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Efficient IPFS for the whole world right now.

Iroh takes IPFS beyond the theoretical, to offer developers efficient
infrastructure that scales data distribution past 10M devices.

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Purpose-built for efficiency.

We have been working on and around IPFS nearly since it's inception,
and are starting out on a new implementation because we have
unfinished business with IPFS.

We believe the best days of the protocol are ahead, but to get there
we need to ship an order-of-magnitude improvement that unlocks new
platforms and use cases.

We're building iroh to see just how far we can take IPFS.

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Faster

Iroh consistently outperforms Kubo, using fewer resources to serve
more requests.

There is a ring of truth to the "rewrite it in Rust" cliche. Adding
in lessons learned while working with IPFS over the years doesn't
hurt either.

Throughput

req/second
Iroh
6,926
Kubo
4,957

Adding Content

100mb Files
Iroh
199 Mb/s
Kubo
294 Mb/s
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Practical

Iroh does fewer things than kubo, with more polish. Iroh targets a
subset of the kubo API, aiming at the most commonly-used features of
IPFS, while steering users away from pitfalls that have been trapped
in kubo to maintain backward compatibility.

If it's shipped in iroh, it will just work.

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Platform Specific

Running a single binary in the cloud doesn't make much sense. Neither
does duplicating files locally when running IPFS on the desktop

Iroh is a single codebase with multiple platform targets, allowing
iroh to be microservices in the cloud, use more natural defaults on
desktop.

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Mobile Support

Finally, IPFS on a phone.

Iroh can be embedded into iOS & Android applications to speak the
IPFS protocol natively. It's not a device-overheating afterthought,
it's a ground-up rethink of what IPFS on a phone should look like.

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