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Some folks already knew about the impending end of IPFS corporate dev teams – Protocol Labs somewhat secretly a few years ago, and more loudly in the past year no longer investing in infrastructure teams was a strong signal for this, but also the handoff of libp2p was yet another. This now leaves the three main backers of IPFS support and integration – Cloudflare, Brave, Shipyard – gone. I have no doubt IPFS will continue to survive, as it is a decentralized protocol, but with the loss of one of the major dev teams, it certainly doesn't bode well. https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/ Events like this are why we're building Hypersnap. Networks need incentive. Incentives need to be permissionless. Permissionless needs to have a non-monetary onramp to participate.

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