Shipyard will wind down its engineering, maintenance, and infrastructure operations for InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) on Sept. 30 after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding.

According to a Monday blog post, the loss of funding will leave projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, and IPFS Companion without dedicated maintainers.

IPFS is an open-source protocol used to store and share data across peer-to-peer networks. Protocol Labs, the research and development organization that created IPFS and Filecoin, has funded Shipyard’s work on the ecosystem. Filecoin is a blockchain network designed to incentivize decentralized data storage.

Shipyard said it will also stop operating public infrastructure, including ipfs.io, dweb.link, delegated-ipfs.dev, and the IPFS bootstrap nodes. The organization said Protocol Labs owns the associated domains and infrastructure and will decide what happens to them.

The shutdown affects both developer tooling and public-facing services that help the network stay usable at scale, even though IPFS itself is not shutting down. Shipyard said its wind-down removes dedicated stewardship from several widely used implementations and services unless other maintainers take them over.

In an online forum discussion, Protocol Labs engineering and research lead Molly Mackinlay said IPFS would move to “lighter-weight stewardship” through IPFS Foundation grants to individual maintainers. She added that development would continue on decentralized public infrastructure.

Shipyard was formed in 2024 as an independent collective of longtime IPFS developers who previously worked at Protocol Labs.

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