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Sovright Relay Network
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Zcash Mainnet Height
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Block Propagation · Relay vs Native P2P

Block propagation, measured live
Sovright relay vs native Zcash P2P, across four regions.

RELAY
ZCASH P2P
First-to-Zebra Win Rate
— best region · —
Blocks the relay delivered to Zebra before native P2P (submitblock accepted vs duplicate). Per region — seeder-adjacent regions are structurally near zero.
Network Orphan Rate
—
stale blocks that lost the propagation race — the reward faster relay saves
Network Orphan Rate · 7 Days
Stale blocks that lost the propagation race — the reward faster relay saves.
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trailing 24h
— — 0%
7 days ago now
Median Propagation
—ms
relay vs P2P reach-time (not win rate) · P2P —
▬ relay vs ▬ P2P · relative reach time
7.6× faster
Coverage p75 · reach time
—ms
relay p75 first-to-last · P2P p75 —
4 regions · all reached within p75
8.1× tighter
Compact payload / forward
—KB
one compact+FEC forward · full block —
Per recipient. The relay overlays native P2P (fanout × FEC), so total relay bandwidth is higher — it trades bandwidth for latency, not bandwidth saved.
▬ one forward vs ▬ full block · relative payload
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Lead vs Public Explorer
−2.4s
Relay observers see blocks first, before zcashexplorer
rolling explorer delta
Live Global Propagation
Four-region relay mesh · — P2P peers observed
● relay node ● p2p peer
120°W60°W0°60°E120°E EQ +30°
HMAC-auth UDP · authenticated peers only FEC profile 224 + 32 shards hub us-central1
Relay Lead · Recent Blocks
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How consistently the relay beats native P2P
Relay faster on — recent blocks
median lead —
oldest relay faster ↑ · slower ↓ newest
Propagation Latency · Last 40 Blocks
Relay holds flat and low. P2P runs high and ragged.
— — 0 ms
▬ relay · avg — ms ▬ p2p · avg — ms
Payload per forward
One compact+FEC forward vs a full block
Per recipient. The relay overlays native P2P and fans this payload out with FEC parity, so total relay bandwidth is higher — it buys lower latency, it does not save bandwidth.
ZCASH P2P · full block1.84 MB
full serialized block + getdata round-trips
RELAY · compact + FEC14.2 KB
IDs
FEC
short IDs · prefilled coinbase · 32 parity shards
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bytes / forward
0
round-trips to read · by design
Advantage by block fullness · last 24h
Where the relay wins: full blocks vs empty blocks
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Regional Relay Status
4 GCP regions · Zebra mainnet attached
RegionGossip SrcsAgent
Block Arrival Feed
relay vs p2p · per block
· = empty block (coinbase only) — no transactions to reconstruct, so no relay time is measured
HeightRelayP2PΔ