After attending Dankrad's insightful presentation at EthCC, I was inspired to delve into data availability sampling validation. This week, I dedicated my time to thoroughly reviewing and studying the various schemes he proposed. # The problem with DHTs - The system is primarily designed to handle random faults, but it becomes significantly more challenging when Byzantine faults must be considered. - Every hop in the network can be malicious and cause a request to fail. - Additionally, there is typically no Sybil resistance in peer-to-peer networks, which allows a local portion of the keyspace to be easily flooded. In fact, even the global keyspace is vulnerable to being flooded. # Solution: The reted list Dankrad proposed two upgrades to the list: - dicover nodes via P2P tree up to some depth, which can limit size of list and impact of maliciouys nodes; - remember discovery path for all nodes, this can be used to quicly discovered "dead subtrees". # My to do list: - Conduct thorough validation of the proposed scheme to ensure its effectiveness. Focus on enhancing both the resistance rate against various types of attacks and the overall robustness of the system to maintain its integrity and reliability under adverse conditions. - Develop and propose comprehensive solutions to prevent Sybil attacks, which involve malicious entities creating multiple fake identities to compromise the network. These solutions should include mechanisms for detecting and mitigating such attacks to enhance the security and stability of the peer-to-peer network.