Protocol Labs

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Protocol Labs
Company type Privately held company
Industry Computer Industry
FoundedMay 2014  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Founder Juan Benet
Key people
 Juan Benet, Marvin Ammori
Products InterPlanetary File System, Filecoin
Website protocol.ai

Protocol Labs is an open-source software research and development company, founded in 2014. It is best known for creating the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer decentralized web protocol, and Filecoin, a decentralized file storage network.

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History

Juan Benet founded Protocol Labs in May 2014. Early work on open-source tools to simplify management, indexing, and conversion of large data sets led to the creation of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a peer-to-peer protocol for distributed files and offline applications. [1] To support the project and spur adoption, they developed a Filecoin protocol and token for decentralized file storage, to let users rent out unused disk space. [2]

Projects

IPFS was released in January 2015, [3] and Filecoin launched in 2017. [4] [5] Other projects developed by Protocol Labs include libp2p, a network stack for peer-to-peer apps and systems, which is used as the networking layer for IPFS; IPLD, a data model for interoperable protocols. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Case, Amber (October 4, 2015). "Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late". TechCrunch.
  2. ↑ Johnson, Steven (January 16, 2018). "Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble". New York Times Magazine.
  3. ↑ Claburn, Thomas. "W3C's Robin Berjon on InterPlanetary File System tech". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  4. ↑ Cuff, James (May 26, 2018). "All Things Decentralized". The Next Platform.
  5. ↑ Vigna, Paul. "Latest Hot Digital Coin Offering: $187 Million in One Hour for Filecoin". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  6. ↑ Winkle, Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, Erik Van (2024-03-14). "Guest Post - Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs". The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved 2024-04-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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