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I am pretty new to working with EOS, so please excuse my ignorance and improper terminology.
I am trying to repeatedly excecute a given action on a set time delay. For example, trying to submit a transaction every hour.
I have looked up several sources, and it seems like there are no tried and true methods for doing this. Chron seems like an option, but I was just wondering if there were any easy solutions I am missing. Let me know if there is anything unclear.
There used to be deferred transactions, but these have been since deprecated due to their unreliability.
One widely used product is croneos https://www.croneos.io/ which allows anyone to register their cron task with a contract and incentivize miners optionally with a token that can be used as gas, though I think you could just mine your own transactions. Open sourced but unlicensed.
There is also LiquidApps's LiquidScheduler service: https://liquidapps.gitbook.io/liquidapps-documentation/dapp-network-services/dapp-network-services/liquidscheduler/getting-started-guide
This requires acquiring a token and staking it to DSPs (specialized nodes running LiquidApps tech) to provide the service.
Though recently we added a feature to allow for an indefinite interval versus only offering a deferred trx which is pretty cool. Projects like the following use this service in production:
