Relaying Ethereum Transactions

Relayer commands are found in the namadar binary, which at the moment can only be installed from source.

Relaying validator set updates

In order for any transactions to be relayed to the Ethereum smart contract, the validator sets need to be up to date on the Ethereum side. This is updated by a relayer which can be set up in the following manner:

namadar validator-set relay --daemon --confirmations 1 --retry-sleep 0 --success-sleep 0 --safe-mode

The --safe-mode flag is optional, but recommended. It will stop the relayer from being shut down by ^C and will instead wait for the current batch of transactions to be relayed before shutting down.

More optional flags are available, which can be found by running namadar validator-set relay --help. Notably, --eth-gasand --eth-gas-price will allow you to set the maximum gas-limit and gas-price, respectively, that the relayer will use when relaying transactions to the Ethereum smart contract.

Relaying transactions

Transactions are relayed in batches. The relayer will wait until it has a batch of transactions to relay before sending them to the Ethereum smart contract. This is done to reduce the number of transactions that need to be sent to the Ethereum smart contract, and thus reduce the gas costs.

The relayer can get a "recommended-batch" of signed transactions to relay by running:

namadar ethereum-bridge-pool recommend-batch

If this is favourable for the relayer, it can construct the proof and relay it to the Ethereum smart contract by running:

namadar ethereum-bridge-pool relay-proof --hash-list $HASH_LIST

Alternatively, the relayer can run the command:

namadar ethereum-bridge-pool construct-proof --hash-list $HASH_LIST

To only construct the proof without relaying it. The proof could then be relayed manually by the relayer.