- testnets can now be launched with a separate validator client - make altona SCRIPT_PARAMS="--separateVC"
- reverted the ctrl+C signal handler code reuse - not necessary for the VC anyway (default is good enough)
- added a bit more logging in the VC
- removed unnecessary code in the VC - connect() just parses the address & port...
- fixed a couple more VC issues - when fetching the duties for an epoch fails on the BN side ==> the VC shouldn't be left in a broken state
- documented the currently supported json-rpc endpoints
- added more checks on the BN side for the API - bounds-checking the requests & also checking if the BN itself is synced
- other cleanup
currently a local sim doesn't finalize, but participation in the altona network with a separate VC is painless and works just as well as with in-process validators in a BN
* adopt Result[void, string] in place of some bool return signatures
* string -> cstring to reduce memory allocations; ensure all err() strings are constants, with contextual information from higher-level callers
* logScope usage fixes
* homogenize err() reporting convention
* invalid signature in deposit isn't an error
* add tests for unviable blocks
also enable finalization tests in all test configs - they're plenty fast
now
also fix newClone for non-rvo cases. sigh.
* fixes
* cleanups
* fix ncli state root check flag
* add block dump to ncli_db
* limit ncli_db benchmark length
* tone down finalization logs
* introduce trusted blocks
We only store blocks whose signature we've verified in the database - as
such, there's no need to check it again, and most importantly, no need
to deserialize the signature when loading from database.
50x startup time improvement, 200x block load time improvement.
* fix rewinding when deposits have invalid signature
* speed up ancestor iteration by avoiding copy
* avoid deserializing signatures for trusted data
* load blocks lazily when rewinding (less memory used)
* chronicles workarounds
* document trustedbeaconblock
* re-add minimal preset constant checking; organize presets to better support multiple spec versions
* bump spec ref
* increase Azure timeout to 90 minutes to accomodate Nim compiler building
- better logging & retrying requests on the VC side if the BN fails for some reason
- VC now fetches the attestation duties 1 epoch in advance - in the future it will tell the BN to subscribe to the appropriate attestation topics in advance based on that info
- a bunch of other code cleanup & fixes such as better naming for consoles when using multitail, etc.
reviewed in PR #1184 - proper review of the API & VC are pending
* collect signature production and verificaiton in one place
Signatures are made over data and domain - here we collect all such
activities in one place.
Also:
* security: fix cast-before-range-check
* log block/attestation verification consistently
* run block verification based on `getProposer` in its own history
* clean up some unused stuff
* import
* missing raises
* 3gb vs 12gb for 4000 epochs of witti
* 3-4x sync blocks/sec performance improvement on my FDE SSD drive
* generate less quirky code for primitive types
* random fixes
* create dump dir on startup
* don't crash on failure to write dump
* fix a few `uint64` instances being used when indexing arrays - this
should be a compile error but isn't due to compiler bugs
* fix standalone test_block_pool compilation
* add signed block processing in ncli
* reuse cache entry instead of allocating a new one
* allow for small clock disparities when validating blocks
- each BN gets half of its previous validators as inProcess and the other half goes to the respective VC for that BN - using separate data dirs where the keys are copied
- also removed a few command line options which are no longer necessary
- block proposals originating from a VC are propagated from one BN to the rest properly
- other cleanup & moving code back to since it is no longer used elsewhere
* reorder ssz
* split into hash_trees and ssz_serialization, roughly, for hashing and
IO
* move bitseqs into ssz (from stew)
* clean up imports
* docs, imports
* wip: cache
* cache lists and arrays of complex objects (5x block processing speed
on ncli_db)
trivial baseline cache that stores tree in flat memory structure
* support array of uint64
* work around type issues
* more type compiler bug workarounds
* cache balances, more type fixes
* index type
* ncli_db: add validation flag, better ux
* int64 fixes
* test fix
* "oops"
```
647.913, 0.000, 647.913, 647.913, 1,
Initialize DB
0.540, 0.402, 0.340, 9.451, 619,
Load block from database
40.268, 0.000, 40.268, 40.268, 1,
Load state from database
0.498, 0.150, 0.343, 0.930, 596,
Apply block
3.548, 11.005, 0.729, 54.022, 23,
Apply epoch block
```
* support all basic types
* cleanups
* a few more cleanups
* switch state transition caching usage to shuffled active validator indices to match EpochRef
* refactor the EpochRef -> StateCache transformation; elide pointless mapIt
* limit state passed between get_beacon_committee(...) and compute_committee(...)
