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ethereum / trinity

The Trinity client for the Ethereum network
https://trinity.ethereum.org
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[POC] Implement 'proxy' mode for bridge infrastructure #2122

Closed pipermerriam closed 3 years ago

pipermerriam commented 3 years ago

A minimal POC that demonstrates using Trinity to gain access to the ETH protocol by:

  1. Using infura to serve block headers
  2. Disconnecting from peers that request block bodies/receipts/nodedata
  3. Ignoring gossip (this should be fixed to actually implement basic gossip as to not be a leach on the network)

This is an experiment in how we might gain access to some of the gossip messages from the ETH protocol so that they can be bridged with alternate implementations like: https://notes.ethereum.org/YtI7e-R5RSK13cklq8j3Ug?view

pipermerriam commented 3 years ago

Running this I was able to maintain a healthy peer pool of 25 peers.

Implementing minimal relaying of block gossip and transactions would make this less of a leech on the network