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This pull request modifies the validator startup process in magicblock-api/src/magic_validator.rs to always run account hydration, regardless of the ledger resume strategy. Previously, the hydration process only executed when self.config.ledger.resume_strategy().is_replaying() returned true, meaning it was conditional on the ledger being in a "Replay" state.

The hydration process is a critical initialization step that ensures the validator has access to all necessary account data from the remote chain. It involves:

  1. Retrieving all accounts from the internal account provider
  2. Filtering out blacklisted accounts and certain executable accounts
  3. Cloning the remaining accounts and updating the validator's cache
  4. Processing up to 30 accounts concurrently to avoid rate limiting

By removing the conditional check, this change ensures that account hydration occurs during validator startup regardless of whether the resume strategy is "Reset", "ResumeOnly", or "Replay". This makes the validator initialization more consistent and robust, as it guarantees that the validator will always have properly synchronized account state from the remote chain.

The change integrates well with the existing codebase architecture, where the RemoteAccountClonerWorker handles the hydration logic through its hydrate() method. The modification maintains the same error handling and logging patterns, spawning the hydration as an asynchronous task that logs completion when finished.

Confidence score: 4/5

  • This PR is safe to merge with minimal risk as it only expands when an existing process runs
  • Score reflects a straightforward change that makes validator initialization more consistent without introducing new logic
  • Pay close attention to startup performance impact and ensure hydration works correctly with all resume strategies

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LGTM

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In general this should be fine, even though if we fully reset the ledger (i.e. don't keep accounts) then it's technically wrong.
However in that case the accounts db is empty and we don't hydrate anything either.

But I'd prefer a solution that has a should_hydrate_accounts on the ledger strategy which only returns true if it makes sense (in more cases than just when it's replaying which is definitely wrong).

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In general this should be fine, even though if we fully reset the ledger (i.e. don't keep accounts) then it's technically wrong. However in that case the accounts db is empty and we don't hydrate anything either.

But I'd prefer a solution that has a should_hydrate_accounts on the ledger strategy which only returns true if it makes sense (in more cases than just when it's replaying which is definitely wrong).

We could just skip the hydration if we reset the accountDB, but as you pointed out it has the same effect since it's empty. Merge as it is since I want to completely remove (or simplify) this step in a follow up PR

@GabrielePicco GabrielePicco merged commit 263fc2e into master Aug 23, 2025
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@GabrielePicco GabrielePicco deleted the fix/always-run-hydration branch August 23, 2025 17:46
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