Dat Protocol

Dat is a new p2p hypermedia protocol. It provides public-key-addressed file archives which can be synced securely and browsed on-demand.

Fast Archives sync from multiple sources at once. Secure All updates are signed and integrity-checked. Resilient Archives can change hosts without changing their URLs. Versioned Changes are written to an append-only version log. Decentralized Any device can host any archive.

Dat Protocol development is sponsored by Code for Science & Society, a 501(c)(3). Learn more at the Dat Protocol Foundation Website.

Contribute:

Join the general Dat chat via Gitter or IRC (#dat on Freenode)

Join #datprotocol for protocol discussion and working group meetings.

File issues for this website.

Documentation for end-user tools and developer libraries.

Specifications for the Dat protocol. View pre-draft DEPs and the DEP process on GitHub.

Extensions to the Dat protocol.

Visual explanation of the Dat protocol.

April 2017 whitepaper on the Dat Protocol (View source on GitHub). For updated specifications, please see DEPs.