{"id":35090,"date":"2021-01-20T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35090"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:40:38","slug":"brave-adds-ipfs-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/brave-adds-ipfs-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave adds IPFS support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the privacy-focused Brave browser have integrated support for the IPFS protocol (&#8216;the interplanetary file system&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With today\u2019s desktop browser update (v1.19), Brave is the first browser to offer a native <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IPFS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IPFS<\/a> integration, enabling users to seamlessly browse the decentralized Web,<br \/>\nand increasing content availability and Internet resilience. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t77ix0zzxo\">https:\/\/t.co\/t77ix0zzxo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brave Software (@brave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brave\/status\/1351577838290309122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the integration available in version 1.19, Brave users will access content directly from IPFS. To do so, they must either run a full node of the protocol or enable IPFS addresses such as ipfs:\/\/ through a gateway.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol will grant access to blocked web pages, speed up their loading, and reduce hosting costs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday in Thailand, access to certain parts of Wikipedia is blocked. In Turkey more than 100,000 websites are blocked. In China there is no access to important information about COVID-19. Now any Brave user via IPFS will be able to overcome these restrictions,\u201d said Molly Mackinlay, project lead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Brave\u2019s CTO and co-founder, Brian Bondy, Brave was the first to offer built-in integration of the protocol.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIPFS provided users with a remedy to the problem of centralized servers creating a single point of failure for content access,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IPFS is a protocol by which peer-to-peer nodes store and distribute data in a single distributed file system, with addresses tied not to a server but to a unique cryptographic hash identifier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"g7hk4OZhNi\">\n<p>Is IPFS, rather than HTTP, the future of the decentralized Internet?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cIPFS instead of HTTP \u2014 the future of the decentralized Internet?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-ipfs\/embed#?secret=43quv0QnX9#?secret=g7hk4OZhNi\" data-secret=\"g7hk4OZhNi\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, the IPFS developers released version 0.5, which improved the process of discovering content on the network.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 all news coverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers of the privacy-focused Brave browser have integrated support for the IPFS protocol (&#8216;the interplanetary file system&#8217;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[511,1418],"class_list":["post-35090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-brave","tag-ipfs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35092,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35090\/revisions\/35092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}