The Chaincode Podcast

Gloria Zhao and Package Relay - Episode 21

Gloria Zhao sits down with us to discuss her package relay proposal and what it is like as a relative newcomer to propose a big change. - What's package relay? (1:04) Ā Ā - Mailing List: Package Relay Proposal - Why do peo...

2022-05-24

Episode notes

Gloria Zhao sits down with us to discuss her package relay proposal and what it is like as a relative newcomer to propose a big change.




- What's package relay? (1:04)


  - Mailing List: Package Relay Proposal


- Why do people care about package relay? (3:12)


- What are these "contracting protocols" package relay matters for? (5:03)


  - Pinning attacks (6:28)


- Why do you work on package relay? (6:55)


- What's special about the mempool? (10:18)


- How do you approach the security considerations? (12:07)


- Synthesizing information for the ones coming after you (15:27)


- What's next for package relay? (17:50)


- Bridging protocol development with L2 (20:55)




Additional resources:


- Mailing List: Package Mempool Accept and Package RBF


- Brink Podcast: Ep1 Mempool Policy


- Censorship and DoS Attacks: An intro to Mempool Policy


- Transaction Relay Policy for L2 Developers


- Mempool Garden




Thanks to Emily Kee for the sound engineering.