Peer to peer ​

PeerTube is a great P2P app to study.

Links ​

• Commonly asked questions about peer-to-peer networks & programs
• The Peer-to-Peer Web - Paul Frazee
• P2P Projects List
• Aether - Peer-to-peer network of independent, self-moderated communities.
• Metastream - Watch streaming media with friends.
• Moonad - Peer-to-Peer Operating System.
• libp2p - Modular peer-to-peer networking stack (used by IPFS and others). (GitHub) (Code)
• go-libp2p - libp2p implementation in Go.
• go-libp2p-tor-transport - go-libp2p transport targeting mainly *nix platform.
• DTN Conf sketch notes from 2019 event
• Wireline - Peer-to-peer network for open source applications.
• Cabal - Experimental p2p community chat platform.
• Radicle - Peer-to-peer stack for building software together. (GitHub) (HN) (Lobsters) ([Brand Journey]) (Client Tools)
• Radicle Link - Working repo for the second iteration of the Radicle code collaboration protocol and stack.
• Radicle Bins - Collection of radicle binaries.
• Radicle Client Services - Services backing the Radicle client interfaces.
• Upstream - Desktop client for the radicle code collaboration and registry protocols.
• How it Works — Radicle Link (2020) (HN)
• List of peer-to-peer resources
• Crust - Reliable p2p network connections in Rust with NAT traversal. One of the most needed libraries for any server-less / decentralised projects.
• Yjs - CRDT framework with a powerful abstraction of shared data. (Docs) (Demos) (Docs Code)
• PeerLinks - Protocol for building "Distributed Secure IRC" (or distributed Slack if you wish).
• Ambients - Peer-to-Peer Programs and Data.
• Dragonfly - Open source intelligent P2P based image and file distribution system.
• Javascript implementation of the Tor (or Tor like) anonymizer project (The Onion Router)
• Educating the next generation of the peer-to-peer community
• P2P Peer Discovery (2020)
• Ouroboros - Decentralized packet networking rebuilt from the ground up. (HN)
• Monadic - Group of technologists who in 2017, set out to re-imagine free and open source software collaboration.
• Hypermerge - Node.js library for building p2p collaborative applications without any server infrastructure.
• Equilibrium - Build core infrastructure for the new distributed web.
• Flok - Web-based P2P collaborative editor for live coding music and graphics. (Code)
• go-libp2p examples and tutorials
• Berty - Secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network. (Web)
• Swarm - Censorship resistant storage and communication infrastructure for a truly sovereign digital society.
• PushPin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration (2020) (Code)
• OrbitDB - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web. (Web) (HN)
• orbit-db-eventstore - Append-only log with traversable history. Useful for "latest N" use cases or as a message queue.
• Announcing the Beaker 1.0 Beta (2020) (HN)
• Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem (2020) (HN) (Code)
• Hyperswarm - Distributed networking stack for connecting peers.
• hyperswarm/dht - DHT powering the HyperSwarm stack.
• Testground - Platform for testing, benchmarking, and simulating distributed and p2p systems at scale. (Docs) (Rust Testground SDK)
• js-libp2p - JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
• hypercore-protocol-rs - Rust implementation of the wire protocol of Hypercore.
• Earthstar - Specification and JavaScript library for building online tools you can truly call your own. (GitHub) (Code) (react-earthstar) (Earthstar Replica Server for Glitch) (Earthstar Schemas) (Earthstar Server for Fly)
• go-libp2p-pubsub - PubSub implementation for go-libp2p.
• multifeed - Multi-writer hypercore.
• Data Terra Nemo talks
• flatend - Quickly build microservices using p2p networking in NodeJS/Go.
• Cozyroom - Free peer-to-peer spatial audio environments.
• TrustNet - Trust-based Moderation Systems.
• Farm - Extensible, programmable environment with real-time and offline collaboration with other users and no mandatory infrastructure.
• Network Coding in P2P Networks (2020) (HN)
• Aether - Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities.
• Beaker Social - Peer-to-peer social media. A Beaker application.
• Textile - Connects and extends Libp2p, IPFS, and Filecoin.
• go-libp2p-kad-dht - Kademlia DHT implementation on go-libp2p.
• Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy. (HN)
• rust-libp2p - Rust Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
• Alternative libp2p implementation in Rust
• Publish a Local Webserver using P2P network (2020)
• Toronto Mesh - Help communities create better networks with open source and peer-to-peer technologies that promote digital literacy and privacy. (GitHub)
• Intro to P2P Indexing and Search
• p2p Git Portal - GitHub like portal which can be hosted on peer-to-peer or static storage, initially targeting Safe Network.
• Hyperbeam - 1-1 end-to-end encrypted internet pipe powered by Hyperswarm. (HN)
• Nauka - Decentralized social network using Nostr.
• QuantumGate - Peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol, library and API written in C++. (Web)
• Beaker Browser - Experimental peer to peer web browser. (HN) (Code) (Archived) (HN)
• Probablistic P2P Content Moderation (2021)
• Briar - Secure messaging, anywhere. (Twitter) (Tweet)
• Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal (2021) (HN)
• P2P chat app with React & Gun.js
• pcp - Peer-to-Peer data transfer tool based on libp2p. (HN)
• SonoBus - Easy to use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network. (Code)
