<p>Probably your best option for the moment would be to run the topology updater script on your node. This should bring you a few incoming connections, enough to have the mempool populated with transactions.
You can also create a stake pool with just the BP registered as a relay, but this is not best practice. But technically you can do it, probably many people are doing it on testnet.</p>

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2024-05-10T10:23:05.430Z
2024-05-10T10:23:05.430Z
George - APEX Stake Pool
<p>I want my relay to receive mempool txs just like how a stakepool operator's relay nodes work (preferably in p2p), i have tried topology updater before but as people are moving to p2p, peers i get connected are not consistent (sometimes i got incoming txs sometimes no other relays connect to me).</p>
<p>-What im thinking is talking to spos to connect their relays to mine so their incoming txs would be forwarded to my relay, but i dont have anything to offer in return so i dont get much their attention.</p>
<p>-Or is it possible to create a bp node that have 0 relay, is p2p enabled, 0 pledge, lowest minimum ada staked just so it can be qualified as bp node. so their is no security issues since the bp i created have no chance to produce a block. Just running 24/7, will that be discovered by other spos running with p2p?</p>

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2024-04-30T05:15:13.847Z
Pretty sure all you have to do is set up a stake pool with zero stake.
Erik de Castro Lopo
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2024-04-30T06:10:06.797Z
0 relay? Because renting 2 cloud compute just for mempool is kind of overkill for me
karlo
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How to make relay node receive mempool txs without becoming a spo?
# How to make relay node receive mempool txs without becoming a spo?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-30)

I want my relay to receive mempool txs just like how a stakepool operator's relay nodes work (preferably in p2p), i have tried topology updater before but as people are moving to p2p, peers i get connected are not consistent (sometimes i got incoming txs sometimes no other relays connect to me).

-What im thinking is talking to spos to connect their relays to mine so their incoming txs would be forwarded to my relay, but i dont have anything to offer in return so i dont get much their attention.

-Or is it possible to create a bp node that have 0 relay, is p2p enabled, 0 pledge, lowest minimum ada staked just so it can be qualified as bp node. so their is no security issues since the bp i created have no chance to produce a block. Just running 24/7, will that be discovered by other spos running with p2p?

**Tags:** cardano-node, stake-pool, mempool
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Pretty sure all you have to do is set up a stake pool with zero stake.  
> **username_0**: 0 relay? Because renting 2 cloud compute just for mempool is kind of overkill for me  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2024-05-10. Score: 0

Probably your best option for the moment would be to run the topology updater script on your node. This should bring you a few incoming connections, enough to have the mempool populated with transactions.
You can also create a stake pool with just the BP registered as a relay, but this is not best practice. But technically you can do it, probably many people are doing it on testnet.


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