Alternative Mempools

Documentation for Alternative Mempools for EIP-8141 Frame Transactions.

What are Alternative Mempools Quickstart Landing page

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EIP-8141’s public mempool says no to almost everything that needs real validation logic. ERC-8421 lets nodes say yes, by pricing abuse with stake and reputation instead of banning whole features.

Start here

The problem, the three kinds of mempool and a glossary.

Concepts

Frame Transactions, stake, reputation and the architecture.

Rules

Every ERC-8421 rule by ID, such as BUDGET-010.

Guides

Quickstart, run the sidecar, stake an entity and read admission reports.

Reference

RPC methods, configuration, CLI and the explorer API.

Project

Links, and known differences between sources, marked (TBD).

ERC-8421 is a draft. Rules and constants may change.