!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a [Distributed File System] [Protocol] that is  is agnostic to the underlying [network] transport.

Data is stored in a format called SLEEP.

The key properties of the [{$pagename}] design are
* Content [Integrity] - [Data] and publisher [integrity] is verified through use of signed hashes of the content. ([Merkle Tree])
* Decentralized Mirroring - Users sharing the same Dat automatically discover each other and exchange data in a swarm.
* Network Privacy - Dat provides certain [privacy] guarantees including [End-to-end Encryption].
* Incremental Versioning - [Datasets|Data] can be efficiently synced, even in real time, to other peers.
* Random Access - Huge file hierarchies can be efficiently traversed remotely.

[{$pagename}] [links] are [Ed25519]

!! More Information
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* [#1] - [https://github.com/datprotocol/whitepaper/blob/master/dat-paper.pdf|https://github.com/datprotocol/whitepaper/blob/master/dat-paper.pdf|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-09-20-