P2P Networking

The peer-to-peer (P2P) layer connects Midnight nodes and enables data exchange across the decentralized network. Midnight uses the default Polkadot SDK Rust libp2p implementation.

Stack overview

flowchart TB
  subgraph Discovery["Peer discovery"]
    BS["Bootstrap nodes"]
    MDNS["mDNS (LAN)"]
    KDHT["Kademlia DHT random walk"]
  end

  subgraph Transport["Connection"]
    TCP["TCP/IP"]
    WS["WebSockets"]
    DNS["DNS resolution"]
  end