diff --git a/cmd/utils/flags.go b/cmd/utils/flags.go
index 53e2694c59cddbd4ae48b8960a509dea995fb4a1..eb36d1b90326ed3c19a40d03139eb89b564ea06e 100644
--- a/cmd/utils/flags.go
+++ b/cmd/utils/flags.go
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ var (
 	}
 	BootnodesFlag = cli.StringFlag{
 		Name:  "bootnodes",
-		Usage: "Space-separated enode URLs of initial peers to connect to",
+		Usage: "Space-separated enode URLs for p2p discovery bootstrap",
 		Value: "",
 	}
 	NodeKeyFileFlag = cli.StringFlag{