# Ethereum 2.0 Light Client Support -- From Phase 0 to Light Client Patch **Notice**: This document is a work-in-progress for researchers and implementers. ## Table of contents - [Introduction](#introduction) - [Configuration](#configuration) - [Fork to Light-client patch](#fork-to-light-client-patch) - [Fork trigger](#fork-trigger) - [Upgrading the state](#upgrading-the-state) ## Introduction This document describes the process of moving from Phase 0 to Phase 1 of Ethereum 2.0. ## Configuration Warning: this configuration is not definitive. | Name | Value | | - | - | | `ALTAIR_FORK_VERSION` | `Version('0x01000000')` | | `ALTAIR_FORK_SLOT` | `Slot(0)` **TBD** | ## Fork to Light-client patch ### Fork trigger TBD. Social consensus, along with state conditions such as epoch boundary, finality, deposits, active validator count, etc. may be part of the decision process to trigger the fork. For now we assume the condition will be triggered at slot `ALTAIR_FORK_SLOT`, where `ALTAIR_FORK_SLOT % SLOTS_PER_EPOCH == 0`. ### Upgrading the state After `process_slots` of Phase 0 finishes, if `state.slot == ALTAIR_FORK_SLOT`, an irregular state change is made to upgrade to light-client patch. ```python def upgrade_to_altair(pre: phase0.BeaconState) -> BeaconState: epoch = get_current_epoch(pre) post = BeaconState( # Versioning genesis_time=pre.genesis_time, genesis_validators_root=pre.genesis_validators_root, slot=pre.slot, fork=Fork( previous_version=pre.fork.current_version, current_version=ALTAIR_FORK_VERSION, epoch=epoch, ), # History latest_block_header=pre.latest_block_header, block_roots=pre.block_roots, state_roots=pre.state_roots, historical_roots=pre.historical_roots, # Eth1 eth1_data=pre.eth1_data, eth1_data_votes=pre.eth1_data_votes, eth1_deposit_index=pre.eth1_deposit_index, # Registry validators=pre.validators, balances=pre.balances, # Randomness randao_mixes=pre.randao_mixes, # Slashings slashings=pre.slashings, # Participation previous_epoch_participation=[ParticipationFlags(0b0000_0000) for _ in range(len(pre.validators))], current_epoch_participation=[ParticipationFlags(0b0000_0000) for _ in range(len(pre.validators))], # Finality justification_bits=pre.justification_bits, previous_justified_checkpoint=pre.previous_justified_checkpoint, current_justified_checkpoint=pre.current_justified_checkpoint, finalized_checkpoint=pre.finalized_checkpoint, # Leak leak_scores=[0 for _ in range(len(pre.validators))], ) # Fill in sync committees post.current_sync_committee = get_sync_committee(post, get_current_epoch(post)) post.next_sync_committee = get_sync_committee(post, get_current_epoch(post) + EPOCHS_PER_SYNC_COMMITTEE_PERIOD) return post ```