Shipyard Shuts Down, Leaving Key Projects Without Dedicated Maintenance

Shipyard, an engineering collective that has been maintaining several key projects for InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), is winding down its operations due to a loss of funding from Protocol Labs. The decision was made after Protocol Labs declined to renew their funding, which will leave projects such as Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion without dedicated maintainers.

IPFS is an open-source protocol for storing and sharing data across peer-to-peer networks. Protocol Labs created IPFS and Filecoin, a blockchain network designed to incentivize decentralized data storage.

Shipyard will cease operating public infrastructure, including ipfs.io, dweb.link, delegated-ipfs.dev, and the IPFS bootstrap nodes, on September 30. Protocol Labs owns these domains and infrastructure and will determine their future.