libp2p/py-libp2p

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The Python implementation of the libp2p networking stack 🐍 [under development]

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Indexed issues: 58
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Merged PRs (30d): 47

Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
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58 open issues indexed

feat(webrtc): true ICE-Lite controlled agent for the WebRTC-Direct listener Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1512 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Follow-up: sub-ms peerstore RTT, real-network health tests, and health GUI polish (#1453/#1455) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1474 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
feat(webrtc): track WebRTC-Direct STUN listener + v1/v2 (specs#715) after UdpMux Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1437 · 20 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
flaky: dht_pair fixture races on routing-table population ("Node A should know about Node B") Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1423 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
discussion(kad-dht): monotonic sequence numbers for silent-withholding detection in GET_VALUE Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1385 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
enhancement(kad-dht): add disjoint lookup paths to find_closest_peers_network Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1384 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
./script/setup_dev.sh Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1318 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2026
Add Optional Grid Topology k-bucket Strategy Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1293 · Opened Mar 24, 2026
QUIC-Based P2P File Sharing with DHT vs Non-DHT Peer Discovery Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1277 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 15, 2026
Setup guide on contributing page does not work on macOS Open

libp2p/py-libp2p#1248 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Add full GossipSub v1.3 support (Extensions Control Message) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1231 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2026
Feat: Add system-wide stream handler unregister method. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1227 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Improve Multiaddr Protocol Stack Handling using decapsulate_code() Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1223 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2026
Implement Protocol code constants usage instead of magic numbers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1202 · Opened Feb 10, 2026
feat: multicodec integration Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1193 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2026
Feature: Implement js-libp2p Interop Tests for Echo Protocol Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1155 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2026
Implement the rust-libp2p interop test Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1142 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2026
Implement go-libp2p interop tests (echo protocol) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1136 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2026
Add Gossipsub Version Comparison Demo and Standalone Examples Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1130 · Opened Jan 11, 2026
Documentation: Creating a README.md file for the Nim interop tests Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1125 · Opened Jan 9, 2026
Implement connection health monitoring and intelligent load balancing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1121 · Opened Jan 8, 2026
ipv6 error: MultiAddr '/ip6/::1/tcp/0' does not contain protocol ip4 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1111 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 26, 2025
Add Python 3.14 support Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1100 · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Advanced Metrics module for py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1090 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Dependency Conflict: libp2p==0.4.0 requires trio>=0.26.0, which causes incompatibility with modern pytest-trio Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#1071 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2025
Add Gossipsub 1.4 module in py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#992 · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Gossipsub Interoperability: py-libp2p ↔ go-libp2p Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#947 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 21, 2025
Performance Optimization for DHT Lookup Algorithms Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#942 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Add support for FloodSub publishing in py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#941 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Interoperability of ed25519 keys Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#921 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Add Gossipsub 2.0 Support in py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#920 · Opened Sep 12, 2025
Add queuing to Gossipsub Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#891 · Opened Sep 1, 2025
Browser-to-Backend P2P Sync Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#879 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2025
Decentralized Chat with Peer Reputation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#878 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2025
P2P File Sharing Across NATs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#877 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 30, 2025
Remove or Refactor Unused and Obsolete Code Across Codebase Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#833 · Opened Aug 11, 2025
Enhancement: Kademlia example: bind all interfaces and show public IP Open

libp2p/py-libp2p#805 · 6 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Interop Test: Ping Protocol Compatibility Between dotnet-libp2p and py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#796 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2025
Add WebRTC Private-to-Private Transport Module to py-libp2p for NAT-Friendly Peer Connections Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#773 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 15, 2025
Hole Punching Interop Tests for py-libp2p with other libp2p modules Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#733 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2025
fix: Fix voucher verification and data transfer limits in Circuit Relay v2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#697 · Opened Jun 21, 2025
Adding remove function to net stream Open

libp2p/py-libp2p#663 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 9, 2025
Interoperability between js-libp2p and py-libp2p focused on ping protocol Open

enhancement feature help wanted Interoperability

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#630 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 29, 2025
Some nursery task exceptions are not caught in unit tests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#604 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2025
Fix check-rst-files pre-commit hook to work cross-platform Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#589 · Opened May 8, 2025
py-libp2p lacks resource management and is vulnerable to resource exhaustion attacks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#572 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2025
Migration to Coincurve for Non-Windows Systems Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#548 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 27, 2025
Add Support for WebRTC set-up in py-libp2p Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/py-libp2p#546 · 10 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2025
Demos should be tested as part of CI Open

libp2p/py-libp2p#523 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 25, 2025
Build failure on MacOS requires manual overrides Open

libp2p/py-libp2p#519 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 25, 2025

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