* tweaks
* plumbing between block pool and state transition functions around active validator indices and committees
* have shared epochrefs followed by blockref tree while allowing for skipped slots
* factor out the epoch info extraction; document how the EpochRef follows forks
* be stricter about SSZ length prefix
* compute zeroHash list at compile time
* remove SSZ schema stuff
* move SSZ navigation to ncli
* cleanup a few leftover openArray uses
- we have a new binary which connects via RPC to the respective BN and has an internal clock - waking it up on every slot
- the BN has a new option called --external-validators and currently in order to have the VC binaries to run we need to pass EXTERNAL_VALIDATORS=yes to make
- factored some code out of beacon_node.nim for easier reuse in validator_api.nim and validator_client.nim
- the VC loads its associated private keys from the datadir for its BN
- most of the validator API calls have been implemented as a stub.
- the VC polls its BN at the start of each epoch - getting a list of all active validators for the current epoch - and then continues to request blocks and sign them with its appropriate validators when necessary
* in makeBeaconBlock - use rollback instead
* in tests - this helps state_sim give more accurate data and makes it
30% faster
* fix some usages of raw BeaconState
* update more spec refs in beacon_chain/spec/presets; skip skipped constant sanity checks also from markdown reports' perspectives
* mark skipped as skipped in markdown
* sync fixes
* fix Status message finalized info
* work around sync starting before initial status exchange
* don't fail block on deposit signature check failure (fixes#989)
* print ForkDigest and Version nicely
* dump incoming blocks
* fix crash when libp2p peer connection is closed
* update chunk size to 16 to work around missing blocks when syncing
* bump libp2p
* bump libp2p
* better deposit skip message
* fix some warnings related to beacon_node splitting; reimplement finalization verification more robustly; improve attestation pool block selection logic
* re-add missing import
* whitelist allowed state transition flags and make rollback/restore naming more consistent
* restore usage of update flags passed into skipAndUpdateState(...) in addition to the potential verifyFinalization flag
* switch rest of rollback -> restore
When replaying state transitions, for the slots that have a block, the
state root is taken from the block. For slots that lack a block, it's
currently calculated using hash_tree_root which is expensive.
Caching the empty slot state roots helps us avoid recalculating this
hash, meaning that for replay, hashes are never calculated. This turns
blocks into fairly lightweight "state-diffs"!
* avoid re-saving state when replaying blocks
* advance empty slots slot-by-slot and save root
* fix sim randomness
* fix sim genesis filename
* introduce `isEpoch` to check if a slot is an epoch slot
* remove near-duplicate code paths: process_slot(), process_slots(), and state_transition() for BeaconState are now wrappers around the HashedBeaconState versions
* convert tests/test_state_transition.nim to use HashedBeaconState
* convert mocking infrastructure and spec_block/epoch_processing tests to use HashedBeaconBlock, and remove thus unused process_slot*(state: var BeaconState)
* ssz: move ref support outside
Instead of allocating ref's inside SSZ, move it to separate helper:
* makes `ref` allocations explicit
* less magic inside SSZ
* `ref` in nim generally means reference whereas SSZ was loading as
value - if a type indeed used references it would get copies instead of
references to a single value on roundtrip which is unexpected
TODO: EF tests would benefit from some refactoring since they all do the
same thing practically..
Co-authored-by: Zahary Karadjov <zahary@gmail.com>
* add another check for inconsistent aggregation and committee length, since ncli_transition bypasses process_attestation(...)/check_attestation(...) and calls almost directly into process_epoch(...)
