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.

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