Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
I think the headline here is misleading. What they are offering is a prize to decentralize the internet - the actual network to which people connect in order to use the web. Judging from the other comments here, I don't think a lot of people have actually read the article.IPFS and blockchain are technologies that are built on top of the internet - they assume a network connection already exists.