IPFS is a modular suite of protocols for organizing and transferring data, designed from the ground up with the principles of content addressing and peer-to-peer networking. Because IPFS is open-source, there are multiple implementations of IPFS. While IPFS has more than one use case, its main use case is for publishing data (files, directories, websites, etc.) in a decentralized fashion.



IPFS

Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network that stores files, with built-in economic incentives and cryptography to ensure files are stored reliably over time. In Filecoin, users pay to store their files on storage providers. Storage providers are computers responsible for storing files and proving they have stored them correctly over time. Anyone who wants to store their files or get paid for storing other users’ files can join Filecoin. Available storage, and the price of that storage, are not controlled by any single company. Instead, Filecoin facilitates open markets for storing and retrieving files that anyone can participate in.

Filecoin is built on top of the same software powering IPFS protocol, which is a peer-to-peer distributed storage network that leverages content addressing to allow permanent references to the data, and avoids relying on specific devices or cloud servers for addressing the content. 

Filecoin

libp2p, (short for “library peer-to-peer”) is a peer-to-peer (P2P) networking framework that enables the development of P2P applications. It consists of a collection of protocols, specifications, and libraries that facilitate P2P communication between network participants, known as “peers.”

ibp2p was initially developed as part of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) project as its wire protocol but has since phased out into a networking stack that has been adopted by a wide range of other projects as a networking layer. It provides a set of specifications that can be adapted to support various protocols, allowing libp2p applications to operate in diverse runtimes and networking environments.

libp2p

UCANs, or User Controlled Authorization Networks, are a trustless, secure, user-originated authorization and revocation scheme. They are an extension of the popular JSON Web Token format specifically designed to enable ways of authorizing offline-first apps and distributed systems.

UCAN

Gitcoin Grants is a seasonal initiative empowering early-stage builders through a combination of crowdfunding and grants.

Gitcoin Grants

The goal of the FVM project is to add general programmability to the Filecoin blockchain. Doing so will give developers all kinds of creative options, including:
Orchestrating storage.
Creating L2 networks on top of the Filecoin blockchain.
Providing new incentive structures for providers and users.
Frequently verifying that providers are storing data correctly.
Automatically finding which storage providers are storing what data.
Many more data-based applications.

Filecoin was the first network deploying programmability, post-genesis, to ensure that layer 0 of the Filecoin blockchain was stable and fully functional. Due to the large amounts of capital already secured within the Filecoin network, the development of the FVM needs to be careful and gradual.


drand is a randomness beacon that provides verifiable, unpredictable, and bias resistant random values as a service. The drand network is operated by the League of Entropy (LoE), a group of 20 independent member organizations that contribute to the production of randomness beacons.

Decentralized: drand is an open source software project ran by a diverse set of reputable organizations on the Internet wherein a threshold of them is needed to generate randomness, which ensure there is no central point of failure.
Publicly verifiable & unbiased: drand periodically delivers publicly verifiable and unbiased randomness. Any third party can fetch and verify the authenticity of the randomness and by that making sure it hasn't been tampered with.


drand

We are individuals and organizations building new models of sustainable public goods funding and value alignment in open source networks. Our goal with Funding the Commons is to bridge the public goods community across Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy and industry. We do this by convening builders and practitioners, researchers and academics, and funders and philanthropists, catalyzing innovation in public goods. In the future, we seek to expand our impact by facilitating the creation of a public goods fund tied to impact evaluators, seeding projects that are conceived and incubated by the Funding the Commons community.

Funding the Commons

Gitcoin Grants Stack is a protocol-enabled solution that enables any community to easily create, manage and grow a grants program. From deployment and application management, to funds allocation, Grants Stack takes the hassle out of running a grants program.

Gitcoin Grants Stack

Interplanetary Consensus (IPC) is a framework that enables on-demand horizontal scalability of networks, by deploying ""subnets"" running different consensus algorithms depending on the application's requirements.  IPC is a scaling solution intentionally designed to achieve considerable performance, decentralization and security for dApps.
It achieves scaling through the permission-less spawning of new blockchain sub-systems, which are composed of ""subnets"". 

