From d71a0c0c7b4c93e82b67c2b324f5d4e8987c3930 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georgios Konstantopoulos <me@gakonst.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:23:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat(txpool): add PoolTransaction::consensus_ref (#22182)

Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthias Seitz <matthias.seitz@outlook.de>
---
 .changelog/fast-seals-play.md                  | 5 +++++
 crates/transaction-pool/src/test_utils/mock.rs | 4 ++++
 crates/transaction-pool/src/traits.rs          | 7 +++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changelog/fast-seals-play.md

diff --git a/.changelog/fast-seals-play.md b/.changelog/fast-seals-play.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..05b056e50a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/fast-seals-play.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+reth-transaction-pool: minor
+---
+
+Added `consensus_ref` method to `PoolTransaction` trait for borrowing consensus transactions without cloning.
diff --git a/crates/transaction-pool/src/test_utils/mock.rs b/crates/transaction-pool/src/test_utils/mock.rs
index c4b661b796..7955e6c100 100644
--- a/crates/transaction-pool/src/test_utils/mock.rs
+++ b/crates/transaction-pool/src/test_utils/mock.rs
@@ -704,6 +704,10 @@ impl PoolTransaction for MockTransaction {
 
     type Pooled = PooledTransactionVariant;
 
+    fn consensus_ref(&self) -> Recovered<&Self::Consensus> {
+        unimplemented!("mock transaction does not wrap a consensus transaction")
+    }
+
     fn into_consensus(self) -> Recovered<Self::Consensus> {
         self.into()
     }
diff --git a/crates/transaction-pool/src/traits.rs b/crates/transaction-pool/src/traits.rs
index 6a05e9c421..944e07b171 100644
--- a/crates/transaction-pool/src/traits.rs
+++ b/crates/transaction-pool/src/traits.rs
@@ -1257,6 +1257,9 @@ pub trait PoolTransaction:
         self.clone().into_consensus()
     }
 
+    /// Returns a reference to the consensus transaction with the recovered sender.
+    fn consensus_ref(&self) -> Recovered<&Self::Consensus>;
+
     /// Define a method to convert from the `Self` type to `Consensus`
     fn into_consensus(self) -> Recovered<Self::Consensus>;
 
@@ -1447,6 +1450,10 @@ impl PoolTransaction for EthPooledTransaction {
         self.transaction().clone()
     }
 
+    fn consensus_ref(&self) -> Recovered<&Self::Consensus> {
+        Recovered::new_unchecked(&*self.transaction, self.transaction.signer())
+    }
+
     fn into_consensus(self) -> Recovered<Self::Consensus> {
         self.transaction
     }