Kademlia is a distributed hash table implemented in a number of modern decentralized protocols including Ethereum, BitTorrent, Swarm, IPFS and the Storj network. Kademlia provides a way for millions of computers to self-organize into a network, communicate with other computers on the network, and share resources (e.g. files, blobs, objects) between computers, all without a central registry or lookup run by a single person or company. Kademlia was designed by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières in 2002, and is often said to have kickstarted the adoption of the third generation of flat-hierarchy computing protocols, as it is immensely more reliable and efficient than both centralized and flood-based approaches for node discovery and routing.Read More →

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