How does Kaspa protect nodes from eclipse attacks?

Kaspa resists eclipse attacks through geographic clustering that makes it extremely difficult for an attacker to isolate any single node. An eclipse attack is when a bad actor tries to surround your node with connections they control, cutting you off from the honest network so you only see fraudulent data. In Kaspa, the connection management system uses latency-based peer selection, which naturally links nodes across different geographic regions. An attacker trying to isolate one node must overcome not just a few individual connections, but the entire web of cross-cluster connectivity that this system creates. This matters for beginners because it means the Kaspa network is structurally resistant to one of the classic tricks used to fool cryptocurrency nodes — your node is far harder to manipulate in isolation.