Kitsune
P2P Protocol
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Licença Open source — Apache 2.0 / Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL-1.0) for Holochain components (github.com/holochain/holochain)
Status de Dev 🟢 Ativo
Detalhe do Status de Dev Released / Active (production component of Holochain; Kitsune2 in development as next-generation rewrite)
Proprietário Holochain Foundation / Holo Ltd (core Holochain development team)
País International (distributed team; Holochain Foundation registered as Swiss non-profit)
Ano de Início 2020
Stack Rust (reference implementation); designed for embedding within Holochain conductors
Financiamento Funded as part of broader Holochain development (Holochain Foundation, Holo Ltd, HOT token ecosystem)
Última Investigação 1 de jul. de 2026
P2P Protocol Atributos
Origins P2P networking layer for agent-centric distributed applications; designed to support Holochain's sharded DHT and agent gossip patterns
Database Local agent gossip state and DHT shard storage (managed by host Holochain conductor)
Query Language DHT operations (publish, query by hash, neighborhood gossip)
Data Formats Binary message format optimized for agent gossip and DHT operations; Holochain entry semantics on top
Collaborative Live Editing N/A (networking library; collaboration patterns live above in Holochain DNAs)
Rich Text Editing N/A
Mobile Support Inherits from Holochain runtime (mobile Holochain support is active development); Kitsune itself runs wherever the Rust toolchain targets
Web Support Tx5 transport adapter provides WebRTC-based connectivity for browser scenarios
Native Apps Yes (any Holochain conductor includes Kitsune; standalone use also possible)
Terms Open Source / Free — Apache 2.0 / CAL-1.0
Funds Not separately disclosed; Holochain Foundation operational budget covers Kitsune as a core component
Based On Sharded DHT design (departure from Kademlia toward agent-neighborhood gossip); QUIC (transport); WebRTC (Tx5 adapter); inspired by lessons from prior Holochain networking (sim2h, lib3h)
P2P Architecture 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
Overlay Network Holochain-specific sharded DHT; bootstrap nodes for initial peer discovery; pluggable transport adapters (QUIC default; Tx5/WebRTC for browser; Iroh adapter in development)
Content Addressing 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
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
CRDTs Lib N/A (Kitsune is networking; CRDT semantics, where used, live in Holochain DNAs)
Byzantine Fault Tolerance 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
Signature Ed25519 signatures on agent operations (inherited from Holochain entry model)
Permissions Application-level (per Holochain DNA validation rules and membrane access control)
Semantic Web Compatibility N/A (transport-layer library)
Smart Contract N/A (Holochain's compositional model is not smart contract-based)
Protocol Stack Position L3 Overlay Network (P2P transport and DHT for the Holochain runtime)
Asset / Value Embedding None at the Kitsune level; the broader Holochain ecosystem has HOT token but Kitsune itself is protocol-level networking with no native value layer
Protocol Maturity / Standardization Released / Active (production component of Holochain since ~2020); Kitsune2 rewrite ongoing; no formal external standardization, evolves with Holochain releases