IPFS Integration in the Brave Browser

[daviddias]

Track progress at: brave/browser-laptop#9556 (comment) brave/brave-browser#819

Just leaving this year for discoverability. Locking the convo on this thread, please follow up on the main one ^

[lidel]

I'm happy to announce that Brave v1.19 shipped with support for ipfs:// URI and ability to run local node.

(Will update this comment with some links for posterity)

Blogs:

• https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-01-19-ipfs-in-brave/
• https://blog.ipfs.io/2021-01-21-how-we-put-ipfs-in-brave/
• https://brave.com/brave-integrates-ipfs/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDkTQiKzJA (How to Use IPFS With the Brave Browser)
• https://brave.com/ipfs-support/

Press:

• https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browser-native-ipfs-integration-decentralized-web
• https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/19/22238334/brave-browser-ipfs-peer-to-peer-decentralized-transfer-protocol-http-nodes
• https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/19/brave_decentralized_browser/
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-becomes-first-browser-to-add-native-support-for-the-ipfs-protocol/
• https://www.engadget.com/brave-ipfs-update-190545662.html
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brave-becomes-first-browser-offer-170459643.html
  https://news.yahoo.com/brave-becomes-first-browser-offer-170459643.html
• https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/brave-web-browser-adds-native-support-for-peer-to-peer-ipfs-protocol/
• https://lifehacker.com/what-is-ipfs-and-why-does-it-matter-in-braves-web-brows-1846103479

This is just the beginning. Ongoing/future work:

• https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afeature%2Fipfs
• https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/projects/32