I am Abhinav, a strange loop …

built a p2p swarm inference engine over SLMs. users broadcast a prompt nodes join dynamically as executors (generators) or verifiers (score) peer-ranked consensus highest avg response wins Used floodsub as the pubsub router over my own rnet-p2p stack. similar space to what @fortytwonetwork is doing at scale. Repo - https://github.com/rnet-stack/rnet-inference

Built a decentralized random number generator using multiparty-computation(MPC) on top of my own p2p stack, rnet-p2p, over the weekend. no trusted authority, no single point of bias, as long as 1 peer is honest, the output is unpredicatable. commit -> reveal -> reduce Repo: https://github.com/rnet-stack/rnet-drand

Wrote a UDP transport layer for rnet-p2p – connection management, handshake acknowlegements, and liveliness checks for dead peers (since no real time sockets in UDP). Was fun. PR: https://github.com/lla-dane/rnet/pull/8 PS: rnet-p2p now moved here: https://github.com/rnet-stack/rnet-p2p

Did an RTT benchmark comparing my experimental p2p stack rnet vs libp2p rnet → ~220–300μs rust-libp2p → ~130–250μs py-libp2p → ~300–400μs Same machine, loopback libp2p: TCP + Noise + Yamux rnet: TCP + custom security (Deffie-Hellman based key-exchange) + Mplex rnet lagging behind by ~60μs implementation overhead from rust-libp2p rnet: https://github.com/lla-dane/rnet/

Built a secure transport layer today for my p2p stack. Raw streams -> negotiated -> encrypted (Deffie Hellman + ChaCha20Poly1305). Feels good seeing the pieces come together. PR: https://github.com/lla-dane/rnet/pull/2

Introduced Prometheus/Grafana metrics to libp2p(-py), improving network observability for the core services like Gossipsub, Kad-DHT and connection lifecycle. PR: https://github.com/libp2p/py-libp2p/pull/1199

Went first time trekking, to Kedarkantha peak. The elevation was around ~3800m, spent 3 days in the forest and then did river rafting in Rishikesh. Felt good to get away from code, from time to time.

Extended the TLS security module in libp2p(-py) to fetch CA authorized TLS certificates using the libp2p Auto-TLS client specification, rather than using self-signed ones. This will enable protocol execution via web-transport and browsers for libp2p(-py). PR: https://github.com/libp2p/py-libp2p/pull/1072

Wrote a Floodsub module for scratch in my experimental p2p stack. Learned a great deal how pubsub broadcasting systems behave under the hood with complex rust async designs. Getting ready to write Gossipsub now.

Ran into an issue while building my experimental p2p stack in Rust – multiple parts of the code wanted &mut TcpStream. Turned out the design was improper. What worked for me was creating a single IO task owning the socket, with everything else communication via mpsc. Cleaner ownership, fewer borrow issues, and easier to reason about.