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Reduce load on infura
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Description
Meta-topic for easing load on infura
Simply fetching blocks is currently a considerable portion of Infura traffic.
- [x] Reduce polling more
- [x] Ensure that recent block controller is getting cached blocks from provider.
- [ ] Move block fetching to p2p gossip
- [ ] Switching to websocket provider (reducing polling bandwidth) Related to #2350 and #1645.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Review the completed checklist items and related issues #2350 and #1645 first, then trace the existing block-fetching and provider behavior. Done would require a decided implementation for moving block fetching to p2p gossip or switching to a websocket provider, with reduced Infura traffic demonstrated.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- distributed-systems, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100