MetaMask / MetaMask/metamask-extension

Slow or Unreliable RPC Endpoints Causing MetaMask Malfunctions

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Description

### What is this about?

Users often experience slow transaction processing or failed transactions. MetaMask should consider providing users with a way to measure RPC performance and recommend more reliable and faster RPCs to improve user experience.

### Scenario

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### Design

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### Technical Details

- Implement an RPC health check mechanism within MetaMask

- Display average response times and failure rates of currently selected RPCs

- Provide recommendations for alternative RPCs based on performance

- Offer users an easy way to switch RPCs

### Threat Modeling Framework

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### Acceptance Criteria

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### Stakeholder review needed before the work gets merged

- [ ] Engineering (needed in most cases)
- [ ] Design
- [ ] Product
- [ ] QA (automation tests are required to pass before merging PRs but not all changes are covered by automation tests - please review if QA is needed beyond automation tests)
- [ ] Security
- [ ] Legal
- [ ] Marketing
- [ ] Management (please specify)
- [ ] Other (please specify)

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Research direction

No implementation files, tests, entry points, or acceptance criteria are named. First clarify the RPC health-check design, performance metrics, recommendation logic, and switching flow with the project stakeholders. Done should include the agreed behavior and validation for measuring RPC reliability and recommending and switching to alternatives.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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