Cosmic Egg

Release

v1.0.0 release containing Phase 0 mainnet configuration, BLSv4, discv5.1, iterative improvements to p2p spec, and some additional consensus tests.

A huge thank you to the countless researchers, engineers, spec contributors, and community members that put this together 🙌🙏🦾

PR showing full diff can be found here: #2082

Phase 0

Beacon chain

• Double eth1data follow distance and voting period (#2093)
• [non-substantive] Make state_transition not return post-state (#2104)

Fork choice

• [non-substantive] Remove redundant slot check (#2092)

Validator

• [non-substantive] Note about slashing and exit operation interactions (#2103)
• [non-substantive] Add some additional best practices recommendations (#2107)

Networking

• Introduce StrictNoSign signature policy for gossipsub (#2060)
• Bump discovery from discv5 to discv5.1 (#2090)
• Gossipsub message-id uses 20 bytes with a flag bit for valid/invalid snappy compression (#2089)
• Note gossipsub v1.1 scoring params WIP (#2091)
• Aggregate attestation slot and target must consistent in gossip validations (#2115)
• Increase gossipsub mesh degree (#2121)

Weak subjectivity

Stable!

Deposit contract

Stable!

Simple Serialize

Stable!

BLS

• Bump IETF BLS standard version to 04 (#2080)

Phase 1 spec (warning: not stable)

Continued work on refining Phase 1 specs. Thank you to the many contributors :)

Light client spec (warning: not stable)

Light client sync spec is under redesign in the context of the phase 1 redesign. The current light client spec can be used for general educational purposes to understand the approach we are considering, but will see heavy redesign after phase 1 stabilizes.

Testing, Repo, etc

• Additional consensus tests (#2083, #2102, #2110, #2119)