Kitsune

Protocolo P2P

Holochain's factored-out peer-to-peer networking library, providing the transport, peer-discovery, sharded distributed hash table, and gossip protocols that underlie Holochain. Separable from the Holochain runtime; conceptually analogous to libp2p's relationship to IPFS. Supports pluggable transport adapters (QUIC, Tx5/WebRTC, with Iroh transport adapter in development).

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Licencia Open source — Apache 2.0 / Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0) for Holochain components (github.com/holochain/holochain)
Estado de Desarrollo 🟢 Activo
Detalle del Estado de Desarrollo Released / Active (production component of Holochain; Kitsune2 in development as next-generation rewrite)
Propietario Holochain Foundation / Holo Ltd (core Holochain development team)
Órgano de Gobierno Holochain Foundation
País International (distributed team; Holochain Foundation registered as Swiss non-profit)
Año de Inicio 2020
Stack Rust (reference implementation); designed for embedding within Holochain conductors
Financiamiento Funded as part of broader Holochain development (Holochain Foundation, Holo Ltd, HOT token ecosystem)
Última Investigación 1 jul 2026

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Protocolo P2P Atributos

Orígenes P2P networking layer for agent-centric distributed applications; designed to support Holochain's sharded DHT and agent gossip patterns
Base de Datos Local agent gossip state and DHT shard storage (managed by host Holochain conductor)
Lenguaje de Consulta DHT operations (publish, query by hash, neighborhood gossip)
Formatos de Datos Binary message format optimized for agent gossip and DHT operations; Holochain entry semantics on top
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A (networking library; collaboration patterns live above in Holochain DNAs)
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A
Soporte Móvil Inherits from Holochain runtime (mobile Holochain support is active development); Kitsune itself runs wherever the Rust toolchain targets
Soporte Web Tx5 transport adapter provides WebRTC-based connectivity for browser scenarios
Aplicaciones Nativas Yes (any Holochain conductor includes Kitsune; standalone use also possible)
Términos Open Source / Free — Apache 2.0 / CAL-1.0
Fondos Not separately disclosed; Holochain Foundation operational budget covers Kitsune as a core component
Basado En Sharded DHT design (departure from Kademlia toward agent-neighborhood gossip); QUIC (transport); WebRTC (Tx5 adapter); inspired by lessons from prior Holochain networking (sim2h, lib3h)
Arquitectura P2P Sharded DHT with agent-neighborhood gossip — agents are responsible for storing and validating entries within their arc of the address space; gossip propagates through neighborhoods; no centralized infrastructure required for data movement
Red de Superposición Holochain-specific sharded DHT; bootstrap nodes for initial peer discovery; pluggable transport adapters (QUIC default; Tx5/WebRTC for browser; Iroh adapter in development)
Direccionamiento por Contenido Holochain entry hashes (Blake2b) and agent public keys as DHT addresses
Local-First Yes — each agent maintains a local source chain plus their DHT shard
Cifrado de Extremo a Extremo (E2EE) Transport encryption via QUIC's built-in TLS 1.3 or Tx5's WebRTC encryption; Holochain entries are typically public within an application but can be encrypted at the entry level
Biblioteca de CRDTs N/A (Kitsune is networking; CRDT semantics, where used, live in Holochain DNAs)
Tolerancia a Fallos Bizantinos Validation rules per DNA enforce entry integrity; gossip can detect divergent state; no Byzantine consensus in the blockchain sense — agent-centric model substitutes peer validation
Firma Ed25519 signatures on agent operations (inherited from Holochain entry model)
Permisos Application-level (per Holochain DNA validation rules and membrane access control)
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica N/A (transport-layer library)
Contrato Inteligente N/A (Holochain's compositional model is not smart contract-based)
Posición en la Pila del Protocolo L3 Overlay Network (P2P transport and DHT for the Holochain runtime)
Incorporación de Activos/Valor None at the Kitsune level; the broader Holochain ecosystem has HOT token but Kitsune itself is protocol-level networking with no native value layer
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización Released / Active (production component of Holochain since ~2020); Kitsune2 rewrite ongoing; no formal external standardization, evolves with Holochain releases