IPFS

A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.

IPFS Powers the Distributed Webipfs

What is IPFS?

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

It enables the creation of completely distributed applications, and in doing so aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Why using IPFS?

Its p2p sharing network allow us keeping track of the files that we are safeguarding and guarantees us data integrity as well as decentralization on the distribution and storing layer. Its content identifiers, or CIDs, are a cryptographic hash of the content that is used to indicate the digital file itself in IPFS. It does not indicate where the content is stored, but rather forms a kind of "address" based on the content itself.

Using a system based on CIDs will allow us to make sure the data we're serving it's actually the data we say we're delivering. This makes imposible to manipulate or change the data (if the data changes, the CIDs changes too).