alexxnica / awesome-p2p

An awesome list for those interested in building decentralized applications

Awesome Decentralization

A curated list of useful libraries, tools, and resources for building untrusted decentralized applications.

Contents

• Libraries
  • Node.js
  • Go
  • C/C++
• Platforms/Services
• Papers
• Other Awesome Lists

Libraries

This section is broken out by programming language.

Node.js

• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• bitcore-lib - JavaScript Bitcoin library for Node.js and the browser.
• kad - Kademlia distributed hash table library for Node.js and the browser.
• elliptic - Fast elliptic-curve cryptography for Node.js and the browser.
• js-ipfs - IPFS library for Node.js and the browser.
• dat-js - Library for the dat protocol.
• storj - Library for interacting with storj.
• cachep2p - Drop-in script that acts as a P2P CDN, based on WebTorrent.

Go

• go-ethereum - Ethereum client.
• go-ipfs - IPFS implementation in Go.

C/C++

• cpp-ethereum - Ethereum client.
• libtorrent - A feature complete bittorrent implementation.

Platforms/Services

• Ethereum - Platform for running applications on shared global infrastructure.
• storj - Blobstore powered by cryptocurrency micropayments.
• dat - Protocol for sharing large datasets.
• BigchainDB - Scalable blockchain database.

Papers

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Paper introducing the world to Bitcoin.
• A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform - The definitive white paper for Ethereum.
• Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent - Definitive paper on Bittorrent.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-dat - A curated list of the dat peer to peer data sharing tool & underlying hypercore replication, and hyperdrive file sharing.
• awesome-ipfs - A currated list of awesome ipfs stuffs.
• awesome-network-js - Network and protocol libraries for JavaScript.
• awesome-peer-to-peer - A list of peer-to-peer resources.
• awesome-webtorrent-clones - Inspirational list of software using WebTorrent

License

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