Hey all, a follow-up on the Aestus relay. After plenty of testing on Goerli and mainnet, we’re ready to announce the official launch of the mainnet relay!
The previously mentioned MetaMask filtering issue has been resolved, and the website is fully accessible. The relay has produced a steady stream of block proposals over the last few days. These are all blocks built by our test builder, which does not employ any searcher strategies, so we appreciate the validators who have proposed our blocks. At this point we feel confident in the relay’s reliability.
Moving ahead, one of the most important next steps is to connect with third-party builders. Once we are reliably connected to external builders, we will permanently decommission our test builder to limit the trust assumptions we require. If you are a block builder, please get in touch if there’s anything we can do to get you onboarded. We also welcome relay monitors to track Aestus performance and block production. We will do what we can to improve our transparency and make monitoring easy; please reach out if we can help with this.
We have a full announcement on Medium, and you can always visit our website.