IPFS Clubnet is a tool for creating and participating in specialized self discovering subgroups of IPFS nodes that have extended functionality.
- Deterministic published tokens called "badges" identify new nodes to the clubnet
- Nodes publish badges and a peer list
- Existing clubnet nodes find new nodes by doing a
dht findprovs
on the badge's hash - Nodes publish the peers they know about
- Nodes spider other peers peerlist to augment their own peerlist