The Cost of a Transaction That Never Executes

A blockchain can spend resources on a transaction without ever executing it. That sounds like a small implementation detail until thousands of transactions are waiting for conditions that have not

A blockchain can spend resources on a transaction without ever executing it. That sounds like a small implementation detail until thousands of transactions are waiting for conditions that have not been met. On @base , this has become a concrete engineering problem. Two recent proposals in the Base repository describe how conditional transactions can consume transaction-pool capacity and repeatedly occupy the block builder's attention while remaining ineligible for execution. One proposal reports