The launch of the Filecoin mainnet is a great milestone, but this is only the beginning. We stand at the door of the new era of dweb. Any application software, smart contract or NFT of dweb can store and browse its own data in a decentralized storage layer without any middleman.
What is more worthy of our attention at this stage is that it has been five years since the IPFS protocol was announced in January 2015, and the technology has become more and more perfect. As the bottom communication protocol of the next generation Internet technology, IPFS has been successfully used In various industries such as data storage, file transfer, online video, social media, and decentralized transactions, this kind of APP, application, and service platform is rebuilding the entire Internet.
Figure: Main applications that use IPFS (continuous update)
The following summarizes and introduces some of the IPFS application areas. Everyone can participate in the application and contribute their own strength to build the IPFS ecosystem!
search engine
Brave browser
Brave can be said to be a browser that has become famous in one fell swoop. Once it was announced, it swept the market and gained attention in the browser market and the digital currency industry. Brave is known for protecting privacy. Its founder is BrendanEich, the founder of Mozilla and the inventor of Java. The protocol laboratory started to collaborate with Brave in 2018, prompting the Brave browser to show that IPFS is applicable.
Figure: Enable IPFS extension in Brave browser
Firefox browser
Mike Conca, product manager of Firefox WebExtensions, published an article on Mozilla's official website stating that browser extensions are applicable to distributed system protocols that include IPFS, that is, to the "ipfs://" protocol.
Google Google Chrome
IPFS Companion (IPFS Companion) is a browser spawned by the IPFS official website using the community, which can be found in the Google browser extension application. A browser extension that can be used to simplify the browsing of IPFS resources, to assist customers in better operation and control of their nodes locally, and to query the resource information of IPFS nodes anytime and anywhere.
Opera browser
Opera has been cooperating with IPFS for a long time. It is estimated that its Android version of Opera browser will release IPFS application and develop and design data encryption wallet in the browser. There are Android, iOS and desktop versions.
Figure: Opera announced support for ENS+IPFS
SELF
IPSE is a search engine based on the IPFS Internet, focusing on creating a next-generation Internet technology traffic channel. IPFS Internet documents can be retrieved on IPSE, because the hach marking technology is used, which can convert the hach address of the content into a text title for quick access.
https://www.ipse.io/
poseidon
A centralized distributed log search engine based on the IPFS Internet allows customers to quickly search for documents on the IPFS Internet and find the data information they need. In addition, customers can also get token incentives for participating in mining. Known as the blockchain version of Google.
file transfer
Party share
Partyshare is an open source file sharing application software built on the point-to-point vertical search protocol IPFS. It allows customers to share files using IPFS.
The customer only needs to drag the required documents into the PartyShare folder, and the system software will carry out the hach resolution/distribution of detailed addresses to them, and others can use the address given by the customer to request documents.
Pinata
Pinata: Let you upload files to the IPFS network more efficiently.
https://pinata.cloud/
IPWB
ipwb promotes continuity and cooperation in Web archiving based on disseminating the contents of WARC documents to the IPFS Internet. IPFS is a peer-to-peer content addressable system file, which originally allows repeated data deletion and promotes selective copying.
Before distributing the title text and reasonable load of the WARC response record to IPFS, ipwb used repeated data and information removal, and the introduction of the returned IPFShach was used to build the CDXJ database index, and the IPFS title text was rationalized during the playback. Combination of loads.
Content platform
Netflix
Netflix mainly produces a huge total of DVDs and sends them for free. In addition, its customers can also watch its movies and TV programs based on the computer, TV, iPad, iPhone and other connected networks.
Not long ago, IPFS announced a strategic cooperation with the world's largest streaming media platform Netflix. Integrate the technology of peer-to-peer service items in the IPFS system software into the dedicated tools of flix, and use the technology of IPFS to accelerate the construction, design and testing of the cloud.
As a company with extraordinary influence and overall strength, why choose to collaborate with IPFS?
