Interfaces

1 February 2026, 12:56

There are several mechanisms that you can use to start interacting with the Hypermedia protocol.

P2P API

Peers in the Hypermedia network connect over libp2p, and they exchange gRPC messages. Primarily, the peers are exchanging references to IPFS blobs. These blobs are then exchanged with the IPFS bitswap protocol, and are then validated as a part of the peer's local indexing process. This API is not yet stable and remains undocumented. To learn more, you refer to the protobuf definition files:

8 February 2026