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24 Aug 2026, 11:48 PM	Hacker News	6.5	IPFS Maintainers Winding Down Protocol Labs has cut funding to Shipyard, the team maintaining core IPFS infrastructure and implementations. Shipyard's last day of IPFS work is September 30, 2026, after which projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion will lose their dedicated maintainers, and public infrastructure such as ipfs.io, dweb.link, and the IPFS bootstrap nodes will cease operating under Shipyard. Why: If you ship anything that depends on IPFS public gateways (ipfs.io, dweb.link), bootstrap nodes, or core implementations (Kubo, Helia), you need a migration plan before October 2026. Protocol Labs owns the domains and will decide their future, but there is no stated successor maintainer for the codebase. Anyone using IPFS for content-addressed hosting or NFT metadata storage should evaluate alternatives like Pinata, Filecoin on-ramps, or conventional CDN/object storage now rather than waiting for clarity. infrastructure decentralized-storage ipfs deprecation

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24 Aug 2026, 11:48 PM

Hacker News

6.5

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

Protocol Labs has cut funding to Shipyard, the team maintaining core IPFS infrastructure and implementations. Shipyard's last day of IPFS work is September 30, 2026, after which projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion will lose their dedicated maintainers, and public infrastructure such as ipfs.io, dweb.link, and the IPFS bootstrap nodes will cease operating under Shipyard.

Why: If you ship anything that depends on IPFS public gateways (ipfs.io, dweb.link), bootstrap nodes, or core implementations (Kubo, Helia), you need a migration plan before October 2026. Protocol Labs owns the domains and will decide their future, but there is no stated successor maintainer for the codebase. Anyone using IPFS for content-addressed hosting or NFT metadata storage should evaluate alternatives like Pinata, Filecoin on-ramps, or conventional CDN/object storage now rather than waiting for clarity.