2 posts tagged with "quic"

Ethereum's consensus spec just made QUIC the mandatory, preferred libp2p transport. Xatu's connection rows show that QUIC was already doing plenty of work, but almost entirely in one direction.

Across June 27 through July 10, the Tysm-instrumented mainnet sample recorded 6,884,989 outbound UDP/QUIC session opens, or 43.56% of outbound opens. The inbound side had 88. That is 0.0036% of 2.43 million inbound opens.

Teku 26.7.0 landed with a very specific operational note: QUIC p2p is enabled by default, on UDP port 9001 for IPv4. That is the kind of release-note claim that should leave a mark in the peer records if the release is actually visible on mainnet.

It did, but the shape was not "Ethereum just got QUIC." Most of the consensus ENRs I saw already had a quic port. Teku was the laggard.