Shipyard, the independent engineering collective that has maintained core InterPlanetary File System implementations since early 2024, will end all IPFS-related work by Sept. 30, 2026 after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding. Widely used projects including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion will lose dedicated maintainers unless others step in. During its roughly two-year run, Shipyard raised gateway traffic capacity by about 300% and cut operating costs by around 80%, and completed the handoff of libp2p maintenance to community contributors by September 2025. Protocol Labs, which created IPFS, will resume operational control of critical public services such as ipfs.io and dweb.link and is shifting toward lighter individual maintainer grants via the IPFS Foundation rather than funding a collective. IPFS itself remains an open standard; the risk is uncertain stewardship of the software most developers actually run, with potential friction for Filecoin applications that rely on IPFS addressing for content retrieval.