diff --git a/src/gossip/client/announce.py b/src/gossip/client/announce.py
index e69de29b..3b54e889 100644
--- a/src/gossip/client/announce.py
+++ b/src/gossip/client/announce.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from .. import Peer
+
+from ..commands import GossipCommands, command_to_byte
+import onionrplugins
+
+
+def do_announce(peer_set):
+    "Announce with N peers of each identified transport"
+    def _announce(announce_peer: 'Peer', our_transport_address: str):
+        sock = announce_peer.get_socket()
+        sock.send(
+            command_to_byte(GossipCommands.ANNOUNCE) + our_transport_address)
+        if sock.dup
+
+
+    per_transport = 3
+    peer_types = {}
+    count_for_peer = 0
+    for peer in peer_set:
+        try:
+            count_for_peer = peer_types[peer.__name__]
+        except KeyError:
+            peer_types[peer.__name__] = 0
+            continue
+
+        if count_for_peer == per_transport:
+            continue
+
+        onionrplugins.events.event(
+            'get_our_transport',
+            data={'callback': _announce, 'peer': peer})
+
+        peer_types[peer.__name__] += 1
diff --git a/src/gossip/commands.py b/src/gossip/commands.py
index e2b8e839..431941d3 100644
--- a/src/gossip/commands.py
+++ b/src/gossip/commands.py
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ class GossipCommands(IntEnum):
     PUT_BLOCKS = auto()
     CLOSE = auto()
 
+
+def command_to_byte(cmd: GossipCommands):
+    return int(cmd).to_bytes(1, 'big')
diff --git a/src/gossip/peer.py b/src/gossip/peer.py
index 3b23a548..a39ac693 100644
--- a/src/gossip/peer.py
+++ b/src/gossip/peer.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-from typing import Protocol
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Protocol
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import socket
 
 
 class Peer(Protocol):
@@ -9,7 +11,7 @@ class Peer(Protocol):
 
     def __init__(self):
         return
-    def get_socket(self):
+    def get_socket(self) -> 'socket.socket':
         return
 
     def disconnect(self):