Conductor

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Conductor's role is to drive the deterministic execution of sequencer blocks to rollups.

It abstracts away the logic required to read data from the DA and the Sequencer, tracking firm and soft commitments, block and header shapes, as well as verification of the data. The rollup implements the Execution API server, and runs the Conductor alongside to drive deterministic execution. The Conductor is effectively stateless but does ephemerally store some information about the blocks it has seen and passed on to be executed.

It filters the transactions that are relevant to the given rollup it is running along side, out of the sequencer blocks for execution. The data that it does store is for sending commitment updates to the rollup.

As mentioned in the Relayer section, any data received by the Conductor directly from the Relayer is considered a soft commit. This data is filtered using the rollup's namespace and only transactions that are relevant to the rollup are passed on as blocks for execution. These blocks are also marked as "safe" withing the rollup. The Conductor regularly polls Celestia for new data and when it sees the same blocks in Celestia that it has already seen from the Relayer, it sends a firm commit message to the rollup to update that block to "finalized."

See the Conductor code here.