Ouroboros Frequently Asked Questions

Ouroboros is a project with the capacity to make fundamental changes to the way we share information in the digital world. When encountering this project for the first time, plenty of people have questions: what it is, how it works, and how it compares to other projects. This is where you'll find the answers to some of the most common questions.

Q: How does Ouroboros compare to [Tor, CJDNS, I2P, Wireguard, etc.]?

A: The goal of Ouroboros is to tackle problems in the world of information transfer by re-establishing network architecture at a system level.

As such, comparing Ouroboros to projects which rely on existing network architecture (IP/TCP, TLS, DNS) is akin to comparing a concrete foundation to a pre-existing structure. It is possible to move these structures onto the foundation (or build new ones!), but it is ineffective to compare Ouroboros to any existent networking protocol before any practical implementations have been built.

Until implementations exist which properly leverage the capacity of Ouroboros as an infrastructure, it is difficult to make a comparison to the specific use cases addressed by existing network paradigms.