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)

  - 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.