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Top 23 P2P Open-Source Projects

  • frp

    A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

  • Project mention: List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. | dev.to | 2024-04-30

    If you want to self-host, there are many options. For something production ready frp is probably what you want. If you're a developer, I'd recommend starting with my own SirTunnel project and modifying it for your needs. For non-developers and those wanting more of a GUI experience, I created boringproxy. It's my take on a comprehensive tunnel proxy solution. It's in beta but currently solves almost everything I want. Once the server is running this is a very easy tool to use and has some nice features.

  • Bitcoin

    Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

  • Project mention: Analyzing Bitcoin Transactions with Lightning Node Insights | dev.to | 2024-04-12

    Ubuntu/Debian: Install LND: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#install-lnd Install Bitcoin Core: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md#linux-instructions

  • InfluxDB

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  • rustdesk

    An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

  • Project mention: Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-10

    Take your risk to use it, it is not signed and verified by Microsoft, and you need to install the test cert to use it. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444#discus...

  • syncthing

    Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

  • Project mention: Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-19

    My biggest gripe with Firefox on Android is that sometimes I enter a domain in the address bar, press enter and nothing happens.

    This behaviour seems to be erratic and only affects a few websites, such as https://forum.syncthing.net.

    Closing the tab or using a different one doesn't solve the problem. I need to force close the app to fix this.

  • go-ethereum

    Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

  • Project mention: Ethereum Foundation removes their canary | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-20

    Even more relevant would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec):

    https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs

    Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):

    https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

  • webtorrent

    ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

  • Project mention: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-18
  • ipfs

    Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

  • Project mention: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-16

    > CDNs

    If you think IPFS is trying to "re-spin CDNs as their invention", I'm pretty sure you misunderstand what IPFS. The homepage is a great starting point if you're curious rather than antagonistic: https://ipfs.tech/

    > IPFS doesn't solve persistence of data

    I don't think it claims to solve this either? What it does claim to solve is the persistence of identifiers of data.

    > doesn't solve churn in p2p systems

    What P2P system has ever done so or even claimed to have done so?

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  • ZeroNet

    ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

  • Project mention: Its Time to make ZeroNet great again! | /r/Satoshispl | 2023-11-09

    ZernoNet project: GitHub - HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet: ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

  • gun

    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

  • Project mention: gun: NEW Data - star count:17470.0 | /r/algoprojects | 2023-10-28
  • yjs

    Shared data types for building collaborative software

  • Project mention: Show HN: Collaborate on your YC Application with CRDT-powered forms | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21
  • Pion WebRTC

    Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

  • Project mention: VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19
  • PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

  • Project mention: YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21
  • peerjs

    Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC.

  • Project mention: Help us prioritize features for our decentralized p2p chat app | /r/darknetplan | 2023-12-11

    this app is using peerjs to connect peers over a webrtc connection. check out thier docs for more info. with webrtc, things like file-transfer, should be very performant compared to cloud storage providers... especially over LAN. network speed doesnt seems to be an issue i have experienced.

  • webtorrent-desktop

    ❤️ Streaming torrent app for Mac, Windows, and Linux

  • Project mention: Ask HN: What could make torrenting more popular again? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30

    - https://webtorrent.io/desktop

    Do you have any ideas on what could popularize the technology again?

  • monero

    Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

  • Project mention: what is the best and most anonymous monero wallet? | /r/Monero | 2023-12-05

    https://getmonero.org/ and check the other links at the right nav.

  • orbitdb

    Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web

  • Project mention: OrbitDB reaches version 1.0 after 8 years of development | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19
  • berty

    Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network

  • simple-peer

    📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels

  • lbry-sdk

    The LBRY SDK for building decentralized, censorship resistant, monetized, digital content apps.

  • Project mention: Top YouTube Alternatives to Watch in 2024 📹 | dev.to | 2024-02-05

    LBRY 📚 - Another blockchain-based platform, LBRY features uncensored video, audio, images, ebooks and more. The decentralized library is community-controlled. LBRY allows monetization via its LBC cryptocurrency and has a growing subscriber base.

  • kraken

    P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

  • Project mention: BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15

    https://github.com/uber/kraken?tab=readme-ov-file#comparison...

    "Kraken was initially built with a BitTorrent driver, however, we ended up implementing our P2P driver based on BitTorrent protocol to allow for tighter integration with storage solutions and more control over performance optimizations.

    Kraken's problem space is slightly different than what BitTorrent was designed for. Kraken's goal is to reduce global max download time and communication overhead in a stable environment, while BitTorrent was designed for an unpredictable and adversarial environment, so it needs to preserve more copies of scarce data and defend against malicious or bad behaving peers.

    Despite the differences, we re-examine Kraken's protocol from time to time, and if it's feasible, we hope to make it compatible with BitTorrent again."

  • ipfs-desktop

    An unobtrusive and user-friendly desktop application for IPFS on Windows, Mac and Linux.

  • Project mention: Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-03

    There are a few client options; the most widely used one (to my knowledge) is https://github.com/ipfs/kubo for CLI. There's also a desktop client that's pretty nice: https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/ipfs-desktop/

  • go-libp2p

    libp2p implementation in Go

  • torrent

    Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

  • Project mention: BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15

    https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent has a fuse driver since 2013. I'm in the early stages of removing it. There are WebDAV, 3rd party FUSE, and HTTP wrappers of the client all doing similar things: serving magnet links, infohashes, and torrent files like an immutable filesystem. BitTorrent v2 support is currently in master.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source P2P projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 frp 79,950
2 Bitcoin 76,119
3 rustdesk 63,294
4 syncthing 59,621
5 go-ethereum 46,155
6 webtorrent 29,023
7 ipfs 22,527
8 ZeroNet 18,219
9 gun 17,798
10 yjs 15,225
11 Pion WebRTC 12,701
12 PeerTube 12,600
13 peerjs 11,980
14 webtorrent-desktop 9,584
15 monero 8,615
16 orbitdb 8,127
17 berty 7,308
18 simple-peer 7,211
19 lbry-sdk 7,193
20 kraken 5,860
21 ipfs-desktop 5,803
22 go-libp2p 5,744
23 torrent 5,319

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