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How content addressing works: hashes as names, content identifiers, Merkle structures, and verifiable linked data — explained from first principles.
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What Ipld Does
Education on content-addressed and linked data: hashes, content identifiers, Merkle structures, and verifiable data for the decentralized web.
Why naming data by its hash means anyone can verify they got exactly the right bytes.
How a cryptographic hash becomes a permanent, location-independent name for any piece of data.
Trees and DAGs of hashes that let huge datasets be verified one small piece at a time.
How content-addressed data moves between peers without a central server deciding what is true.
Tamper-evidence by construction: change one byte and every hash above it changes too.
Hands-on walkthroughs that hash files, build a small Merkle tree, and verify a link chain.
How Ipld Works
Start with how a hash function turns any data into a short, unforgeable fingerprint.
Use hashes as pointers so pieces of data reference each other into trees and graphs.
Follow the links and recompute the hashes to prove an entire structure is intact.
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No. Content addressing and linked data are general data-engineering ideas. Blockchains use them, but so do version control systems, backup tools, and package managers — no token is involved here.
It is naming a piece of data by the hash of its contents, so the name itself proves the data hasn't been changed.
Git commits, container image digests, and deduplicating backup tools all identify data by hash — the same principle that powers decentralized storage networks.
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