Gloria Zhao talks with us about her package relay proposal.

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• 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.