Here’s what’s happening in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy! 🚀
# go-ipfs 0.7 is here 🚀🚀🚀
The latest iteration of the Go implementation of IPFS brings a truckload of features and fixes: SECIO disabled by default 👋, rotating keys 🔑, IPNS paths now encode the key name as a base36 CIDv1 by default 🎹, key export/import 📦, and more. Great work everyone!
Read the release notes (opens new window)
# Case Study: Shipping IPFS with Morpheus.Network
And we mean that quite literally. For Morpheus.Network, shipping of goods across the globe, it’s critical—both functionally and legally—to have verifiable, consistently accessible documentation for every shipment. That’s where IPFS comes into the picture, in the latest entry in the IPFS Case Study series.
Read the case study (opens new window)
# Quote of the week
My decentralized poem
— Omodaka (@LordOfThePies4) September 23, 2020
Data leaked,
services are down,
servers are hacked,
ransomware attacked.
Delivery delayed,
clients dismayed,
codebase is a mess,
should I switch to IPFS?🤔#ipfs #decentralized
# Listen to podcasts on IPFS 🎧
Curious about which podcasts are stored on IPFS? Now you can search all of the podcasts available to stream on our favorite filesystem, courtesy of Pod.casts.io and Andrew Nesbitt.
Check out podcasts (opens new window)
# Brand new on IPFS
- Rust IPFS + Substrate (opens new window): Introducing Ipfs::add, Ipfs::cat, pinning, and a much faster build time!
- PowergateIO (opens new window), a bridge between OrbitDB and Powergate, which is a bridge between Filecoin and IPFS.
- qDesk (opens new window), lightning fast open-source peer-to-peer cross-platform social network that doesn’t sell you out.
- Don’t miss the v1.0.0 release (opens new window) of Textile’s go-threads server-less p2p database built on libp2p.
# People are building the coolest stuff with IPFS
TCS and Yale University (opens new window) develop secure, private off-grid networking platform using IPFS
The Brave Swag Store, built on Origin (opens new window), now accepts BAT and ETH
Tutorial: Getting started with Infura’s IPFS service (opens new window)
Video: Watch an Unstoppable AMA (opens new window) with Brad Kam
Decentralized Data Governance (opens new window), courtesy of IPFS and NATIX EdgeDrive
Eco-Track supply chain and recycling services using IOTA and IPFS (opens new window)
Swarm, IPFS and BigchainDB (opens new window): Comparing data storage and decentralization
# Space Race 2: Slingshot - put your project on Filecoin for FIL token rewards!
Slingshot (opens new window) has kicked off and there’s still time to join the fun! Developers who integrate an application with and store useful data on Filecoin’s testnet can be eligible for potentially large Filecoin token rewards. Integrations can be as simple as using a tool like Textile’s Powergate (opens new window) to back up data your project is already storing on IPFS to Filecoin. Sign up and find out more here (opens new window)!
# Job hunting? Work on IPFS!
Distributed Systems Engineer (opens new window): 3Box is looking for a distributed systems engineer to push the limits of decentralized distributed systems by implementing and upgrading the Ceramic protocol in a high performance scaled network.
Front-end Developer (opens new window): Are you an experienced front end dev that understands IPFS and linked data and wants to make an impact on the future of Web3? Ceramic is looking for a contractor to work on Ceramic Explorer.
Remote Senior Software Engineer (opens new window): We are looking for talented engineers to help us design, build, and architect the most difficult parts of the Audius protocol—high availability services for decentralized replication of data, latency-sensitive distributed file transfers, Ethereum smart contracts, infrastructure, tooling, and more. Audius, Remote
UI Engineer (opens new window): Come build scalable front-end applications, experiment with new technologies, and build beautiful products. Textile, Remote
Project Lead, libp2p (opens new window): This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a massively successful open source project and carry it through its next phase of growth. Protocol Labs, Remote
View our job postings (opens new window)
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