Here’s what’s happening in the InterPlanetary File System (opens new window) galaxy!
# Your files 💖 for keeps forever 💖 with IPFS
Right in time for Valentine’s Day, Opera’s Global Crypto Community Manager Susie Batt wrote this ode to our favorite decentralized protocol, and how seamlessly IPFS and Opera go together. Bonus feature: see the panel on bridging Web 2.0 and Web3 technologies featuring folks from Opera, Unstoppable Domains, and IPFS.
# See all the cool things folks built at ETHDenver
The Pegabufficorn and Spork Marmots have gone back into hibernation since ETHDenver has come to a close. Over 30 projects applied for the IPFS project-specific bounties, and that’s not even counting the bounties offered by 14 other ecosystem members. See what they came up with in this full list of project submissions.
Check it out (opens new window)
# Human readable URLs and other things
...folks are discussing at our favorite community forum for discussion: discuss.ipfs.tech. Check out threads on use cases across the ecosystem, get help with your IPFS questions from some of the core team devs, or discover showcases, community meetups, or everyone’s favorite—protocol-specific discussions!
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# Hang out with IPFS and friends next Tuesday!
Join us in a week for talks from community hacker Leon Do, web archivist Ilya Kreymer, and RMRK specialist Viktor Valastin!
Register today to attend (opens new window)
# Brand new on IPFS
- A detailed, unbiased Brave browser (opens new window) review by Arjan de Haan, a software engineer.
- The Scala Project (opens new window), an IPFS-based private cryptocurrency, now has an IPFS-hosted website.
- Check out Parcel (opens new window), a self custodial treasury management platform built with Gnosis Safe, IPFS and Filecoin.
- Learn about JOSE, dagJOSE and DIDs (opens new window) in this workshop from Ceramic during ETHDenver.
# Around the ecosystem 🌏
It’s time for Fleek’s February releases (opens new window), including Multiple Custom Domain Support, a variety of wallet support, and more!
ICYMI: catch up on this WhiteBIT and Unstoppable Domains AMA (opens new window) session.
Folks from Textile, NuCypher, and more will be presenting at Hello Decentralization (opens new window) next week!
Discover how to leverage Cloudflare and IPFS (opens new window) distributed web to host a free high-availability site.
Vault74 is going through a small rebrand, so allow us to introduce Satellite (opens new window).
Check out this cool file sharing website (opens new window) with IPFS support!
# Calling all IPFS researchers, engineers and devs!
Join the first forum for researchers and academics working in the IPFS space to present your work and exchange ideas during “Decentralising the Internet with IPFS and Filecoin” (DI2F). This workshop will be hosted at IFIP Networking 2021, a top academic conference in networking research, which will take place during 21-24 June.
CFPs due March 19 (opens new window)
# Job hunting? Work on IPFS!
Senior Integration Engineer (opens new window): You will be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance to our users while they are integrating with libp2p, IPFS, Filecoin, and Textile. Textile, Remote.
Technical Project Manager (Infura) (opens new window): Track active projects, remove roadblocks, and support the development team in identifying and keeping up-to-date all project requirements. Manage project, feature, technical debt, and bug backlogs working across teams in prioritizing work and planning out sprints. ConsenSys, Remote.
Ecosystem Developer (opens new window): We are looking for a technical community manager to help us create a world-class developer ecosystem and experience around our open source community. 3Box, Remote.
Sr. Backend Engineer (opens new window): Have built systems at scale in the past and can discuss the architectural tradeoffs that went into them. Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, and OLAP technologies. Self-directed. We want you to own the systems you build. ConsenSys, Remote.
Hey, libp2p deserves love too. ❤️
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