vac:acz:ift:2025q2-discovery-exploration
Implementation of the next release of Zerokit
Description
This commitment entails exploring Kademlia DHT and DiscV5 as discovery mechanisms for P2P networks, with a focus on identifying areas for improvement in latency, the anonymity-discoverability tradeoff, security, and scalability. Additionally, it includes assessing their suitability for IFT projects. The findings will be thoroughly documented and validated through reference implementations.
Background
Narratives
By utilizing discovery exploration commitment, we will reinforce the Conduit of Expertise narrative by:
- Providing know-how about discovery mechanisms that will be tailored for many IFT teams such as Waku, Nomos, and Codex.
We will also strengthen the Premier Research Destination narrative by:
- Offers open source information such as blogposts and forum posts that show the improvement points of the discovery mechanism.