Public Key Addressable Resource Records — converts an Ed25519 keypair into a self-controlled "domain": DNS-style records (A/AAAA/TXT/CNAME) are signed and published as BEP44 mutable items on the BitTorrent Mainline DHT, resolvable anywhere without registrars or platforms. HTTP-to-DHT relay gateways bridge browser and UDP-restricted clients to the DHT. Built directly on the existing BitTorrent Mainline DHT (P2P Infra) rather than new infrastructure — leverages a 15+ year-old, ~10M+ node network. Serves as the discovery/naming layer under Pubky Protocol's homeserver architecture. [b]
OrígenesDistributed naming / identity — reusing BitTorrent's existing Mainline DHT as a "sovereign TLD" substrate instead of building new discovery infrastructure or depending on DNS registrars
Base de DatosN/A (records are ephemeral DHT entries, not persistent storage — BEP44 mutable items with hour-scale retention requiring periodic republishing)
Lenguaje de ConsultaN/A (DHT lookup by public key, not a query language)
Formatos de DatosSigned DNS-style records (A, AAAA, TXT, CNAME) as BEP44 mutable DHT items, 1000-byte size limit
Edición Colaborativa en VivoN/A
Edición de Texto EnriquecidoN/A
Soporte MóvilYes (JS/WASM bindings support mobile web/hybrid contexts; used by Pubky Protocol's mobile SDK)
Soporte WebYes (@synonymdev/pkarr JS/WASM bindings; pkdns.net web resolver demo)
Aplicaciones NativasYes (Rust core library embeddable in native apps)
TérminosFree / open protocol; relay operators may charge, but self-relaying is possible
FondosUndisclosed
Basado EnBitTorrent Mainline DHT (P2P Infra — specifically BEP44, the arbitrary mutable-data storage extension, rather than new infrastructure); Ed25519 signing
Arquitectura P2PKademlia DHT (inherited from Mainline DHT); PKARR does not run a separate overlay — it publishes into the existing BitTorrent DHT
Red de SuperposiciónReuses the existing global BitTorrent Mainline DHT overlay rather than establishing its own
Direccionamiento por ContenidoPartial — records addressed by the owning Ed25519 public key (key-addressed, not content-hash-addressed)
Local-FirstN/A (naming/discovery layer, not a data-storage system)
Cifrado de Extremo a Extremo (E2EE)No (DHT records are signed for authenticity, not encrypted for confidentiality)
Biblioteca de CRDTsN/A
Tolerancia a Fallos BizantinosInherits Mainline DHT's probabilistic resilience — no formal BFT consensus
FirmaEd25519 (keypair signs each DNS-style record packet)
PermisosKey-holder-only write access — only the corresponding Ed25519 private key can publish/update a given record
Compatibilidad con la Web SemánticaN/A (DNS-style records, not RDF/Linked Data)
Contrato InteligenteN/A
Posición en la Pila del ProtocoloDiscovery/naming layer beneath application protocols — Pubky Protocol's homeserver discovery mechanism sits directly on PKARR
Incorporación de Activos/ValorN/A
Madurez del Protocolo / EstandarizaciónNo formal standards-body process; single-maintainer (Pubky/Synonym) reference implementation, v8.0.0, actively released and maintained
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