# What is a Merkle DAG?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-is-a-merkle-dag/386>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 23, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-is-a-merkle-dag/386 "2017-05-23T00:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikedotexe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/mikedotexe/32/3262_2.png) [@mikedotexe](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/mikedotexe)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-is-a-merkle-dag/386/4 "2019-11-28T16:52:12Z")

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That link 404’s now. Here’s the spec as of today:

> <https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/master/MERKLE_DAG.md>

  
**Note:** The Merkle DAG has been deprecated in favor of [IPLD](https://github.com/ipld/specs)

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