I am guessing Haveno does the same thing? ie: Haveno is essentially connecting to two P2P networks at the same time, namely the Monero and the Haveno networks. What tech does Haveno use to find the first peers? Is it related to the seed nodes?

How does Monero do it without seed nodes?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As shortwavesurfer noted monerod also utilizes seed nodes. The user is able to specify their own seeds with the --seed-node flag. It's also possible to add other nodes with --add-priority-node or --add-peer

You can find more p2p documentation at https://docs.getmonero.org/interacting/monerod-reference/#p2p-network

[–] shortwavesurfer 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Monero Network also has seed nodes, hard-coded into the software. If you issue monerod --help you can see syntax for using a custom bootstrap node if you wish