diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
index fcbbc2cf..37b38c88 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import resolve from './resolvers/index.js'
 import last from 'it-last'
 import type { UnixFS } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import type { PBNode } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
-import type { Blockstore as InterfaceBlockstore } from 'interface-blockstore'
+import type { Blockstore } from 'interface-blockstore'
 import type { Bucket } from 'hamt-sharding'
 import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ export interface ResolveResult {
   next?: NextResult
 }
 
-export interface Resolve { (cid: CID, name: string, path: string, toResolve: string[], depth: number, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<ResolveResult> }
-export interface Resolver { (cid: CID, name: string, path: string, toResolve: string[], resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<ResolveResult> }
+export interface Resolve { (cid: CID, name: string, path: string, toResolve: string[], depth: number, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<ResolveResult> }
+export interface Resolver { (cid: CID, name: string, path: string, toResolve: string[], resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<ResolveResult> }
 
 export type UnixfsV1FileContent = AsyncIterable<Uint8Array> | Iterable<Uint8Array>
 export type UnixfsV1DirectoryContent = AsyncIterable<UnixFSEntry> | Iterable<UnixFSEntry>
 export type UnixfsV1Content = UnixfsV1FileContent | UnixfsV1DirectoryContent
-export interface UnixfsV1Resolver { (cid: CID, node: PBNode, unixfs: UnixFS, path: string, resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: Blockstore): (options: ExporterOptions) => UnixfsV1Content }
+export interface UnixfsV1Resolver { (cid: CID, node: PBNode, unixfs: UnixFS, path: string, resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: ReadableStorage): (options: ExporterOptions) => UnixfsV1Content }
 
 export interface ShardTraversalContext {
   hamtDepth: number
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export interface ShardTraversalContext {
   lastBucket: Bucket<boolean>
 }
 
-export type Blockstore = Pick<InterfaceBlockstore, 'get'>
+export type ReadableStorage = Pick<Blockstore, 'get'>
 
 const toPathComponents = (path: string = ''): string[] => {
   // split on / unless escaped with \
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ const cidAndRest = (path: string | Uint8Array | CID): { cid: CID, toResolve: str
   throw errCode(new Error(`Unknown path type ${path}`), 'ERR_BAD_PATH')
 }
 
-export async function * walkPath (path: string | CID, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<UnixFSEntry, void, any> {
+export async function * walkPath (path: string | CID, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<UnixFSEntry, void, any> {
   let {
     cid,
     toResolve
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export async function * walkPath (path: string | CID, blockstore: Blockstore, op
   }
 }
 
-export async function exporter (path: string | CID, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions = {}): Promise<UnixFSEntry> {
+export async function exporter (path: string | CID, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions = {}): Promise<UnixFSEntry> {
   const result = await last(walkPath(path, blockstore, options))
 
   if (result == null) {
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ export async function exporter (path: string | CID, blockstore: Blockstore, opti
   return result
 }
 
-export async function * recursive (path: string | CID, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<UnixFSEntry, void, any> {
+export async function * recursive (path: string | CID, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<UnixFSEntry, void, any> {
   const node = await exporter(path, blockstore, options)
 
   if (node == null) {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/file.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/file.ts
index c5f80b51..51f4bd4e 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/file.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/file.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ import parallel from 'it-parallel'
 import { pipe } from 'it-pipe'
 import map from 'it-map'
 import PQueue from 'p-queue'
-import type { ExporterOptions, UnixfsV1FileContent, UnixfsV1Resolver, Blockstore } from '../../../index.js'
+import type { ExporterOptions, UnixfsV1FileContent, UnixfsV1Resolver, ReadableStorage } from '../../../index.js'
 
-async function walkDAG (blockstore: Blockstore, node: dagPb.PBNode | Uint8Array, queue: Pushable<Uint8Array>, streamPosition: bigint, start: bigint, end: bigint, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<void> {
+async function walkDAG (blockstore: ReadableStorage, node: dagPb.PBNode | Uint8Array, queue: Pushable<Uint8Array>, streamPosition: bigint, start: bigint, end: bigint, options: ExporterOptions): Promise<void> {
   // a `raw` node
   if (node instanceof Uint8Array) {
     queue.push(extractDataFromBlock(node, streamPosition, start, end))
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/hamt-sharded-directory.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/hamt-sharded-directory.ts
index bc6fbcc0..3dbb94d4 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/hamt-sharded-directory.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/unixfs-v1/content/hamt-sharded-directory.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import parallel from 'it-parallel'
 import { pipe } from 'it-pipe'
 import map from 'it-map'
 import { decode, PBNode } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
-import type { ExporterOptions, Resolve, UnixfsV1DirectoryContent, UnixfsV1Resolver, Blockstore } from '../../../index.js'
+import type { ExporterOptions, Resolve, UnixfsV1DirectoryContent, UnixfsV1Resolver, ReadableStorage } from '../../../index.js'
 
