diff --git a/fluffy/common/common_utils.nim b/fluffy/common/common_utils.nim
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a01334ee2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fluffy/common/common_utils.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Nimbus
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Status Research & Development GmbH
+# Licensed and distributed under either of
+#   * MIT license (license terms in the root directory or at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
+#   * Apache v2 license (license terms in the root directory or at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
+# at your option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
+
+{.push raises: [Defect].}
+
+import
+  std/[os, strutils],
+  chronicles,
+  eth/p2p/discoveryv5/enr
+
+iterator strippedLines(filename: string): string {.raises: [ref IOError].} =
+  for line in lines(filename):
+    let stripped = strip(line)
+    if stripped.startsWith('#'): # Comments
+      continue
+
+    if stripped.len > 0:
+      yield stripped
+
+proc addBootstrapNode(bootstrapAddr: string,
+                       bootstrapEnrs: var seq[Record]) =
+  var enrRec: enr.Record
+  if enrRec.fromURI(bootstrapAddr):
+    bootstrapEnrs.add enrRec
+  else:
+    warn "Ignoring invalid bootstrap ENR", bootstrapAddr
+
+proc loadBootstrapFile*(bootstrapFile: string,
+                        bootstrapEnrs: var seq[Record]) =
+  if bootstrapFile.len == 0: return
+  let ext = splitFile(bootstrapFile).ext
+  if cmpIgnoreCase(ext, ".txt") == 0 or cmpIgnoreCase(ext, ".enr") == 0 :
+    try:
+      for ln in strippedLines(bootstrapFile):
+        addBootstrapNode(ln, bootstrapEnrs)
+    except IOError as e:
+      fatal "Could not read bootstrap file", msg = e.msg
+      quit 1
+  else:
+    fatal "Unknown bootstrap file format", ext
+    quit 1
diff --git a/fluffy/conf.nim b/fluffy/conf.nim
index 9e0b845aa..759e132b1 100644
--- a/fluffy/conf.nim
+++ b/fluffy/conf.nim
@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ type
       desc: "Listening address for the Discovery v5 traffic"
       name: "listen-address" }: ValidIpAddress
 
-    bootnodes* {.
-      desc: "ENR URI of node to bootstrap Discovery v5 with. Argument may be repeated"
-      name: "bootnode" .}: seq[Record]
+    bootstrapNodes* {.
+      desc: "ENR URI of node to bootstrap Discovery v5 from. Argument may be repeated"
+      name: "bootstrap-node" .}: seq[Record]
+
+    bootstrapNodesFile* {.
+      desc: "Specifies a line-delimited file of ENR URIs to bootstrap Discovery v5 from"
+      defaultValue: ""
+      name: "bootstrap-file" }: InputFile
 
     nat* {.
       desc: "Specify method to use for determining public address. " &
@@ -88,9 +93,14 @@ type
 
     # Note: This will add bootstrap nodes for each enabled Portal network.
     # No distinction is being made on bootstrap nodes for a specific network.
-    portalBootnodes* {.
-      desc: "ENR URI of node to bootstrap the Portal protocols with. Argument may be repeated"
-      name: "portal-bootnode" .}: seq[Record]
+    portalBootstrapNodes* {.
+      desc: "ENR URI of node to bootstrap the Portal networks from. Argument may be repeated"
+      name: "portal-bootstrap-node" .}: seq[Record]
+
+    portalBootstrapNodesFile* {.
+      desc: "Specifies a line-delimited file of ENR URIs to bootstrap the Portal networks from"
+      defaultValue: ""
+      name: "portal-bootstrap-file" }: InputFile
 
     metricsEnabled* {.
       defaultValue: false
diff --git a/fluffy/fluffy.nim b/fluffy/fluffy.nim
index 6c77cfb74..4759a9fbf 100644
--- a/fluffy/fluffy.nim
+++ b/fluffy/fluffy.nim
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ import
   std/os,
   confutils, confutils/std/net, chronicles, chronicles/topics_registry,
   chronos, metrics, metrics/chronos_httpserver, json_rpc/clients/httpclient,
-  json_rpc/rpcproxy, stew/byteutils,
+  json_rpc/rpcproxy, stew/[byteutils, io2],
   eth/keys, eth/net/nat,
   eth/p2p/discoveryv5/protocol as discv5_protocol,
-  ./conf, ./rpc/[rpc_eth_api, bridge_client, rpc_discovery_api, rpc_portal_api],
+  ./conf, ./common/common_utils,
+  ./rpc/[rpc_eth_api, bridge_client, rpc_discovery_api, rpc_portal_api],
   ./network/state/[state_network, state_content],
   ./network/history/[history_network, history_content],
   ./content_db
@@ -47,9 +48,13 @@ proc run(config: PortalConf) {.raises: [CatchableError, Defect].} =
       # TODO: Ideally we don't have the Exception here
       except Exception as exc: raiseAssert exc.msg
 
