IPFS: New on IPFS desktop, Go-ipfs 0.8.0 & remote pinning is here, IPFS and libp2p in 2020, ETHDenver highlights, The roadmap for BAT 2.0, The Beta for the Space web app is live, The Graph is adding support for additional blockchains, February community meetup, Take a look at the startups from ‘Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator Demo Day’, and more!
IPFS ecosystem biweekly vol.3,18th February — 3rd March
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
go-ipfs 0.8.0, and Remote Pinning, is here
This release is focused on making it easier to work with pins. There are some new cool features around being able to ask remote services to pin data for you, and modifying large pin sets is much faster than ever before.
New on IPFS desktop
The desktop app for IPFS recently added support for go-ipfs 0.8.0 and Electron 11.x, as well as enabling both pubsub via settings and IPNS over pubsub. Check it out!
New videos from ChainSafe CSCON[0] Filecoin week
- Juan Benet, Founder and CEO of Protocol Labs & Filecoin, talks about the future of Web3:
- Molly Mackinlay from Protocol Labs gives a year in review for IPFS and libp2p in 2020.
- Latest IPFS weekly Sync:
- Check out also recent IPFS Weekly 124.
Awareness and Events
February 5–12: IPFS attended ETHDenver
Check out the event highlights in the recent IPFS blog post here:
February 23: IPFS Community Meetup took place
Catch up on presentations from dweb games specialist Leon Do, Viki Valastin from KodaDot, Ilya Kreymer from Webrecorder, and Yiannis Psaras from ResNetLab. Check out the video replays here.
February 22–26: Hello Decentralization
Textile, NuCypher, and more were presenting at Hello Decentralization.
Upcoming events:
March 23: Join the team for the next IPFS community meetup
Stay tuned for upcoming details on the featured speakers.
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. The call for papers, demos, and competition projects is open until 19 March. To learn more and submit, check out the Call for Contributions in the IFIP Networking 2021 website.
Projects’ Updates
Data Storage and Management:
Filecoin
- Filecoin News, Issue 12: The twelfth issue of Filecoin News. The 13th issue of Filecoin News goes live later today. Don’t miss out- subscribe here.
- Catch up on Filecoin’s February’s community meetup.
- Filecoin Core Devs Biweekly #11 & #12.
- Free Retrieval via IPFS: video.
The Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator Demo Day
The Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, powered by Tachyon, hosted a Demo Day to showcase 13 startups building more interoperable, open, and programmable tools, applications, and infrastructure for the decentralized web. 33 founders from 11 countries participated in an immersive 12-week program bridging the IPFS, Filecoin and Ethereum communities.
- Filecoin for Treasuries, Wills, Financial Access, and more: A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Finance” category.
- Filecoin for Content, DevOps, Trust, and more: A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Enterprise” category.
- Filecoin for Media, Video, Gaming, and more: A look at the startups from Filecoin Launchpad Demo Day under the “Social” category.
The Graph
- The Graph Foundation adding Support for Four Additional Blockchains: Polkadot, NEAR, Solana, Celo: In addition to Ethereum and IPFS, The Graph is adding support to the Polkadot, NEAR, Solana, and Celo Layer 1 Blockchains, opening Web3 opportunities to a wider ecosystem. Third-party developers on these chains are now eligible for The Graph Foundation grants.
- The Graph Bringing Indexing and Querying to Polkadot: Developers building applications on Polkadot will be able to build open API subgraphs, the most efficient way for developers to index blockchain data.
- The Graph’s Indexing and Querying is now live on the Fantom Layer 1 Blockchain: The Fantom layer 1 blockchain now uses The Graph and Fantom developers are now eligible for The Graph Foundation grants.
- This Month in Graph Indexing — February Edition is here.
- The Graph Foundation was hosting its first Protocol Townhall on February 23.
- The first NFT Subgraph Community Call took place February 25th. Developers building NFTs with The Graph discussed their current projects, how they’re using subgraphs, and what improvements can be made for the protocol to better support indexing and querying of data across chains.
- The Graph to sponsor the Chainlink Spring 2021 Virtual Hackathon. The Graph will be awarding developer prizes up to $5k for the best use of the project. Register here to join the team from March 15 — April 11.
- The team updated Resource Library — GRT & Graph Protocol data dashboards, rewards calculators, video, audio, group forums, and more.
- This Month in Curation #1 was published:
3Box Labs & Ceramic Network
- Community Call 10: Updates on the now-live Clay testnet and 3 amazing demos from the community on new tooling for Ceramic
- New CIP for AppendCollection schemas as a way to efficiently store and manage a large list of items (posts, comments, etc.) across multiple Ceramic documents.
- Wondering how you’ll support a great UX for users in a multi-chain world? Ceramic’s 3ID keychain lets any number of keys across chains and wallets control the same identity and data. Read more in CIP 20.
