Agora - Optimism's RetroPGF Round 3 Summary

Developer Ecosystem

IPFS

Project

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ipfs.tech

IPFS is an open system to manage content-addressed data without a central server

Appears in

77 ballots

Contribution

- Development and maintenance of the IPFS protocols and specifications. - Operation of two major IPFS gateways. - Production of one major IPFS implementation (kubo). - Advocacy, governance work, and clear specifications with an open and legitimate process to support the wider community. - Documentation and code examples to help people use IPFS. - Bringing IPFS to browsers, browser engines, and in cURL so as to support better dApps and bridge web2 over.

Contribution links

The IPFS Protocol

Snapshot voting

IPFS/HTTP Gateways

Multiple IPFS implementations

Community governance of IPFS standards

IPLD

IPLD implementations

Multiformats

Impact

IPFS is a system for moving data across decentralized networks, with >11M weekly users and 250K public p2p nodes. Highlights: 1. Off-chain storage. IPFS provides verifiable, off-chain storage, often used to reduce on-chain needs in Ethereum & Optimism. Examples: TrueBlocks (local IPFS-based index for EVM chains, built with grants from OP & EF), Snapshot (IPFS-based off-chain voting). 2. Go-to distribution network for fully decentralized third-party app frontends (for gaming, DeFi, & more). We run gateway services that serve 900M requests/wk, and added native IPFS support to browsers like Chromium & Brave. 3. NFT metadata gold standard. Over 115M NFTs are stored on IPFS, including leading platforms OpenSea (which supports Optimism NFTs), Rarible, and Zora.

Impact Metrics

Weekly active users

11M

Public DHT nodes

250K

Funding sources

Other

Protocol Labs + Filecoin Foundation granted this in the IPFS Implementation Fund

1,500,000.00 USD