PeerSky Mobile Browser: P2P Web Browsing on Phone

Hi! I am Harshal Atre, a fourth-year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology with a strong interest in decentralized systems, peer-to-peer networking, and mobile development. I enjoy building systems that prioritize privacy, openness, and user ownership on the web.

This summer, I will be contributing to the PeerSky project through Google Summer of Code under UC OSPO. My project, “PeerSky Mobile Browser: P2P Web Browsing on Phone,” focuses on bringing decentralized web technologies like hyper:// to mobile platforms through a native React Native browser experience.

The project aims to implement native Hypercore protocol support, private HTTPS browsing, Holesail-based peer-to-peer tunneling, offline local discovery using mDNS, and a mobile-optimized browsing experience for decentralized content. The browser will allow users to browse, publish, and share P2P content directly from their phones without relying on centralized gateways.

Before this, I contributed extensively to the desktop PeerSky Browser and Agregore Browser ecosystems, working on protocol handlers, collaborative sync systems, privacy-focused search integrations, and P2P tooling. These contributions gave me hands-on experience with Hypercore-based systems and decentralized web architectures, which I am excited to extend into the mobile space.

You can read my full proposal here. My mentor for this project is Akhilesh Thite.

I am looking forward to contributing to tools that make the decentralized web more accessible, practical, and user-controlled, especially on mobile devices. Excited for the summer ahead!