What are 12D3KooW... peerIDs? How to parse this prefix? What really is a Radicle project?

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I spotted in my swarm a lot of peerIDs starting with “12D3KooW”, instead of the usual “Qm”.

Q1: Is there a tool (online, preferably) where I can enter a peerID ant it tells me “this is a peer ID, the codec is this, the hashing algotithm is that, etc.”?

After a few research, 12D3KooW seems to be a prefix for Radicle projects. Radicle is a platform for code collaboration on top on IPFS.
Q2: How can a code project can also be an IPFS peer?

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Peer IDs are not CIDs (yet, though they look the same). What you see are peer IDs from peers that use Ed25519 keys, instead of the (until now) RSA default.

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Thanks.

I found the tool I was looking for :slight_smile: : https://cid.ipfs.io/#12D3KooWD3eckifWpRn9wQpMG9R9hX3sD158z7EqHWmweQAJU5SA
(IMHO, it should be advertised for in the docs or ipfs.io)