Subnets are organized in a hierarchy, with one parent subnet being able to spawn infinite child subnets. Within a hierarchical subsystem, subnets can seamlessly communicate with each other, reducing the need for cross-chain bridges.

Subnets also have their own specific consensus algorithms, whilst leveraging security features from parent subnets. This allows dApps to use subnets for hosting sets of applications or to shard a single application, according to its various cost or performance needs.    

IPC (InterPlanetary Consensus)

Forest is an implementation of Filecoin written in Rust. The implementation takes a modular approach to building a full Filecoin node in two parts — (i) building Filecoin’s security critical systems in Rust from the Filecoin Protocol Specification, specifically the virtual machine, blockchain, and node system, and (ii) integrating functional components for storage mining and storage & retrieval markets to compose a fully functional Filecoin node implementation.

Forest

Tableland is an open source, permissionless cloud database built on SQLite. Read and write tamperproof data from apps, data pipelines, or EVM smart contracts.

Tableland

IPLD

Powered by CyberConnect, Link3’s Web3 native event planner feature streamlines the process of organizing Web3 events like never before.

Link3

Passport is a flexible, easy-to-use developer toolkit for protecting projects against bots and bad actors. It helps users build robust online reputations and enables project leaders to create trustworthy digital experiences that keep out bots and Sybil attackers.

THE UNIQUE HUMANITY SCORE
We don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions for proving your Unique Humanity. So we give users the choice to prove their identity.Users can choose to add credentials from BrightID, Civic, Gitcoin, Coinbase, and more to increase their Unique Humanity Score.


Passport

Fluence provides an open-source, permissionless, decentralized platform and a development toolkit for building, hosting, and running peer-to-peer applications and protocols. It is designed to be the open source, community-managed, and self-sustaining protocol. Fluence Labs sends regular updates about the project.

Fluence

The Compute Over Data (COD) working group aims to enrich the Filecoin ecosystem by providing a compute over data framework that integrates seamlessly with core functionality and can be a platform for future developers in any ecosystem. It is made up of a large community of member projects who want to create a space to collaborate on decentralized Compute Over Data platforms.

COD (Compute Over Data)

**Berty** is designed to be used as an everyday messaging application. Nonetheless, it was built to primarily serve the following use cases:

- When you need to share sensitive information over untrusted networks, for instance while traveling
- If you want to communicate anonymously
- If you want full control over your data and thus don't want to rely on third-party servers
- In countries that actively monitor and temper with their network, restricting its use and censoring some of its contents
- In areas with weak or no connection at all

Berty is currently developed by **[Berty Technologies](https://berty.tech/about)**, a French nonprofit organization.

**Note: this project is led by a small team made of humans, who make mistakes. Please do not hesitate to point out bugs or missing features.** _See the [contribute section](#contribute) below._

> We cannot promise we will offer you the best application, but we dedicate ourselves to doing our best to create a great one.

Berty Messenger

IPNI coordinates a federation of index nodes that provide a scalable content routing service bridging IPFS and Filecoin.

IPNI

Take Off by Talent Protocol is a scholarship program that provides high-potential individuals a life-changing opportunity to grow, learn, and connect with web3 builders.

Scholars can apply to win a scholarship to attend your first IRL web3 hackathon and hang out with the most talented builders in the space.

They'll get financial support to attend IRL web3 hackathons and conferences, an once in a lifetime opportunity to join a community of like-minded builders, opportunity to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge web3 projects, and access to leading industry experts and mentors.

Take Off

Allo Protocol is a set of smart contracts that enable the democratic allocation and distribution of capital. The protocol was developed by Gitcoin to power the Grants Stack, but is useful beyond grants and quadratic funding.

