Gateway transition to p2p — 2026-Q3

[cewood]

Note

This item came from the IPFS Foundation as part of our IPFS Grant for 2026.

While the base foundation item of "Move ~70% of gateway traffic to p2p service worker gateway with limited impact on end-user performance." was done in Q2 with the redirecting of applicable gateway requests to inbrowser.link follow-up items to increase performance and reduce reliance on centralized infrastructure for Q3 include:

• Minimize bundle size; reduced dependencies within the service-worker-gateway so that more exotic features (e.g. Secp256k1 IPNS keys, blake2b variants, blake3, etc.) are not imported unless actually required. This both reduces bundle size + latency in the common case, and allows onboarding / offboarding exotic / experimental features more easily
• Reduce dependence on trustless-gateway.link such that it is used only as a fallback when no reachable nodes are available