About Orchid Protocol

The Orchid Protocol establishes a decentralized marketplace known as the Orchid Market, which facilitates a structured peer-to-peer (P2P) network for bandwidth sellers. In this system, customers can connect to the market and compensate bandwidth providers to create a proxy chain that directs them to specific online resources. This innovative approach allows users to access the Internet while maintaining a level of anonymity, as the proxy chain design ensures that no single relay possesses both the source and destination information, thereby enhancing user privacy. The Orchid Market's architecture is specifically designed to mitigate collusion attacks, where a group of bandwidth sellers might attempt to compromise the separation of knowledge inherent in the system. This initiative aims to restore the Internet's original ethos of openness and free communication, which has been increasingly threatened by monitoring and censorship. By creating a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth, the Orchid Protocol seeks to redefine digital citizenship and empower users to reclaim their online privacy and autonomy.