Rewarded P2P Caching

This project connects clients in a peer-to-peer network in the browser. Users can request files from a central server that contains a list of which peers have the file, and the server then tells the peers that have the files to send the file to the requesting peer. The peers receive a reward on the polygon network based on the files that they have shared this way. The goal is to build a foundation for the decentralization of the backend of the metaverse based on the issues we have faced while developing our project kip.xyz

This project uses peerjs to connect clients in a peer-to-peer network via WebRTC. Interaction with the server happens via Websockets to announce when users connect and when they have requested or received files. We wrote a solidity contract for the reward layer and deployed it to the polygon network.