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Harmony utilizes libp2p as the underlying networking layer for peer discovery and p2p network transportation. |
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It is still a crucial task to understand the protocol messages and how the libp2p handles the messages. |
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We may need to fork the libp2p to fit our requirement during the development. |
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## Two Stages of Peer Discovery |
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Harmony uses two stages of peer discovery mechanism to form the overlay of p2p networks. |
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The first stage is to connect to beacon chain to stake and get the shard information. |
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The second stage is to create the real p2p network within the shard afterwards. |
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New nodes will always keep the connection to some beacon chain nodes for further communication. |
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The current implementation works like the following. |
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* beacon chain nodes bootstrap by contacting bootnodes using discovery rendezvous string "0". Then the beacon chain is formed. |
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* new nodes contact bootnodes using rendezvous string "0" to connect to beacon chain nodes. |
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* new nodes use pubsub to stake in beacon chain, and get shard information from beacon chain after the randomness and resharding algorithm. |
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* new nodes use the new shardID as the rendezvous string to connect to bootnodes again to form new p2p network at the shard level. |
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