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
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.
Started writing an experimental p2p stack, rnet inspired from libp2p specs, to dig deeper into rust and core p2p mechanics.