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Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Computer Industry |
Founded | May 2014
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Founder | Juan Benet |
Key people | Juan Benet, Marvin Ammori |
Products | InterPlanetary File System, Filecoin |
Website |
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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.
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. [1] 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. [2] In 2020 Protocol Labs set up the Filecoin Foundation. [3]
IPFS was released in January 2015, [4] and Filecoin launched in 2017. [5] [6] 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; [7] and the SAFT, a legal framework for token fundraising. [8] [9]
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Company type | Privately held company |
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Industry | Computer Industry |
Founded | May 2014
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Founder | Juan Benet |
Key people | Juan Benet, Marvin Ammori |
Products | InterPlanetary File System, Filecoin |
Website |
protocol |
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.
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. [1] 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. [2] In 2020 Protocol Labs set up the Filecoin Foundation. [3]
IPFS was released in January 2015, [4] and Filecoin launched in 2017. [5] [6] 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; [7] and the SAFT, a legal framework for token fundraising. [8] [9]
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