linea-monorepo/postman

Linea Postman Service

The Linea Postman service is a component of the Linea blockchain infrastructure that facilitates cross-chain message delivery between Layer 1 (Ethereum) and Layer 2 (Linea).

Overview

The Postman service monitors and processes messages between L1 and L2 chains, handling message submission, verification, and claiming. It operates as a Docker container and integrates with both L1 and L2 nodes.

It offers the following key features:

• Feature 1: Listening for message sent events on Ethereum and Linea
• Feature 2: Listening for message hash anchoring events to check if a message is ready to be claimed
• Feature 3: Automatic claiming of messages with a configurable retry mechanism
• Feature 4: Checking receipt status for each transaction

All messages are stored in a configurable Postgres DB.

Configuration

Environment Variables

L1 Configuration

• L1_RPC_URL: Ethereum node RPC endpoint
• L1_CONTRACT_ADDRESS: Address of the LineaRollup contract on L1
• L1_SIGNER_PRIVATE_KEY: Private key for L1 transactions
• L1_LISTENER_INTERVAL: Block listening interval (ms)
• L1_LISTENER_INITIAL_FROM_BLOCK: Starting block for event listening (optional)
• L1_LISTENER_BLOCK_CONFIRMATION: Required block confirmations
• L1_MAX_BLOCKS_TO_FETCH_LOGS: Maximum blocks to fetch in one request
• L1_MAX_GAS_FEE_ENFORCED: Enable/disable gas fee enforcement

L2 Configuration

• L2_RPC_URL: Linea node RPC endpoint
• L2_CONTRACT_ADDRESS: Address of the L2MessageService contract on L2
• L2_SIGNER_PRIVATE_KEY: Private key for L2 transactions
• L2_LISTENER_INTERVAL: Block listening interval (ms)
• L2_LISTENER_INITIAL_FROM_BLOCK: Starting block for event listening (optional)
• L2_LISTENER_BLOCK_CONFIRMATION: Required block confirmations
• L2_MAX_BLOCKS_TO_FETCH_LOGS: Maximum blocks to fetch in one request
• L2_MAX_GAS_FEE_ENFORCED: Enable/disable gas fee enforcement
• L2_MESSAGE_TREE_DEPTH: Depth of the message Merkle tree

Message Processing

• MESSAGE_SUBMISSION_TIMEOUT: Timeout for message submission (ms)
• MAX_FETCH_MESSAGES_FROM_DB: Maximum messages to fetch from database
• MAX_NONCE_DIFF: Maximum allowed nonce difference between the DB and the chain
• MAX_FEE_PER_GAS_CAP: Maximum gas fee cap
• GAS_ESTIMATION_PERCENTILE: Gas estimation percentile
• PROFIT_MARGIN: Profit margin for gas fees
• MAX_NUMBER_OF_RETRIES: Maximum retry attempts
• RETRY_DELAY_IN_SECONDS: Delay between retries
• MAX_CLAIM_GAS_LIMIT: Maximum gas limit for claim transactions

Feature Flags

• L1_L2_EOA_ENABLED: Enable L1->L2 EOA messages
• L1_L2_CALLDATA_ENABLED: Enable L1->L2 calldata messages
• L1_L2_AUTO_CLAIM_ENABLED: Enable auto-claiming for L1->L2 messages
• L2_L1_EOA_ENABLED: Enable L2->L1 EOA messages
• L2_L1_CALLDATA_ENABLED: Enable L2->L1 calldata messages
• L2_L1_AUTO_CLAIM_ENABLED: Enable auto-claiming for L2->L1 messages
• ENABLE_LINEA_ESTIMATE_GAS: Enable linea_estimateGasendpoint usage for L2 chain gas fees estimation
• DB_CLEANER_ENABLED: Enable DB cleaning to delete old claimed messages

DB cleaning

• DB_CLEANING_INTERVAL: DB cleaning polling interval (ms)
• DB_DAYS_BEFORE_NOW_TO_DELETE: Number of days to retain messages in the database before deletion. Messages older than this number of days will be automatically cleaned up if they are in a final state (CLAIMED_SUCCESS, CLAIMED_REVERTED, EXCLUDED, or ZERO_FEE)

Database Configuration

• POSTGRES_HOST: PostgreSQL host
• POSTGRES_PORT: PostgreSQL port
• POSTGRES_USER: Database user
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD: Database password
• POSTGRES_DB: Database name

Development

Running

Start the docker local stack

From the root folder, run the following command:

make fresh-start-all

Stop the postman docker container manually.

Run the postman locally:

From the postman folder run the following commands:

# Create a new .env file
cp .env.sample .env

# Run the postman
ts-node scripts/runPostman.ts

Building

# Build the Postman service
pnpm run build

Testing

# Run unit tests
pnpm run test

License

This package is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.