+  var bootstrapRecords: seq[Record]
+  loadBootstrapFile(string config.bootstrapNodesFile, bootstrapRecords)
+  bootstrapRecords.add(config.bootstrapNodes)
+
   let d = newProtocol(config.nodeKey,
           extIp, none(Port), extUdpPort,
-          bootstrapRecords = config.bootnodes,
+          bootstrapRecords = bootstrapRecords,
           bindIp = bindIp, bindPort = udpPort,
           enrAutoUpdate = config.enrAutoUpdate,
           rng = rng)
@@ -63,12 +68,23 @@ proc run(config: PortalConf) {.raises: [CatchableError, Defect].} =
     ContentDB.new(config.dataDir / "db" / "contentdb_" &
       d.localNode.id.toByteArrayBE().toOpenArray(0, 8).toHex())
 
+  var portalBootstrapRecords: seq[Record]
+  loadBootstrapFile(string config.portalBootstrapNodesFile, portalBootstrapRecords)
+  portalBootstrapRecords.add(config.portalBootstrapNodes)
+
   let
     stateNetwork = StateNetwork.new(d, db,
-      bootstrapRecords = config.portalBootnodes)
+      bootstrapRecords = portalBootstrapRecords)
     historyNetwork = HistoryNetwork.new(d, db,
-      bootstrapRecords = config.portalBootnodes)
+      bootstrapRecords = portalBootstrapRecords)
 
+  # TODO: If no new network key is generated then we should first check if an
+  # enr file exists, and in the case it does read out the seqNum from it and
+  # reuse that.
+  let enrFile = config.dataDir / "fluffy_node.enr"
+  if io2.writeFile(enrFile, d.localNode.record.toURI()).isErr:
+    fatal "Failed to write the enr file", file = enrFile
+    quit 1
 
   if config.metricsEnabled:
     let
diff --git a/fluffy/scripts/launch_local_testnet.sh b/fluffy/scripts/launch_local_testnet.sh
index 07df40ef2..f9eb77c5a 100755
--- a/fluffy/scripts/launch_local_testnet.sh
+++ b/fluffy/scripts/launch_local_testnet.sh
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ if [[ "${TIMEOUT_DURATION}" != "0" ]]; then
 fi
 
 PIDS=""
-BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT=30 # in seconds
 NUM_JOBS=${NUM_NODES}
 
 dump_logs() {
@@ -230,11 +229,8 @@ dump_logs() {
 }
 
 BOOTSTRAP_NODE=0
-# TODO:
-# For now we just hardcode a network key and the resulting ENR until fluffy
-# stores network keys and enrs locally in files.
-NETWORK_KEY="0x29738ba0c1a4397d6a65f292eee07f02df8e58d41594ba2be3cf84ce0fc58169"
-HARDCODED_BOOTSTRAP_ENR="enr:-IS4QDBoE7JdB3W9Jqc3Yoatk3Zw3PgkAcnhDKNFszdiPfm3IGNlvPl5CKiJLn9u5Kk-2QaieAGYvtMgR-EBqIWIqe0BgmlkgnY0gmlwhH8AAAGJc2VjcDI1NmsxoQNStnoFzDBxNc8-0t6xLnFpoJbovjIq_QeEHCVcfOKck4N1ZHCCIyg"
+BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT=5 # in seconds
+BOOTSTRAP_ENR_FILE="${DATA_DIR}/node${BOOTSTRAP_NODE}/fluffy_node.enr"
 
 for NUM_NODE in $(seq 0 $(( NUM_NODES - 1 ))); do
   NODE_DATA_DIR="${DATA_DIR}/node${NUM_NODE}"
@@ -245,10 +241,21 @@ done
 echo "Starting ${NUM_NODES} nodes."
 for NUM_NODE in $(seq 0 $(( NUM_NODES - 1 ))); do
   NODE_DATA_DIR="${DATA_DIR}/node${NUM_NODE}"
-  if [[ ${NUM_NODE} == ${BOOTSTRAP_NODE} ]]; then
-    BOOTSTRAP_ARG="--nodekey:${NETWORK_KEY}"
-  else
-    BOOTSTRAP_ARG="--bootnode=${HARDCODED_BOOTSTRAP_ENR} --portal-bootnode=${HARDCODED_BOOTSTRAP_ENR}"
+
+  if [[ ${NUM_NODE} != ${BOOTSTRAP_NODE} ]]; then
+    BOOTSTRAP_ARG="--bootstrap-file=${BOOTSTRAP_ENR_FILE} --portal-bootstrap-file=${BOOTSTRAP_ENR_FILE}"
+
+    # Wait for the bootstrap node to write out its enr file
+    START_TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
+    while [[ ! -f "${BOOTSTRAP_ENR_FILE}" ]]; do
+      sleep 0.1
+      NOW_TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s)
+      if [[ "$(( NOW_TIMESTAMP - START_TIMESTAMP - GENESIS_OFFSET ))" -ge "$BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT" ]]; then
+        echo "Bootstrap node failed to start in ${BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT} seconds. Aborting."
+        dump_logs
+        exit 1
+      fi
+    done
   fi
 
   # Increasing the loopback address here with NUM_NODE as listen address to