IPFS: Monthly Community Meetup, Recapping NFTHack with IPFS and Protocol Labs, Ceramic and IDX now available with Moonbeam, Unstoppable Domains and Brave integrate, Fleek now offers Internet Computer hosting, Infura now natively supports the Polygon Network, and more!
IPFS ecosystem biweekly vol.9, 12th May — 26th May
TL;DR
- js-IPFS 0.55.0 greatly improves type definitions
- Recapping NFTHack with IPFS and Protocol Labs
- Spring University Hackathons roundup
- Decentralized games at Gamedev.js JAM 2021 recap
- The Filecoin Network crossed the sustainability target for the first time recently
- Developers building on Moonbeam’s Ethereum-compatible smart contract Polkadot parachain can now use Ceramic’s streaming data and cross-chain identity protocols
- What’s more, Ceramic and IDX now available on Avalanche
- Fleek is officially running on the Internet Computer allowing dapps to run at web speed and serve web
- Blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains announced a collaboration with privacy-oriented web browser Brave that enables native browser support for the crypto domain name company
- Cloudflare launches cryptographic humanity authentication test to eliminate CAPTCHAs
- Teku and Infura team up to make the fastest Ethereum 2.0 client sync
- Infura and Truffle now natively support the Polygon PoS Network
- The dWeb Foundation has announced an incubator for Handshake projects
- Charlie set a new record for a meme-as-NFT sale with Origin’s NFT Launchpad, raising $760,999 to surpass other notable video & meme NFTs, Nyan Cat and Disaster Girl
- Berty is progressing well, especially on the android part. The team plans to put a public roadmap — which will show the progress of the work and the blocking points before the next steps
- A detailed overview of the Humanode’s Fath monetary algorithm
- Display 3D models through your Pinata gate
- The Superfluid subgraph is live via The Graph
- May 28–30: Web3 Weekend
- And more!
Why IPFS?
IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. It utilizes DHT (distributed hash table) and Merkle DAG (directed acyclic graph) data structures. IPFS uses a protocol similar to BitTorrent to decide how to move data around the network. One of the advanced features of IPFS is that it supports file versioning. To achieve file versioning, it uses data structures similar to Git.
IPFS forms the Content Centric Internet where you access data directly from any server in the world, and works in closed environments disconnected from the Internet. Interplanetary Linked Data makes it possible to access data from any public Merkle-tree like Ethereum.
Here’s how IPFS works
Latest IPFS News
- Check out recent IPFS Weekly #136 & IPFS Weekly #137
- Fetch IPFS Data in Smart Contracts Using a Chainlink External Adapter:
Using Chainlink External Adapters to connect various components of decentralized infrastructure is one of the ways the Chainlink Network is helping to make it easier for smart contract developers to build new use cases and fully decentralized applications. Chainlink Prize winners from the ETHOnline Hackaton Toshiake Takase and Tsukasa Noguchi used Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure and IPFS to enable artists on Audius’s blockchain-based music streaming platform to distribute token rewards to their fans without the costly gas fees associated with hundreds or thousands of individual transactions.
In this tutorial, the Iroiro team shows how to use Chainlink to connect to IPFS for cost-efficient token distribution and a variety of other Ethereum infrastructure use cases.
Awareness and Events
- IPFS Community Meetup
Hear the talks from:
- Muhammed Tanrıkulu of Almonit, presenting Alpress, a self-governing ENS+IPFS publication platform.
- Yiannis Psarras of ResNetLab, presenting “ResNetLab on Tour,” as well as providing an update on the upcoming DI2F Workshop.
- Wayne Chang of Spruce Systems, presenting how Spruce Systems is reimagining trusted interactions through the creation of new identity infrastructure.
In March, Protocol Labs sponsored NFTHack, a weekend long hackathon and summit to gather creatives and engineers focused on NFTs. The event sparked a multitude of conversations and ideas surrounding creative and sustainable solutions to NFT storage. Here is the recap.
