Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus.

It's a simple idea, but I think it's rather beautiful: nodes find one another via Multicast DNS (mDNS) and exchange information via Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs).

There's more to it than that, a lot more, but we'll get there when we get there 🙂

To run a Whispers mesh, just check out the repository and enter:

RUST_LOG=debug cargo run

(Some release process will manifest at some point.)

That launches a single node, but a mesh of one node isn't particularly interesting.

If you launch a second, third, fourth, etc, then those nodes should discover each other and begin gossipping with one another. You won't see much of this unless you set the RUST_LOG environment variable as described above.

Alternatively, you can run ./easy_cluster.sh x, where x is some number of nodes you would like to run simultaneously in a self-configuring cluster, e.g. 32.