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What is IPLD? | IPFS Blog & News

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Breaking down Interplanetary Linked Data and its relationship to IPFS.

Blog & news What is IPLD? 29 October 2021 #DAG #CID #IPLD Share this item: # What is IPLD? Most people would already know what IPFS is and what it offers to the average developer in terms of distributed data. However, IPFS isn't the only thing that one should understand about this revolutionary system. Underneath IPFS is a system known as IPLD (opens new window) that deals with all the heavy lifting that IPFS does to represent data as Merkle-DAGs (opens new window) with roots identified by content IDs ( CIDs (opens new window) ). But what is IPLD, and why is it important in the grander scheme

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