diff --git a/src/parallax/server/executor.py b/src/parallax/server/executor.py
index 933c397..bb22768 100644
--- a/src/parallax/server/executor.py
+++ b/src/parallax/server/executor.py
@@ -1197,6 +1197,8 @@ def run_loop(self):
         self._should_stop = False
         while not self._should_stop:
             # 1. Ingest new requests from the http frontend
+            http_requests = []
+
             if self.is_first_peer:
                 http_requests = self.recv_requests_from_http()