IPFS Standards

IPFS — Content addressing for data with confidence

IPFS gives developers content addressing building blocks for verifiable, portable, and resilient applications across open networks

Introducing Filebase Sites: Simplified IPFS Websites with IPNS

Hosting a real website on IPFS has always come with friction: changing CIDs, manual IPNS management, and fragile workflows. Filebase Sites removes the last-mile complexity, giving developers a simple way to publish, update, and maintain decentralized websites without breaking links.

Decentralized Technology in Practice: An analysis of socio-technical resilience in IPFS

The “Interplanetary File System” (IPFS) refers to a peer-to-peer content addressing protocol that is designed to be “upgradeable, resilient, and more open”. [1]

Browsers & Standards Work 2026: Call for Community Input

TL;DR: IPFS is planning the next phase of work to make browsers better for the decentralized web – not just IPFS, but any protocol that needs lightweight crypto, peer-to-peer connections, or native browser integration. We need your input on what features matters most. Background: What We’ve Accomplished Over the past 5 years, sustained collaboration with Igalia has delivered real improvements to all major browsers: Ed25519 in WebCrypto API - Shipped in Chrome 137 (May 2025), now available in...

Content Identifiers (CIDs) | IPFS Docs

Learn about how content addressing works and how content identifiers, or CIDs, play a crucial role in IPFS.

IPFS is moving beyond the sponsored gateways

How IPFS is shifting from centralized public gateways to distributed infrastructure and client-side retrieval.

WebSeed specifications · Issue #444 · ipfs/specs

This is a meta issue discussing required features to enable webseed like features for the IPFS network. A webseed is qualified as a server: Server that implements a version of the HTTP protocol. Or...

Project: IPFS Chromium implementation | Little Bear Labs | Little Bear Labs

Faster, more secure, more accessible IPFS links in Chromium-based browsers.

Chad Kohalyk (@chadkoh@indieweb.social)

Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers https://pfp.unternet.co

#protocolsforpublishers #atproto #mcp #webapplets | Chad Kohalyk

Web publishing is facing its next challenge: a new iteration of centralizing platforms. BUT there is also a new wave of open protocols and standards that can help us gain our independence. Next month in NYC we are gathering a group of frontier technologists and popular web publishers to discuss how we can sail into this next platform shift as captains. #ProtocolsForPublishers Learn more and sign up here: https://pfp.unternet.co We will be hosting talks on #atproto #mcp #webapplets and web payments, and give publishers the opportunity to interact directly with developers working on these frontier technologies. Thank you to Unternet, Graze Social, Free our Feeds, and betaworks for their support.

Subdomain Gateway Specification

Defines how HTTP Gateway can implement support for HTTP Host headers to enable isolated website hosting based on root CID-derived Origins. This ensures compatibility with native ipfs:// and ipns:// URIs, and aligns with the existing Same-origin security model in web browsers, including relative URL pathing and permission scopes of Web APIs.

Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

This document discusses aspects of centralization that relate to Internet standards efforts. It argues that, while standards bodies have a limited ability to prevent many forms of centralization, they can still make contributions that assist in the decentralization of the Internet.

Cap'n Web: A new RPC system for browsers and web servers

Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.

HTTP Semantics

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document describes the overall architecture of HTTP, establishes common terminology, and defines aspects of the protocol that are shared by all versions. In this definition are core protocol elements, extensibility mechanisms, and the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. This document updates RFC 3864 and obsoletes RFCs 2818, 7231, 7232, 7233, 7235, 7538, 7615, 7694, and portions of 7230.