• Bittensor - p2p-market which rewards the production of machine intelligence with a digital token called Tao.
• Introduction to libp2p
• libp2p tutorial: Build a peer-to-peer app in Rust (2020)
• Chamomile - Build a robust stable connection on p2p network.
• CypherLink - Building a new distributed security network. (GitHub)
• TDN - Trusted Distributed Network. (Also micro-framework for building blockchain-like DApp).
• ThreadDB - Server-less p2p database built on libp2p. (Docs)
• Bamboo - Cryptographically secure, distributed, single-writer append-only log that supports transitive partial replication and local deletion of data.
• p2panda - p2p communications protocol for playful, secure, data-efficient, offline- and local-first web apps. (GitHub) (Spec)
• Freenet - Peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. (HN)
• I2P Anonymous Network - Privacy by design, people-powered network. It is a truly free and anonymizing Internet alternative.
• Dione - Anonymize and encrypted messaging system build on top on a peer to peer layer.
• Backchannel - Local-first address book.
• GGRS - Reimagination of GGPO, enabling P2P rollback networking in Rust. Rollback to the future.
• Atek Spork - Command-line p2p sockets tool. (HN) (Web) (Tweet)
• Atek - Open source peer-to-peer Home Cloud. (GitHub)
• Spork Beam - Encrypted, Networked Pipes.Cloud.
• Building Collaborative P2P Applications with Autobase
• Peergos - p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol. (GitHub) (Code)
• Hyperswarm discovery stack
• Hyper-VCR - p2p version-controlled repo (built on hypercore).
• Twitter without Twitter: Distributed apps in the browser (2021)
• Phonon Network Specification - Peer-to-peer network independent of the internet.
• qTox - Chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol. (Code)
• Hyperswarm Relay - Relaying the Hyperswarm DHT over other transport protocols to bring decentralized networking to everyone.
• HSFW - Dropbox-like p2p file syncing built on Hypercore's new multiwriter Autobase.
• Are we distributed yet? - Let's make peer-to-peer a first-class part of the web. (Code)
• PyGrid - Peer-to-peer Platform for Secure, Privacy-preserving, Decentralized Data Science.
• MLDonkey - Cross-platform multi-network p2p daemon. (Wiki)
• Tinfoil Chat - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system.
• Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer Information System. Based on the XOR Metric
• dht-rpc - Make RPC calls over a Kademlia based DHT.
• Ask HN: Why don't many video hosting companies adopt PeerTube or P2P? (2022)
• Example for building a simple peer to peer application using Rust
• Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications (Code)
• Local-First SDK
• Fritter - Example application that demonstrates how to build peer-to-peer Web applications with Beaker Browser, Dat, and WebDB.
• Why Hypercore?
• go-libp2p-peerstore - Object to manage peers, their addresses, and other metadata about them.
• Async Wordle game solely on P2P
• Web3 is just expensive P2P (HN)
• Aphrodite - Schema layer whose first goal is to make P2P & Local-First software development as easy as traditional development. (Web)
• Ataraxia - P2P messaging over mesh networks for NodeJS and browsers.
• P2P super collider
• libp2p-perf - iPerf equivalent for the libp2p ecosystem.
• Osmosis - In-process JSON database with automatic peer-to-peer background synchronization between devices on a local network.
• introducer - Minimal useful library for creating p2p connections, using an introducer server.
• RUM - Open source peer-to-peer application infrastructure to offer the internet alternatives in a decentralized and privacy oriented way. (Code)
• Hyper Hyper Space - Offline-first shared data library for creating p2p apps that work in the browser and NodeJS.
• Noosphere - Foundational protocol that the Subconscious app builds upon to enable an open-ended, permissionless multiplayer experience.
• Fluence - Peer-to-peer application platform which allows the creation of applications free of proprietary cloud providers or centralized APIs. (GitHub) (Examples)
• hypershell - CLI to create and connect to P2P E2E encrypted shells.
• Sendstr - E2E encrypted shared clipboard web app powered by Nostr. (Code)
• Autobase - Lets you write concise multiwriter data structures with Hypercore.
• Holepunch - Build unstoppable P2P Apps. (Twitter) (GitHub)
• Pyrsia - Decentralized Package Network.
• Peer-to-Peer Connection Managers
• airpaste - 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns.
• Chitchatter - Peer-to-peer chat app that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral. (Web)
• libp2p/peer-store - Stores information about peers libp2p knows on the network.
• What Ever Happened to Peer-to-Peer Systems? (2023)
• apt-swarm - P2P gossip network for update transparency, based on pgp.
• Canvas - Framework for peer-to-peer decentralized applications.
• JavaScript implementation of Waku v2
• Local Peer-to-Peer API Explained
• Any Sync - Open-source protocol designed to create high-performance, local-first, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted applications that facilitate seamless collaboration among multiple users and devices.
• Some Designs for Modern Peer-to-peer Networking (2023)
• Veilid - Open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework. (HN)
• p2panda - Protocol for local-first applications. (HN)
• litep2p - Peer-to-peer networking library.
• Quiet - Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS. (HN)