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However, as the scale of blockchain networks expands and data volumes surge, issues such as full-node storage redundancy, limited transaction throughput, and inefficient synchronization of historical data have become increasingly prominent, severely restricting the large-scale application of blockchain systems. The storage scalability problem faced by blockchain is therefore becoming more critical. To address the challenge in which on-chain storage expansion still cannot meet the demand for large-scale data storage, a storage method combining the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with blockchain, referred to as IPFS-BC, is proposed. In IPFS-BC, large-scale raw data are stored in the decentralized and content-addressable IPFS network, while the blockchain only retains the unique content identifier (CID) hash and related metadata. Through smart contracts enabling dynamic permission management and fine-grained access control, efficient interaction and collaborative storage between on-chain and off-chain systems are achieved. In this work, file upload simulation experiments were conducted, and two evaluation indicators\u2014storage space consumption and storage performance (file read\/write time and speed)\u2014were used to compare three storage approaches: Distributed Hash Table (DHT)-based off-chain storage, Financial Blockchain Shenzhen Open Source (FISCO BCOS) on-chain storage, and the IPFS-BC on-chain\/off-chain collaborative storage model. Experimental results show that the IPFS-BC model reduces storage space consumption by approximately 75% compared with FISCO BCOS blockchain storage when storing file data, significantly decreasing data redundancy. Moreover, IPFS-BC ensures system security during the on-chain process, and through the automated management and auditing provided by smart contracts, it effectively enhances system security and realizes scalable on-chain\/off-chain collaborative storage.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi18020092","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]],"date-time":"2026-02-11T09:16:08Z","timestamp":1770801368000},"page":"92","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Research on an On-Chain and Off-Chain Collaborative Storage Method Based on Blockchain and IPFS"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-9604-3286","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tianqi","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuxiang","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhihong","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-2957-9421","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mingming","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ruicheng","family":"Niu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"100344","article-title":"A Comprehensive Review of Blockchain Technology: Underlying Principles and Historical Background with Future Challenges","volume":"9","author":"Tripathi","year":"2023","journal-title":"Digit. 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