Use Cases
*Grants Tooling
*Bounties and Requests for Proposals
*Creating circular economic systems
*Quadratic Funding
*Mechanism design and experimentation
*Wrapped voting


Allo

Mission Control unifies AI artifact management, Governance audits, and stakeholder education in a secure cloud environment. For teams of exploratory maturity; Mission Control is a turn-key environment for improving education, buy-in, and stronger Responsible AI culture. For advanced teams, Mission Control enables intelligent no-code Governance automation. Now, non-technical teammates can connect audits to artifacts with smart trigger logic; resolving the coordination and visibility failures that drive waste, harm, and unethical AI outcomes. Mission Control is built to help teams at all levels of AI maturity drive AI ROI, reduce AI Risk and global compliance cost burden, and move Responsible AI from talk to action.


Mission Control AI

Lotus is the reference node implementation for the Filecoin network. It is written in Go, and is maintained by the FilOz. At a high level the Lotus Suite today consists of the Lotus (the client), Lotus-Miner and Lotus-Worker programs that back up Filecoin chain, Storage Providers, and ecosystem toolings. 

Lotus

The AT Protocol is a networking technology created to power the next generation of social applications. The initial reference application, bsky.app, provides a global-scale microblogging experience.

ATProtocol

Filecoin TL;DR aims to simplify Filecoin ecosystem news. Get official updates on project development, leasing, and the FIL token.

Filecoin TL;DR

ipfs-pump is a command line tool to copy data between IPFS nodes, cluster or storage.

It supports multiple interfaces:

the IPFS API
direct access to a FlatFS datastore
direct access to a Badger datastore
direct access to a S3 datastore
a file with a list of CID

IPFS Pump

A multi-lingual and runtime-agnostic platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and p2p systems at scale.


Testground

This organization is structured to explore and develop viable mechanisms for reader-private communications under the hypothesis that it is possible to design scalable systems that don't sacrifice latency for privacy.



Private Retrieval Fund

Zama's fhEVM enables confidential smart contracts using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). On-chain data is public by design, making it hard to build dapps that require confidentiality. Zama's fhEVM, the first private smart contract protocol using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), enables transaction data and on-chain state to remain encrypted end-to-end, even during processing.

fhEVM

Rarimo-integrated dApps can instantly leverage a range of identity issuers and standards. Unlocking seamless portability for the users with built-in privacy using Zero-Knowledge technology.

Rarimo

ComposeDB on Ceramic stores and manages data while delivering fast queries and a catalog of plug-and-play data models. Developers, data scientists, and architects use it as the graph data layer for Web3.

ComposeDB

Open Source Observer is an open source public good.
Our goal is to help internet economies measure the impact of open source software contributions to the growth and adoption of their platform. 




Open Source Observer

The Wesh network toolkit lets your application use the
[Wesh protocol](https://berty.tech/docs/protocol) to support privacy-based, off-grid, peer-to-peer communication.
Wesh powers [Berty Messenger](https://github.com/berty/berty#readme), and now you can use
the Wesh network toolkit directly.

Your application interfaces to Wesh based on [gRPC](https://grpc.io). So even though
the core Wesh code is written in Go, Wesh works with your application written in Go, Python
or [other languages](https://grpc.io/docs/languages) supported by gRPC.

For details, see the Wesh website at https://wesh.network .
The website includes [blog tutorials](https://wesh.network/blog) which introduce you to
Wesh and walk you through some example applications and background of the Wesh protocol. 


Wesh Network Toolkit (by Berty)

Homestar is the individual node that makes up the network (similar to how IPFS Kubo, Iroh, Nabu, or other implementation nodes make up the IPFS network). It's written in Rust, and is designed for performance and composability.

Homestar

he Banyan CLI library is a tool for indexing, chunking, encrypting and decrypting large files and directories into manageable and portable CAR files of blocks that don't leak information about the original filesystem, plus a reconstruction manifest.

It it interacts seamlessly with our Web API to present you with an interface that can encrypt filesystems from scratch, or connect up to an existing Banyan account.

The CAR files generated by this tool can be uploaded to Filecoin, but we're happy to take care of that part too. Metadata files are optionally sent through Banyan's webapp, so you can share and manage your files from any device. Banyan handles all of this for its customers.





Banyan CLI

Iroh is a protocol for syncing bytes. It's open source, peer-2-peer, and works on your phone. Bytes of any size, across any number of devices. Use iroh to create apps that scale different.

