How does Kaspa's network decide which nodes connect to each other?

Kaspa nodes choose their peers based on latency and performance, not physical location. Kaspa operates as an overlay network on top of the existing internet infrastructure — meaning it builds its own peer connections on top of the internet's physical cables and routers rather than replacing them. Crucially, the protocol does not enforce any geographic structure; instead it responds to the latency patterns that geography naturally creates, so nodes that can communicate quickly tend to end up connected. For a beginner, this means the Kaspa network self-organizes around speed and reliability without anyone needing to configure it by country or region.