Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peer-to-peer may also refer to: Economics Peer-to-peer banking Peer-to-peer carsharing Peer-to-peer lending Peer-to-peer economy, another name for the sharing economy Other uses Peer-to-peer file sharing Social peer-to-peer processes P2P economic system See also P2P (disambiguation) Anonymous P2P systems in which participants remain anonymous Peer production Private peer-to-peer