From 80dc5bfbcea84462aa0740a1bc4c66de8bae3a02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Berjon Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 05:40:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md Co-authored-by: Bumblefudge --- src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md b/src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md index c732c971..c9057027 100644 --- a/src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md +++ b/src/_blog/2025-05-grants.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ ourselves! Another issue with CAR files is that they are as diverse as the data usecases and ergonomics of the IPFS ecosystem: while Filecoin uploading returns a CAR file, it sidesteps the UnixFS and thus most CAR tooling cannot reconstruct or navigate its contents. -discover its contents the archive is treated as an opaque blob. +As these big-data archive files are not introspectable with UnixFS tools, Lau's team is open-sourcing some indexing tools they created internally which create a _private index_ of Filecoin uploads, rounding out a historic tooling/interop gap in the ecosystem. Ben and team at [Starling Lab](https://starlinglab.org/) are developing a browser-based tool to help locate the content of CAR archives, without relying on public indexing services. It's definitely going to