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Community Developers Docs Blog Discover What's Out There with IPFS IPFS is an open system to manage data without a central server A Universe of Uses IPFS's versatility shines across different industries – making it the multi-purpose tool for the decentralized age. Develop offline-native productivity tools Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others Read how they do it Make archives and content libraries censorship resistant When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people Read the story Speed up gameplay for your superfans 3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes Read the their story Guarantee a permanent home for your digital art Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art assets using IPFS through NFT.storage Watch her presentation Publish scientific research that invites global collaboration WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the world Watch the presentation Enable data transparency in Web3 Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projectsDAOs Read the case study Expand our universe We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible Join the community Literally store your data out of this world Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate more efficient interplanetary communication Learn more Develop offline-native productivity tools Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others Read how they do it Make archives and content libraries censorship resistant When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people Read the story Speed up gameplay for your superfans 3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes Read the their story Guarantee a permanent home for your digital art Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art assets using IPFS through NFT.storage Watch her presentation Publish scientific research that invites global collaboration WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the world Watch the presentation Enable data transparency in Web3 Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projectsDAOs Read the case study Expand our universe We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible Join the community Literally store your data out of this world Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate more efficient interplanetary communication Learn more Develop offline-native productivity tools Anytype uses the content addressing on IPFS to empower users to build personal knowledge webs that can be shared with others Read how they do it Make archives and content libraries censorship resistant When the government of Turkey blocked access to Wikipedia, a copy of the site was posted to IPFS, restoring visibility to millions of people Read the story Speed up gameplay for your superfans 3S Studios built an IPFS plugin for Unity that reduced the content size of a game from 2 gigabytes to 40 megabytes Read the their story Guarantee a permanent home for your digital art Digital artist Nancy Baker Cahill stores all of her full-resolution art assets using IPFS through NFT.storage Watch her presentation Publish scientific research that invites global collaboration WeatherXM configured thousands of smart weather vanes with IPFS client functionality to collaboratively share weather patterns from around the world Watch the presentation Enable data transparency in Web3 Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projectsDAOs Read the case study Expand our universe We're reimagining the structure of the traditional web so we're ready for what's next - we need you to help us discover what's possible Join the community Literally store your data out of this world Lockheed Martin is launching an IPFS node into orbit in 2023 to demonstrate more efficient interplanetary communication Learn more Arrow pointing to the left Arrow pointing to the right Item 1 of 8 Why IPFS? Our peer-to-peer content delivery network is built around the innovation of content addressing: store, retrieve, and locate data based on the fingerprint of its actual content rather than its name or location. Open The IPFS network is distributed and participatory, which reduces the problem of data silos that plague central servers. Verifiable The integrity of all data is verified using hash functions, so you can trust that you always get the data you’re looking for. Resilient Files and data can be stored across multiple nodes, which keeps content at the ready even during critical outages. Learn how it works Get Started Join thousands of developers who choose IPFS to build software that’s open, verifiable, and resilient. Build peer-to-peer apps with IPFS Our most popular implementations are written in Go, Rust, and JavaScript – and we also have support for desktop, browsers, mobile, embedded devices, and more. Developers Documentation Read Case Studies Store and manage your data on IPFS Use content addressing to give your data unique identifiers, and use IPFS for large-scale data storage and compute. Publish with IPFS Retrieve CIDs with IPFS Use IPFS apps Share files, stream music, publish your website, store NFTs, and much more through hundreds of applications built on IPFS. Install IPFS Desktop Install IPFS Browser Extension Browse IPFS Applications Develop tooling for IPFS Design storage, compute, encryption, and implementation layers to optimize the way developers use IPFS. Kubo (Go) Cluster Iroh (Rust) Helia (JavaScript) Connect Through Community We've sparked the most robust open-source ecosystem on Earth, and together we're achieving interplanetary aspirations. Application-Developers Scientists Infrastructure Developers Researchers Designers Archivists Yes, Even the occasional Astronaut Artists Our protocol's success hinges on participation from all of our neighbors: Each new node that joins IPFS makes the network stronger for everyone. Join the Community IPFS by the Numbers 2000+ active contributors 280,000+ unique nodes 1 Billion+ CIDs published to network What's Happening On Our Blog In The Media Recent Videos From The Community IPFS gives us a set of flexible building blocks for connecting devices and exchanging data. The plethora of IPFS documentation and community members contributes toward our goal at Agregore of making peer-to-peer web apps easy to use.” Mauve Signweaver, Founder - Agregore It's crucially important to have a distributed file system in our open hypertext system. IPFS is the missing piece that allows for a truly decentralized and open web.” Gabo H Beaumont, Co-Founder - Mintter inc As people learn about IPFS, they also get a view of IPFS as a component in a broader ecosystem. It's not an island. It's not a technology that lives entirely on its own, it's a piece of a broader stack of something. We see it as an onramp to broader decentralization.” Wes Floyd, Bacalhau I use NFT.storage for my digital art. It was such a relief to know that I could store my videos in one place—each one with its own IPFS URL and CID. Resilience is important to me and having...