Decentralized Anonymous Decentralized File Sharing: TOR + Torrents

I'm working on a tracker for a decentralized file sharing protocol Stigmerge that uses Veilid. Stigmerge allows to share files without disclosing IP addresses of peers because it operates over Veilid network, so it's safe from fines if you share pirated content.

Currently it's very young protocol used by few and there's no tracker for uploading shares. It means that it's perfect situation to make it happen and it should happen in darknet.

Veilid is Rust-based framework for building decentralized apps and it feels like a constructor for building apps similar to TOR.

If you're interested here's my current effort: http://ucoi4tzlito52agmquc6oopn3zpmr6djz5vvfabtgrhyc6hufpzjtnad.onion/Tochka/stigmerge-tracker

The next phase is facilitate stigmerge tracker derived app for building a decentralized market. The tracker would act as a root node that would coordinate content (item listings) posted by authorized peers (vendor nodes) - basically a reliable metadata layer (IPFS by all means isn't).

For now we can make veilid-tracker general-purpose tool for sharing files anonymously. I'm building a tracker library and a terminal ui app.

Interesting. Have an upvote for visibility.

I liked the title. TOR + Torrents

True, it then quietly morphed into "similar to TOR" (Veilid) + Torrents(?), and I got completely confused. Is one better than the other?

A torrent-like protocol built with veilied. For me in current state it only works maybe 30% of the time.