# IPLD 2025 Review: From Monoliths to Modules

DevFeed: [IPLD 2025 Review: From Monoliths to Modules](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ipld-2025-review-from-monoliths-to-modules-35627.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipfs.tech/2026-01-ipld-2025-review/>)

Author: Volker Mische

Published: 2026-01-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [IPFS](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipfs.md>)

Topics: [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [IPFS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ipfs.md>), [AT Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/atproto.md>), [deprecated](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deprecated.md>)

Tags: [deprecated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deprecated.md>), [ipfs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ipfs.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>), [object-object](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-object.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>)

## AI overview

The article reviews progress in the IPLD ecosystem during 2025 and previews work for 2026. It describes the Rust IPLD implementation's migration to separate crates, its deprecation, improved performance for Python DAG-CBOR and Bluesky custom feeds, and a migration path to Serde-based crates.

## Source excerpt

The year that brought us modular Rust libraries, faster DAG-CBOR, stable multiformats, and a simpler on-ramp with DASL.