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Python implementation of Discovery V5 Protocol

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One shot DevP2P transaction broadcasting #162

Open pipermerriam opened 4 years ago

pipermerriam commented 4 years ago

What was wrong?

We need "one shot DevP2P transaction broadcasting" in order for Alexandria to support the eth_sendRawTransaction JSON-RPC API.

How can it be fixed.

A Trio compatible async python function that takes a transaction and broadcasts it into the DevP2P eth protocol.

async def broadcast(
        *transactions: Transaction,
        confirmations: int = 3,
        ...) -> None:
    ...

Implementation requirements.

Discovery
- v5.1 protocol only
Bootstrapping:
- May use a persistent database of nodes for faster bootstrapping.
- Should use discovery protocol for sourcing candidate nodes.
Broadcasting
- Must broadcast transaction over the DevP2P eth/65 protocol.
- A "confirmation" is defined as being able to retrieve the transaction from a peer using the GetPooledTransactions message.

pipermerriam commented 4 years ago

@gsalgado this would be a bigger task but still valuable. It would leverage your existing knowledge of the DevP2P protocol. It would however not have much of anything to do with the DHT network.