IPFS is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS addresses files based on content, not location.

Filecoin is a decentralized storage network powered by cryptocurrency.

libp2p is a modular networking stack that lets developers build large, robust p2p networks.

Testground is a platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and peer-to-peer systems at scale.

IPLD is a set of standards and implementations for creating decentralized data structures that are universally addressable and linkable, doing for data what URLs did for HTML web pages.

Drand is a distributed randomness beacon, providing verifiable, unpredictable and unbiased random numbers as a service.

Network Goods engineer tools and opportunities for revolutionary coordination systems.

IPC is the next frontier in blockchain scalability, unlocking unmatched capacity and enabling new use cases.

The Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) is a runtime environment for smart contracts on the Filecoin network.

This working group aims to enrich the Filecoin ecosystem by providing a compute over data framework that integrates seamlessly with core functionality and can be a platform for future developers in any ecosystem.

Multiformats encode self-describing values to future-proof information systems.

Protocol Labs Research work spans the entire innovation pipeline, from the earliest research ideation to deploying end-user products.