diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
index 013dd9a0..3a2cf959 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/package.json
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
     "it-pushable": "^3.1.0",
     "multiformats": "^11.0.0",
     "p-queue": "^7.3.0",
+    "progress-events": "^1.0.0",
     "uint8arrays": "^4.0.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
index 4528ece3..e456e5d0 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/index.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ import type { UnixFS } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import type { PBNode } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import type { Blockstore as InterfaceBlockstore } from 'interface-blockstore'
 import type { Bucket } from 'hamt-sharding'
+import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
-export interface ExporterOptions {
+export interface ExporterOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   offset?: number
   length?: number
   signal?: AbortSignal
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/dag-cbor.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/dag-cbor.ts
index 13e5c2e4..8531e2df 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/dag-cbor.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/src/resolvers/dag-cbor.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import * as dagCbor from '@ipld/dag-cbor'
 import type { Resolver } from '../index.js'
 
 const resolve: Resolver = async (cid, name, path, toResolve, resolve, depth, blockstore, options) => {
-  const block = await blockstore.get(cid)
+  const block = await blockstore.get(cid, options)
   const object = dagCbor.decode<any>(block)
   let subObject = object
   let subPath = path
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 191d97b1..d0d8f6db 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
@@ -72,9 +72,7 @@ async function walkDAG (blockstore: Blockstore, node: dagPb.PBNode | Uint8Array,
     childOps,
     (source) => map(source, (op) => {
       return async () => {
-        const block = await blockstore.get(op.link.Hash, {
-          signal: options.signal
-        })
+        const block = await blockstore.get(op.link.Hash, options)
 
         return {
           ...op,
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 0d5086fe..bc6fbcc0 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
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ async function * listDirectory (node: PBNode, path: string, resolve: Resolve, de
           return { entries: result.entry == null ? [] : [result.entry] }
         } else {
           // descend into subshard
-          const block = await blockstore.get(link.Hash)
+          const block = await blockstore.get(link.Hash, options)
           node = decode(block)
 
           return { entries: listDirectory(node, path, resolve, depth, blockstore, options) }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/test/importer.spec.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/test/importer.spec.ts
index 7d5cea99..afdb6a91 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/test/importer.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-exporter/test/importer.spec.ts
@@ -634,13 +634,13 @@ strategies.forEach((strategy) => {
       }
     })
 
-    it('will call an optional progress function', async () => {
+    it('will call an optional onProgress function', async () => {
       const chunkSize = 2048
       const path = '1.2MiB.txt'
-      const progress = sinon.stub()
+      const onProgress = sinon.stub()
 
       const options: Partial<ImporterOptions> = {
-        progress,
+        onProgress,
         chunker: fixedSize({
           chunkSize
         })
@@ -651,8 +651,9 @@ strategies.forEach((strategy) => {
         content: asAsyncIterable(bigFile)
       }], block, options))
 
-      expect(progress.called).to.equal(true)
-      expect(progress.args[0]).to.deep.equal([chunkSize, path])
+      expect(onProgress.called).to.equal(true)
+      expect(onProgress.getCall(0).args[0]).to.have.property('type', 'unixfs:importer:progress')
+      expect(onProgress.getCall(0).args[0]).to.have.deep.property('detail', { bytes: chunkSize, path })
     })
 
     it('will import files with CID version 1', async () => {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
index 1f526443..b6348c6c 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/package.json
@@ -163,14 +163,15 @@
     "@multiformats/murmur3": "^2.0.0",
     "err-code": "^3.0.1",
     "hamt-sharding": "^3.0.0",
-    "ipfs-unixfs": "^11.0.0",
     "interface-blockstore": "^5.0.0",
     "interface-store": "^4.0.0",
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "^11.0.0",
     "it-all": "^2.0.0",
     "it-batch": "^2.0.0",
     "it-first": "^2.0.0",
     "it-parallel-batch": "^2.0.0",
     "multiformats": "^11.0.0",
+    "progress-events": "^1.0.0",
     "rabin-wasm": "^0.1.4",
     "uint8arraylist": "^2.4.3",
     "uint8arrays": "^4.0.2"
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/buffer-importer.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/buffer-importer.ts
index f9b77eab..f2a561f9 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/buffer-importer.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/buffer-importer.ts
@@ -2,26 +2,46 @@ import { UnixFS } from 'ipfs-unixfs'
 import { persist, PersistOptions } from '../utils/persist.js'
 import * as dagPb from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import * as raw from 'multiformats/codecs/raw'
-import type { BufferImporter, ProgressHandler } from '../index.js'
+import type { BufferImporter } from '../index.js'
 import type { Version } from 'multiformats/cid'
+import { CustomProgressEvent } from 'progress-events'
+import type { ProgressOptions, ProgressEvent } from 'progress-events'
 
-export interface BufferImporterOptions {
+/**
+ * Passed to the onProgress callback while importing files
+ */
+export interface ImportProgressData {
+  /**
+   * The size of the current chunk
+   */
+  bytes: number
+
+  /**
+   * The path of the file being imported, if one was specified
+   */
+  path?: string
+}
+
+export type BufferImportProgressEvents =
+  ProgressEvent<'unixfs:importer:progress', ImportProgressData>
+
+export interface BufferImporterOptions extends ProgressOptions<BufferImportProgressEvents> {
   cidVersion: Version
   rawLeaves: boolean
   leafType: 'file' | 'raw'
-  progress?: ProgressHandler
 }
 
 export function defaultBufferImporter (options: BufferImporterOptions): BufferImporter {
   return async function * bufferImporter (file, block) {
     for await (let buffer of file.content) {
       yield async () => {
-        options.progress?.(buffer.length, file.path)
+        options.onProgress?.(new CustomProgressEvent<ImportProgressData>('unixfs:importer:progress', { bytes: buffer.length, path: file.path }))
         let unixfs
 