- The evolution of digital identity: Michael talks about the evolution of digital identity from servers to key pairs to DIDs and IDX. A presentation at ETHDever 2021.
Fleek
- The Beta for the Space web app is live. Say hello to user-owned, encrypted, and distributed storage & file sharing. Open-source and built on Open Web protocols.
- Filecoin Archiving Comes to Fleek Sites and Storage: Archive your IPFS sites and storage hosted on Fleek automatically on Filecoin, the decentralized storage network, as a secondary backup layer.
Computation & Trust Layers:
Humanode
- Attack on Sybil: In this article, Humanode co-founder Dato gives a brief overview of the Sybil-defenses and describes Humanode’s approach. If you want to learn why peer-to-peer systems with equal distribution of validation power are vulnerable to Sybil attacks and if there are ways to fight them then you might find it helpful.
- On February 25 Humanode co-founder Victor was presenting “Decentralized financial network based on verification of collective human existence or how to fight Sybil and voter apathy” as a part of Decentralized Governance section of PWC’21 alongside Santiago Siri (Democracy Earth), David Chaum (Elixxir), and Greg Meredith (RChain).
- Humanode in simple terms — Episode 1: So it’s a blockchain, right? Here is the first of Humanode’s new mini-series, HUMANODE 101 (or Humanode in Simple Terms). In this mini-series, Shannon — Humanode Core member — will be going over some of the key elements of Humanode, in a language that non-technical people can understand. The first episode is “So, Humanode is Blockchain right?”, and it goes over the DLT that powers Humanode (Epoch-CRDT) in the most simple of terms.
Integrations/ Collaborations:
Brave
- BAT Roadmap 2.0: The roadmap includes adding the ability to use BAT for content pinning on IPFS, and more.
- Brave and Splinterlands Announce Upcoming BAT Tournaments, Discounts When Using BAT for Land Purchases in Splinterlands, and Limited NFTs: In October of 2020, Brave announced a partnership with Splinterlands, the most popular blockchain game. Now, Brave and Splinterlands announced a series of twelve upcoming BAT Tournaments in Splinterlands, where players of all experience levels can compete to win prizes
Cloudflare
- MSIgnite 2021 started yesterday and the Cloudflare Digital Showcase page is full of interesting videos and assets that will help you learn how they can help you improve your website performance, increase accessibility and enhance security.
From the blog:
- Flow-based monitoring for Magic Transit: Cloudflare MagicTransit and Bot Management help CCP Games (EVE Online) stop DDoS attacks & credential-stuffing bots. The team was adding new functionality to improve the experience for on demand MagicTransit customers: flow-based monitoring.
- Introducing: Smarter Tiered Cache Topology Generation: The team recently announced a fundamental improvement to Argo Tiered Cache that they’re calling Smart Tiered Cache Topology.
- Creating serendipity with Python
- Using HPKE to Encrypt Request Payloads
- How to execute an object file: Part 1
- Tiered Cache Smart Topology
- The Teams Dashboard: Behind the Scenes
- Through the eyes of a Cloudflare Technical Support Engineer
Netflix
- A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix: Hear from some data scientists working in Experimentation and Causal Inference.
- The Netflix Cosmos Platform: Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice.
- Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology
- Beyond REST: Rapid Development with GraphQL Microservices.
Persistence:
Infura
- How to Build on the Filecoin Network Using the Infura API: Want to jump into Filecoin and start building something? This tutorial will get you up and running quickly by creating a simple Node.js script using Infura and the Filecoin network.
- The Infura Team is Ready for the Berlin Fork: The upcoming Berlin fork brings various optimizations for contracts including gas efficiencies, updates to how code is read by the Ethereum Virtual Machine and other changes to protect against DDOS attacks. Running Your Own Node? Get Fork-Ready. Using Infura? No Changes Required.
Textile
- A path towards non-custodial portfolio management: That was the question that the Portex team set out to solve recently at EthDenver. They recently published a blog post detailing their project results. After a week of hacking, their solution was a slick application that combines Textile Threads, IPFS, and IDX in a simple but exciting way. The drivers for them to build with this stack were nice and clear.
- Hello Decentralization workshop ‘Pushing data to the dweb with buckets and threads’ with Textile co-founder & CEO Andrew W. Hill took place.
- Viki Valastin was speaking about KodaDot at IPFS meetup how we use Textile in production, live on Kusama Network.
Pinata
This is the first one in a three-part tutorial:
-Creating the contract and minting a token
-Creating an app to view NFTs created through this contract
-Creating a marketplace to transfer NFTs to others while also transferring the NFT’s underlying assets on IPFS
Identity:
Handshake
The Shake: Feb. 28, 2021: fresh weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol.
- TLD Investing. A discussion with Jehan Chu of Kenetic Capital on his firm’s $84k acquisition of .NFT and investing in Handshake domains.
