Round 1 / IPFS (Interplanetary FileSystem) and IPLD

This nomination is for the IPFS project as a whole, including protocol stewardship of IPFS, IPLD, and multiformats, outreach, education, and community building. Its impact is woven across the Filecoin project, but for this application it fall into 2 major buckets:

1. Building blocks for the Filecoin protocol: IPLD, a subproject of IPFS, is the data model of the content addressable web. IPLD's concepts and protocols such as DAG-CBOR, .car file format, and Graphsync are used extensively across the Filecoin spec and run in every Filecoin node.

2. Storage user growth: IPFS has firmly established CIDs as the default of storage design for Web3. Its 10-year track record as "the backbone of web3" and ongoing new usage contribute to interest, credibility, and client lead generation for Filecoin. Many of Filecoin's storage users cite the efficiency and verifiability of CIDs, alongside cost, as a reason for choosing Filecoin (example: Victor Chang Cardiac Institute).