01 / PUBSUB
Gossipsub performance & resilience
Improve pubsub performance, fault tolerance, dynamic peer scoring, scalability, and shared benchmarks across implementations and real deployments.
// Maintainers · Implementations · Adopters
One network. Many teams. Shared progress.
Help advance libp2p ecosystem-wide coordination and adoption. Bring maintainers, implementers, adopters, researchers, and funders together to strengthen specifications, interoperability, developer experience, and the infrastructure powering Web3.
- 11 implementations
- Coordinate across languages and teams
- Open by default
- Public workstreams and shared evidence
- Adoption-focused
- From protocol work to production use
// 01 / The opportunity
Shared protocols. Stronger adoption.
libp2p is used across Ethereum, Filecoin, and other decentralized systems, but implementation teams and adopters can benefit from tighter coordination. This initiative aims to align roadmaps, make ecosystem needs visible, revive specification collaboration, and make it easier to build, test, maintain, and adopt libp2p.
// six open workstreams
Where the coordination happens.
02 / CONNECTIVITY
NAT traversal & relaying
Advance hole punching, AutoRelay, connection reliability, and practical connectivity for mobile, browser, and constrained environments.
03 / INTEROPERABILITY
Cross-implementation testing
Coordinate Rust, JavaScript, Go, nim-libp2p, and other implementations through reproducible tests, conformance suites, and visible CI dashboards.
04 / SPECIFICATIONS
Specifications & governance
Improve RFC discoverability, versioning, review pathways, spec ownership, and alignment between protocol documents and implementation behavior.
05 / DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
Docs, tooling & good defaults
Make onboarding easier with reference examples, browser support, RPC abstractions, clear troubleshooting, and less complex paths to production.
06 / ECOSYSTEM INTELLIGENCE
Discoverability & adoption
Connect maintainers, repositories, events, funding, contributors, and adopter stories with metrics and tools that make ecosystem activity visible.
// Recommended hackathon for contributors
Machine-Checked Devcon Week
An online hackathon during Devcon week: pick real protocol tasks from a public repo and learn Lean 4, formal verification, and Ethereum networking by shipping code and proofs.
- When
- Online, 2–7 November 2026
- Apply by
- 1 November 2026
- Prize pool
- $1,000
- Cohort
- Under ten contributors
- You implement pieces of Ethereum's networking layer in Lean 4 and prove properties of what you build — every proof checked by Lean's kernel.
- Tasks live as issues in the leanp2p repository: claim one, open a pull request within 8 hours, and the organisers review within 12.
- Participation is free and open to any level — what matters is motivation. Acceptances are announced in the event channel on the Invisible Garden Discord.
- Code closes 7 November 2026 at 23:59 UTC, with a short video of your contributions due by 15 November 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
// participate in the initiative
Write to the initiative organisers
Whether you maintain an implementation, run libp2p in production, research the protocol, or fund ecosystem work, write to both organisers below. Each button opens a message with a short outline you can fill in and send — or propose a concrete collaboration.
Anubha Mane
Smartly Labs
anubha@smartlylabs.aiSumanjeet
libp2p
libp2padmin@gmail.comCoordinate upstream. Build in the open. Strengthen libp2p.