Derrick Foote is a Web3 infrastructure founder best known for building developer tooling around the InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS. He is associated with RTrade Technologies and founded Temporal, an IPFS focused platform positioned to help teams deploy, manage, and scale decentralized storage and content delivery workflows.
Overview
Foote’s work centers on the practical layer of decentralized applications, including content addressing, data persistence, and production grade infrastructure that can support Web3 experiences such as decentralized websites and data archiving. In a CryptoSlate profile, he is described as an entrepreneur active in blockchain since 2013, with experience spanning over the counter crypto deals and commercial mining before moving deeper into infrastructure and developer products.
Background and Career
CryptoSlate notes that Foote completed the Oxford University Blockchain Strategy Programme and built a career across several phases of the crypto market. His early activity included brokerage style work in over the counter markets and exposure to mining operations, followed by a shift toward building software products aimed at decentralized storage and Web3 data workflows.
Foote has been linked publicly with RTrade Technologies, a company that has positioned itself around distributed storage, IPFS based tooling, and enterprise oriented Web3 infrastructure. That backdrop informed the creation of Temporal as a standalone product effort that could be consumed by developers without requiring them to operate IPFS clusters from scratch.
Temporal and IPFS Infrastructure
Temporal, also referenced as Temporal Cloud in public materials, is presented as an IPFS infrastructure layer that bundles APIs, toolkits, and storage services for teams that want to integrate IPFS into applications. The product positioning focuses on reducing operational overhead, such as cluster setup, pinning strategy, and ongoing monitoring, so teams can treat decentralized storage as a service rather than an internal platform project.
- Developer oriented APIs intended to simplify interaction with IPFS based storage and retrieval
- SDKs and tooling designed to support common integration paths, including web and backend workflows
- Managed infrastructure concepts for persistence, monitoring, and configuration of IPFS clusters
- Web3 oriented publishing use cases, including decentralized website hosting patterns
In an interview published by CryptoSlate, Foote discussed roadmap themes that included integration with Ethereum Name Service domains for hosting IPFS websites, an S3 compatible API concept to reduce application changes, and Kubernetes based scaling for higher availability and larger deployments. The same discussion also highlighted the ongoing challenge of improving UX and UI across Web3 infrastructure so users can benefit from decentralized systems without needing expert level operational knowledge.
Related context is available in CryptoSlate’s coverage of IPFS developer experience and ENS domain hosting.
Use Cases and Market Position
Temporal’s positioning maps to several common needs in crypto and Web3, including decentralized content delivery for front ends, storage of application assets and metadata, and archival workflows for teams that want content addressing and redundancy. The market for managed IPFS services is competitive, and differentiation typically comes from reliability, pricing transparency, developer ergonomics, and the breadth of integrations that reduce friction for mainstream software teams.
Risks and Considerations
IPFS based systems introduce trade offs that infrastructure providers and users must manage. Persistence is not guaranteed unless content is pinned or replicated, and performance can vary depending on network conditions, gateway reliance, and the architecture used for retrieval. Centralization risks can re appear when applications depend heavily on a small number of gateways or hosted providers. Operationally, teams also need to consider data governance, compliance requirements, and service continuity when choosing a managed provider for production workloads.
Additional perspective on infrastructure concentration risks is covered in CryptoSlate’s reporting on Web3 single points of failure.
