P2P Networking Hub @ Devcon 8
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A vendor-neutral home at Devcon for the people who build and maintain Ethereum's networking layer, and for anyone curious about it. For four days, come see how peers find each other and how data moves across the network; join hands-on workshops, debugging clinics, talks and roundtables on peer discovery, broadcast, measurement, privacy and resilience.
You won't only learn how the network works and behaves right now, but also what are the challenges faced and the next improvement steps.
Open to everyone: protocol engineers, client and libp2p maintainers, researchers, node operators, privacy builders and newcomers.
Organised by ProbeLab, Ethereum Foundation, HOPR and Optimum.
All times are Mumbai time (IST, GMT+5:30). The hub is open 09:00–18:00, closing at 15:00 on Friday 6 Nov. Drop in any time. The schedule below is a draft and may change.
Day 1 · Tue 3 Nov · Foundations & Discovery
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Beginner-friendly intro to the hub and the day's theme
10:30 Decentralization (ChainScope), the mempool and an intro to FOCIL · Csaba Kiraly (EF)
13:30 Network metrics dashboards · Leo (MigaLabs)
14:30 ProbeLab Sonar · Mikel Cortes (ProbeLab)
16:00 FOCIL roundtable (TBC)
17:00 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 2 · Wed 4 Nov · Scaling, Broadcast & Performance
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 ProbeLab's view of the state of the network · Mikel Cortes (ProbeLab)
11:00 PQ, zk and PQDS: what's the impact on P2P? · Kamil Salakhiev (EF)
13:30 Big Blocks, Quick Slots, Fast Diffusion · Csaba Kiraly (EF)
14:45 Waggle: hands-on message broadcasting · Daniel Knopik (Sigma Prime)
16:00 What do you send a peer when the pieces are coded? · Har Preet Singh (Optimum)
17:00 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 3 · Thu 5 Nov · Privacy & Censorship-Resistance
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Private transport for any app using HOPR · Sebastian Buergel (HOPR)
11:00 PIX: paying a remote peer while revealing as little as possible · Sebastian Buergel, Lazar Travica (HOPR)
11:45 Open Q&A with the HOPR team
13:30 Validators Privacy in Ethereum · Kamil Salakhiev, Yann (EF)
14:30 Gnosis VPN hands-on workshop · Sebastian Buergel (HOPR)
16:00 Open discussion: cross-community roundtable
17:00 Open hacking · daily closing
Day 4 · Fri 6 Nov · Resilience & Open Problems
09:00 Welcome · open hours · coffee
10:00 Gossipsub Improvement Proposals · Sukun, Mikel Cortes, Yiannis Psarras
11:30 Discussion - Q&A
13:30 Roundtable on the future of Ethereum's networking
14:30 Open problems roundtable and hub closing · Yiannis Psarras (ProbeLab)
15:00 Hub closing