ProtoSchool
Interactive tutorials on decentralized web protocols
Helia Migration

We are migrating Protoschool from the deprecated `js-ipfs`` to `Helia` and the site is not currently be stable.

Please monitor https://github.com/SgtPooki/proto.school2 for progress.

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Interactive Tutorials

Our self-guided interactive tutorials are designed to introduce you to decentralized web concepts, protocols, and tools. Select your topic and track your progress as you go, in a format that's right for you. Complete JavaScript code challenges right in your web browser or stick to our text-based or multiple-choice tutorials for a code-free experience. Our handy little icons will guide you to the content that fits your needs.

DWeb Concepts
Content Addressing on the Decentralized Web

Learn how hashing and content addressing enable verifiable data sharing with peers on the decentralized web.

IPLD
Merkle DAGs: Structuring Data for the Distributed Web

Learn how we can use CIDs to create content-addressable data structures for the distributed web!

libp2p
Introduction to libp2p

Learn how libp2p solves common networking problems through modularity, aiming to be the de facto peer-to-peer (P2P) library for the decentralized web.

Filecoin
Verifying Storage on Filecoin

Learn how Filecoin's built-in verification methods make it possible to trust peers in an incentivized, decentralized file storage system.

IPFS
Mutable File System

The Mutable File System (MFS) lets you work with files and directories as if you were using a traditional name-based file system.

IPFS
Regular Files API

The IPFS Regular Files API provides a way to store and share files in a peer-to-peer storage system.

IPFS
P2P Data Links with Content Addressing

Store, fetch, and create verifiable links between peer-hosted datasets using the IPFS DAG API and CIDs. It’s graphs with friends!

IPFS
Blogging on the Decentralized Web

Cool content addresses don't change. Create a chain of links from one CID to another with the IPFS DAG API.

Multiformats
Anatomy of a CID

Explore the ins and outs of CIDs (Content Identifiers), the unique labels used to point to data stored on distributed information systems including IPFS, IPLD, libp2p, and Filecoin.