Iroh

Baki is an Infinite-liquidity FX protocol allowing for slippage free swaps between African currencies. The protocol allows users to deposit stable coins and mint overcollateralized, synthetic assets, called zTokens, that are pegged to African currencies, creating the first on-chain implementation of African stable coins. 

Any zToken can be burnt to mint the equivalent value, of zTokens in another currency. Currently, Baki supports the minting of US Dollars (zUSD), Nigerian Naira (zNGN), West African CFA (zCFA) and South African Rand (zZAR). 

All FX conversions between currencies are provided at the central bank rates, offering users access to dollar markets at the best possible rates.

baki

Collectif-Go-SDK is the main client for Filecoin Storage Providers to interact with Collective Liquid Staking protocol it wraps around of all the complexities of joining Collectif protocol, pledging capital from the liquid staking pool into miner's Initial Pledge, and manage SPs collateral.

Collectif-Go-SDK

WNFS, or Webnative File System,  is a distributed file system built on IPFS. It is versioned, logged, programmable, encrypted, and fully controlled by the end user.

WNFS

Golang implementation of Celestia's data availability node types (light | full | bridge).

The celestia-node types described above comprise the celestia data availability (DA) network.

The DA network wraps the celestia-core consensus network by listening for blocks from the consensus network and making them digestible for data availability sampling (DAS).



Celestia Node

cadCAD is a Python package that assists in the processes of designing, testing and validating complex systems through simulation, with support for Monte Carlo methods, A/B testing and parameter sweeping.



cadCAD

builder.fi is a socialfi app where builders can capitalize on their reputation and earn crypto for answering questions. think of it as friend.tech for real builders.

builder.fi offers a unique opportunity for experienced builders to monetize their knowledge and reputation, while also supporting the next generation of builders.

for new builders and creators with limited connections, builder.fi can be a powerful networking tool to find and connect with high-value individuals, learn from them, and even potentially making a profit from those connections.

this journey with builder.fi began during ethereum singapore 2023, where the first prototype saw the light of day.

builder.fi was the most awarded project at the hackathon, winning 4 awards from airstack, polygon, mantle and taiko.

builder.fi

Utility library for utlizing EC encryption keys for:

Sharing Symmetric Keys / Secrets
Writing And Authenticating JWTs
Supports both Native Rust and WASM. Note WASM is meant for use in the browser, not NodeJS.



Tomb Crypt

Teku is an open-source Ethereum consensus client written in Java and containing a full beacon node and validator client implementation.

Teku

◽ optoelectronics device + PaaS for stain-free, label-free histopathology, without the lab ◽

DiagnOptics™

Sūrya, The Sun God: A Solidity Inspector
Surya is an utility tool for smart contract systems. It provides a number of visual outputs and information about the contracts' structure. Also supports querying the function call graph in multiple ways to aid in the manual inspection of contracts.



Surya

With Napalm you can manage, and easily run your custom detection modules for multiple tools, all from one place.

reporting - Napalm takes care of building a comprehensive report for you, so you can focus on writing your modules.
installation - Zero hassle installation of your modules, and their dependencies, in a clean virtual environment.
batch processing - Run your modules against multiple contracts, or multiple versions of the same contract, in one go.

Napalm

The Molecule Alpha implementation focuses on giving no strings attached funding to small research initiatives. This is done by gamifying the crowdfunding aspect by using bonding curves and a taxation on buy.

Tokens issued via the bonding curve give no rights over the research, and all DAI sent to the bonding curve contract are a donation, with the added benefit that tokens minted for this DAI can be sold along the same curve for potential profit.

The fundraising amount is entirely kept separate, as each buy is taxed and the tax is kept in a vault which can be withdrawn from if the fundraising milestone has been reached.



Catalyst

DataverseOS is sovereign data infrastructure for web3 dApps. It allows developers to build storage-based applications that you truly control identities, contents and data.

