IPFS does not in any way involve a blockchain. There's a separate "layer on top of IPFS" called Filecoin that does involve a blockchain. (From a technical poin

IPFS does not in any way involve a blockchain. There's a separate "layer on top of IPFS" called Filecoin that does involve a blockchain. (From a technical point of view, it's not really a layer on top, more of a re-implementation of IPFS with a blockchain.) I've worked on IPFS and know many of the key people at PL. They really are not blockchain people or cryptobros. They are much different from anyone else in crypto I have encountered. But ultimately they have to fund their activities somehow, and this is the reality of where the business potential is in P2P circa mid-2020s.