Rhizome - P2P protocol

Rhizome is a high—performance, decentralized P2P messaging library implemented on Rust. It is based on the Kademlia DHT protocol with custom data replication and content ranking mechanisms.

✨ Features

• 🦀 Rust Core: Maximum performance and memory security without GC.
• 🔒 Anonymity: DHT-based routing hides direct connections between network participants.
• ⚡ Async First: A fully asynchronous stack based on tokio and futures.
• 🔄 Smart replication: Automatic distribution of data to k-nearest nodes.
• 📈 Popularity system: Content in demand gets storage priority and a higher TTL.
• 📦 Modularity: You can use it as a ready-made CLI node, or connect it as a library (cargo lib) to your project.

🛠 Technology stack

• Runtime & Async: Fully asynchronous architecture based on tokio (full) and futures. Using async-trait for flexible component design.
• Persistence (Storage): heed is a high—performance embedded database (a wrapper over LMDB) that provides ACID transactions and instant access to data.
• Cryptography & Security:
• RSA (with SHA-2 support) for key management and digital signatures.
  • sha1, sha2, digest — a set of cryptographic hash functions for data integrity and identification in DHT.
• Serialization:
  • rmp-serde (MessagePack) is the main binary protocol for minimizing traffic in a P2P network.
  • serde_json & serde_yaml — for configuration and external `APIs'.
• Observability (Logging): An advanced system based on tracing. Support for structured logging (JSON), filtering via env-filter, and log file rotation via tracing-appender.
• Portability (WASM): Support for compilation to `WebAssembly' (wasm-bindgen) for use in browser environments, including integration with getrandom/js.
• Development & Quality:
  • Automatic style and linting control via cargo-husky (pre-commit hooks for fmt and clippy).
  • The use of thiserror for strict and understandable error typing.

📂 Project structure

rhizome/
├── examples/            # Examples of the system operation
├── src/                 # The main project code
│   ├── config.rs        # Configuration Module
│   ├── logger.rs        # The logging module
│   ├── api.rs           # API module for external operation
│   ├── exception.rs     # Error management module
│   ├── dht/             # Kademlia DHT Module
│   ├── network/         # Network operation module
│   ├── node/            # Node Module
│   ├── popularity/      # A module for the operation of the reputation system
│   ├── replication/     # Data replication
│   ├── storage/         # Storage System Module
│   ├── utils/           # Auxiliary functions module
│   └── security/        # The security module

🛠 Setup and develop

For project build you need Rust version 1.85+ (because we will use Edition 2024).

rustup update stable

Clone and build

Bash
git clone https://github.com/vazonhub/rhizome.git
cd rhizome

cargo build

Run tests

For running tests you can use:

Bash
# Run all tests
cargo test

# Run tests with logs in console
RUST_LOG=debug cargo test -- --nocapture

Static analyze and formating

In project, we have some feature for code analyze and formating:

• Formating by (cargo fmt)
• Analyze linter by (cargo clippy)

🤝 Participation in the development

We are happy to see your Pull Requests!

1. Create fork from develop branch;
2. Create branch: git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature;
3. Commit changes: git commit -m 'Add amazing feature';
4. Create push in your branch: git push origin feature/amazing-feature;
5. Check pre-commit result. If you have any troubles you can't push anything.
6. Open Pull Request.

We use git flow in branch architecture.
Create your pull request in develop branch.

📄 License

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Details in the file LICENSE.

👥 Author

Rhizome Dev Team - GitHub.

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