diff --git a/.github/actions/install_nim/action.yml b/.github/actions/install_nim/action.yml
index 1bb49fcb8d..83de4f313a 100644
--- a/.github/actions/install_nim/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/install_nim/action.yml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ runs:
     - name: Restore Nim DLLs dependencies (Windows) from cache
       if: inputs.os == 'Windows'
       id: windows-dlls-cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: external/dlls
         key: 'dlls'
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ runs:
 
     - name: Restore Nim from cache
       id: nim-cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
+      uses: actions/cache@v4
       with:
         path: '${{ github.workspace }}/nim'
         key: ${{ inputs.os }}-${{ inputs.cpu }}-nim-${{ inputs.nim_branch }}-cache-${{ env.cache_nonce }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 413dc56c7f..fcc8ed1cf8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-name: CI
+name: Continuous Integration
+
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -11,37 +12,41 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  build:
+  test:
     timeout-minutes: 90
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        target:
+        platform:
           - os: linux
             cpu: amd64
           - os: linux
             cpu: i386
-          - os: ubuntu-24-gcc-14
+          - os: linux-gcc-14
             cpu: amd64
           - os: macos
             cpu: amd64
           - os: windows
             cpu: amd64
-        branch: [version-1-6, version-2-0]
+        nim: 
+          - branch: version-1-6
+            memory_management: refc
+          - branch: version-2-0
+            memory_management: refc
         include:
-          - target:
+          - platform:
               os: linux
             builder: ubuntu-22.04
             shell: bash
-          - target:
-              os: ubuntu-24-gcc-14
+          - platform:
+              os: linux-gcc-14
             builder: ubuntu-24.04
             shell: bash
-          - target:
+          - platform:
               os: macos
             builder: macos-13
             shell: bash
-          - target:
+          - platform:
               os: windows
             builder: windows-2022
             shell: msys2 {0}
@@ -50,25 +55,24 @@ jobs:
       run:
         shell: ${{ matrix.shell }}
 
-    name: '${{ matrix.target.os }}-${{ matrix.target.cpu }} (Nim ${{ matrix.branch }})'
+    name: '${{ matrix.platform.os }}-${{ matrix.platform.cpu }} (Nim ${{ matrix.nim.branch }})'
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.builder }}
-    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.branch == 'devel' }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
 
       - name: Setup Nim
         uses: "./.github/actions/install_nim"
         with:
-          os: ${{ matrix.target.os }}
-          cpu: ${{ matrix.target.cpu }}
+          os: ${{ matrix.platform.os }}
+          cpu: ${{ matrix.platform.cpu }}
           shell: ${{ matrix.shell }}
-          nim_branch: ${{ matrix.branch }}
+          nim_branch: ${{ matrix.nim.branch }}
 
       - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: '~1.15.5'
 
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
           path: nimbledeps
           # Using nim.branch as a simple way to differentiate between nimble using the "pkgs" or "pkgs2" directories.
           # The change happened on Nimble v0.14.0.
-          key: nimbledeps-${{ matrix.branch }}-${{ hashFiles('.pinned') }} # hashFiles returns a different value on windows
+          key: nimbledeps-${{ matrix.nim.branch }}-${{ hashFiles('.pinned') }} # hashFiles returns a different value on windows
 
       - name: Install deps
         if: ${{ steps.deps-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' }}
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ jobs:
           nimble install_pinned
 
       - name: Use gcc 14
-        if : ${{ matrix.target.os == 'ubuntu-24-gcc-14'}}
+        if : ${{ matrix.platform.os == 'linux-gcc-14'}}
         run: |
           # Add GCC-14 to alternatives
           sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 14
@@ -104,26 +108,5 @@ jobs:
           nim --version
           nimble --version
           gcc --version
+          NIMFLAGS="${NIMFLAGS} --mm:${{ matrix.nim.memory_management }}"
           nimble test
-
-  lint:
-    name: "Lint"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 2  # In PR, has extra merge commit: ^1 = PR, ^2 = base
-
-      - name: Check nph formatting
-        # Pin nph to a specific version to avoid sudden style differences.
-        # Updating nph version should be accompanied with running the new
-        # version on the fluffy directory.
-        run: |
-          VERSION="v0.5.1"
-          ARCHIVE="nph-linux_x64.tar.gz"
-          curl -L "https://github.com/arnetheduck/nph/releases/download/${VERSION}/${ARCHIVE}" -o ${ARCHIVE}
-          tar -xzf ${ARCHIVE}
-          shopt -s extglob  # Enable extended globbing
-          ./nph examples libp2p tests tools *.@(nim|nims|nimble)
-          git diff --exit-code
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codecov.yml b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
similarity index 79%
rename from .github/workflows/codecov.yml
rename to .github/workflows/coverage.yml
index 3c43efacb8..062ed8fbcc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codecov.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/coverage.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-name: nim-libp2p codecov builds
+name: Coverage
 
 on:
-  #On push to common branches, this computes the "bases stats" for PRs
+  # On push to common branches, this computes the coverage that PRs will use for diff
   push:
     branches:
       - master
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  Coverage:
+  codecov:
+    name: Run coverage and upload to codecov
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     env:
       CICOV: YES
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Restore deps from cache
         id: deps-cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v3
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
         with:
           path: nimbledeps
           key: nimbledeps-${{ hashFiles('.pinned') }}
@@ -41,24 +42,28 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           nimble install_pinned
 
