# Protocol Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/protocol-labs/  
**Website:** https://www.protocol.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Protocol Labs is an open-source research and development company founded in 2014 by Juan Benet, best known for creating foundational decentralized web protocols including IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System), Filecoin (a decentralized storage network), libp2p (a modular peer-to-peer networking stack), and IPLD (a data model for content-addressed systems). Since its founding it has grown into an innovation network connecting more than 750 startups, funds, accelerators, foundations, and open-source projects working across web3, AI, robotics, cryptography, and neurotechnology. Protocol Labs itself (protocol.ai) is a research and venture organization rather than a commercial API provider — it publishes no first-party REST API; its developer surfaces (IPFS HTTP APIs, Filecoin JSON-RPC, libp2p) live in their own separate open-source projects and GitHub organizations.

## Kin Score — 6.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Protocol Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Decentralized Web, Peer-to-Peer, IPFS, Filecoin, LibP2P, Web3, Open-Source, Research and Development, Distributed Storage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/protocol-labs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.