eth2.0-specs/specs/eip4844/beacon-chain.md

EIP-4844 -- The Beacon Chain

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

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Custom types
• Constants
  • Blob
• Preset
  • Execution
• Configuration
• Containers
  • Extended containers
    • BeaconBlockBody
    • ExecutionPayload
    • ExecutionPayloadHeader
• Helper functions
  • Misc
    • validate_blobs_sidecar
    • is_data_available
    • kzg_commitment_to_versioned_hash
    • tx_peek_blob_versioned_hashes
    • verify_kzg_commitments_against_transactions
• Beacon chain state transition function
  • Block processing
    • Execution payload
      • process_execution_payload
    • Blob KZG commitments
• Testing

Introduction

This upgrade adds blobs to the beacon chain as part of EIP-4844.

Custom types

Name	SSZ equivalent	Description
VersionedHash	Bytes32

Constants

Blob

Name	Value
BLOB_TX_TYPE	uint8(0x05)
VERSIONED_HASH_VERSION_KZG	Bytes1(0x01)

Preset

Execution

Name	Value
MAX_BLOBS_PER_BLOCK	uint64(2**4) (= 16)

Configuration

Containers

Extended containers

BeaconBlockBody

Note: BeaconBlock and SignedBeaconBlock types are updated indirectly.

class BeaconBlockBody(Container):
    randao_reveal: BLSSignature
    eth1_data: Eth1Data  # Eth1 data vote
    graffiti: Bytes32  # Arbitrary data
    # Operations
    proposer_slashings: List[ProposerSlashing, MAX_PROPOSER_SLASHINGS]
    attester_slashings: List[AttesterSlashing, MAX_ATTESTER_SLASHINGS]
    attestations: List[Attestation, MAX_ATTESTATIONS]
    deposits: List[Deposit, MAX_DEPOSITS]
    voluntary_exits: List[SignedVoluntaryExit, MAX_VOLUNTARY_EXITS]
    sync_aggregate: SyncAggregate
    # Execution
    execution_payload: ExecutionPayload 
    blob_kzg_commitments: List[KZGCommitment, MAX_BLOBS_PER_BLOCK]  # [New in EIP-4844]

ExecutionPayload

class ExecutionPayload(Container):
    # Execution block header fields
    parent_hash: Hash32
    fee_recipient: ExecutionAddress  # 'beneficiary' in the yellow paper
    state_root: Bytes32
    receipts_root: Bytes32
    logs_bloom: ByteVector[BYTES_PER_LOGS_BLOOM]
    prev_randao: Bytes32  # 'difficulty' in the yellow paper
    block_number: uint64  # 'number' in the yellow paper
    gas_limit: uint64
    gas_used: uint64
    timestamp: uint64
    extra_data: ByteList[MAX_EXTRA_DATA_BYTES]
    base_fee_per_gas: uint256
    excess_blobs: uint64  # [New in EIP-4844]
    # Extra payload fields
    block_hash: Hash32  # Hash of execution block
    transactions: List[Transaction, MAX_TRANSACTIONS_PER_PAYLOAD]

ExecutionPayloadHeader

class ExecutionPayloadHeader(Container):
    # Execution block header fields
    parent_hash: Hash32
    fee_recipient: ExecutionAddress
    state_root: Bytes32
    receipts_root: Bytes32
    logs_bloom: ByteVector[BYTES_PER_LOGS_BLOOM]
    prev_randao: Bytes32
    block_number: uint64
    gas_limit: uint64
    gas_used: uint64
    timestamp: uint64
    extra_data: ByteList[MAX_EXTRA_DATA_BYTES]
    base_fee_per_gas: uint256
    excess_blobs: uint64  # [New in EIP-4844]
    # Extra payload fields
    block_hash: Hash32  # Hash of execution block
    transactions_root: Root