-      - name: Run
+      - name: Setup coverage
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update
           sudo apt-get install -y lcov build-essential git curl
           mkdir coverage
+
+      - name: Run test suite with coverage flags
+        run: |
           export NIMFLAGS="--lineDir:on --passC:-fprofile-arcs --passC:-ftest-coverage --passL:-fprofile-arcs --passL:-ftest-coverage"
           nimble testnative
           nimble testpubsub
           nimble testfilter
+
+      - name: Run coverage
+        run: |
           find nimcache -name *.c -delete
           lcov --capture --directory nimcache --output-file coverage/coverage.info
           shopt -s globstar
           ls `pwd`/libp2p/{*,**/*}.nim
           lcov --extract coverage/coverage.info  `pwd`/libp2p/{*,**/*}.nim --output-file coverage/coverage.f.info
           genhtml coverage/coverage.f.info --output-directory coverage/output
-          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -f coverage/coverage.f.info || echo "Codecov did not collect coverage reports"
 
-          #- uses: actions/upload-artifact@master
-          #  with:
-          #    name: coverage
-          #    path: coverage
+      - name: Upload coverage to codecov
+        run: |
+          bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) -f coverage/coverage.f.info || echo "Codecov did not collect coverage reports"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily.yml b/.github/workflows/daily.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 572b0e5548..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/daily.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Daily
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "30 6 * * *"
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  call-multi-nim-common:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
-    with:
-      nim-branch: "['version-1-6','version-2-0']"
-      cpu: "['amd64']"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily_amd64.yml b/.github/workflows/daily_amd64.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4031d7680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily_amd64.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+name: Daily amd64
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "30 6 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  test_amd64:
+    name: Daily amd64
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/base_daily_tests.yml
+    with:
+      nim: "[{'branch': 'version-1-6', 'memory_management': 'refc'}, {'branch': 'version-2-0', 'memory_management': 'refc'}]"
+      cpu: "['amd64']"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily_common.yml b/.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
index e6a56ae402..0b2e0d6197 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-name: daily-common
+name: Daily Common
+# Serves as base workflow for daily tasks, it's not run by itself.
 
 on:
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
-      nim-branch:
-        description: 'Nim branch'
+      nim:
+        description: 'Nim Configuration'
         required: true
-        type: string
+        type: string # Following this format: [{"branch": ..., "memory_management": ...}, ...]
       cpu:
         description: 'CPU'
         required: true
@@ -17,15 +18,20 @@ on:
         type: string
         default: "[]"
 
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
-  delete-cache:
+  delete_cache:
+    name: Delete github action's branch cache
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: snnaplab/delete-branch-cache-action@v1
 
-  build:
-    needs: delete-cache
-    timeout-minutes: 120
+  test:
+    needs: delete_cache
+    timeout-minutes: 90
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -39,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
           - os: windows
             builder: windows-2022
             shell: msys2 {0}
-        branch: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.nim-branch) }}
+        nim: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.nim) }}
         cpu: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.cpu) }}
         exclude: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.exclude) }}
 
@@ -47,9 +53,9 @@ jobs:
       run:
         shell: ${{ matrix.platform.shell }}
 
-    name: '${{ matrix.platform.os }}-${{ matrix.cpu }} (Nim ${{ matrix.branch }})'
+    name: '${{ matrix.platform.os }}-${{ matrix.cpu }} (Nim ${{ matrix.nim.branch }})'
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform.builder }}
-    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.branch == 'devel' || matrix.branch == 'version-2-0' }}
+    continue-on-error: ${{ matrix.nim.branch == 'devel' || matrix.nim.branch == 'version-2-0' }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -59,11 +65,11 @@ jobs:
         with:
           os: ${{ matrix.platform.os }}
           shell: ${{ matrix.platform.shell }}
-          nim_branch: ${{ matrix.branch }}
+          nim_branch: ${{ matrix.nim.branch }}
           cpu: ${{ matrix.cpu }}
 
