IPFS and Dapps: Obstacles and Opportunities
summary
IPFS celebrates 10 years and centers on content addressing with concrete tools: Kubo profiles for deterministic CID defaults, UnixFS and IPLD for data models, and DAG-JSON for on‑chain linking. Problems are specific: file→CID is non‑deterministic, discovery relies on DNS/ENS and trusted RPCs, browser peers lack resources to be mainnet nodes, and private data needs real solutions beyond fragile private swarms. Expect more delegated HTTP gateways and multi‑source retrieval experiments rather than a single all‑in one stack.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:11Why IPFS and content addressing
- 3:20User agency and data ownership
- 6:49Obstacles in IPFS adoption
- 12:08Private data on public networks
- 13:33Implementation diversity challenges
- 14:36User devices and network nodes
- 15:38Summary and future of IPFS
