Personal take on this event, and the path forward: 1/ libp2p is bigger than any single team and funding source. In fact, Ethereum devs have been evolving specs, and maintaining go, rust, jvm, zig, c++ implementations for years. 2/ The harsh reality: many well-funded projects depend on libp2p without contributing maintainers OR funding upstream. A quick look at dependency graphs confirms it. Over time, libp2p has over-relied on maintainer agencies instead of building a diverse, resilient, participative contributor network. 3/ Better approach would’ve been to pressure other downstream projects to allocate P2P maintainers upstream (even if fractional). This would have created: - higher social resilience - closer alignment with practical needs - a hunger to innovate and stay bleeding edge (so many exciting developments in Internet standards remain unintegrated/unexplored in libp2p) - more focused roadmap driven by real requirements 4/ But we’ve entered a new blockchain era IMO. The...
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