring a look at how IPFS and libp2p are used in Robonomics. 🤖
• Unstoppable Domains (opens new window) will be giving $100 per template to the first 10 pull requests that they approve. And speaking of bounties...

Introducing IPFS Bounties & DevGrants

Our new IPFS Grant platform connects funding organizations with builders and researchers in the IPFS community—that means you! We offer several types of grants, including bounties. To learn more about IPFS DevGrants, check out the repo (opens new window).
Here are some of our open bounties:

• Fix script responsible for preparing IPFS mirror (opens new window)
• Write a brief but interesting history of the IPFS Project (opens new window)

See the recently claimed bounties or check for new open ones when they get posted on The Bounty Board 📌 (opens new window).

The IPFS Community at ETHDenver

Last week, the IPFS Community gathered at one of the largest Ethereum conferences and hackathons in the US: ETHDenver (opens new window). Here are some other key takeaways:

• Out of the 52 projects submitted to ETHDenver, 24 were built with IPFS!
• IPFS Hackathon Standouts: Medici (opens new window), TexIOT (opens new window), MuckRaker, IPFS iOS Backup (opens new window)
• The Distributed Network Summit (opens new window), hosted by the Cryptorado Community (opens new window), an entire day dedicated to IPFS, featured presentations and workshops on how people are continuing to build on IPFS, as well as some pretty amazing new use cases.
• This three-part series from Textile on how to publish dynamic IPFS buckets (opens new window) on Textile, how to pin projects to IPFS (opens new window) right from GitHub, and how to use CI to publish your webpage (opens new window) using IPFS and Textile Buckets
• Bounties using IPFS (opens new window) were all over the place (and XP missions too!)
• Presenters talking all things IPFS, like Carson Farmer, from Textile (opens new window)!

Thank you, everyone who joined us there, IPFS will be back for ETHDenver 2021! 🎉

Check out our mentions

• Decentralized storage and zkSNARKS - Golem joins the Filecoin trusted setup ceremony (opens new window), 14 Feb 2020
• ARK desktop blockchain wallet upgrade adds multisig and multipayments (opens new window), 14 Feb 2020
• Fission Drive Preview (opens new window), 13 Feb 2020
• Temporal and ENS now make launching a decentralized website easier than ever (opens new window), 10 Feb 2020
• Textile shipped a Filecoin tools progress update: 10 February (opens new window), 10 Feb 2020
• Taking Back The Internet with Naomi Brockwell and Brad Kam (opens new window), 07 Feb 2020
• Blockchain Key To A Better Internet (opens new window), 06 Feb 2020
• What’s IPFS and how it can change Internet (opens new window), 04 Feb 2020

Quote of the week

Loving the repo->build->deploy systems!

For any @Netlify users this is the same but for InterPlanetary File System!

Deploy censorship resistant websites in seconds! Who says #blockchain has no use cases?!?#IPFS #100DaysOfCode #webdev #privacyhttps://t.co/bKoIblBaxg pic.twitter.com/gvunHkpi46

— Jason 🌟 (@0xBanana) February 13, 2020

Open positions working on IPFS

• Backend Software Engineeer (opens new window), Qri
• Frontend Software Engineer (opens new window), Qri
• 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

Join the community at these upcoming events

• 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
• The Web Conference 2020 (opens new window), 20-24 Apr 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
• Consensus 2020 (opens new window), 11-13 May 2020, New York (NY), US
• csv,conf,v5 (opens new window), 13-14 May 2020, Washington, D.C., US

Get involved with IPFS by checking us out on GitHub (opens new window), joining discussions on our community forum (opens new window), or hitting us up in chat (opens new window). Have a suggestion? Email us.

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