Relay Assessment

Application

1. Has the relay operator posted in the Call for Relays thread with the information required for application?
1. Is the relay operator publicly available?
2. Is the relay publicly listed and maintained? If yes, please link to the dashboard/webpage.
3. Is the relay open source? If yes, please link to the repository.
4. Is the relay code audited? What’s the most recent audited version of the code and have significant changes been made to the code base since?
5. Are there any ethical or non-neutral considerations about the relay to disclose? This includes MEV strategies such as transaction reordering or censorship such as address filtering and sanctions/legal compliance.
6. How does the relay source from builders and searchers? (e.g. are they internal, external 3rd parties, publicly open, private, permissioned, permissionless)?
7. What is the relay operator’s policy for at-fault technical mishaps which result in missed proposals?
8. Do we have all the necessary disclosures and contact information about the relay operator?

Revenue

1. How is the relay funded and/or sustained?
2. What is the revenue/profit sharing model (if any) of the relay?
3. Is this model transparently disclosed and well understood?

Testing

1. Does the relay operator have a testnet relay?
2. How many days have node operators tested this relay?
1. Has the relay been tested for a minimum of two weeks?
3. What was the success and failure rate of the relay’s proposed blocks?
4. Were there any incident or degraded performance reports from Lido Node Operators while testing the relay? (e.g. missed proposals due to missing/late payloads, validator registration errors, relay timeouts, etc.)
5. Were observed issues and incidents during testing investigated and resolved sufficiently in a timely manner?
6. Are there considerations and data to be observed and included from mainnet performance?
7. Has there been a report compiled to analyze the new relay with performance data on testnet and mainnet?