       - name: Setup Go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: '~1.15.5'
           cache: false
@@ -71,14 +77,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install p2pd
         run: |
           V=1 bash scripts/build_p2pd.sh p2pdCache 124530a3
+        
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          nimble install -y --depsOnly
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
           nim --version
           nimble --version
-          nimble install -y --depsOnly
-          NIMFLAGS="${NIMFLAGS} --mm:refc" nimble test
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.branch }}" == "devel" ]]; then
-            echo -e "\nTesting with '--mm:orc':\n"
-            NIMFLAGS="${NIMFLAGS} --mm:orc" nimble test
-          fi
+          NIMFLAGS="${NIMFLAGS} --mm:${{ matrix.nim.memory_management }}" nimble test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily_devel.yml b/.github/workflows/daily_devel.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..391494036f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily_devel.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+name: Daily Nim Devel
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "30 6 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  test_nim_devel:
+    name: Daily Nim Devel
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/base_daily_tests.yml
+    with:
+      nim: "[{'branch': 'devel', 'memory_management': 'orc'}]"
+      cpu: "['amd64']"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily_i386.yml b/.github/workflows/daily_i386.yml
index 23aa075971..649c37b807 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily_i386.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily_i386.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 name: Daily i386
+
 on:
   schedule:
     - cron: "30 6 * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-  call-multi-nim-common:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
+  test_i386:
+    name: Daily i386 (Linux)
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/base_daily_tests.yml
     with:
-      nim-branch: "['version-1-6','version-2-0', 'devel']"
+      nim: "[{'branch': 'version-1-6', 'memory_management': 'refc'}, {'branch': 'version-2-0', 'memory_management': 'refc'}, {'branch': 'devel', 'memory_management': 'orc'}]"
       cpu: "['i386']"
       exclude: "[{'platform': {'os':'macos'}}, {'platform': {'os':'windows'}}]"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily_nim_devel.yml b/.github/workflows/daily_nim_devel.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d27ae5f1ea..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/daily_nim_devel.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-name: Daily Nim Devel
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "30 6 * * *"
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  call-multi-nim-common:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/daily_common.yml
-    with:
-      nim-branch: "['devel']"
-      cpu: "['amd64']"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/bumper.yml b/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml
similarity index 51%
rename from .github/workflows/bumper.yml
rename to .github/workflows/dependencies.yml
index 14d5026eba..00d97be9bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bumper.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dependencies.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-name: Bumper
+name: Dependencies
+
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -6,34 +7,38 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-  bumpProjects:
+  bumper:
+    # Pushes new refs to interested external repositories, so they can do early testing against libp2p's newer versions
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Bump libp2p's version for ${{ matrix.target.repository }}:${{ matrix.target.ref }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        target: [
-          { repo: status-im/nimbus-eth2, branch: unstable },
-          { repo: waku-org/nwaku, branch: master },
-          { repo: codex-storage/nim-codex, branch: master }
-        ]
+        target:
+          - repository: status-im/nimbus-eth2
+            ref: unstable
+          - repository: waku-org/nwaku
+            ref: master
+          - repository: codex-storage/nim-codex
+            ref: master
     steps:
-      - name: Clone repo
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Clone target repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          repository: ${{ matrix.target.repo }}
-          ref: ${{ matrix.target.branch }}
+          repository: ${{ matrix.target.repository }}
+          ref: ${{ matrix.target.ref}}
           path: nbc
           fetch-depth: 0
-          token:  ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          token: ${{ secrets.ACTIONS_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-      - name: Checkout this ref
+      - name: Checkout this ref in target repository
         run: |
           cd nbc
           git submodule update --init vendor/nim-libp2p
           cd vendor/nim-libp2p
           git checkout $GITHUB_SHA
 
-      - name: Commit this bump
+      - name: Push this ref to target repository
         run: |
           cd nbc
           git config --global user.email "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com"
@@ -42,3 +47,4 @@ jobs:
           git branch -D nim-libp2p-auto-bump-${GITHUB_REF##*/} || true
           git switch -c nim-libp2p-auto-bump-${GITHUB_REF##*/}
           git push -f origin nim-libp2p-auto-bump-${GITHUB_REF##*/}
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/doc.yml b/.github/workflows/documentation.yml
similarity index 93%
rename from .github/workflows/doc.yml
rename to .github/workflows/documentation.yml
index 42f6a88375..fd4525509b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/doc.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/documentation.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-name: Docgen
+name: Documentation Generation And Publishing
+
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     continue-on-error: true
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: true
 
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
           ls ${GITHUB_REF##*/}
 
       - name: Clone the gh-pages branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: vacp2p/nim-libp2p
           ref: gh-pages
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
         run: pip install mkdocs-material && nimble -y website
 
       - name: Clone the gh-pages branch
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: vacp2p/nim-libp2p
           ref: gh-pages
diff --git a/.github/workflows/interop.yml b/.github/workflows/interop.yml
index ecdb6c4388..57c5eb05f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/interop.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/interop.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-name: Interoperability Testing
+name: Interoperability Tests
+
 on:
   pull_request:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linters.yml b/.github/workflows/linters.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e572d11cdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/linters.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Linters
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  nph:
+    name: NPH
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 2  # In PR, has extra merge commit: ^1 = PR, ^2 = base
+
+      - name: Setup NPH
+        # Pin nph to a specific version to avoid sudden style differences.
+        # Updating nph version should be accompanied with running the new version on the fluffy directory.
+        run: |
+          VERSION="v0.5.1"
+          ARCHIVE="nph-linux_x64.tar.gz"
+          curl -L "https://github.com/arnetheduck/nph/releases/download/${VERSION}/${ARCHIVE}" -o ${ARCHIVE}
+          tar -xzf ${ARCHIVE}
+
+      - name: Check style
+        run: |
+          shopt -s extglob  # Enable extended globbing
+          ./nph --check examples libp2p tests tools *.@(nim|nims|nimble)