A decentralized web is about to become a reality now that Brave has integrated the IPFS peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol into its browser. For the past several months, the company has been working with Protocol Labs to add support for the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) to its browser. IPFS offers a number of advantages over the conventional HTTP standard, including lower bandwidth costs, decentralization and data integrity, access to censored content, and higher performance. By integrating the new protocol into their browser, Brave users will also be able to access previously viewed content even when offline. Brave CTO and Co-Founder Brian Bondy explained why native IPFS integration in his browser will be important to content creators in a press release: “We are excited to be the first browser to offer native IPFS integration with the latest version of Brave. current Brave desktop browser. By providing Brave's million+ verified content creators with the power to seamlessly serve content to millions of new users around the world through a new secure protocol, IPFS offers users a solution to the server problem. . centralized creating a central point of failure for access to content. IPFS' innovative content addressing uses content identifiers (CIDs) to form an address based on the content itself instead of locating data based on a server address. The integration of the open source IPFS network is a key step in making the web more transparent, decentralized and resilient. "