Private Relay as a Debugging Tool - 3/11/2026 Running a private relay locally has already proven useful for development. Even though the relay currently runs only on my machine, it provides several advantages: • deterministic testing • controlled publishing behavior • whitelisted writers • predictable event storage Unlike public relays — which sometimes fail, timeout, or behave inconsistently — a local relay behaves exactly as expected. For debugging complex publishing flows, this is extremely valuable. Eventually this relay could also be exposed via a reverse proxy as something like: wss://relay.continuum.xyz But for now, running it locally inside Docker is already useful.