Willow is a family of publicly-funded, open source peer-to-peer storage protocols.

These protocols are designed to let you run your own independent digital spaces where you can share and collaborate on data with groups big and small. These digital spaces are stored on your own hardware, cutting out unwanted third parties. Only devices which have been given explicit consent to store data can receive it. Any kind of data can be stored, organised in a manner similar to files and folders. And data can travel between devices in many different ways, so you can choose the appropriate avenue, whether that's the internet or a USB key.

In this talk we will introduce our protocols: Willow, Meadowcap, Drop Format, and Confidential Sync, and what makes them different to other systems in the local-first ecosystem. We will also talk about our Rust implementations of these specifications, and how we are bringing torrent-like payload transfer to Willow using Bab.