Tachyon Protocol

Tachyon Protocol is a decentralised VPN and bandwidth market in the V Systems ecosystem that replaces central servers with peer-to-peer networking: nodes supply exit bandwidth, users buy traffic with tokens, routes are selected in real time over a DHT, and the transport layer rebuilds congestion control, acknowledgements and forward error correction on UDP with rate adaptation to link quality. Encryption uses an ECDHE-ECDSA end-to-end scheme with multi-path and multi-relay forwarding, and traffic shaping disguises protocol patterns to survive filtering.

Nodes must stake tokens before taking orders and earn from per-traffic session rewards plus a fixed staking reward, with slashing as the deterrent against misbehaviour. April 2026 operating figures list 1,184 nodes, 157.6 million tokens staked and 183 million tokens distributed as rewards, with 6.4 million cumulative app users, while the team explored AI agents on testnet to sense congestion and switch routes dynamically. Sessions bill by traffic and settle on-chain, node reputation accrues from uptime and packet loss, and lower-reputation nodes receive fewer assignments.