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Understanding Transactions with the Relayer

The Relayer is a blockchain transaction management solution to create transactions, deploy and interact with smart contracts on the behalf of a user.

As the underlying API on which are based the Deploy and Interact services, it enables developers to interact with blockchain from a simple request.

You can:

  • make a standard transaction (sending funds to someone)
  • call a smart contract’s function from the back-end
  • deploy a new smart contract on supported blockchains networks

To resume, the Relayer acts as an API layer above blockchain protocols for smoother interactions.

Relayer is a service enabling centralised servers to interact with the blockchain. It can be used for example, when users want to pay the gas fees of their clients.

The scope of the Relayer​

Pre-chain, the Relayer:

  • Checks transaction: The relayer verifies that the transaction format is valid.
  • Estimates gas price: The relayer checks with blockchain providers and estimates how much the user will pay per unit of gas as a fee.
  • Estimates gas limit
  • Sets a nonce to indicate the order of transactions:
  • Sign with a KMS (AWS)

Then, the Relayer monitors the transaction:

  • checks mempool
  • checks nonce
  • checks gas price
  • The scope of the Relayer