eth2.0-specs/specs/phase1/shard-transition.md

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Ethereum 2.0 Phase 1 -- Shard Transition and Fraud Proofs

Notice: This document is a work-in-progress for researchers and implementers.

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Introduction

This document describes the shard transition function and fraud proofs as part of Phase 1 of Ethereum 2.0.

Helper functions

Misc

def compute_shard_transition_digest(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                                    shard_state: ShardState,
                                    beacon_parent_root: Root,
                                    shard_body_root: Root) -> Bytes32:
    # TODO: use SSZ hash tree root
    return hash(
        hash_tree_root(shard_state) + beacon_parent_root + shard_body_root
    )

Shard block verification functions

def verify_shard_block_message(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                               shard_state: ShardState,
                               block: ShardBlock,
                               slot: Slot,
                               shard: Shard) -> bool:
    assert block.shard_parent_root == shard_state.latest_block_root
    assert block.slot == slot
    assert block.proposer_index == get_shard_proposer_index(beacon_state, slot, shard)
    assert 0 < len(block.body) <= MAX_SHARD_BLOCK_SIZE
    return True
def verify_shard_block_signature(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                                 signed_block: SignedShardBlock) -> bool:
    proposer = beacon_state.validators[signed_block.message.proposer_index]
    domain = get_domain(beacon_state, DOMAIN_SHARD_PROPOSAL, compute_epoch_at_slot(signed_block.message.slot))
    signing_root = compute_signing_root(signed_block.message, domain)
    return bls.Verify(proposer.pubkey, signing_root, signed_block.signature)

Shard state transition

def shard_state_transition(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                           shard_state: ShardState,
                           block: ShardBlock) -> None:
    # Update shard state
    prev_gasprice = shard_state.gasprice
    if len(block.body) == 0:
        latest_block_root = shard_state.latest_block_root
    else:
        latest_block_root = hash_tree_root(block)

    shard_state.transition_digest = compute_shard_transition_digest(
        beacon_state,
        shard_state,
        block.beacon_parent_root,
        block.body,
    )
    shard_state.gasprice = compute_updated_gasprice(prev_gasprice, len(block.body))
    shard_state.slot = block.slot
    shard_state.latest_block_root = latest_block_root

We have a pure function get_post_shard_state for describing the fraud proof verification and honest validator behavior.

def get_post_shard_state(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                         shard_state: ShardState,
                         block: ShardBlock) -> ShardState:
    """
    A pure function that returns a new post ShardState instead of modifying the given `shard_state`.
    """
    post_state = shard_state.copy()
    shard_state_transition(beacon_state, post_state, block)
    return post_state

Fraud proofs

Verifying the proof

TODO. The intent is to have a single universal fraud proof type, which contains the following parts:

  1. An on-time attestation attestation on some shard shard signing a transition: ShardTransition
  2. An index offset_index of a particular position to focus on
  3. The transition: ShardTransition itself
  4. The full body of the shard block shard_block
  5. A Merkle proof to the shard_states in the parent block the attestation is referencing
  6. The subkey to generate the custody bit

Call the following function to verify the proof:

def is_valid_fraud_proof(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                         attestation: Attestation,
                         offset_index: uint64,
                         transition: ShardTransition,
                         block: ShardBlock,
                         subkey: BLSPubkey,
                         beacon_parent_block: BeaconBlock) -> bool:
    # 1. Check if `custody_bits[offset_index][j] != generate_custody_bit(subkey, block_contents)` for any `j`.
    custody_bits = attestation.custody_bits_blocks
    for j in range(custody_bits[offset_index]):
        if custody_bits[offset_index][j] != generate_custody_bit(subkey, block):
            return True

    # 2. Check if the shard state transition result is wrong between
    # `transition.shard_states[offset_index - 1]` to `transition.shard_states[offset_index]`.
    if offset_index == 0:
        shard = get_shard(beacon_state, attestation)
        shard_state = beacon_parent_block.shard_transitions[shard].shard_states[-1]
    else:
        shard_state = transition.shard_states[offset_index - 1]  # Not doing the actual state updates here.

    shard_state = get_post_shard_state(beacon_state, shard_state, block)
    if shard_state.transition_digest != transition.shard_states[offset_index].transition_digest:
        return True

    return False
def generate_custody_bit(subkey: BLSPubkey, block: ShardBlock) -> bool:
    # TODO
    ...

