2026-07-09 –, P2P Portal
The Willow family of protocols (willowprotocol.org) has taken a long, indirect path of development. In this talk Sammy Gwilym and Aljoscha Meyer of worm-blossom.org discuss this unusual approach of gradually layering discovery after discovery and how it has benefitted the project.
worm-blossom has been working on Willow in some shape or form for the past six years. Over that time we’ve produced many designs, documents, implementations, and been awarded a considerable amount of funding.
Naturally the question is ‘what have you accomplished in that time?’, or ‘when will it be ready?’. In this presentation, we’ll talk about how through our indirect approach we’ve been able to gradually layer more capabilities onto the Willow family of protocols over time, how this has created a modular outcome, and how being product-less has permitted many unexpected discoveries.
And we’ll present this is a typically worm-blossom-like way.
Sammy Gwilym is a programmer and illustrator, and one half of worm-blossom. She's a co-author of Willow, a family of peer-to-peer protocols.
