Building Blocks
For a Better Web

Open protocols to store, verify, and share data across distributed networks.

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
Share verifiable scientific datasets across institutions
The ORCESTRA campaign uses IPFS to advance open scientific research by sharing verifiable, accessible datasets across institutions worldwide
Read the case study
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
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
Share verifiable scientific datasets across institutions
The ORCESTRA campaign uses IPFS to advance open scientific research by sharing verifiable, accessible datasets across institutions worldwide
Read the case study
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
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
Share verifiable scientific datasets across institutions
The ORCESTRA campaign uses IPFS to advance open scientific research by sharing verifiable, accessible datasets across institutions worldwide
Read the case study
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
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

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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 with IPFS

Integrate content addressing and peer-to-peer networking into your application. Choose from implementations in Go, Rust, and JavaScript.

Developer Resources Documentation The Lifecycle of Data in IPFS

Store & Publish Data

Use IPFS for large-scale data storage and publishing — from deploying websites to archiving scientific datasets.

Publish with GitHub Actions Publish Geospatial Zarr Data Retrieve CIDs

Run a Node

Install IPFS on your machine. IPFS Desktop is a graphical interface built on Kubo, the reference Go implementation. Add the browser extension to access IPFS content from any tab.

Install IPFS Desktop Kubo CLI Install Browser Extension

Explore the Ecosystem

Browse hundreds of apps, tools, and services built on IPFS — from decentralized file sharing and NFT storage to scientific data archival.

Browse IPFS Applications Case Studies Browse Implementations

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

From The Community

“During our 2024 ORCESTRA campaign, the planned local data infrastructure was stuck in customs. We set up IPFS on our notebooks and a Raspberry Pi, and suddenly all scientists could sync, share data, and collaborate on a local network, with automatic uploads back to Hamburg during intermittent internet connectivity.”
Tobias Kölling, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
“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 - Seed Hypermedia
“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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
“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
“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
“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
“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
“During our 2024 ORCESTRA campaign, the planned local data infrastructure was stuck in customs. We set up IPFS on our notebooks and a Raspberry Pi, and suddenly all scientists could sync, share data, and collaborate on a local network, with automatic uploads back to Hamburg during intermittent internet connectivity.”
Tobias Kölling, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
“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 - Seed Hypermedia
“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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
“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
“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
“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
“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
“During our 2024 ORCESTRA campaign, the planned local data infrastructure was stuck in customs. We set up IPFS on our notebooks and a Raspberry Pi, and suddenly all scientists could sync, share data, and collaborate on a local network, with automatic uploads back to Hamburg during intermittent internet connectivity.”
Tobias Kölling, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
“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 - Seed Hypermedia
“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 the work backed up to Filecoin means they'll be around for a long time.”
Nancy Baker Cahill, Artist
“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
“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
“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
“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