DeRouter is a decentralized digital service marketplace.

This repository is a DeRouter P2P node implementation. It connects to other nodes in a decentralized manner.

As a DeRouter network user, you may be either Consumer or Provider, or both. Consumers consume digital services provided by Providers. Providers inform the network about the services they provide, and wait for direct connections from Consumers.

DeRouter is designed to be protocol-agnostic. A Provider publishes some digital service offers, which include "protocol" and "protocol_payload" fields. For example, some "openai" protocol may require provided models to be listed in the offer's payload, along with their context sizes, and pricing. Providers use provider module implementations which connect to their local DeRouter node and contain actual protocol logic. For example, the DeRouter's OpenAI provider module provides a simple solution to proxy incoming requests to an OpenAI-compatible URL.

Consumers see the actual list of provided offers in the network, and may choose to schedule a job for a specific offer. Similar to Provider, Consumer module implementations are connected to a running DeRouter node, containing logic for service interaction. For example, the DeRouter's OpenAI consumer module exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint locally, proxying requests to the DeRouter network, finding the best matching offers according to some criteria, such as model ID, context size, and price limits.

Consumers will be able to pay for the provided services with cryptocurrency.

DeRouter is currently in alpha.

DeRouter P2P node is implemented (this repository). It connects to the decentralized network via mDNS and bootstrap nodes, exposing a CBOR RPC over TCP.

OpenAI protocol along with OpenAI provider and OpenAI consumer modules are implemented. A module may use an RPC package for their language, such as derouter/rpc-js.

You can help shaping the future of DeRouter by joining our communities:

• Reddit
• Discord

• Cryptocurrency payments (Ethereum is being developed locally).
• Desktop application to explore offers & manage modules (Tauri app is being developed locally).

You must have Rust installed locally.

RUST_LOG=debug cargo run -- -c./config.json

Alternatively, you can download prebuilt binaries from the Releases page.

You would need to specify addresses of other DeRouter nodes connected to the network for peer discovery in your config.json. These are some well-known relay nodes:

{
  "bootstrap": [
    "/ip4/5.75.174.15/tcp/90/p2p/12D3KooWPHcqLQHQK3Rf7nCTMCAzM6QjA44UsrjAjhnYnokZzzJE"
  ]
}