Protocol Labs
{{Short description|Software company}}
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| type = Privately held company
| industry = Computer Industry
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| founder = Juan Benet
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| key_people = Juan Benet, Marvin Ammori
| products = InterPlanetary File System, Filecoin
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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.
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.{{Cite news |last=Case |first=Amber |date=October 4, 2015 |title=Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It's Too Late |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/04/why-the-internet-needs-ipfs-before-its-too-late/ |access-date= |work=TechCrunch}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Steven |date=January 16, 2018 |title=Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html |work=New York Times Magazine}}
Projects
IPFS was released in January 2015,{{Cite web |last=Claburn |first=Thomas |title=W3C's Robin Berjon on InterPlanetary File System tech |url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/interview_robin_berjon_ipfs/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}} and Filecoin launched in 2017.{{Cite news |last=Cuff |first=James |date=May 26, 2018 |title=All Things Decentralized |url=https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/26/all-things-decentralized/ |access-date= |work=The Next Platform}}{{Cite news |last=Vigna |first=Paul |title=Latest Hot Digital Coin Offering: $187 Million in One Hour for Filecoin |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-hot-digital-coin-offering-187-millionin-one-hourfor-filecoin-1502481514 |access-date=2024-04-16 |work=WSJ |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Winkle |first=Christopher Hill, Philipp Koellinger, Erik Van |date=2024-03-14 |title=Guest Post - Navigating the Drift: Persistence Challenges in the Digital Scientific Record and the Promise of dPIDs |url=https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/14/guest-post-navigating-the-drift-persistence-challenges-in-the-digital-scientific-record-and-the-promise-of-dpids/ |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=The Scholarly Kitchen |language=en-US}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://protocol.ai/}} Protocol.ai