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Shipyard ends IPFS work after funding loss
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Shipyard ends IPFS work after funding loss

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  • Shipyard will wind down its IPFS engineering and infrastructure work on September 30.
  • Protocol Labs declined to renew funding for the independent IPFS maintainer.
  • Key IPFS projects will lose dedicated maintainers unless other developers take them over.

Shipyard will wind down its engineering and infrastructure operations on September 30 after Protocol Labs ended its funding.

The funding loss will affect Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion.

IPFS is not shutting down, but several major projects will lose dedicated maintainers after Shipyard closes.

Shipyard will also stop operating services including ipfs.io, dweb.link and delegated-ipfs.dev.

Protocol Labs owns those domains and infrastructure and will decide what happens to them, Shipyard said.

Protocol Labs engineering and research lead Molly Mackinlay said IPFS would move towards “lighter-weight stewardship” through grants to individual maintainers.

Shipyard was established in 2024 by former Protocol Labs developers who had worked on IPFS.

IPFS is an open-source system for storing and sharing data across peer-to-peer networks, while Protocol Labs also created Filecoin (CRYPTO:FIL).

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