IPFS is a distributed filesystem that acts like torrent, and using it you can share just about any file. Including Arch repositories. They use this tool to accomplish this. As I'm aware, Chaotic-AUR needs contributing servers and to this day has some troubles with speeds. IPFS mirror can be used to decentralize package distribution using user-provided traffic.
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This is very intriguing to me as an end user who is always looking for ways to contribute, but lacks the knowledge and resources to host a mirror.
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We tried that before, we managed it for more than a month, including a Cloudflare portal to it; but IPFS wasn't made for sharing directories with so many updates, it struggled to recreate the tree of hashes of the directories. So we dropped it.
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wow. It seems that everything I suggest was already made 
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