 const hamtShardedDirectoryContent: UnixfsV1Resolver = (cid, node, unixfs, path, resolve, depth, blockstore) => {
   function yieldHamtDirectoryContent (options: ExporterOptions = {}): UnixfsV1DirectoryContent {
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const hamtShardedDirectoryContent: UnixfsV1Resolver = (cid, node, unixfs, path,
   return yieldHamtDirectoryContent
 }
 
-async function * listDirectory (node: PBNode, path: string, resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ExporterOptions): UnixfsV1DirectoryContent {
+async function * listDirectory (node: PBNode, path: string, resolve: Resolve, depth: number, blockstore: ReadableStorage, options: ExporterOptions): UnixfsV1DirectoryContent {
   const links = node.Links
 
   const results = pipe(
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/utils/find-cid-in-shard.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/utils/find-cid-in-shard.ts
index 44ecfe22..b029ad2a 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/utils/find-cid-in-shard.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/utils/find-cid-in-shard.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import { Bucket, BucketPosition, createHAMT } from 'hamt-sharding'
 import { decode, PBLink, PBNode } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import { murmur3128 } from '@multiformats/murmur3'
-import type { ExporterOptions, ShardTraversalContext, Blockstore } from '../index.js'
+import type { ExporterOptions, ShardTraversalContext, ReadableStorage } from '../index.js'
 import type { CID } from 'multiformats/cid'
 
 // FIXME: this is copy/pasted from ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/options.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ const toBucketPath = (position: BucketPosition<boolean>): Array<Bucket<boolean>>
   return path.reverse()
 }
 
-const findShardCid = async (node: PBNode, name: string, blockstore: Blockstore, context?: ShardTraversalContext, options?: ExporterOptions): Promise<CID | undefined> => {
+const findShardCid = async (node: PBNode, name: string, blockstore: ReadableStorage, context?: ShardTraversalContext, options?: ExporterOptions): Promise<CID | undefined> => {
   if (context == null) {
     const rootBucket = createHAMT<boolean>({
       hashFn
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
index e789fb68..43a7c437 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { UnixFS } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import { persist } from '../utils/persist.js'
 import { encode, prepare } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
-import type { Directory, InProgressImportResult, Blockstore } from '../index.js'
+import type { Directory, InProgressImportResult, WritableStorage } from '../index.js'
 import type { Version } from 'multiformats/cid'
 import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export interface DirBuilderOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   signal?: AbortSignal
 }
 
-export const dirBuilder = async (dir: Directory, blockstore: Blockstore, options: DirBuilderOptions): Promise<InProgressImportResult> => {
+export const dirBuilder = async (dir: Directory, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: DirBuilderOptions): Promise<InProgressImportResult> => {
   const unixfs = new UnixFS({
     type: 'directory',
     mtime: dir.mtime,
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
index 6ded9e18..a74a22ef 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { persist } from '../utils/persist.js'
 import { encode, PBLink, prepare } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import parallelBatch from 'it-parallel-batch'
 import * as rawCodec from 'multiformats/codecs/raw'
-import type { BufferImporter, File, InProgressImportResult, Blockstore, SingleBlockImportResult } from '../index.js'
+import type { BufferImporter, File, InProgressImportResult, WritableStorage, SingleBlockImportResult } from '../index.js'
 import type { FileLayout, Reducer } from '../layout/index.js'
 import type { Version } from 'multiformats/cid'
 import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ interface BuildFileBatchOptions {
   blockWriteConcurrency: number
 }
 
-async function * buildFileBatch (file: File, blockstore: Blockstore, options: BuildFileBatchOptions): AsyncGenerator<InProgressImportResult> {
+async function * buildFileBatch (file: File, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: BuildFileBatchOptions): AsyncGenerator<InProgressImportResult> {
   let count = -1
   let previous: SingleBlockImportResult | undefined
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ function isSingleBlockImport (result: any): result is SingleBlockImportResult {
   return result.single === true
 }
 
