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Life & fun · June 22, 2020

Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent

Peer-to-peer micropayments for torrenting. Built on ethereum using state channels.

Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent launched on June 22, 2020 with 206 votes, #119 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Web3Torrent integrates Ethereum micropayments into WebTorrent, enabling users to pay small amounts in cryptocurrency for peer-to-peer file transfers. Built on state channels technology, it combines decentralized file sharing with blockchain-based payments. The tool is designed for users who want to monetize content distribution or pay others for bandwidth without intermediaries. It bridges traditional torrent functionality with Web3 infrastructure.

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Today we’re excited to share something we’ve been working on behind the scenes of the State Channels project: Web3Torrent . Web3Torrent is a browser based torrenting client that supports incentivized peer-to-peer filesharing using micropayments. The micropayments are built using state channels that run on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Users can upload files and begin seeding to earn small, incremental, amounts of money from anyone that downloads from them. Web3Torrent is running live on the Goërli testnet right now, please try it out ! State channels are a layer 2 scaling technique for Ethereum; they enable trustless, instant, and zero-fee transactions amongst fixed groups of users. If…from blog.statechannels.org

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