- Connext Namespace. Last week, the scaling network announced plans to use .connext namespace as a step towards decentralization. Now, cross swap stablecoin arbitrage highlighted its potential as a layer two agnostic liquidity aggregator. Connext will soon work across Handshake namespace as a phone book for liquidity.
- On The Brink. Tieshun Roquerre, CEO of Namebase, joined Nic Carter and Matt Walsh of Castle Island Ventures for a deep dive on Handshake.
- HandyCon. The first Handshake conference was announced for March 10–11.
- Our Network. HNS was featured in the data analytics newsletter, Our Network.
- ShakeDex Auctions. The first decentralized, trustless, non-custodial secondary market name auctions are beginning on Handshake. Kurumi of ShakeDex is coordinating a schedule for the first mainnet auctions. But, of course, the protocol is permissionless so you can create an auction using the shakedex CLI / Bob Wallet.
- HNSsearch. The Handshake search engine is now out of Beta and officially launched. You can help with future features by leaving your own suggestions or upvote existing ones.
- Decentralized VPN. Sentinel, the dVPN network on Cosmos, will be focusing resources towards integrations with Handshake.
- Name Metrics. Per Namebase Stats, there are nearly 9k names in use — which Namebase measures as registered names with modified DNS settings. Last week’s secondary sale of 🙄 / for 60,000 HNS represents the third largest secondary market sale to date. Now, five of the top ten secondary sales on Namebase are emojis.
- HNS Metrics. Total HNS Locked has surpassed 50M HNS, which equates to ~14% of circulating supply currently escrowed as bids in name auctions.
- Namebase Metrics. When the Namebase Marketplace launched as a secondary market for names, Namebase facilitated $5,000 worth of sales per week. Now, they facilitate $5,000 worth of sales every 3 hours.
Unstoppable Domains
- Unstoppable Domains’ plans for a scalable blockchain domain infrastructure: The team is building the world’s first scalable layer 2 solution for blockchain domains. This new infrastructure will allow them to issue and make updates to domains at a pace (and price) multiple orders of magnitude better than what they can do today. Improved domain issuing and updating unlocks the true potential of the decentralized web. The team is targeting August 2021 as the launch date of the updated domain system.
- Intro to Blockchain Domain NFTs
- Unstoppable Domains’ first premium domain name NFTs drop took place yesterday.
The Unstoppable Podcast:
- What Is The Difference Between Tokens And Coins?
- Legal Challenges Of Blockchain Technology
- What are Blockchain Domains?
Marketplace:
Origin
- Brave Expands Partnership with Origin to Offer NFTs on the Brave Store: The official Brave Store powered by Origin’s Dshop is now accepting orders for limited edition NFTs.
- Origin Dollar (OUSD) Swap introduced: This is a free OUSD token swap tool built by the Origin team to allow users to easily convert.
- OUSD Completes Formal Verification Audit With Certora: The OUSD token has now completed its third security audit.
- HitBTC Lists OGN
- The auction for the world’s first tokenized album has finished. Built by Origin Protocol & powered by Dshop, 3LAU sold 33 unique NFTs for a total of $11,684,101.
- February 2021 Origin Token (OGN) Holder Update:
Content:
Audius
- Introducing AUDIO Badges: Now, users that hold AUDIO in their Audius account are eligible for profile badges — visible throughout the app that unlocks new features as they’re released. This release is one of the first in AUDIO’s long list of feature access use-cases, many of which the team covered in a recent blog post. For more information on Audius and what it means to truly own the platform you create value for, check out this primer.
- Audius new milestone: 3M monthly active users:
Peergos
- Simple decentralized web hosting on Peergos: You can now easily host your P2P website directly from Peergos. No need for DNS or a TLS certificate, and you get a human readable location — it couldn’t get any simpler.
Other:
Fission
- Fission Demo Day February 2021:The Fission team talks about new releases & product updates, early demos of in-progress work, planned roadmap items followed by an open Q&A.
- The Zettelkasten Method & Digital Note-taking: What does a prolific 20th-century German scholar have to do with digital note-taking? Turns out quite a bit. The team is looking at the note-taking system known as “Zettlekasten,” and how you can use Fission and TiddlyWiki to create your own version.
- The Price Associated With Free Applications: Why you should pay for apps and how it can protect your personal data.
Robonomics
- Robonomics Web Services And RWS Token Intro: Meet the first RWS IoT Core services. Decentralized infrastructure services over IPFS, Ethereum, and Polkadot for Robotics and IoT. For industrial, consumer, and commercial solutions.
- The Ultimate Guide to Robonomics, RWS and Robonomics Parachain on Polkadot: This article delves into the connection between Robonomics platform, its parachain on the Polkadot ecosystem and the Robonomics Web Services (RWS).
MISC
- IPFS and Friends: A Qualitative Comparison of Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Data Networks by Erik Daniel and Florian Tschorsch.
- Check out Proto School interactive tutorials:
That’s all for today! Your feedback is highly appreciated! Let us know what you think about the format & content.
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