-const reduce = (file: File, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ReduceOptions): Reducer => {
+const reduce = (file: File, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ReduceOptions): Reducer => {
   const reducer: Reducer = async function (leaves) {
     if (leaves.length === 1 && isSingleBlockImport(leaves[0]) && options.reduceSingleLeafToSelf) {
       const leaf = leaves[0]
@@ -163,6 +163,6 @@ export interface FileBuilderOptions extends BuildFileBatchOptions, ReduceOptions
   layout: FileLayout
 }
 
-export const fileBuilder = async (file: File, block: Blockstore, options: FileBuilderOptions): Promise<InProgressImportResult> => {
+export const fileBuilder = async (file: File, block: WritableStorage, options: FileBuilderOptions): Promise<InProgressImportResult> => {
   return await options.layout(buildFileBatch(file, block, options), reduce(file, block, options))
 }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/index.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/index.ts
index 3779cc7b..70e88b56 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { dirBuilder, DirBuilderOptions } from './dir.js'
 import { fileBuilder, FileBuilderOptions } from './file.js'
 import errCode from 'err-code'
-import type { Directory, File, FileCandidate, ImportCandidate, InProgressImportResult, Blockstore } from '../index.js'
+import type { Directory, File, FileCandidate, ImportCandidate, InProgressImportResult, WritableStorage } from '../index.js'
 import type { ChunkValidator } from './validate-chunks.js'
 import type { Chunker } from '../chunker/index.js'
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export interface DagBuilderOptions extends FileBuilderOptions, DirBuilderOptions
 export type ImporterSourceStream = AsyncIterable<ImportCandidate> | Iterable<ImportCandidate>
 
 export interface DAGBuilder {
-  (source: ImporterSourceStream, blockstore: Blockstore): AsyncIterable<() => Promise<InProgressImportResult>>
+  (source: ImporterSourceStream, blockstore: WritableStorage): AsyncIterable<() => Promise<InProgressImportResult>>
 }
 
 export function defaultDagBuilder (options: DagBuilderOptions): DAGBuilder {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dir.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dir.ts
index 8bf65583..952541c8 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dir.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dir.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { Blockstore, ImportResult, InProgressImportResult } from './index.js'
+import type { WritableStorage, ImportResult, InProgressImportResult } from './index.js'
 import type { Mtime, UnixFS } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import { CID } from 'multiformats/cid'
 import type { PersistOptions } from './utils/persist.js'
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export abstract class Dir {
   abstract put (name: string, value: InProgressImportResult | Dir): Promise<void>
   abstract get (name: string): Promise<InProgressImportResult | Dir | undefined>
   abstract eachChildSeries (): AsyncIterable<{ key: string, child: InProgressImportResult | Dir }>
-  abstract flush (blockstore: Blockstore): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult>
+  abstract flush (blockstore: WritableStorage): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult>
   abstract estimateNodeSize (): number
   abstract childCount (): number
 }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
index 82d69c29..3c4283cd 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { DAGBuilder, defaultDagBuilder } from './dag-builder/index.js'
 import { defaultTreeBuilder } from './tree-builder.js'
 import type { UnixFS, Mtime } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import type { CID, Version as CIDVersion } from 'multiformats/cid'
-import type { Blockstore as InterfaceBlockstore } from 'interface-blockstore'
+import type { Blockstore } from 'interface-blockstore'
 import { ChunkValidator, defaultChunkValidator } from './dag-builder/validate-chunks.js'
 import { fixedSize } from './chunker/fixed-size.js'
 import type { Chunker } from './chunker/index.js'
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 export type ByteStream = AwaitIterable<Uint8Array>
 export type ImportContent = ByteStream | Uint8Array
 
