IPFS Kademlia DHT

The IPFS Distributed Hash Table (DHT) specification defines a structured overlay network used for peer and content routing in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). It extends the libp2p Kademlia DHT specification, adapting and adding features to support IPFS-specific requirements.

Bitswap Protocol

Bitswap is a libp2p data exchange protocol for finding, sending and receiving content addressed blocks of data. It attempts to acquire blocks from the p2p network that have been requested by the client, and also send blocks to others who want them.

Delegated Routing V1 HTTP API

Delegated routing is a mechanism for IPFS implementations to use for offloading content routing, peer routing and naming to another process/server. This specification describes an HTTP API for delegated routing of content, peers, and IPNS.