diff --git a/src/net_processing.cpp b/src/net_processing.cpp
index af61e7064e5..f9aa63b199f 100644
--- a/src/net_processing.cpp
+++ b/src/net_processing.cpp
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ public:
     bool GetNodeStateStats(NodeId nodeid, CNodeStateStats& stats) override;
     bool IgnoresIncomingTxs() override { return m_ignore_incoming_txs; }
     void SendPings() override;
+    void RelayTransaction(const uint256& txid, const uint256& wtxid, const CConnman& connman) override;
     void SetBestHeight(int height) override { m_best_height = height; };
     void Misbehaving(const NodeId pnode, const int howmuch, const std::string& message) override;
     void ProcessMessage(CNode& pfrom, const std::string& msg_type, CDataStream& vRecv,
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ private:
     void EvictExtraOutboundPeers(int64_t time_in_seconds) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main);
 
     /** Retrieve unbroadcast transactions from the mempool and reattempt sending to peers */
-    void ReattemptInitialBroadcast(CScheduler& scheduler) const;
+    void ReattemptInitialBroadcast(CScheduler& scheduler);
 
     /** Get a shared pointer to the Peer object.
      *  May return an empty shared_ptr if the Peer object can't be found. */
@@ -954,7 +955,7 @@ void PeerManagerImpl::InitializeNode(CNode *pnode)
     }
 }
 
-void PeerManagerImpl::ReattemptInitialBroadcast(CScheduler& scheduler) const
+void PeerManagerImpl::ReattemptInitialBroadcast(CScheduler& scheduler)
 {
     std::set<uint256> unbroadcast_txids = m_mempool.GetUnbroadcastTxs();
 
@@ -1464,7 +1465,7 @@ void PeerManagerImpl::SendPings()
     for(auto& it : m_peer_map) it.second->m_ping_queued = true;
 }
 
-void RelayTransaction(const uint256& txid, const uint256& wtxid, const CConnman& connman)
+void PeerManagerImpl::RelayTransaction(const uint256& txid, const uint256& wtxid, const CConnman& connman)
 {
     connman.ForEachNode([&txid, &wtxid](CNode* pnode) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(::cs_main) {
         AssertLockHeld(::cs_main);
diff --git a/src/net_processing.h b/src/net_processing.h
index 3b099074432..f47594400cd 100644
--- a/src/net_processing.h
+++ b/src/net_processing.h
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ public:
     /** Whether this node ignores txs received over p2p. */
     virtual bool IgnoresIncomingTxs() = 0;
 
+    /** Relay transaction to all peers. */
+    virtual void RelayTransaction(const uint256& txid, const uint256& wtxid, const CConnman& connman)
+        EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main) = 0;
+
     /** Send ping message to all peers */
     virtual void SendPings() = 0;
 
@@ -71,7 +75,4 @@ public:
                                 const std::chrono::microseconds time_received, const std::atomic<bool>& interruptMsgProc) = 0;
 };
 
-/** Relay transaction to every node */
-void RelayTransaction(const uint256& txid, const uint256& wtxid, const CConnman& connman) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main);
-
 #endif // BITCOIN_NET_PROCESSING_H
diff --git a/src/node/transaction.cpp b/src/node/transaction.cpp
index 3b3fab7b6ba..b01381411ab 100644
--- a/src/node/transaction.cpp
+++ b/src/node/transaction.cpp
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ TransactionError BroadcastTransaction(NodeContext& node, const CTransactionRef t
     // node.connman is assigned both before chain clients and before RPC server is accepting calls,
     // and reset after chain clients and RPC sever are stopped. node.connman should never be null here.
     assert(node.connman);
+    assert(node.peerman);
     assert(node.mempool);
     std::promise<void> promise;
     uint256 hashTx = tx->GetHash();
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ TransactionError BroadcastTransaction(NodeContext& node, const CTransactionRef t
         node.mempool->AddUnbroadcastTx(hashTx);
 
         LOCK(cs_main);
-        RelayTransaction(hashTx, tx->GetWitnessHash(), *node.connman);
+        node.peerman->RelayTransaction(hashTx, tx->GetWitnessHash(), *node.connman);
     }
 
     return TransactionError::OK;