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Update Stem's Travis CI config

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Once we fix Tor's Travis `make test-stem` timeouts, we should update Stem's Travis CI config, based on Chutney's Travis CI config. Chutney's config provides a combination of OSes, Tor versions,...

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fix(sync): Make timeouts shorter to reduce full sync times

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## Motivation The full sync is timing out, so we want to reduce the amount of time we wait for stuck blocks. ## Solution Reduce the default block timeout to...

Use BestChainUtxo rather than AwaitUtxo in the mempool transaction validator

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## Motivation The `getblocktemplate` RPC collects the transactions in the mempool into a block. That block must be contextually valid based on the best tip in the state. We can't...

Do contextual validation on mempool transactions using the state best tip

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## Motivation The `getblocktemplate` RPC collects the transactions in the mempool into a block. That block must be contextually valid based on the best tip in the state. We'll want...

Relay mempool transactions based on the ZIP-317 fee rules

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### Motivation We want to deploy the new relaying rules in ZIP-317, once enough wallets have updated: > Node developers SHOULD coordinate on schedules for deploying restrictions to their policies...

Evict transactions from the mempool based on the ZIP-317 fee rules

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### Motivation We can deploy the new mempool rules in ZIP-317 before wallets have updated to the new conventional fee, because dropping transactions is randomised. This can be changed in...

## Motivation In PR #5393 we move the lightwalletd full sync to the main branch. We might want to be able to run it manually on some PRs. ## Review...

Avoid temporary failures verifying the first non-finalized block

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## Motivation Waiting for the last finalized block is currently handled by `can_fork_chain_at()`, which returns early if the tip hash doesn't match any blocks. https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/blob/093d503d22894fee57249387f25eb86a5bc8b985/zebra-state/src/service.rs#L378-L381 But it has a bug:...

Tag Google Cloud instances with the name of the test or workflow

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## Motivation When we look at Google Cloud costs, we want to know which test or continuous deployment is causing them. This is essential for reducing Google Cloud costs, which...