Discover What's
Out There with IPFS
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#### IPFS is an open system to manage data without a central server
A Universe of Uses
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### IPFS's versatility shines across different industries – making it the multi-purpose tool for the decentralized age.
1. ### 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](https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/data-and-security/data-storage-and-deletion#storage)
2. ### 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](https://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/)
3. ### 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](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2022-11-15-3s-studio/)
4. ### 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](https://youtu.be/K2zVNcn6CIU)
5. ### 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aDajwBSic)
6. ### Enable data transparency in Web3
Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
[Read the case study](https://docs.ipfs.tech/case-studies/snapshot/)
7. ### 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](/community/)
8. ### 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](https://thedefiant.io/filecoin-ipfs-space)
9. ### 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](https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/data-and-security/data-storage-and-deletion#storage)
10. ### 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](https://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/)
11. ### 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](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2022-11-15-3s-studio/)
12. ### 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](https://youtu.be/K2zVNcn6CIU)
13. ### 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aDajwBSic)
14. ### Enable data transparency in Web3
Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
[Read the case study](https://docs.ipfs.tech/case-studies/snapshot/)
15. ### 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](/community/)
16. ### 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](https://thedefiant.io/filecoin-ipfs-space)
17. ### 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](https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/data-and-security/data-storage-and-deletion#storage)
18. ### 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](https://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/)
19. ### 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](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2022-11-15-3s-studio/)
20. ### 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](https://youtu.be/K2zVNcn6CIU)
21. ### 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aDajwBSic)
22. ### Enable data transparency in Web3
Snapshot uses IPFS to publicly record all proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projects & DAOs
[Read the case study](https://docs.ipfs.tech/case-studies/snapshot/)
23. ### 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](/community/)
24. ### 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](https://thedefiant.io/filecoin-ipfs-space)
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Why IPFS?
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### 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](/developers/)
Get Started
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### 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](/developers/)
* [Documentation](https://docs.ipfs.tech/)
* [Read Case Studies](https://docs.ipfs.tech/case-studies/arbol/)
### 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](https://docs.ipfs.tech/quickstart/publish/)
* [Retrieve CIDs with IPFS](https://docs.ipfs.tech/quickstart/retrieve/)
### 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](https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ipfs-desktop)
* [Install IPFS Browser Extension](https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ipfs-companion/)
* [Browse IPFS Applications](https://ecosystem.ipfs.tech/)
### Develop tooling for IPFS
Design storage, compute, encryption, and implementation layers to optimize the way developers use IPFS.
* [Kubo (Go)](https://github.com/ipfs/kubo)
* [Cluster](https://github.com/ipfs-cluster/ipfs-cluster)
* [Iroh (Rust)](https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh)
* [Helia (JavaScript)](https://github.com/ipfs/helia)
Connect Through Community
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### 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](/community/)
IPFS by the Numbers
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### 2000+
active contributors
### 280,000+
unique nodes
### 1 Billion+
CIDs published to network
What's Happening
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### On Our Blog
[
06 March 2025
### The Static Website Manifesto
](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2025-03-static-web-manifesto/)[
28 February 2025
### Could IPFS Have Prevented the Bybit Hack?
](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2025-could-ipfs-prevent-bybit-hack/)[
25 November 2024
### IPFS on the Web in 2024: Update From Interplanetary Shipyard
](https://blog.ipfs.tech/2024-shipyard-improving-ipfs-on-the-web/)[
07 October 2024
### Improved Debugging with IPFS Check
](https://blog.ipfs.tech/ipfs-check/)
### In The Media
[
14 May 2024
### Cloudflare’s public IPFS gateways and supporting Interplanetary Shipyard
](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-public-ipfs-gateways-and-supporting-interplanetary-shipyard)[
16 Jan 2024
### Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
](https://fil.org/blog/filecoin-foundation-successfully-deploys-interplanetary-file-system-ipfs-in-space/)[
14 Nov 2023
### Advancing IPFS and libp2p Governance
](https://protocol.ai/blog/advancing-ipfs-and-libp2p-governance/)
### Recent Videos
[
4 Sep 2024
### Debugging CID Retrievability With IPFS Check
Video
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNOQDOrdC0)[
13 Nov 2023
### Built with IPFS - Mintter and The Hypermedia Protocol
Video
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3U6A4sgKo4)
From The Community
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1. “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
2. “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
3. “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
4. “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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
5. “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs
6. “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and effectively forever.”
Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission
7. “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are comfortable with.”
Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare
8. “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
Roland Kuhn, Actyx
9. “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
10. “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
11. “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
12. “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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
13. “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs
14. “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and effectively forever.”
Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission
15. “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are comfortable with.”
Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare
16. “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
Roland Kuhn, Actyx
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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
20. “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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
21. “At 3box labs, we are using IPFS as the storage layer. If you want to build full decentralized applications, you need data integrity. IPFS guarantees integrity by providing a framework for merkelized data.”
Joel Thorstenssen, Co-founder - 3Box Labs
22. “IPFS and content addressing give us the opportunity to work towards having every human be able to put data online effectively for free, and effectively forever.”
Boris Mann, Co-founder - Fission
23. “At Cloudflare, we offer to make content available to every user of the Internet. By removing lock-in to any single data storage provider, IPFS really allows our customers to choose a storage provider they are comfortable with.”
Thibault Meunier, Research Engineer - Cloudflare
24. “By using IPFS private swarms, we were able to deploy a fleet of devices communicating mission critical data in a factory without any central infrastructure, which has allowed us to move much faster.”
Roland Kuhn, Actyx
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