Decentralized Chat with Peer Reputation
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- Python
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Description
Decentralized Chat with Peer Reputation
Problem: Many chat apps lack spam resistance in open groups.
Idea: Implement a chat dApp using gossipsub where nodes use peer scoring (from your PR!) and peerstore to remember which peers were trustworthy across sessions.
Hack Value: Combines NAT traversal (connectivity) + peerstore (identity/reputation persistence) + peer scoring.
Demo Impact: Show how bad actors get down-scored and their messages ignored, while good peers stay connected even after network changes.
Required Outcome: We will add the top 5 implementations at the main py-libp2p repository (new section: product-innovation).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing gossipsub peer-scoring, NAT traversal, and peerstore implementations in py-libp2p; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Determine how reputation should persist and affect message handling, then demonstrate bad peers being down-scored and good peers remaining connected after network changes. The stated outcome also requires adding the top five implementations to a new product-innovation section.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- distributed-systems, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100