Thank you! Yes, there is currently just a whitepaper we're publishing with Stanford and that was also reviewed by colleagues at MIT. However it isn't up to snuff yet to be posted publicly, so shoot me an email [email protected] and I'll send you the link.

For non-academics though, I did a comic strip explainer for the layperson (as distributed systems are often hyped up with elitist jargon) here: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html !

The prototype shown in the video was specific to append-only data and was done last year, we recently rewrote the system to be more generalizable using a radix trie structure and have released an alpha of it with the Radix Storage Engine (RSE) in the main repo: https://github.com/amark/gun

Let me know if you need help with any/all of that, or more links/resources (docs are somewhat scarce on it currently, sadly), and I'll do what I can!

Although, I can't resist but to leave this one last animated explainer gif that shows what a radix looks like: http://gun.js.org/see/radix.gif