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Comment by rauljordan | Hacker News Reader

Look into libp2p created by the Protocol Labs team (created IPFS). We're thinking of moving to this framework internally at Ethereum.

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>We're thinking of moving to this framework internally at Ethereum.

Why not GNUnet? Check the recently released 181 pages long dissertation on it:

https://grothoff.org/christian/habil.pdf

Link broke, here's a new one:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/153d/578869863450766a870727...

Previous Hacker News discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877908

GPL license is probably a non-starter.

Why?

> The core of Ethereum includes the consensus engine, the networking code and any supporting libraries. For C++, this includes libethereum, libp2p, libdevcore, libdevcrypto, libethcore, libevm and libevmface.

> The core of Ethereum will be released under the most liberal of licenses. This reflects our desire to have Ethereum used in as many diverse environments as possible, even those which, for various reasons can require modifications or augmentations to the software which cannot be released to the public.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Licensing

Second vote for libp2p. It looks very mature and generic enough to build whatever off of it. It has implementations in js and go.

If you end up rolling your own, I found js to have the most building blocks (pmp and upnp libraries).

There's an implementation in Rust: https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p

Can anyone point to some higher-level libraries or open-source apps built on top of libp2p?

Apart from the obvious js-ipfs and go-ipfs, check out ipfs-cluster and LivePeer. libp2p is actually meant to be pretty high-level so I'm not aware of more high-level libraries.

Actually, a few minutes later, diggan set my understanding of your question straight :) Check out peer-crdt, the ipfs/y.js bridge, ipfs-pubsub-room, and orbitdb!

definitely the most promising out there

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