InterPlanetary File System

InterPlanetary File System
Original author(s)	Juan Benet and Protocol Labs
Developer(s)	Protocol Labs
Initial release	February 2015
Stable release	0.16.0 / 2022-10-04
Repository	github.com/ipfs/ipfs
Written in	Protocol implementations: Go (reference implementation), JavaScript, C, Python; Client libraries: Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, Haskell, Swift, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, PHP, C#, Erlang;
Available in	Go, JavaScript, Python
Type	Protocol,; distributed file system,; content delivery network;
License	MIT license, Apache license 2.0
Website	ipfs.tech

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting IPFS hosts.

IPFS can among others replace the location based hypermedia server protocols http and https to distribute the World Wide Web.