Last month, the IPFS project partnered with two different universities to sponsor student-led and organized hackathons focused on introducing ground-breaking initiatives at both the global and local level. Cal Hacks , a nonprofit organization composed of University of California, Berkeley students, held a global hackathon to unite the innovators, creators, and troublemakers of the world, called hello:world. The goal was to inspire students to build something out of this world in the following categories: sustainability, connectivity, education, or community and civic engagement. Similarly, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) also held CivHacks, an annual hackathon focused on providing a welcoming, engaging and creative environment to support social good in tech culture, open to several categories including health, sustainability, student success, and civics.
Upcoming events:
May 28–30: Web3 Weekend
Web3 Weekend, sponsored by Protocol Labs, Audius, and the Ethereum Foundation, will bring together a virtual collective of passionate creatives and engineers for a weekend of exploring and building on Web3. During the hackathon, you’ll have the support of a huge community of experts, mentors, creators, sponsors, and other community members who want to help you design and build the future of the web, with $25k+ available in various prizes. Register to build.
June 21–24: Decentralising the Internet with IPFS and Filecoin (DI2F) workshop: The workshop will be hosted at IFIP Networking 2021, a top academic conference in networking research
Workshop schedule:
Projects’ Updates
Data Storage and Management:
Filecoin
- Filecoin Network Crosses Baseline Sustainability Target for First Time: This article provides an update on the Filecoin x BlockScience research collaboration, denoting a significant milestone for the Filecoin project. It was first published by Blockscience here.
- Wolfram Blockchain Labs Expanding Storage Functionality with IPFS & Filecoin for Dapp Development: WBL is integrating their distributed ledger technology platform with IPFS and Filecoin to add new decentralized functionality and expanded storage to their existing blockchain features.
- Filecoin Frontier Accelerator Demo Day: DeFi & Consumer Tech: A look at the DeFi and consumer tech startups from Filecoin Frontier Accelerator demo day: Atomica, Ownership Labs, Sinso Technology, and Vera AI.
- Filecoin Frontier Accelerator Demo Day: NFT and Media Startups: A look at the NFT and media startups from Filecoin Frontier Accelerator demo day: Curio, Flame, Huddle 01, Myel, NonEntropy Tech, Numbers, and OP Games.
The Graph
- The Superfluid subgraph is live via The Graph
- Episode #9 of the GRTiQ Podcast is here:
- The Cost Model Workshop recording:
3Box Labs & Ceramic Network
- Ceramic and IDX now available with Moonbeam: Developers building on Moonbeam’s Ethereum-compatible smart contract Polkadot parachain can now use Ceramic’s streaming data and cross-chain identity protocols.
- Ceramic and IDX now available on Avalanche: Ceramic brings streaming data and cross-chain identity protocols to Avalanche developers.
- Community Call 5.07.21: The latest news from the Ceramic ecosystem and protocol.
- SignaPodcast with Michael Sena:
Fleek
- Internet Computer Hosting — Now on Mainnet, Following the Network’s Genesis: Fleek is officially running on the Internet Computer allowing dapps to run at web speed and serve web
Computation & Trust Layers:
Humanode
- Humanode Fireside: Fath: In case you’ve missed the third Humanode Fireside live talk in their telegram’s voice chat, here is the recording. This discussion gives a detailed overview of the Fath monetary algorithm.
- Check out previous ‘Humanode in simple terms’ episodes:
Episode IV : Sybil Defence: The core principles behind Sybil Defence in Humanode.
Episode III: Fath: The core principles of the Fath monetary algorithm.
Episode II: Vortex: The Humanode DAO explained.
Episode I: So it’s a blockchain, right?
Integrations/ Collaborations:
Brave
- Unstoppable Domains and Brave to Provide Millions of Users Access to the Decentralized Web: Blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains announced a collaboration with privacy-oriented web browser Brave that enables native browser support for the crypto domain name company.
- Announcing bitFlyer Wallets for Brave Rewards Desktop Users in Japan: The team announces verified wallets in partnership with bitFlyer in Brave Rewards for the desktop users in Japan.
Cloudflare
- CDN-Cache-Control: Precision Control for your CDN(s): The team announces the support of a new set of HTTP response headers that provide surgical control over their CDN’s caching decisions.
- Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness: Cloudflare launches cryptographic humanity authentication test to eliminate CAPTCHAs
- Automating Cloudflare Tunnel with Terraform
- Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers
- Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana
Netflix
Persistence:
Infura
- Teku and Infura team up to make the fastest Ethereum 2.0 client sync: The Infura and Teku teams have teamed up to significantly reduce the time required to sync the Eth2 clients required to validate on Proof of Stake Ethereum.
- Infura and Truffle Now Support Polygon: Developers rejoice! Infura and Truffle now natively support the Polygon PoS Network.
Pinata
How To Build Layer 2 NFTs With Polygon and IPFS
A Faster, More Efficient Way To Create NFTs
medium.com
Identity:
Handshake
The Shake: May 23, 2021: Fresh weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol:
- #ProjectDWeb The dWeb Foundation has announced an incubator for Handshake projects. Be one of 15 teams to accelerate their Handshake project with mentoring, strategy + support or one of 5 selected to join phase two. More information on the program can be found here. Applications are open through June 11th with a public demo day slated for August 1st.
- Impervious The Handshake development company continues to grow with a new DNS developer, buffrr, joining the team to build on HNS full time. You can check out buffrr’s project Let’s DANE on Github which enables the use of DANE in browsers and other apps using a lightweight proxy.
- DeFi, meet DWeb Reported outages of several DeFi domains due to China blocking websites including Yearn, Curve, and Uniswap prompted discussions of DWeb tooling. This led to a Yearn community member acquiring the HNS TLD .Yearn in a secondary sale for further censorship resistance of the protocol.
- Gravity Bridge Further DWeb integrations within the Cosmos ecosystem are taking place as Gravity, a decentralized exchange, is using Handshake and Akash to further decentralize.
- ShakeStats The Handshake data website is working on new market and on-chain data alongside new design updates.
- DNS Outage Salesforce went down for ~5 hours yesterday after a lone engineer was tasked with making a configuration change.
- Neuenet/ An upcoming registry for Handshake domains open sourced tooling to detect Handshake wallet addresses. While traditional registrars use closed source infrastructure to sell commodity names in a race to the bottom, Handshake native registrars will run on open source infrastructure to sell names they own with creative offerings.
- HandyHost A sneak peak of the Sia side of the upcoming release from HNSOSS combining major DWeb protocols into one easy to manage software suite. A decentralize namespace is only as powerful as the decentralized web stack it resolves.
- Goldshell The hardware producer has announced two new miners. Handshake network hashrate has been growing healthy this year, reaching as high as 11 PH/s last month. Watch for Goldshell’s new additions to help accelerate this growth.
- HNS Metrics:
- Primary Name Markets: Name auction markets continue to show strength with 5,000 daily bid volume as a 30d floor and two days of 25,000 bids over this last week.
Unstoppable Domains
- Reinventing the Web with Brave Browser and Unstoppable Domains: Unstoppable Domains and Brave integrate to enable 30 million more users to natively browse .crypto websites on Brave browser via Desktop and Android.
- The Growth of the Internet and the Web: An exploration of the history of the internet.
- The Unstoppable Podcast latest episode:
- Last week’s POP CRYPTO RECAP:
Marketplace:
Origin
- Charlie Bit My Finger NFT Sale on Origin Makes Global Headlines and Sets New Record: Charlie set a new record for a meme-as-NFT sale with Origin’s NFT Launchpad, raising $760,999 to surpass other notable video & meme NFTs, Nyan Cat and Disaster Girl.
- Grammy Award-winning Musician MonoNeon X American Pop Artist Kii Arens NFT Collection
- KuCoin Lists OUSD & OGN
Social Media
Berty
- News #58: Berty is progressing well, especially on the android part. The team plans to put a public roadmap — which will show the progress of the work and the blocking points before the next steps.
Satellite.im
- Satellite.im — Multi-platform Messaging, Trackers Not Included: Satellite is moving fast. The project is under active development and will be for the next year. It has some killer features lined up already.
Other:
Fission
- Kosmik App, a visual tool for thought with an IPFS database: On our May 6th, 2021 Fission Tech Talk Thursdays, the team was joined by Paul Rony, founder of Kosmik App, which is a “visual tool for thought”.
That’s all for today! Your feedback is highly appreciated! Let us know what you think about the format & content.
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