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discv5-fork
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A TypeScript implementation of the DiscV5 protocol
Included is a libp2p peer-discovery compatibility module.
import {Discv5Discovery} from "@chainsafe/discv5";
import {ENR, SignableENR} from "@chainsafe/enr";
import {createLibp2p} from "libp2p";
import PeerId from "peer-id";
const myPeerId: PeerId = ...;
const bootEnrs: ENR[] = [...];
const libp2p = createLibp2p({
peerId: myPeerId,
peerDiscovery: [() => new Discv5Discovery({
enabled: true,
enr: SignableENR.createFromPeerId(myPeerId),
peerId: myPeerId,
bindAddrs: {ip4: "/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/9000"},
bootEnrs,
searchInterval: 30000, // wait 30s between searches
})]
});
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Discovery V5 mega fork
We found that discv5-fork demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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