fix: make P2P networking work, and let a node mine on its own - #143
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Swarm.listen() waits on a nursery that only exists while the swarm runs as a background service, so a node calling host.get_network().listen() directly never finished starting up: no multiaddr printed, no inbound connections possible. Listening now goes through host.run(). The dialing side had the same problem in reverse — it borrowed a nursery attribute the swarm doesn't expose, so a peer that dialed out never registered the connection or read from it. Both now use the nursery this module already opens for itself. Two mining bugs made a fresh chain effectively unusable: mining refused to produce a block when the mempool was empty, but the mining reward is the only source of new coins, so a chain that had never received one could never mine its first coin either. And two blocks minted within the same millisecond were rejected, since consensus requires strictly increasing timestamps. Both are fixed at the source: an empty block still carries the reward and proof-of-work, and the timestamp is clamped to be newer than the parent's instead of just read off the clock. A node that accepted a transaction or block only kept it — it never told any other peer, so a network more than one hop wide couldn't stay in sync. Accepted content is now relayed onward, excluding whoever sent it, with the existing dedup set stopping the echo from circulating. That set was unbounded, and now that it's load-bearing for stopping gossip loops rather than just avoiding duplicate work, its size is capped with an LRU eviction. Smaller fixes bundled in because they're cheap and adjacent: `peers` now lists the peer IDs it's connected to, not just a count; the JSON-RPC server's bind address is a flag instead of hardcoded to loopack; two unused constants (TRUSTED_PEERS, LOCALHOST_PEERS) are removed; and the README's --connect example, which predates the multiaddr-based CLI, is corrected.
WalkthroughThe PR enables reward-only mining with increasing timestamps, configurable JSON-RPC binding, peer ID reporting, bounded P2P deduplication, multi-hop relay, updated stream serving, pinned P2P dependencies, and full libp2p multiaddress documentation. ChangesNode runtime controls
P2P networking
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Pinning libp2p 0.5.0 can let remote peers disrupt exposed nodes. A patched build or release is needed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SourcePeer
participant P2PNetwork
participant DestinationPeer
SourcePeer->>P2PNetwork: Send transaction or block
P2PNetwork->>P2PNetwork: Validate and mark message as seen
P2PNetwork->>DestinationPeer: Relay valid message excluding SourcePeer
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Keep each peer ID until all streams for that peer close. main.py uses peer_ids for CLI output. If multiple active streams share a peer_id, cleanup of any one stream calls _peer_ids.discard(peer_id) while another stream remains in streams. Track active-stream counts per peer, or discard the ID only when no stream with that ID remains.
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In `@minichain/p2p.py` at line 354, Update the cleanup logic around
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| ### 2. Connecting to an Existing Chain | ||
| To connect a secondary node to the network, start a new instance on a different port and point it to the seed node using the `--connect` flag. | ||
| To connect a secondary node to the network, start a new instance on a different port and point it to the seed node using the `--connect` flag with the full multiaddress the seed node printed on startup (it includes the seed's peer ID, not just its host and port). | ||
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Shouldn't we move these magic numbers to the config file?
requirements.txt left libp2p unpinned, so a fresh install could pull whichever release is current on PyPI. 0.7.0 renames libp2p.tools.async_service to libp2p.tools.anyio_service, which breaks the import this module relies on -- and possibly other APIs used here (new_host, host.run(), CircuitV2Protocol) that haven't been checked against that version at all. Pinning to 0.5.0, the version everything in this branch was actually built and tested against, until 0.7.0 compatibility is verified deliberately rather than by accident.
…uires py-libp2p 0.5.0 hard-depends on multiaddr==0.0.11, so pip resolves it correctly either way -- but requirements.txt should say so directly rather than rely on a transitive pin from another package.
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The vulnerability GHSA-hmj8-5xmh-5573 (also tracked as CVE-2026-73568) is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in py-libp2p related to the yamux stream multiplexer [1][2][3]. Affected Versions The vulnerability affects all versions of py-libp2p up to and including 0.7.0 [1][3]. Patched Release There is no formal patched release (i.e., a tagged version on the Python Package Index) available as of September 3, 2026 [2][3]. The fix has been applied to the source repository in commit 146ea87d1a20cc7dacf684ecf7c204543be04b37 [2][4]. Remediation Because no official release containing the fix has been published to PyPI, users are advised to manually apply the changes from the following commit or vendor the code directly: - Commit: 146ea87d1a20cc7dacf684ecf7c204543be04b37 [2][4] In environments where immediate code remediation is not possible, security engineers have recommended mitigating the risk by setting the environment variable PY_YAMUX_DATA_READ_TIMEOUT to a conservative value (e.g., 5.0 seconds) to ensure stalled read operations are terminated [2].
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- 1: https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/ghsa-hmj8-5xmh-5573
- 2: https://cvereports.com/reports/GHSA-HMJ8-5XMH-5573
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Denial of Service (CWE-400): Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Addressed Issues:
P2P never actually started — listen() hung forever, and the dialing side never registered its own connection. Both fixed. Also fixes two mining deadlocks (empty mempool blocked mining forever; same-millisecond blocks got rejected), and adds gossip relay so a message travels past one hop. Bundled in: bounded dedup cache, peers shows real IDs, --rpc-host flag, dead constants removed, stale README fixed.
Test plan: 81/81 pytest passing (new relay + dedup tests). Live: star-topology relay, empty-block mining, same-millisecond guard, --rpc-host, peers output.
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