# Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

DevFeed: [Optimistic Provide: How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/optimistic-provide-how-we-made-ipfs-content-publishing-10x-faster-35630.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipfs.tech/2026-05-optimistic-provide/>)

Author: Dennis Trautwein

Published: 2026-05-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [IPFS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ipfs.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [ipfs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ipfs.md>), [kubo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubo.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [object-object](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-object.md>), [optimisation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimisation.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [publishing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/publishing.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains Optimistic Provide, an optimization for publishing content through IPFS's Amino DHT. It describes how the technique reduces upload latency from more than 13 seconds to less than one second while reducing network overhead by 40%, and notes that it shipped by default in Kubo 0.39.0.

## Source excerpt

How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.