# Protocol Berg v2: Mikel Cortes - The eternal research of broadcasting messages, limits of GossipSub

- Channel: [ETHBerlin](https://streameth.org/ethberlin)
- Date: 2025-10-09
- Duration: 22:24
- Topics: Protocol Berg, Berlin, Conference, Blockchain, Protocol, Web3, Decentralization, P2P
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-eyEdMp3e8-o
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyEdMp3e8-o

## Description

Just when we thought the biggest bottleneck in P2P networking was reaching complex consensus mechanisms or generating efficient proofs, we realized that the fundamental networking protocol stack itself is one of them. Join this session to explore the latest open proposals for optimizing GossipSub in libp2p.

Protocol Berg v2
12-13 June 2025
Berlin
https://v2.protocol.berlin