Helper functions

Misc

validate_blobs_sidecar

def validate_blobs_sidecar(slot: Slot,
                           beacon_block_root: Root,
                           expected_kzg_commitments: Sequence[KZGCommitment],
                           blobs_sidecar: BlobsSidecar) -> None:
    assert slot == blobs_sidecar.beacon_block_slot
    assert beacon_block_root == blobs_sidecar.beacon_block_root
    blobs = blobs_sidecar.blobs
    kzg_aggregated_proof = blobs_sidecar.kzg_aggregated_proof
    assert len(expected_kzg_commitments) == len(blobs)

    assert verify_aggregate_kzg_proof(blobs, expected_kzg_commitments, kzg_aggregated_proof)

is_data_available

The implementation of is_data_available is meant to change with later sharding upgrades. Initially, it requires every verifying actor to retrieve the matching BlobsSidecar, and validate the sidecar with validate_blobs_sidecar.

Without the sidecar the block may be processed further optimistically, but MUST NOT be considered valid until a valid BlobsSidecar has been downloaded.

def is_data_available(slot: Slot, beacon_block_root: Root, blob_kzg_commitments: Sequence[KZGCommitment]) -> bool:
    # `retrieve_blobs_sidecar` is implementation dependent, raises an exception if not available.
    sidecar = retrieve_blobs_sidecar(slot, beacon_block_root)
    if sidecar == "TEST":
        return True  # For testing; remove once we have a way to inject `BlobsSidecar` into tests
    validate_blobs_sidecar(slot, beacon_block_root, blob_kzg_commitments, sidecar)

    return True

kzg_commitment_to_versioned_hash

def kzg_commitment_to_versioned_hash(kzg_commitment: KZGCommitment) -> VersionedHash:
    return VERSIONED_HASH_VERSION_KZG + hash(kzg_commitment)[1:]

tx_peek_blob_versioned_hashes

This function retrieves the hashes from the SignedBlobTransaction as defined in EIP-4844, using SSZ offsets. Offsets are little-endian uint32 values, as defined in the SSZ specification. See the full details of blob_versioned_hashes offset calculation.

def tx_peek_blob_versioned_hashes(opaque_tx: Transaction) -> Sequence[VersionedHash]:
    assert opaque_tx[0] == BLOB_TX_TYPE
    message_offset = 1 + uint32.decode_bytes(opaque_tx[1:5])
    # field offset: 32 + 8 + 32 + 32 + 8 + 4 + 32 + 4 + 4 + 32 = 188
    blob_versioned_hashes_offset = (
        message_offset
        + uint32.decode_bytes(opaque_tx[(message_offset + 188):(message_offset + 192)])
    )
    return [
        VersionedHash(opaque_tx[x:(x + 32)])
        for x in range(blob_versioned_hashes_offset, len(opaque_tx), 32)
    ]

verify_kzg_commitments_against_transactions

def verify_kzg_commitments_against_transactions(transactions: Sequence[Transaction],
                                                kzg_commitments: Sequence[KZGCommitment]) -> bool:
    all_versioned_hashes = []
    for tx in transactions:
        if tx[0] == BLOB_TX_TYPE:
            all_versioned_hashes += tx_peek_blob_versioned_hashes(tx)
    return all_versioned_hashes == [kzg_commitment_to_versioned_hash(commitment) for commitment in kzg_commitments]

Beacon chain state transition function

Block processing

def process_block(state: BeaconState, block: BeaconBlock) -> None:
    process_block_header(state, block)
    if is_execution_enabled(state, block.body):
        process_execution_payload(state, block.body.execution_payload, EXECUTION_ENGINE)
    process_randao(state, block.body)
    process_eth1_data(state, block.body)
    process_operations(state, block.body)
    process_sync_aggregate(state, block.body.sync_aggregate)
    process_blob_kzg_commitments(state, block.body)  # [New in EIP-4844]

    # New in EIP-4844, note: Can sync optimistically without this condition, see note on `is_data_available`
    assert is_data_available(block.slot, hash_tree_root(block), block.body.blob_kzg_commitments)

