diff --git a/network-libp2p/README.md b/network-libp2p/README.md
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+# libp2p Network
+
+This is a fairly scrappy implementation of libp2p floodsub for the following
+reasons:
+
+ - There is not presently a gossip-sub implementation for Rust libp2p.
+ - The networking layer for the beacon_chain is not yet finalized.
diff --git a/network-libp2p/src/service.rs b/network-libp2p/src/service.rs
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@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-/*
- * This is a scrappy floodsub implementation that is intended
- * to "make-do" until a p2p impl is finalized.
- *
- * It is not guaranteed to be working and needs to be modified 
- * to run in its own thread.
- */
-
 extern crate bigint;
 extern crate bytes;
 extern crate futures;