Building the infrastructure for independent information
Read news. Ask AI. Predict outcomes. Stay anonymous.
VAZON is an open-source organization building two things that belong together: a P2P protocol for anonymous data transfer and a news platform that runs on top of it.
The web has a centralization problem. Your reads, your opinions, your identity — all logged, tracked, sold. We're building the opposite: infrastructure where the data is visible but the people behind it aren't.
A news platform where readers become participants — not data points.
What makes it different:
AI Companion — every article has an AI you can talk to. Ask "how does this affect me?", "what happened last time?", "what's likely next?". Not a summary widget — an actual conversation anchored to the article's context.
News Arena — readers put virtual tokens on real-world outcomes. "Will the rate go above 5%?" Correct predictions earn points, badges, leaderboard rank. Passive reading becomes active engagement.
Anonymous by default — built on Rhizome, so participation doesn't require exposing your identity.
Read → Ask AI → Predict → Earn → Repeat
Status: MVP in development · Follow progress →
A P2P protocol based on Kademlia DHT for anonymous data transfer. Currently in active design and early development — not production-ready yet.
The core idea: everyone can see what data is being transferred, but no one can see who created it or who receives it. Not privacy through obscurity — privacy through architecture.
The long-term goal is for Rhizome to sit underneath Vazon News — and to be usable by any application that needs anonymous data routing.
Traditional: [You] → [Server knows you] → [Recipient]
Rhizome: [?] → [data is visible] → [?]
Designed around:
- Kademlia DHT for distributed node discovery and routing
- Public data envelope, private sender/recipient identity
- No central coordinator
Status: Early development — contributions and protocol discussions welcome · Rhizome repo →
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Vazon News [MVP] │
│ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ │
│ │ AI Companion │ │ News Arena │ │
│ └──────────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
│ REST API + SSE │
│ PostgreSQL + Redis │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
│ planned integration
┌──────────────▼──────────────────────┐
│ Rhizome [in design] │
│ Kademlia DHT · P2P Layer │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
Anonymity tools built in secret are security risks. Anonymity tools built in public are infrastructure. We're building infrastructure.
Apache 2.0 — use it, fork it, build on it. If you make it better, we hope you share.
We're a small team. Every contribution matters more here than at a big project.
Good first areas:
- Rhizome protocol implementation and testing
- Vazon News backend (Node.js / Go / Python)
- Mobile client (Flutter / Swift / Kotlin)
- Documentation and spec writing
How to start:
- Read the relevant repo's
CONTRIBUTING.md - Check open issues tagged
good first issue - Or just open a discussion — we talk through ideas openly
Contact: GitHub Discussions · vazonhub@gmail.com
The internet should work for the people on it. We're building toward that.