Tether is developing Hypersearch, a censorship-resistant peer-to-peer search engine designed to deliver results through distributed nodes rather than centralized servers. In its latest test, the company stored and searched the full Wikipedia archive across 100 nodes, with a working interface displaying results and participating network nodes. CEO Paolo Ardoino said the system uses fault-tolerant structures to maintain availability and resist censorship as it scales across thousands of nodes. Hypersearch builds on HyperDHT and the Holepunch peer-to-peer stack, with Tether recruiting engineers for distributed databases, CRDTs, search architecture and networking. The project was first disclosed on April 7, 2026, and follows Tether’s work on Keet, PearPass and Bitcoin mining software. Tether has not announced a public release date or explained how public-web crawling, ranking, spam prevention and conflicting data would be handled at scale.