p2p

A high-performance instant messaging backend based on Rust + Actix-web + QUIC, supporting P2P hole punching, group chat broadcasting, multiple storage backends, can be deployed as a single process or separately.

Just F***ing Send It is a browser-based file sharing tool that allows users to send any file, any size directly from browser to browser without needing a server.

Iroh 1.0 is a stable release of a peer-to-peer networking library that uses cryptographic keys instead of IP addresses, enabling direct, secure connections across diverse transports and platforms.

Bab is a family of hashing functions designed for peer-to-peer networks, enabling verifiable partial data. It was funded by the NLnet Foundation and the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme.

aMule 3.0.0, the first major release in over five years, brings dramatic throughput improvements (100-380x speedups), a build system overhaul (CMake), native binaries for major platforms, and numerous fixes. The update modernizes the P2P client with disk I/O offloading, token-bucket throttlers, and better scaling for large libraries.

A retrospective look at the Gnutella peer-to-peer protocol, its rise to mainstream adoption, and its continued existence today despite the disappearance of the world that spawned it.

Bitsocial is an open-source peer-to-peer network for building decentralized social apps, allowing communities to run on low-cost hardware like Raspberry Pi without server dependencies and with customizable anti-spam challenges.

Iroh is a Rust library for peer-to-peer networking that simplifies connecting endpoints by public key, using hole-punching and QUIC with fallback relay servers, and provides composable protocols like blobs, gossip, and docs.