Fee sponsorship

Fee sponsorship is a proposed consensus change to allow the creation of transactions which effectively add fees to other unrelated transactions, possibly helping those other transactions confirm faster. It’s enables CPFP-like fee bumping without the transactions needing to be related.

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Primary code and documentation

• Fee sponsorship

Optech newsletter and website mentions

2024

• Proposals for more block space efficient transaction fee sponsorship

2022

• 2022 year-in-review: fee sponsorship
• Proposed ephemeral anchors relay policy to implement sponsorship-like behavior
• Fee bumping discussion with advocacy for fee sponsorship
• Fee accounts, an outgrowth from fee sponsorship

2021

• Call for topics in layer-crossing workshop, including fee sponsorship

2020

• Transaction fee sponsorship proposal

See also

• Child Pays For Parent
• Transaction pinning

• Ephemeral anchors

  
  

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