Honest committee member behavior

Helper functions

def get_winning_proposal(beacon_state: BeaconState, proposals: Sequence[SignedShardBlock]) -> SignedShardBlock:
    # TODO: Let `winning_proposal` be the proposal with the largest number of total attestations from slots in
    # `state.shard_next_slots[shard]....slot-1` supporting it or any of its descendants, breaking ties by choosing
    # the first proposal locally seen. Do `proposals.append(winning_proposal)`.
    return proposals[-1]  # stub
def compute_shard_body_roots(proposals: Sequence[SignedShardBlock]) -> Sequence[Root]:
    return [hash_tree_root(proposal.message.body) for proposal in proposals]
def get_proposal_choices_at_slot(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                                 shard_state: ShardState,
                                 slot: Slot,
                                 shard: Shard,
                                 shard_blocks: Sequence[SignedShardBlock],
                                 validate_signature: bool=True) -> Sequence[SignedShardBlock]:
    """
    Return the valid shard blocks at the given ``slot``.
    Note that this function doesn't change the state.
    """
    choices = []
    shard_blocks_at_slot = [block for block in shard_blocks if block.message.slot == slot]
    for block in shard_blocks_at_slot:
        try:
            # Verify block message and signature
            # TODO these validations should have been checked upon receiving shard blocks.
            assert verify_shard_block_message(beacon_state, shard_state, block.message, slot, shard)
            if validate_signature:
                assert verify_shard_block_signature(beacon_state, block)

            shard_state = get_post_shard_state(beacon_state, shard_state, block.message)
        except Exception:
            pass  # TODO: throw error in the test helper
        else:
            choices.append(block)
    return choices
def get_proposal_at_slot(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                         shard_state: ShardState,
                         slot: Shard,
                         shard: Shard,
                         shard_blocks: Sequence[SignedShardBlock],
                         validate_signature: bool=True) -> Tuple[SignedShardBlock, ShardState]:
    """
    Return ``proposal``, ``shard_state`` of the given ``slot``.
    Note that this function doesn't change the state.
    """
    choices = get_proposal_choices_at_slot(
        beacon_state=beacon_state,
        shard_state=shard_state,
        slot=slot,
        shard=shard,
        shard_blocks=shard_blocks,
        validate_signature=validate_signature,
    )
    if len(choices) == 0:
        block = ShardBlock(slot=slot)
        proposal = SignedShardBlock(message=block)
    elif len(choices) == 1:
        proposal = choices[0]
    else:
        proposal = get_winning_proposal(beacon_state, choices)

    # Apply state transition
    shard_state = get_post_shard_state(beacon_state, shard_state, proposal.message)

    return proposal, shard_state
def get_shard_state_transition_result(
    beacon_state: BeaconState,
    shard: Shard,
    shard_blocks: Sequence[SignedShardBlock],
    validate_signature: bool=True,
) -> Tuple[Sequence[SignedShardBlock], Sequence[ShardState], Sequence[Root]]:
    proposals = []
    shard_states = []
    shard_state = beacon_state.shard_states[shard]
    for slot in get_offset_slots(beacon_state, shard):
        proposal, shard_state = get_proposal_at_slot(
            beacon_state=beacon_state,
            shard_state=shard_state,
            slot=slot,
            shard=shard,
            shard_blocks=shard_blocks,
            validate_signature=validate_signature,
        )
        shard_states.append(shard_state)
        proposals.append(proposal)

    shard_data_roots = compute_shard_body_roots(proposals)

    return proposals, shard_states, shard_data_roots

Make attestations

Suppose you are a committee member on shard shard at slot current_slot and you have received shard blocks shard_blocks since the latest successful crosslink for shard into the beacon chain. Let beacon_state be the head beacon state you are building on, and let QUARTER_PERIOD = SECONDS_PER_SLOT // 4. 2 * QUARTER_PERIOD seconds into slot current_slot, run get_shard_transition(beacon_state, shard, shard_blocks) to get shard_transition.

def get_shard_transition(beacon_state: BeaconState,
                         shard: Shard,
                         shard_blocks: Sequence[SignedShardBlock]) -> ShardTransition:
    offset_slots = get_offset_slots(beacon_state, shard)
    start_slot = offset_slots[0]
    proposals, shard_states, shard_data_roots = get_shard_state_transition_result(beacon_state, shard, shard_blocks)

    assert len(proposals) > 0
    assert len(shard_data_roots) > 0

    shard_block_lengths = []
    proposer_signatures = []
    for proposal in proposals:
        shard_block_lengths.append(len(proposal.message.body))
        if proposal.signature != NO_SIGNATURE:
            proposer_signatures.append(proposal.signature)

    if len(proposer_signatures) > 0:
        proposer_signature_aggregate = bls.Aggregate(proposer_signatures)
    else:
        proposer_signature_aggregate = NO_SIGNATURE

    return ShardTransition(
        start_slot=start_slot,
        shard_block_lengths=shard_block_lengths,
        shard_data_roots=shard_data_roots,
        shard_states=shard_states,
        proposer_signature_aggregate=proposer_signature_aggregate,
    )