diff --git a/specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md b/specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md index c0e247108..1f2b53090 100644 --- a/specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md +++ b/specs/core/0_beacon-chain.md @@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ Code snippets appearing in `this style` are to be interpreted as Python code. Be ## Terminology -* **Validator** - a participant in the Casper/sharding consensus system. You can become one by depositing 32 ETH into the Casper mechanism. -* **Active validator** - a [validator](#dfn-validator) currently participating in the protocol which the Casper mechanism looks to produce and attest to blocks, crosslinks and other consensus objects. +* **Validator** - a registered participant in the beacon chain. You can become one by sending Ether into the Ethereum 1.0 deposit contract. +* **Active validator** - an active participant in the Ethereum 2.0 consensus invited to, among other things, propose and attest to blocks and vote for crosslinks. * **Committee** - a (pseudo-) randomly sampled subset of [active validators](#dfn-active-validator). When a committee is referred to collectively, as in "this committee attests to X", this is assumed to mean "some subset of that committee that contains enough [validators](#dfn-validator) that the protocol recognizes it as representing the committee". * **Proposer** - the [validator](#dfn-validator) that creates a beacon chain block * **Attester** - a [validator](#dfn-validator) that is part of a committee that needs to sign off on a beacon chain block while simultaneously creating a link (crosslink) to a recent shard block on a particular shard chain. @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Code snippets appearing in `this style` are to be interpreted as Python code. Be | `EJECTION_BALANCE` | `2**4 * 1e9` (= 16,000,000,000) | Gwei | | `MAX_BALANCE_CHURN_QUOTIENT` | `2**5` (= 32) | - | | `BEACON_CHAIN_SHARD_NUMBER` | `2**64 - 1` | - | -| `MAX_CASPER_VOTES` | `2**10` (= 1,024) | votes | +| `MAX_INDICES_PER_SLASHABLE_VOTE` | `2**10` (= 1,024) | votes | | `MAX_WITHDRAWALS_PER_EPOCH` | `2**2` (= 4) | withdrawals | * For the safety of crosslinks `TARGET_COMMITTEE_SIZE` exceeds [the recommended minimum committee size of 111](https://vitalik.ca/files/Ithaca201807_Sharding.pdf); with sufficient active validators (at least `EPOCH_LENGTH * TARGET_COMMITTEE_SIZE`), the shuffling algorithm ensures committee sizes at least `TARGET_COMMITTEE_SIZE`. (Unbiasable randomness with a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) will improve committee robustness and lower the safe minimum committee size.) @@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ def get_domain(fork: Fork, ```python def verify_slashable_vote_data(state: BeaconState, vote_data: SlashableVoteData) -> bool: - if len(vote_data.custody_bit_0_indices) + len(vote_data.custody_bit_1_indices) > MAX_CASPER_VOTES: + if len(vote_data.custody_bit_0_indices) + len(vote_data.custody_bit_1_indices) > MAX_INDICES_PER_SLASHABLE_VOTE: return False return bls_verify_multiple(