Cosmos mempools and blocks Recently with the Celestia airdrop, Cosmos was jammed. IBC transfers were taking ages if getting executed at all and this is the optimistic scenerio where something valuable was filling up the blockspace but there have been instances where the mempool was flooded with malicious transactions and validators struggled to handle load. To understand the nitty gritty lets first dive into how transactions work on cosmos. Pipeline From the very basic, a user signs a transaction which is simulated to verify hashes and format by the rpc, which then is picked up by the relayer and sent to one of the nodes on the network. Screenshot 2023-11-21 at 1.12.42 AM The transactions are are shared over the gossip network between all the nodes, while the scheduled proposer builds a block after calling the checkTx function to verify it once again and then proposer creates a proposal which is voted upon and where the bft consensus comes into play and after the block is finalised the transactions. every block contains

How do switchboard Tee works? Switchboard allows you to make functions and run them off-chain , enabling the submission of transactions either based on a predetermined cron schedule or as needed. Steps Define switchboard in the contract Write custom Function Build container and upload to Docker/IPFS registry Create an on-chain FunctionAccount at https://app.switchboard.xyz/build/function by adding the ipfs link Functions can set a cron schedule to have it executed periodically. This is useful for automating tasks on-chain with custom conditional logic.