Lokinet

P2P Infrastructure

An anonymous, decentralised, IP-based overlay network. Lokinet is the reference implementation of LLARP, the low latency anonymous routing protocol, a layer 3 onion-routing protocol, so that ordinary applications can use it without being rewritten. Traffic is onion-routed and Lokinet hides both a user's IP address and the IP addresses they connect to; the network is run by a decentralised set of staked nodes, and it can host services reachable only inside the network. Clients are available for Windows and Linux, with macOS and mobile clients described as in development. The project's site says nobody can shut it down and nobody can spy on users, which are the project's own claims .

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License Copyleft (GPL-3.0 or later). https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet
Dev Status 🟢 Active
Owner The Oxen Project (copyright 2018-2022 per the repository licence notice), under the oxen-io GitHub organisation; the cited sources do not describe its current legal entity or stewardship
Governing Body Not described in the cited sources; the code sits under the Oxen project's organisation
Country Not stated by the project.
Start Year 2018
Stack C++ reference implementation of LLARP (the repository's main language), with oxenmq and libquic dependencies named in its commit history; clients for Windows and Linux
Funding Not stated by the project.
Last Investigated Oct 29, 2026

Use Case Domains

Platform Evolution & Sovereignty Place-Based Mapping

Affordances

Local network routing

P2P Infrastructure Attributes

Origins Anonymous internet access that works for any application: a layer 3 onion-routing network run by staked nodes, developed within the Oxen project
Database N/A
Data Formats LLARP onion-routed packets carrying IP traffic; protocol described in the project's docs
Mobile Support No: macOS and mobile clients are described as being developed
Web Support No browser client; applications use Lokinet as a network layer
Native Apps Windows and Linux clients
Terms Free and open source (GPL-3.0 or later); the site links Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy
Funds Not stated by the project.
Based On Onion routing; the LLARP protocol; the network's nodes are staked, per the site
P2P Architecture A decentralised overlay of staked nodes that route onion-encrypted layer 3 traffic; clients choose paths through the network
Overlay Network Yes: an IP-layer onion-routing overlay, with services addressable inside the network
Content Addressing No.
Local-First No: network infrastructure rather than a data layer.
E2EE Onion-layered encryption between client, relays and destination; the project does not claim application-level end-to-end encryption
Byzantine Fault Tolerance Not stated by the project.
Signature Not stated by the project.
Permissions Open to any client; relay and exit operation requires staking, per the site
Protocol Maturity / Standardization Reference implementation of LLARP at version 0.9.x with a documented protocol; not a standards-body specification
Infrastructure Function Anonymous routing and censorship circumvention at the IP layer, with in-network hosting of services
Threat Model Network-level surveillance and censorship, with traffic analysis resistance from onion routing; hides client IP and the destination's IP
Volunteer / Node Model Staked nodes run by independent operators, per the site ('a decentralised network of staked nodes')
Traffic Visibility Onion-routed, so the project says no single relay learns both who a user is and where they connect; the cited sources give no further detail
Active Deployment Scale Not stated by the project.