P2P Protocol Overview#
The Ergo network protocol uses full nodes (peers) to maintain a collaborative peer-to-peer network for block and transaction exchange.
Introduction#
The Full Node downloads and verifies every block (and transaction) before it relays them to other nodes.
Handshake#
Nodes perform send each other handshake messages.
to establish connections with other peers.
Network Messages#
Modifier Exchange#
Syncing#
Misc#
- On mainnet P2P uses port
9030
(9053
for the API) - For crawling https://libp2p.io/