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Concepts |
Get started on understanding the key ingredients in the decentralized web and how IPFS works. |
Welcome to the Concepts section of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) docs. Here, you can:
- Learn what IPFS is and isn't, the problems it solves, the different subsystems that it is composed of and how each one works in the 3-page Basic Concepts.
- Dive into ideas like hashing, immutability, persistence (and more) that underlie IPFS in Ideas and theory
- Learn more about the subsystems that IPFS is composed of in Subsystems and components
- Get an overview of IPFS implementations.
- Compare IPFS to other similar systems.
- Get answers to common questions about IPFS in the FAQ.
- Reference the glossary of terms used in the IPFS ecosystem.
- Read academic papers written about IPFS, including the original IPFS whitepaper.
- Get inspired with IPFS usage ideas and examples.
- Learn about IPFS in theater mode with these helpful videos.
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We're adding more documentation all the time and making ongoing revisions to existing docs, but if you don't see what you need, please file an issue to let us know! We also recommend visiting the IPFS forums for support and discussion with IPFS enthusiasts and experts worldwide. :::
- Content Identifiers (CIDs)
- Bitswap
- Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs)
- DNSLink
- File systems
- IPFS Gateway
- IPLD
- IPNS
- libp2p
- Merkle Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)
- Case study: Arbol
- Case study: Audius
- Case study: Fleek
- Case study: LikeCoin
- Case study: Morpheus.Network
- Case study: Snapshot
Check out ResNetLab on Tour for complete tutorials on IPFS and the Web 3.0 stack:
Want a more in-depth look into the decentralized web? Here are a few papers that are useful for understanding IPFS, whether it be understanding the IPFS spec itself or the background for the web, protocols, hashing, and so on. Read the papers →