We present the design and architecture of the Maze filesharing
and social network. Maze is one of the first
large-scale deployments of an academic research project,
with over 210,000 registered users and more than 10,000
users online at any time, sharing over 140 million files.
Maze includes an evolving incentive structure, and simple
mechanisms for providing network locality. We outline
the Maze architecture and describe initial results
from a measurement study.