Kademlia is awesome and is, of course, the basis of libp2p-kad-dht and the DevP2P project that many decentralized projects are using at the moment.
At NuCypher, we found that, all the way to the core of Kademlia, there were some "inter-planetary" assumptions that, while both mindblowing and fit for many use-cases, didn't fit our "intra-planetary" distributed notion of network topology.
If Kademlia interests you, you might also be interested in this overview of what we did and why:
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Kademlia is awesome and is, of course, the basis of libp2p-kad-dht and the DevP2P project that many decentralized projects are using at the moment.
At NuCypher, we found that, all the way to the core of Kademlia, there were some "inter-planetary" assumptions that, while both mindblowing and fit for many use-cases, didn't fit our "intra-planetary" distributed notion of network topology.
If Kademlia interests you, you might also be interested in this overview of what we did and why:
https://blog.nucypher.com/why-were-rolling-our-own-intra-pla...
Huge fan of Nucypher. Recently At one hackathon, I used your proxy re-encryption to build decentralised KYC system. Amazing work you guys are doing!