DataverseOS

A centralized OTC desk offers African institutions crypto-based services, including stablecoin FX and custody.

jaraOTC

Legions is a handy toolkit for (security) researchers poking around EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) nodes and smart contracts, now with a slick command-line interface, with auto complete commands and history.

Legions

AraGraph is a tool to generate nice looking permission graphs for Aragon DAOs. It can take the following inputs:

The address and chain-ID of a live DAO.
A DAO template description file (yaml).
A specification in Markdown table format.

AraGraph

Security analysis tool for EVM bytecode. Supports smart contracts built for Ethereum, Hedera, Quorum, Vechain, Roostock, Tron and other EVM-compatible blockchains.



Mythril

Scribble is a specification language and runtime verification tool that translates high-level specifications into Solidity code.

It allows you to annotate smart contracts with properties, instead of writing in a separate file. Upon completion, Scribble transforms annotations in the Scribble specification language into concrete assertions that verify the specification.

Scribble

Blaze is a Rust library for ZK acceleration on FPGAs, providing access to primitives like MSM, NTT, and Poseidon hash. It simplifies FPGA integration for high-performance, developer-friendly ZK applications.

Blaze

An open source platform to scale your know how. A network to seamlessly share methods, opportunities and discoveries.

Contributing to humanity’s coordination layer as a public good.

We are creating a sustainable funding model that rewards contributors by aligning the network's success with solving problems that matter.

Coordination Network

he Filebase CLI provides a hybrid data management solution, blending S3-compatible cloud storage with IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) pinning services. It features robust S3 bucket management, object handling for uploads and downloads, and seamless integration with IPFS and IPNS (InterPlanetary Naming System) for decentralized storage operations. The SDK supports advanced data tasks like compiling files into CAR (Content Addressable aRchive) formats and ensures secure transactions through strong authentication. Designed for varied applications, the Filebase CLI is ideal for scenarios demanding the dependability of cloud storage combined with the advantages of decentralized, peer-to-peer storage, catering to diverse needs such as content distribution, data backup, and archival. Developing InterPlanetary Applications has never been easier.

Filebase CLI

Station is a deployment target for running code (Modules) on hardware offered by Station operators. Station operators can either run Station on a server, or they can run Station desktop on their home computers.

Filecoin Station

ICICLE is an open-source library for ZK acceleration using CUDA-enabled GPUs. It is an essential tool for ZK developers and researchers focused on advancing Zero Knowledge Proofs using GPU.

Icicle

Index is a composable discovery protocol that allows to create  truly personalized and autonomous discovery experiences across the web. 

Index provides a decentralized semantic index that eliminates data fragmentation, a composable discovery protocol that allows data to be queried from multiple sources, in a user-centric manner. On top of this, it provides a real-time environment for agents that facilitates integration with algorithms and services and ensures that information acquires a fluid, social, and autonomous structure. 

By storing vector embeddings on a decentralized knowledge graph, Index Network creates the first decentralized semantic index, introducing a new open layer to information discovery.

Index Network

Trustless Reputation Metric for Risk Assessment for a truly online and decentralized ecosystem that can be used to dive Engagement, Growth, Incentives such as Token airdrops, Filtering De-Fi active users, Trade leverage allocation, Uncollaterized Loans. 

Mercle

Developed by the Golem Foundation, Octant explores motivations for public goods support. It employs recurring funding rounds and rewards active participants with ETH.

The Golem Foundation fuels Octant by regularly donating a portion of its rewards from staking 100,000 ETH. Community members who lock at least 100 GLM into an Octant contract for a 90-day epoch gain governance rights over Octant’s funds.

After each epoch, users with valid lock-ins can choose to claim a portion of Octant’s funds as rewards or donate them to community-selected public good projects. Donations are matched by Octant, amplifying their impact.

Octant

Operad.ai is a grid, where data flows in on the left and claims flow out on the right. Lines are data, boxes are code or AI models.

Operad.ai

Spark aims to solve the challenges of measuring whether Filecoin data is publicly retrievable, provide trusted metrics about retrievals performed from real user networks, and ultimately drive improvements in the retrievability of data stored on Filecoin.

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