Execution payload

process_execution_payload

def process_execution_payload(state: BeaconState, payload: ExecutionPayload, execution_engine: ExecutionEngine) -> None:
    # Verify consistency of the parent hash with respect to the previous execution payload header
    if is_merge_transition_complete(state):
        assert payload.parent_hash == state.latest_execution_payload_header.block_hash
    # Verify prev_randao
    assert payload.prev_randao == get_randao_mix(state, get_current_epoch(state))
    # Verify timestamp
    assert payload.timestamp == compute_timestamp_at_slot(state, state.slot)
    # Verify the execution payload is valid
    assert execution_engine.notify_new_payload(payload)
    # Cache execution payload header
    state.latest_execution_payload_header = ExecutionPayloadHeader(
        parent_hash=payload.parent_hash,
        fee_recipient=payload.fee_recipient,
        state_root=payload.state_root,
        receipts_root=payload.receipts_root,
        logs_bloom=payload.logs_bloom,
        prev_randao=payload.prev_randao,
        block_number=payload.block_number,
        gas_limit=payload.gas_limit,
        gas_used=payload.gas_used,
        timestamp=payload.timestamp,
        extra_data=payload.extra_data,
        base_fee_per_gas=payload.base_fee_per_gas,
        excess_blobs=payload.excess_blobs,  # [New in EIP-4844]
        block_hash=payload.block_hash,
        transactions_root=hash_tree_root(payload.transactions),
    )

Blob KZG commitments

def process_blob_kzg_commitments(state: BeaconState, body: BeaconBlockBody):
    assert verify_kzg_commitments_against_transactions(body.execution_payload.transactions, body.blob_kzg_commitments)

Testing

Note: The function initialize_beacon_state_from_eth1 is modified for pure EIP-4844 testing only.

The BeaconState initialization is unchanged, except for the use of the updated eip4844.BeaconBlockBody type when initializing the first body-root.

def initialize_beacon_state_from_eth1(eth1_block_hash: Hash32,
                                      eth1_timestamp: uint64,
                                      deposits: Sequence[Deposit],
                                      execution_payload_header: ExecutionPayloadHeader=ExecutionPayloadHeader()
                                      ) -> BeaconState:
    fork = Fork(
        previous_version=EIP4844_FORK_VERSION,  # [Modified in EIP-4844] for testing only
        current_version=EIP4844_FORK_VERSION,  # [Modified in EIP-4844]
        epoch=GENESIS_EPOCH,
    )
    state = BeaconState(
        genesis_time=eth1_timestamp + GENESIS_DELAY,
        fork=fork,
        eth1_data=Eth1Data(block_hash=eth1_block_hash, deposit_count=uint64(len(deposits))),
        latest_block_header=BeaconBlockHeader(body_root=hash_tree_root(BeaconBlockBody())),
        randao_mixes=[eth1_block_hash] * EPOCHS_PER_HISTORICAL_VECTOR,  # Seed RANDAO with Eth1 entropy
    )

    # Process deposits
    leaves = list(map(lambda deposit: deposit.data, deposits))
    for index, deposit in enumerate(deposits):
        deposit_data_list = List[DepositData, 2**DEPOSIT_CONTRACT_TREE_DEPTH](*leaves[:index + 1])
        state.eth1_data.deposit_root = hash_tree_root(deposit_data_list)
        process_deposit(state, deposit)

    # Process activations
    for index, validator in enumerate(state.validators):
        balance = state.balances[index]
        validator.effective_balance = min(balance - balance % EFFECTIVE_BALANCE_INCREMENT, MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE)
        if validator.effective_balance == MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE:
            validator.activation_eligibility_epoch = GENESIS_EPOCH
            validator.activation_epoch = GENESIS_EPOCH

    # Set genesis validators root for domain separation and chain versioning
    state.genesis_validators_root = hash_tree_root(state.validators)

    # Fill in sync committees
    # Note: A duplicate committee is assigned for the current and next committee at genesis
    state.current_sync_committee = get_next_sync_committee(state)
    state.next_sync_committee = get_next_sync_committee(state)

    # Initialize the execution payload header
    # If empty, will initialize a chain that has not yet gone through the Merge transition
    state.latest_execution_payload_header = execution_payload_header

    return state