Interplanetary Shipyard

IPFS Public Gateways are Redirecting to inbrowser.link

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Following up on our earlier post about moving IPFS users beyond centralized gateways, we have now begun redirecting users who navigate directly to ipfs.io and dweb.link to inbrowser.link .

Shipyard’s Q1 2026 Contributions to IPFS

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400

TL;DR

In Q1 2026, Shipyard moved IPFS meaningfully closer to production readiness by:

Migrating IPFS Project Websites from Fleek to Modular Infrastructure

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Shipyard migrated 15+ IPFS Project websites to modular infrastructure where each component is independently swappable. This post explains the approach and how to set it up for your project.

Shipyard 2025: Bringing IPFS Home

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500

TL;DR

2025 was the year IPFS became practical for regular users. Seven Kubo releases shipped alongside dozens more across Rainbow , Desktop, WebUI, Companion , and the JavaScript ecosystem including Helia and @helia/verified-fetch . The theme throughout: removing barriers that kept IPFS confined to datacenters and making it work on consumer hardware.

Provide Sweep: Solving the DHT Bottleneck for Self-Hosting IPFS at Scale

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500

TL;DR

What’s new: Kubo v0.39 ships Provide Sweep as the default provider system. After testing as an opt-in experimental feature in v0.38 with no significant issues, it now comes with smart resume capabilities and memory optimizations. By grouping CIDs allocated to the same IPFS DHT servers and sweeping through keyspace regions systematically, nodes achieve 97% fewer DHT lookups with smooth, predictable resource usage.

An update about Libp2p maintenance at Shipyard

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Today we want to share an important update on Shipyard’s role as a contributor to the libp2p project and as the maintainers of go-libp2p and js-libp2p. We will be transitioning stewardship of the Go and JavaScript implementations of libp2p to community maintainers.

Debugging Superpowers With the New js-libp2p Developer Tools

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Interplanetary Shipyard is thrilled to share js-libp2p inspector , the new developer tools for debugging and inspecting js-libp2p and Helia, for use both in browsers and Node.js.

A Post Gateway World: Transitioning Users to Direct Retrieval with IPFS

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Summary

The public-good IPFS gateways at ipfs.io and dweb.link have played a foundational role in IPFS adoption—serving over 614 million requests and 45TB of data to 10 million users daily. However, this centralized infrastructure has become a major obstacle to sustainability and decentralization.

Could IPFS Have Prevented the Bybit Hack?

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500

The Bybit Hack and IPFS

Bybit’s recent hack , which resulted in the loss of $1.4 billion, is a reminder of the importance of verification for frontends, especially dapp frontends in the Web3 ecosystem.

IPFS on the Web in 2024: Update From Interplanetary Shipyard

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Update From Interplanetary Shipyard

Earlier this year, we introduced Interplanetary Shipyard , as the evolution of the maintainers leading the open-source development of libp2p and the most popular IPFS implementations, tooling and infrastructure.

IPFS & libp2p Devs Go Independent: Meet Interplanetary Shipyard

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Last November, Protocol Labs, where IPFS was invented and incubated, announced its commitment to decentralizing project governance . In this post, you’ll hear from Adin Schmahmann of Interplanetary Shipyard, introducing the new team, its roadmap, and what this means for the IPFS community.