IPFS Weekly-Issue 96: IPFS Second Quarter Review

 

Protocol laboratory compilation IPFS force zone compilation

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressing by content and identity. IPFS supports the creation of fully distributed applications, and its purpose is to make the network faster, safer, and more open.

 

01. April, a fresh start

IPFS launched a mobile design research project, which aims to study the use of existing P2P protocols in mobile applications and create a set of informative and research-supported design guidelines and best practices for IPFS.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-04-10-ipfs-mobile-design-research/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

The Protocol Institute studied the asynchronous iteration returned by js-ipfs 0.41.0.

https://proto.school/#/mutable-file-system

js-ipfs 0.42.0 has been released, bringing the automatic release of RCs, the update of Docker containers, and so on.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-04-14-js-ipfs-0-42/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

We introduced the IPFS funding platform.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-04-20-ipfs-grants-platform/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

The IPFS distribution website got an interesting new name for IPFS.

https://dist.ipfs.io/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Our biggest IPFS upgrade occurred in go-ipfs 0.5! In addition, we also held a press conference to share many of our updates with community members!

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-04-28-go-ipfs-0-5-0/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Textile announced Powergate-a development tool that allows people to build on IPFS and Filecoin!

https://blog.textile.io/filecoin-tools-progress-update-8-april/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Ethereum hosts its website on IPFS.

https://twitter.com/samonchain/status/1247229402431119360?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Unstoppable Domains starts Opera support.

https://unstoppabledomains.com/opera?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Brave launched an original store based on IPFS.

https://brave.com/brave-launches-new-swag-store-powered-by-origin/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

FISSION shared how they experimented with HLS video streaming and IPFS.

https://blog.fission.codes/experimenting-with-hls-video-streaming-and-ipfs/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

 

02, May, get together

Textile launched Hub, a collection of databases and services to connect and extend IPFS, libp2p and Filecoin.

https://blog.textile.io/announcing-the-textile-protocol-hub/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

We have taken some important steps to improve the experience of IPFS developers.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-05-developer-experience/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Almonit released an introduction to Dwebsites, which is completely built on IPFS.

http://blog.almonit.eth.link/2020-05-21/Introduction_to_Dwebsitse.html?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

js-ipfs 0.44.0 is released, adding cancelable requests and new browser data storage!

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-21-js-ipfs-0-44/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

The v0.24 released by OrbitDB supports both go-ipfs 0.5 and js-ipfs 0.44.

https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db/issues/772?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335#issuecomment-632357888

We launched Testground v0.5, which is a platform for large-scale testing, benchmarking and simulation of distributed and p2p systems. Designed to be multilingual and runtime agnostic, it can be expanded from 2 instances to 10k instances.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-06-launching-testground/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

 

We hosted the IPFS Pinning Summit, which brought together Pinning services, infra providers and curious people for two days of talks and seminars.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-13-ipfs-pinning-summit-recap/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

We went deep into the road to the new DHT.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-19-road-to-dht/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Gossipsub v1.1 went online, bringing a scalable, extensible, and rugged P2P pubsub router protocol.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-05-20-gossipsub-v1.1/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Project leader Molly Mackinlay is a guest on the Zero Knowledge podcast, and she talked about go-ipfs 0.5 and more.

https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/129?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

An engineer from Wikipedia began to explore hosting on IPFS.

https://github.com/santhoshtr/wikipedia-ipfs?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Fleek released Fleek Storage SDK, which stores web assets on IPFS through a simple drag and drop interface.

https://blog.fleek.co/posts/fleek-storage-nft?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

The first completely virtual 2020 distributed conference was born!

https://distributed.camp/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

 

03, June, continuous improvement

The released js-ipfs 0.46.0 has faster Bitswap and go-ipfs 0.5 compatibility.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-06-08-js-ipfs-0-46/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

The libp2p project gave an update for 2020 and started looking for new team leaders!