Netflix has to deal with the vessel distribution challenge: how to reasonably obtain vessel images in a large-scale, multi-space environment. The image layer is generally located in a different area. Using IPFS as a point-to-point CDN enables the connection points in the Netflix system architecture to cooperate and plant mutual seeds to neighboring connection points, which is conducive to quickly distributing vessels.
D.Tube
D.Tube is the first data encryption distributed system video website. It is built on STEEM blockchain technology and IPFS peer-to-peer network. In the future, FIlecoin Internet will be applied. It is committed to becoming a substitute for YouTube, allowing customers to use IPFS/FIlecoin Basically watch or upload videos, share or evaluate on the immutable STEEM blockchain technology, and earn data encryption tokens.
https://d.tube/
Dlive
DLive has created a more just video website community. The DLive service platform does not deduct all commissions. Customers can immediately reward the anchor content creator based on the service platform loan currency, and other promoters of the video community will also receive relative rewards.
Cousins
Primas is a new blockchain technology project that focuses on using blockchain applications to deal with a series of problems arising from the network economy, such as fake news, plagiarism, fake originals, fake news, low-quality content, etc.
Primas' original Distributed System Reliable Content Protocol (DTCP) will bring reliable and high-quality information content to the Internet technology and reconstruct the value ecology of network media.
Mediachain
The overall goal of Mediachain is to develop and design a service platform that allows original creators to add additional information in their works and establish records on the Bitcoin blockchain. This information content can be stored on the Interplanetary System File IPFS.
Ujomusic
Ujomusic is a blockchain technology sales market for composers on IPFS. Fans can purchase license rights, free downloads, trial lessons, and can also be used for main purposes such as reverberation; and the money paid by fans will be automatically distributed to Heap and the collaborators of the work.
Social
Indorse
Indorse is a social media based on the Ethereum service platform, which is dedicated to changing the current status of social media for posts. Indorse uses the IPFS Internet for data storage to ensure the security of customer network information, avoid fraud in the first-time workplace, and reproduce a real social network platform for the first-time workplace.
Steepshot
Steepshot is a social network platform powered by blockchain technology. You can use it to share photos with relatives and friends. The most important thing is that you can get token rewards for all the content planned for the project and the theme activities participated by others. All the data and information transferred to the service platform are safely stored in the IPFS system software.
https://steepshot.io/
3Box
The 3Box chat software built according to IPFS makes it easier for blockchain development staff to participate in other general themed activities including personal chat, picture upload, favorite posts, and the content formed by customers and sociality.
Peepeth
Peepeth is a distributed system social network platform, which can be regarded as the blockchain technology version of twiter.
E-commerce
Origin
The Origin network technology shop relies on the IPFS gateway ip and an Ether connection point. All front-end development and application program structure, commodity database query and applicable news media are hosted on IPFS.
Open Bazaar
OOpenBazaar is a free trade market for blockchain technology products that integrates the characteristics of eBay and BittTorrent. The OpenBazaar service platform does not have a central network server, and uses data encryption as loan guarantee. The trust comes from coding and math classes, not from it.
https://www.openbazaar.org/
Known Origin
KnownOrigin uses the blockchain technology IPFS technology to carry out historical time information transmission, entry and exchange records, display and announcement, and fully transparent transaction methods for the selected plastic arts in the early stage, which completely changes the economic development characteristics of handicrafts.
to sum up
The overall goals of IPFS and Web3.0 are the same. The long-term vision is to replace today's centralized Internet technology infrastructure. Blockchain technology and web3.0 require a storage layer. IPFS allows distributed system data. The data has a hachized identifier and cannot be changed. According to IPFS, it is possible to store non-critical data on blockchain technology on IPFS, and store identifiers that cannot be forged on blockchain technology, which will be more efficient. This type of approach means that with the development of blockchain technology and web3.0, our demand for the IPFS storage layer will increase.
The next generation of Internet technology will inevitably cause extensive changes, and building technical infrastructure in advance is equivalent to occupying the main position of high-tech technology. In fact, the distributed technology represented by IPFS is still in the process of large-scale application, but a wave of replacement of the old and the new has begun. After repeated inspections, Filecoin is flying through the wind and waves in its best state and traveling steadily.