We’re building the Seed Hypermedia Protocol — a decentralized protocol for authorship, versioned publishing, and intellectual collaboration. It’s built on top of IPFS and libp2p, and carries forward many of the same principles that inspired IPFS itself: content addressing, verifiability, and peer-to-peer distribution.

However, where IPFS focuses on the storage and addressing layer, the Hypermedia Protocol addresses the upper layers of structured collaboration, enabling people to write, discuss, and update documents over time in a decentralized yet cohesive manner.

Core Foundations

CRDT-powered versioning Edits and contributions from multiple peers are merged without conflict, preserving authorship and edit history.
Hypermedia documents Rich linking across versions, documents, and authors — enabling structured discourse and citation networks.
Signed, addressable content Every change is cryptographically signed, making authorship and provenance first-class citizens.
Collaborative publishing Peers can co-publish and subscribe to documents, forming networks of trust and shared knowledge.

We leverage IPFS for distribution and storage while building structure, authorship, and collaboration on top.

A dynamic knowledge base discussing an Urban Plan in Spain

A dynamic knowledge base discussing an Urban Plan in Spain

If you're curious about how this all works, visit explore.hyper.media/list — a live view into the content-addressed building blocks of Hypermedia Sites, served directly over IPFS.

To start participating in the peer-to-peer web, download the Seed Hypermedia app at https://download.seed.hyper.media/. Publish your own website, collaborate with peers, and take control of your digital presence — all without relying on centralized platforms.

Latest Highlights

Website Importing Import entire websites (e.g., from WordPress) into your Hypermedia site with just a URL. The system fetches and restructures them into a content-addressed format for decentralized publishing.
Full-Text Search (V4) A new full-text search engine improves document indexing and frontend performance across your Hypermedia site.
Instagram Embeds & Link Toolbar Enhanced support for Instagram post embeds and a smoother link editing experience.
Universal Addressability We’re developing a generalized system for addressing and mutating state-based objects like contacts and comments.
Hypermedia Commenting Comments are now first-class hypermedia objects. You can comment on any document or block, and those comments are fully addressable, signed, and linkable — enabling structured conversation and open peer review. Learn more at seedteamtalks.hyper.media/updates/hypermedia-commenting.
Desktop-Web Key Linking Start signing content on the web using your identity from the Seed desktop app.
Email Notifications Desktop users can now opt into email notifications for activity across their sites and documents.

For a deeper dive into our progress, check out seed.hyper.media/blog

Let’s build a better web — one where knowledge is created, shared, and permanently preserved

— The Seed Hypermedia team seed.hyper.media