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release for jan testnets #3192

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arnetheduck and others added 30 commits October 27, 2022 10:33
This PR, a continuation of
replaces `historical_roots` with
`historical_block_roots`.

By keeping an accumulator of historical block roots in the state, it
becomes possible to validate the entire block history that led up to
that particular state without executing the transitions, and without
checking them one by one in backwards order using a parent chain.

This is interesting for archival purposes as well as when implementing
sync protocols that can verify chunks of blocks quickly, meaning they
can be downloaded in any order.

It's also useful as it provides a canonical hash by which such chunks of
blocks can be named, with a direct reference in the state.

In this PR, `historical_roots` is frozen at its current value and
`historical_batches` are computed from the merge epoch onwards.

After this PR, `block_batch_root` in the state can be used to verify an
era of blocks against the state with a simple root check.

The `historical_roots` values on the other hand can be used to verify
that a constant distributed with clients is valid for a particular
state, and therefore extends the block validation all the way back to
genesis without backfilling `block_batch_root` and without introducing
any new security assumptions in the client.

As far as naming goes, it's convenient to talk about an "era" being 8192
slots ~= 1.14 days. The 8192 number comes from the
SLOTS_PER_HISTORICAL_ROOT constant.

With multiple easily verifable blocks in a file, it becomes trivial to
offload block history to out-of-protocol transfer methods (bittorrent /
ftp / whatever) - including execution payloads, paving the way for a
future in which clients purge block history in p2p.

This PR can be applied along with the merge which simplifies payload
distribution from the get-go. Both execution and consensus clients
benefit because from the merge onwards, they both need to be able to
supply ranges of blocks in the sync protocol from what effectively is
"cold storage".

Another possibility is to include it in a future cleanup PR - this
complicates the "cold storage" mode above by not covering exection
payloads from start.
avoids changing "header" fields in state
Introduce `block_to_light_client_header` helper function to enable
future forks to override it with additional info (e.g., execution),
without having to change the general light client logic.

Likewise, update existing light client data creation flow to use
`block_to_light_client_header` and default-initialize empty fields.

Furthermore, generalize `create_update` helper to streamline test code
using `block_to_light_client_header`.

Note: In Altair spec, LC header is the same as `BeaconBlockHeader`.
however; future forks will extend it with more information.
BlobsSidecarsByRange: Change range lower bound to EIP4844_FORK_EPOCH
Co-authored-by: Danny Ryan <dannyjryan@gmail.com>
Clarify BeaconBlockAndBlobsSidecarByRoot no blob available
Handle unavailable data outside of prune window
Add `compute_kzg_proof` as a public method
* Squash commits

* Rename TEST_TYPE to TEST_PRESET_TYPE

* Try python3 -m pytest -n 16

* updating actions versions

* adding cleanup

* reorder

* Add eip4844

Co-authored-by: Hsiao-Wei Wang <hsiaowei.eth@gmail.com>
…thdrawals (#3184)

* tests/formats: update epoch and operations formats to reflect push-withdrawals of PR 3068

* fix typo

* Update epoch processing readme

Co-authored-by: Hsiao-Wei Wang <hsiaowei.eth@gmail.com>
hwwhww and others added 5 commits January 4, 2023 18:51
Add `block_to_light_client_header` helper
Fix typo in eip4844/BeaconBlocksByRoot docs
Co-authored-by: Danny Ryan <dannyjryan@gmail.com>
@djrtwo djrtwo changed the title [DO NOT MERGE] release for jan testnets release for jan testnets Jan 6, 2023
@djrtwo djrtwo merged commit 5f1b88f into master Jan 6, 2023
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