Announcing Hyperswarm
Hyperswarm is a Kademlia DHT with hole-punching builtin. It's designed to arrange p2p connections. For context as to why you'd want this, when you create a p2p connection (like with WebRTC) you typically need a "signaling server" to arrange the connection. Hyperswarm replaces that server with a distributed signaling system. We built it for the dat protocol, but it's reusable in a lot of other contexts. (In fact, the creator of the Manyverse mobile app which released yesterday [1] has voiced an interest in using to Hyperswarm [2].)<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065567" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065567</a><p>2. <a href="https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1044973699940659200" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1044973699940659200</a>