Libp2p Expedition Mumbai logolibp2p//mumbai

// mission threads

Expedition Program and Focus Areas

Five focus areas thread through five events over nine days. Each area maps to specific Devcon tracks and to the security and cypherpunk summits around the main week.

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Decentralized networking

Peer-to-peer transport, discovery, and routing as the shared substrate beneath every event in the window. From summit keynotes to hackathon demos, the networking layer is the thread that connects them.

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Security

Protocol security and practical security research from DeFi Security Summit, threaded into Devcon's Security track and the expedition's own adversarial experiments.

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Privacy

Cypherpunk values and cryptography from the Congress, meeting Devcon's Privacy & Consent track and Applied Cryptography areas. Digital rights as engineering practice, not just ideology.

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Interoperability

Open & Verifiable Stack and Permissionless Networks at Devcon, plus hands-on interoperability testing during the ETHGlobal build days. Composable trust specs, tested in the field.

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AI-agent infrastructure

Users, Builders & Agents at Devcon — how agents compose, authenticate, and coordinate over permissionless networks. A live research conversation across the full stretch.

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Devcon 8 as the hub

The Devcon programme carries dedicated areas for security, privacy, agents, applied cryptography, permissionless networks, and the open & verifiable stack — the gravitational centre of the expedition.

// activity ledger

How the days are spent

  1. 01

    Protocol discussions

    Structured conversations with libp2p maintainers and protocol researchers across the summit floors and Devcon's themed areas.

  2. 02

    Workshops

    Hands-on sessions threading libp2p fundamentals into the security, privacy, and builder communities we're connecting.

  3. 03

    Experiments

    Field experiments — adversarial networking, privacy-preserving transport, agent coordination — run live during the expedition window.

  4. 04

    Interoperability testing

    Cross-stack interop sessions during Pragma and ETHGlobal Mumbai: composable trust specs against real implementations.

  5. 05

    Research conversations

    Open research agendas surfaced with maintainers, security engineers, and privacy researchers from Japan, India, and the global ecosystem.

  6. 06

    Hands-on libp2p work

    Direct work with libp2p and composable trust specs — code, specs, and shared experiments that outlive the window.

// visual brief

The expedition's working pictures

The Study Group Mission — four pillars: workshops, protocol analysis, interoperability testing, observability-driven research
The study group mission: workshops, protocol analysis, interoperability testing, observability-driven research.
The Observability Lens — deconstructing the Ethereum peer-to-peer networking layer in real time
The observability lens: real-time deconstruction of the Ethereum P2P layer.
Below the Bytecode — the true attack surface, from smart contracts down to P2P networking and libp2p
Below the bytecode: the attack surface runs down to P2P networking and libp2p.
The Bottleneck Has Shifted — AI agents are abundant and cheap, human capabilities are scarce and expensive
The bottleneck has shifted: agent output is abundant — the scarce resource is human judgment.