* bump validator functions to v0.11.1 spec references
* bump some spec references to v0.11.1
* poke
* reduce stack space usage in process_final_updates(...) to avoid fuzzed segfault in https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain/issues/921
* document motivation behind manually constructing hash_tree_root of a HistoricalBatch
* fix mainnet finalization and swith eth2_network_simulation to a kind of small-mainnet profile
* Fix slot reference in trace logging
* bump a couple of spec refs from v0.11.0 to v0.11.1
* bump another spec ref to v0.11.1, one more try at Jenkins test vector download CI issue
* fix other slot reference in trace logging and skip past single-block/multi-slot gaps to re-approach from ancestry side by state_transitioning, by requiring exact match on both root hash and slot for fast path
* make more precise the fast path condition
* redo logic to make uniform with BeaconChainDB; fix chronos deprecation warning
* revert not-working replacement of deprecated chronos futures `or`
* switch testnet1 to mainnet
* fix warnings by switching from deprecated chronos API addTimer(...) to setTimer(...) and removing especially some unnecessary chronicles and extras imports from test suite modules
* update a couple v0.10.1 spec references to v0.11.1
* crypto: cleanup
* fix several Defect-on-user-input
* make crypto interface more similar to secp
* use `crypto.nim` in all of nbc
* digest: raises
* fix
* vendor
* remove all but one UnusedImport warning
* bump a few more spec version references from v0.10.1 to v0.11.1
* more v0.10.1 spec reference updates/removals
* yet more v0.10.1 spec reference updates
* refactor and fix merkle proof construction in test suite and thereby remove most remaining skipMerkleValidation flags, now unnecessary
* a few non-semantic comment update/removals
* initial attestation aggregation
* fix usage of committee index, vs index in committee; uniformly set trailing/following distance; document how the only-broadcast-if mechanism works better and what aggregation already happens, not otherwise sufficiently clear; use correct BlockSlot across epoch boundaries
* address inconsistent notion of which slot in past to target for aggregate broadcast; follow 0.11.x aggregate broadcast p2p interface topic
* Fix get_slot_signature(...) call after get_domain(...) change required genesis_validators_root
* mark all spec references which aren't dealt with in other PRs as v0.11.1
* update two more spec refs to v0.11.1
* initial extended validation setup
* flesh out all TODO items for attestation and beaconblock verification
* fix finalization and add chronicles debugging messages
* directly use blockPool.headState rather than pointlessly updating it and document this constraint
* fix logic relating to first-attestation checking; support validating blocks across multiple forks
* initial 0.11.1 spec commit; no test regressions and finalizes in eth2_network_simulation
* with BLS 0.10/0.11 available, stop skipping attester slashing, proposer slashing, and voluntary exist operations fixture tests
* switch param orders to group state.{fork, genesis_validators_root}; bump spec/datatypes spec version for network purposes
* mark attestation construction and broadcast and some minimal/mainnet constants as 0.11.1-compatible; remove phase 1 sharding constants from minimal which don't exist in that preset
* complete (except for get_domain(...)) 0.11.0 beacon chain spec update
* mark compute_start_slot_at_epoch(...), is_active_validator(...), compute_signing_root(...), and get_seed(...) as 0.11.0
* Initial implementation of runtime bls skipping.
Add libnfuzz skipBLSValidation handling, check that it propagates.
* Rename skipBLSValidation -> skipBlsValidation, start skipStateRootValidation
* Replace skipValidation flags with more granular flags.
Also added skipBlockParentRootValidation flag
Mainly replaced with skipBlsValidation but also StateRoot or
BlockParentRootValidation flags where appropriate.
* Adjust interop test to pass when skipping merkle validation.
* Stop skipping validation for mainchain_monitor.
* Remove comment.
* Also skipMerkleValidation for test_beacon_chain_db.
* beacon node code cleanup
* rudimentary error checking on mainnet monitor
* start client even when sending deposit
* work around missing block number exception
* connect to testnet with web3 url
* pretty-print digests in json
* update to 0.10.1
* SSZ Generic and nbench uses the v0.10.1 fixtures
* Tests + spec links: v0.10.0 -> v0.10.1
* Add v0.10.1 TODO in get_latest_attesting_balance (forkchoice)
* SSZ Bytes are now ByteList
* Remove nim-result submodules that was leftover/added by mistake in the branch
The loader has been tested with the presets published by Lighthouse.
You can try connecting to one of their testnets by running:
cd nim-beacon-chain
./connect-to-testnet lighthouse/testnet0
* simplify data storage to key-value, tries are not relevant for NBC
* locked-down version of lmdb dependency
* easier to build / maintain on various platforms
* nbench PoC
* Remove the yaml files from the example scenarios
* update README with current status
* Add an alternative implementation that uses defer
* Forgot to add the old proc body
* slots-processing
* allow benching state_transition failures
* Add Attestations processing (workaround confutils bug:
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/10
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/11
- https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils/issues/12
* Add CLI command in the readme
* Filter report and add notes about CPU cycles
* Report averages
* Add debugecho style time/cycle print
* Report when we skip BLS and state root verification
* Update to 0.9.3
* Generalize scenario parsing
* Support all block processing scenarios
* parallel bench runner PoC
* gitBetter load issues reporting (the load issues were invalid signature and expected to fail)
Dustin Brody
Zahary Karadjov
Viktor Kirilov
Jacek Sieka
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
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Ștefan Talpalaru
Joao Gabriel Carvalho