An IPFS bytes exchange to improve speed and reliability of Filecoin retrievals without heavy hardware requirements or compromising on decentralization

• IPFS exchange interface like Bitswap
• Use IPFS while providing content for retrievals on Filecoin (YES, that means you will earn FIL when we launch on mainnet!)
• New content to cache is dispatched via Gossipsub and stored by available providers
• Currently gossip based content routing though will be pluggable with other solutions
• Simple API abstracting away Filecoin deal operations
• Upload and retrieve directly from a Filecoin storage miner if no secondary providers cache the content (Coming Soon)

To speed up data retrieval from Filecoin, a secondary market allows clients to publish their content ids to a network of providers in order to retrieve it faster and more often at a cheaper price. This does not guarantee data availability and so should be used in addition to a regular storage deal. You can think of this as the CDN layer of Filecoin. This library is still very experimental and more at the prototype stage so feel free to open an issue if you have any suggestion or would like to contribute!

As a CLI:

Install dependencies:

brew install go bzr jq pkg-config rustup hwloc

Clone the repo. You may need to include submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

run:

$ make

As a library:

$ go get github.com/myelnet/pop

Run any command with -h flag for more details.

USAGE
  pop subcommand [flags]

This CLI is still under active development. Commands and flags will
change until the first stable release.

SUBCOMMANDS
  start   Starts a POP daemon
  ping    Ping the local daemon or a given peer
  put     Put a file into an exchange transaction for storage
  status  Print the state of any ongoing transaction
  commit  Commit a DAG transaction to storage
  get     Retrieve content from the network
  list    List all content indexed in this pop

See go docs.