         const opts: PersistOptions = {
           codec: dagPb,
-          cidVersion: options.cidVersion
+          cidVersion: options.cidVersion,
+          onProgress: options.onProgress
         }
 
         if (options.rawLeaves) {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
index b367119b..57a54e6e 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/dir.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ import { persist } from '../utils/persist.js'
 import { encode, prepare } from '@ipld/dag-pb'
 import type { Directory, InProgressImportResult, Blockstore } from '../index.js'
 import type { Version } from 'multiformats/cid'
+import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
-export interface DirBuilderOptions {
+export interface DirBuilderOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   cidVersion: Version
   signal?: AbortSignal
 }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
index 6329ecec..89be051b 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/dag-builder/file.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as rawCodec from 'multiformats/codecs/raw'
 import type { BufferImporter, File, InProgressImportResult, Blockstore } from '../index.js'
 import type { FileLayout, Reducer } from '../layout/index.js'
 import type { Version } from 'multiformats/cid'
+import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
 interface BuildFileBatchOptions {
   bufferImporter: BufferImporter
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ async function * buildFileBatch (file: File, blockstore: Blockstore, options: Bu
   }
 }
 
-interface ReduceOptions {
+interface ReduceOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   reduceSingleLeafToSelf: boolean
   cidVersion: Version
   signal?: AbortSignal
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
index 2311eafa..47d960d3 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/index.ts
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ import { ChunkValidator, defaultChunkValidator } from './dag-builder/validate-ch
 import { fixedSize } from './chunker/fixed-size.js'
 import type { Chunker } from './chunker/index.js'
 import { balanced, FileLayout } from './layout/index.js'
-import { defaultBufferImporter } from './dag-builder/buffer-importer.js'
+import { BufferImportProgressEvents, defaultBufferImporter } from './dag-builder/buffer-importer.js'
 import first from 'it-first'
 import errcode from 'err-code'
 import type { AwaitIterable } from 'interface-store'
+import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
 export type ByteStream = AwaitIterable<Uint8Array>
 export type ImportContent = ByteStream | Uint8Array
@@ -64,15 +65,17 @@ export interface InProgressImportResult extends ImportResult {
   originalPath?: string
 }
 
-export interface ProgressHandler { (chunkSize: number, path?: string): void }
 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<InProgressImportResult>> }
 
+export type ImportProgressEvents =
+  BufferImportProgressEvents
+
 /**
  * Options to control the importer's behaviour
  */
-export interface ImporterOptions {
+export interface ImporterOptions extends ProgressOptions<ImportProgressEvents> {
   /**
    * When a file would span multiple DAGNodes, if this is true the leaf nodes
    * will not be wrapped in `UnixFS` protobufs and will instead contain the
@@ -104,12 +107,6 @@ export interface ImporterOptions {
    */
   cidVersion?: CIDVersion
 
-  /**
-   * A function that will be called with the byte length of chunks as a file
-   * is added to ipfs.
-   */
-  progress?: ProgressHandler
-
   /**
    * If the serialized node is larger than this it might be converted to a HAMT
    * sharded directory. Default: 256KiB
@@ -252,16 +249,18 @@ export async function * importer (source: ImportCandidateStream, blockstore: Blo
       cidVersion,
       rawLeaves,
       leafType,
-      progress: options.progress
+      onProgress: options.onProgress
     }),
     blockWriteConcurrency,
     reduceSingleLeafToSelf,
-    cidVersion
+    cidVersion,
+    onProgress: options.onProgress
   })
   const buildTree: TreeBuilder = options.treeBuilder ?? defaultTreeBuilder({
     wrapWithDirectory,
     shardSplitThresholdBytes,
-    cidVersion
+    cidVersion,
+    onProgress: options.onProgress
   })
 
   for await (const entry of buildTree(parallelBatch(buildDag(candidates, blockstore), fileImportConcurrency), blockstore)) {
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
index 06b6557b..7a86fa03 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/src/utils/persist.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ import { sha256 } from 'multiformats/hashes/sha2'
 import type { Blockstore } from '../index.js'
 import type { BlockCodec } from 'multiformats/codecs/interface'
 import type { Version as CIDVersion } from 'multiformats/cid'
+import type { ProgressOptions } from 'progress-events'
 
-export interface PersistOptions {
+export interface PersistOptions extends ProgressOptions {
   codec?: BlockCodec<any, any>
   cidVersion: CIDVersion
   signal?: AbortSignal
@@ -19,9 +20,7 @@ export const persist = async (buffer: Uint8Array, blockstore: Blockstore, option
   const multihash = await sha256.digest(buffer)
   const cid = CID.create(options.cidVersion, options.codec.code, multihash)
 
-  await blockstore.put(cid, buffer, {
-    signal: options.signal
-  })
+  await blockstore.put(cid, buffer, options)
 
   return cid
 }
diff --git a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/test/benchmark.spec.ts b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/test/benchmark.spec.ts
index cde008b8..5c843fdc 100644
--- a/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/test/benchmark.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/ipfs-unixfs-importer/test/benchmark.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-env mocha */
 
-import { importer } from '../src/index.js'
+import { importer, ImporterOptions } from '../src/index.js'
 import bufferStream from 'it-buffer-stream'
 import { MemoryBlockstore } from 'blockstore-core'
 import drain from 'it-drain'
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ describe.skip('benchmark', function () {
       let lastDate = Date.now()
       let lastPercent = 0
 
-      const options = {
-        progress: (prog: number) => {
-          read += prog
+      const options: Partial<ImporterOptions> = {
+        onProgress: (evt) => {
+          read += evt.detail.bytes
 
           const percent = Math.round((read / size) * 100)