IPFS Maintainers Shipyard Shut Down After Protocol Labs Cuts Funding
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
Shipyard, the team behind much of IPFS's core infrastructure, is winding down after Protocol Labs declined to renew their funding. Their last day is September 30, 2026. The shutdown affects key projects like Kubo, Helia, and IPFS Desktop, as well as public services including ipfs.io and dweb.link. Shipyard had re-architected IPFS gateways to handle 3× more traffic at 80% lower cost, but now the ecosystem faces a transition without dedicated maintainers.
While this chapter of IPFS at Shipyard is coming to a close, we remain proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and we hope the work we’ve done helps provide a strong foundation for whatever comes next.