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-06-09-libp2p-in-2020/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Activists created a database to accumulate and contextualize evidence of police brutality during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The website is hosted by IPFS. In addition, the PAN protocol of the current police accountability system is an anonymous and uncensored database of police misconduct complaints, which is also based on Ethereum and IPFS.

https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

https://decrypt.co/32614/blockchain-police-brutality-database-gives-bad-cops-nowhere-to-hide?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Textile released the Buckets JS library.

https://textileio.github.io/js-hub/docs/hub.buckets?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Jim Kosam shared a new IPFS mobile design guide, which is based on research conducted earlier this quarter. Go download the pdf!

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-06-25-ipfs-mobile-design-guidelines/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

ION launched by Microsoft has been developed for more than a year and is an example implementation of Sidetree running on the Bitcoin blockchain. It stores transaction data on IPFS.

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-06-11-identity-ipfs-ion/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

We held a virtual party in June, if you missed it, you can check out all the videos on our YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our channel to get new content.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhRWgmPaHtToVYaDkd6ZTwB2Lo30s1vB&utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

A study of 7 principles that the decentralized movement can improve has been released.

https://decentpatterns.xyz/report/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

There have been many improvements to the IPFS GUI this quarter, but don’t believe me, just watch this 2-minute video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKC7iPzWkc&feature=emb_logo&utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

IPFS Africa hosts the IPFS Community Virtual Community Conference in Nairobi.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ipfs-community-meetup-nairobi-tickets-108105257736?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

As at the beginning of this quarter, go-ipfs 0.6.0 was also released. QUIC, noise, gaze and more!

https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-06-26-go-ipfs-0-6-0/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

 

04, other new information

Fluence Labs released the "Decentralized Developer Report 2020", which shows that IPFS and Ethereum are the leaders in the development of DWeb applications.

https://medium.com/fluence-network/decentralized-web-developer-report-2020-5b41a8d86789?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Galacteek released their browser.

https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/galacteek-browser-v0-4-20-release/7582?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

3Box initiates 3ID connection.

https://medium.com/3box/introducing-3id-connect-531af4f84d3f?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

AvionDB is online.

https://simpleaswater.com/intro-to-aviondb/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Pinata shared how to create Vox files for Cryptovoxels.

https://medium.com/pinata/how-to-create-a-vox-file-for-cryptovoxels-39768edd8622?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Ready Layer One brings the community together

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-JxjKyX63VGkRM-8jziK8Q?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Keep a great work team! We can't wait to see what will happen in the next few months.

 

05, missed Meetup

A lot of amazing things happened in IPFS in the second quarter of 2020.

ION is a project that Microsoft started to promote around scalable and decentralized identifiers.

Carson Farmer talked about Textile's expectations for go-ipfs 0.5 and what will happen next.

Adin Schmahmann, the maintainer of go-ipfs, talked about the important 0.5 since this spring

Progress made since release.

 

06, Q2 reading

Using IPFS + Filecoin for decentralised storage with Powergate

by Samikshan Bairagya

https://medium.com/@samikshan/using-ipfs-filecoin-for-decentralised-storage-with-powergate-71ffe42f8c09?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

Publishing my Website on IPFS

by Justin Poliachik

http://justinpoliachik.com/posts/2020-03_ipfs_website/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

How I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p

by Alfonso de la Rocha

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-i-built-an-ipfs-crawler?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

As Covid-19 Tracing Raises Spying Fears, Blockchain Comes To Rescue

by Suprita Anupam

https://inc42.com/features/startups-vs-covid19-as-patient-tracing-raises-spying-fears-blockchain-comes-to-the-rescue/?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

3 Quorum Bounty Winners from ETHDenver 2020 (used IPFS to win！)

by Matt Wright

https://medium.com/@mateo_ventures/3-quorum-bounty-winners-from-ethdenver-2020-cb37a0d91386?utm_source=IPFS+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2b937756f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_05_01_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cad54b2230-a2b937756f-327528335

07, next

If the first half of 2020 has taught us anything, it is to expect unexpected things! Now, we are looking forward to implementing some Pinning improvements, adding support for TypeScript, and providing more opportunities for everyone to get together. Please continue to pay attention!

 

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