IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
The Shipyard team, responsible for maintaining IPFS, is winding down operations after Protocol Labs decided not to renew their funding. The team will cease IPFS-related work by September 30, 2026.
Why it matters
The loss of dedicated maintenance for a major decentralized storage protocol could impact the stability and development of the peer-to-peer web ecosystem.
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community.
Protocol Labs has informed us that it will not be renewing Shipyard's funding. While we're grateful for the support and trust they have placed in us over the past two-plus years, we're naturally disappointed by this outcome. As a direct result, Shipyard will be winding down its IPFS-related engineering, maintenance, and infrastructure operations. Our final day of our IPFS related work will be September 30, 2026.
Over the past three years, it has been our privilege to help shape the modern IPFS ecosystem and empower users with more resilient, self-sovereign technology. You can
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