Web3.Storage Is a Platinum Sponsor of NodeConf EU 22

Dear NodeConf attendee, The web3.storage team is proud to offer you a preview of our web scale IPFS cloud. We are releasing a new upload API (in beta right now), and we think you’ll appreciate early access. We’ll be leading a workshop on Tuesday October 4th at NodeConf covering these APIs, so take a look and then sign up to work alongside the experts.

We’ve architected web3.storage to be the fastest, easiest way to get data onto the distributed web. Here are a few features we think every distributed storage solution should offer: Global CDN — content addressed data is inherently cacheable. Take advantage of our insane defaults, or go faster with SuperHot global pre-caching . With web3.storage, your data is delivered at industry leading speeds. Streaming uploads — the w3up CLI can upload files of any size, by automatically chunking large files into manageable sized blocks. Uploads are encoded to CAR format for IPFS for compatibility with the rest of the IPFS and Filecoin ecosystem. Self-sovereign identity — Users control their own keys and identity, as web3.storage implements DID and UCAN , enabling applications to run in the web of trust. Dynamic naming — Cryptographically verifiable change feeds of immutable IPFS content identifiers support interactive app experiences like chat and shared game worlds. Lightweight flexible UI components — we know that every app needs similar baseline functionality like identity and account management, file and data upload, and query subscription, so you are invited to try our component library , which makes it easy to use web3.storage from any frontend framework. Workflow friendly CLI tooling — you can also access the full suite of web3.storage APIs via our command line interfaces. To get started with the beta upload API visit the CLI repo here . There is also a client library which is used by both the UI components and CLI. If you are are writing raw Node.js then you’ll want to start with the npm package.

The beta w3up API uses UCAN for authorization (if this sounds familiar, we have a library that fits UCAN into the current API ). UCANs are tokens that contain verifiable signatures that can prove the requester has permissions to access a set of services for a given identity. No centralized validators required - you can take a valid UCAN to any service that accepts it! We believe UCANs will become a foundation for web3 because they make it easy for application developers to coordinate across peers and service providers.

This is beta software, so you are among the earliest users to try it out. Please connect with us if you run into unexpected issues or if you want to share any feedback. To get the engineering team’s attention as quickly as possible, we recommend filing an issue in the w3up-cli Github repo .

Data uploaded to w3up will not be associated with existing NFT.Storage and/or Web3.Storage accounts (if you use both, please register with w3up with different email addresses and sandbox uploads that will be associated with different services between these different accounts). Uploads to w3up beta will become part of your web3.storage account when the migration is complete.

Hopefully, you’re already excited about w3up. It represents a giant step in our evolution from just providing storage to adding many other services that make it possible and easy for any developer to use web3 data protocols. By introducing UCANs and doubling down on our architecture’s use of IPFS and CAR files (all open and verifiable protocols), we’re on the cusp of truly unlocking the “Data Layer” — the ability to interact with data without constraining your application’s architecture, having to think about where it is and can be stored, and worrying what service providers you’re locked into.

Stay tuned!

Your friends at DAG House (the web3.storage team)