Show HN: CAVS – Open-source content-addressable updates for game assets

Category: infrastructure

Tags: content-addressable, game-assets, rust

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

CAVS is a content-addressable verified streaming layer for game asset updates, enabling clients to download only changed chunks using BLAKE3 hashing and Merkle verification. It demonstrably reduces update sizes by up to 99% in real game tests, and includes plugins for Godot, Unity, and Unreal Engine.

Target audience: game developers, backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/orelvis15/cavs-oss · Rust · Apache-2.0

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