IPFS is the InterPlanetary File System, an open-source peer-to-peer content-addressed protocol and decentralized storage and data-transfer network. IPFS's Twitter Score is 188 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #2,976 (top 1%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
IPFS was founded by Juan Benet and is affiliated with Protocol Labs, the organization behind its continued development. The protocol is also closely tied to Filecoin, the incentive layer built on top of it, and libp2p, the modular networking stack it relies on for peer-to-peer communication.
IPFS operates as a foundational layer for the decentralized web, enabling content addressing, verifiable data, and censorship-resistant storage. The network has grown to more than 280,000 unique nodes, over 2,000 active contributors, and more than one billion content identifiers published. It serves as remote data storage for blockchain-based smart contracts, NFTs, and decentralized applications. Protocol Labs notes that Snapshot, the widely used governance platform, relies on IPFS to publicly record proposals, votes, and data for more than 9,000 web3 projects and DAOs.
IPFS has also attracted scrutiny from researchers: a paper published on arXiv in 2023 described a content censorship attack targeting IPFS's Kademlia distributed hash table, with countermeasures noted as scheduled for future versions of the protocol. IPFS has 81,132 followers as of July 2026 and has published 5,034 posts. The account has been mentioned by 634 accounts a total of 2,269 times.
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The accounts that follow IPFS include 681 founders, 153 angel investors, 291 influencers and 48 VCs. Among them are Erik Voorhees, Toly, 6529, Fred Ehrsam, Kyle Samani and Joseph Lubin.