-export type Blockstore = Pick<InterfaceBlockstore, 'put'>
+export type WritableStorage = Pick<Blockstore, 'put'>
 
 export interface FileCandidate {
   path?: string
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ export interface BufferImporterResult extends ImportResult {
 }
 
 export interface HamtHashFn { (value: Uint8Array): Promise<Uint8Array> }
-export interface TreeBuilder { (source: AsyncIterable<InProgressImportResult>, blockstore: Blockstore): AsyncIterable<ImportResult> }
-export interface BufferImporter { (file: File, blockstore: Blockstore): AsyncIterable<() => Promise<BufferImporterResult>> }
+export interface TreeBuilder { (source: AsyncIterable<InProgressImportResult>, blockstore: WritableStorage): AsyncIterable<ImportResult> }
+export interface BufferImporter { (file: File, blockstore: WritableStorage): AsyncIterable<() => Promise<BufferImporterResult>> }
 
 export type ImportProgressEvents =
   BufferImportProgressEvents
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ export type ImportCandidateStream = AsyncIterable<FileCandidate | DirectoryCandi
  * }
  * ```
  */
-export async function * importer (source: ImportCandidateStream, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ImporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult, void, unknown> {
+export async function * importer (source: ImportCandidateStream, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ImporterOptions = {}): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult, void, unknown> {
   let candidates: AsyncIterable<FileCandidate | DirectoryCandidate> | Iterable<FileCandidate | DirectoryCandidate>
 
   if (Symbol.asyncIterator in source || Symbol.iterator in source) {
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ export async function * importer (source: ImportCandidateStream, blockstore: Blo
  * const entry = await importFile(input, blockstore)
  * ```
  */
-export async function importFile (content: FileCandidate, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
+export async function importFile (content: FileCandidate, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
   const result = await first(importer([content], blockstore, options))
 
   if (result == null) {
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ export async function importFile (content: FileCandidate, blockstore: Blockstore
  * const entry = await importDirectory(input, blockstore)
  * ```
  */
-export async function importDirectory (content: DirectoryCandidate, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
+export async function importDirectory (content: DirectoryCandidate, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
   const result = await first(importer([content], blockstore, options))
 
   if (result == null) {
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ export async function importDirectory (content: DirectoryCandidate, blockstore:
  * const entry = await importBytes(input, blockstore)
  * ```
  */
-export async function importBytes (buf: ImportContent, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
+export async function importBytes (buf: ImportContent, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
   return await importFile({
     content: buf
   }, blockstore, options)
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ export async function importBytes (buf: ImportContent, blockstore: Blockstore, o
  * const entry = await importByteStream(input, blockstore)
  * ```
  */
-export async function importByteStream (bufs: ByteStream, blockstore: Blockstore, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
+export async function importByteStream (bufs: ByteStream, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: ImporterOptions = {}): Promise<ImportResult> {
   return await importFile({
     content: bufs
   }, blockstore, options)
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/tree-builder.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/tree-builder.ts
index 2b5946a5..05ee3906 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/tree-builder.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/tree-builder.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { DirFlat } from './dir-flat.js'
 import { flatToShard } from './flat-to-shard.js'
 import { Dir } from './dir.js'
 import { toPathComponents } from './utils/to-path-components.js'
-import type { ImportResult, InProgressImportResult, TreeBuilder, Blockstore } from './index.js'
+import type { ImportResult, InProgressImportResult, TreeBuilder, WritableStorage } from './index.js'
 import type { PersistOptions } from './utils/persist.js'
 
 export interface AddToTreeOptions extends PersistOptions {
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ async function addToTree (elem: InProgressImportResult, tree: Dir, options: AddT
   return tree
 }
 
-async function * flushAndYield (tree: Dir | InProgressImportResult, blockstore: Blockstore): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult> {
+async function * flushAndYield (tree: Dir | InProgressImportResult, blockstore: WritableStorage): AsyncGenerator<ImportResult> {
   if (!(tree instanceof Dir)) {
     if (tree.unixfs?.isDirectory() === true) {
       yield tree
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
index 7a86fa03..2bbe36e1 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { CID } from 'multiformats/cid'
 import * as dagPb from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import { sha256 } from 'multiformats/hashes/sha2'
-import type { Blockstore } from '../index.js'
+import type { WritableStorage } from '../index.js'
 import type { BlockCodec } from 'multiformats/codecs/interface'
 import type { Version as CIDVersion } from 'multiformats/cid'
 import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export interface PersistOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   signal?: AbortSignal
 }
 
-export const persist = async (buffer: Uint8Array, blockstore: Blockstore, options: PersistOptions): Promise<CID> => {
+export const persist = async (buffer: Uint8Array, blockstore: WritableStorage, options: PersistOptions): Promise<CID> => {
   if (options.codec == null) {
     options.codec = dagPb
   }