Protocol Labs
| File:Protocol Labs black.png | |
| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Industry |
| 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.
History
[edit | edit source]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]
Projects
[edit | edit source]IPFS was released in January 2015,[3] and Filecoin launched in 2017.[4][5] 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.[6]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website Protocol.ai