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#Ethereum's global P2P network dream:
🫧 Efficient discovery
🫧 Stronger security
The reality?? 🫣
💀 75%+ of attempts reach unrelated services
💀 Some poor nodes take dozens of probes per neighbor
💀 A few malicious nodes can slice the network like a birthday cake 🎂
Dr. Ren Zhang (@nirenzang) from our research team just showed how well this works at The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC'25): sbc-conference.com/2025/
🎥 Watch the talk:
- Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=8XmuQR…
- Bilibili: bilibili.com/video/BV1NX4Rz…
📄 Read the paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/588
@NervosNetwork
🫧 Efficient discovery
🫧 Stronger security
The reality?? 🫣
💀 75%+ of attempts reach unrelated services
💀 Some poor nodes take dozens of probes per neighbor
💀 A few malicious nodes can slice the network like a birthday cake 🎂
Dr. Ren Zhang (@nirenzang) from our research team just showed how well this works at The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC'25): sbc-conference.com/2025/
🎥 Watch the talk:
- Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=8XmuQR…
- Bilibili: bilibili.com/video/BV1NX4Rz…
📄 Read the paper: eprint.iacr.org/2025/588
@NervosNetwork