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Ethereum 2.0 Altair fork
Notice: This document is a work-in-progress for researchers and implementers.
Table of contents
Introduction
This document describes the process of the first upgrade of Ethereum 2.0: the Altair hard fork, introducing light client support and other improvements.
Configuration
Warning: this configuration is not definitive.
Name | Value |
---|---|
ALTAIR_FORK_VERSION |
Version('0x01000000') |
ALTAIR_FORK_EPOCH |
Epoch(18446744073709551615) TBD |
Fork to Altair
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 epoch ALTAIR_FORK_EPOCH
.
Note that for the pure Altair networks, we don't apply upgrade_to_altair
since it starts with Altair version logic.
Upgrading the state
After process_slots
of Phase 0 finishes, if state.slot % SLOTS_PER_EPOCH == 0
and compute_epoch_at_slot(state.slot) == ALTAIR_FORK_EPOCH
, an irregular state change is made to upgrade to Altair.
def upgrade_to_altair(pre: phase0.BeaconState) -> BeaconState:
epoch = phase0.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,
# Inactivity
inactivity_scores=[uint64(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