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OP Interplanetary Shipyard will stop all IPFS engineering, maintenance and infrastructure work on September 30, 2026
Interplanetary Shipyard, an organization that has maintained IPFS and libp2p protocols since 2024, announced that it will completely cease its IPFS engineering, maintenance and infrastructure work on September 30, 2026, after Protocol Labs decided not to renew funding.
We have an update about the future of the shipyard that we want to share.
Project that is about to lose its defenders
IPFS is a point-to-point protocol that allows files and websites to be distributed across multiple computers rather than a single central server, and supports many encryption and Web3 products. Starting September 30, 2026, Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion-the foundation on which most software libraries and applications in the ecosystem rely-will no longer have full-time maintainers.
The shipyard also plans to stop operating public infrastructure, including ipfs.io and dweb.link gateways, delegated-ipfs.dev, and boot nodes for IPFS. The shipyard said the future of the facilities would be decided by the protocol laboratory, not the shipyard.
Born to get rid of dependence, but ended because of dependence
The impact of this outage is more serious than the interruption of general funds. Its root cause lies in the background of the establishment of the shipyard. The Shipyard was established as an independent non-profit company in April 2024 after Agreement Labs committed to decentralizing IPFS governance in late 2023. Its founding announcement pointed out that projects built on IPFS and libp2p have expanded to areas too wide for any single company to manage on their own, and called Protocol Labs its "core financial partner for 2024-2025", as well as smaller funders such as Optimism's RetroPGF program, Cloudflare, Pinata, Fission and CoopHive. Two years later, the kind of dependence that the shipyard intended to get rid of ended itself.
This is not the first time the agreement laboratory has cut investment.
A member of the IPFS community made the same point at the project forum: If a single funder's decision can end all maintenance, then the shipyard's 2023 declaration of independence will look hollow. This reaction is more personal to the protocol laboratory than to the outside world. As early as February 2023, the company laid off 21% of its employees due to the decline in the cryptocurrency market, so sponsors withdrew funds under pressure-a model protocol laboratory has experienced firsthand, and it is not the first time.
Open source projects have a long history
Open-source infrastructure relying on the decisions of a single funder is not new. After the Heartbleed in 2014 exposed that OpenSSL software, which protects most network encryption, was maintained by a small number of underfunded volunteers, the industry established the Core Infrastructure Initiative precisely because handing critical software over to a single company's budget has proven too fragile. The Balancer crypto hijacking also demonstrated how vulnerabilities in widely used open source infrastructure pose greater risks across the ecosystem. The governance of IPFS still relies on this kind of "discretion," and this week proved again why this remains a problem.
What will happen after September 30, 2026
The next direction is unclear. Sources say that Molly Mackinlay, head of protocol laboratory engineering, plans to shift IPFS to "lightweight governance" by providing funding to individual maintainers rather than retaining a dedicated team. The shipyard said it will still assist in the project transition until September 30 and has opened feedback forms to the community. Before successors to Kubo, Helia, Boxo and Rainbow actually emerge, IPFS's core software and its public gateway will enter October without anyone committing to maintenance.
