GoKawiilProtocol Labs cuts funding, Shipyard to end IPFS maintenance by September 2026
Shipyard announced that Protocol Labs will not renew its funding, forcing the company to wind down its engineering, maintenance, and infrastructure work on IPFS. The team's final day supporting the project will be September 30, 2026, after roughly three years of building tools like inbrowser.link and reworking gateway infrastructure to handle more traffic at lower cost. Shipyard says planned future work, including HTTP-native IPFS implementations and Tor-based hosting support, will now go unfinished by their team.