* remove incorrect/obsolete comment; deprecate BeaconState state transition functions
* remove deprecated state_transition(state: var BeaconState)
* add specific workarounds for state_transition() and process_slots() to nfuzz_block() and addTestBlock()
* 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 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.
* 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
* state data cache in block pool
* keep head state around
* more attestation logic in attestation pool
* first fork choice tests (!)
* fix fork choice (it's still likely broken / out of date)
* switch out quadratically scaling and wasteful attestation in state_sim to attest only to exactly the correct slots; avoid pointless committee index interconversion for 9-10x increase in state_sim speed at d:release, 60k validators, and validate=off
* remove debugechos
* rename compute_epoch_of_slot(...) to compute_epoch_at_slot(...)
* remove some unnecessary imports; remove some crosslink-related code and tests; complete renaming of compute_epoch_of_slot(...) to compute_epoch_at_slot(...)
* rm more transfer-related code and tests; rm more unnecessary strutils imports
* rm remaining unused imports
* remove useless get_empty_per_epoch_cache(...)/compute_start_slot_of_epoch(...) calls
* rename compute_start_slot_of_epoch(...) to compute_start_slot_at_epoch(...)
* rename ACTIVATION_EXIT_DELAY to MAX_SEED_LOOKAHEAD
* update domain types to 0.9.0
* mark AttesterSlashing, IndexedAttestation, AttestationDataAndCustodyBit, DepositData, BeaconBlockHeader, Fork, integer_squareroot(...), and process_voluntary_exit(...) as 0.9.0
* mark increase_balance(...), decrease_balance(...), get_block_root(...), CheckPoint, Deposit, PendingAttestation, HistoricalBatch, is_active_validator(...), and is_slashable_attestation_data(...) as 0.9.0
* mark compute_activation_exit_epoch(...), bls_verify(...), Validator, get_active_validator_indices(...), get_current_epoch(...), get_total_active_balance(...), and get_previous_epoch(...) as 0.9.0
* mark get_block_root_at_slot(...), ProposerSlashing, get_domain(...), VoluntaryExit, mainnet preset Gwei values, minimal preset max operations, process_block_header(...), and is_slashable_validator(...) as 0.9.0
* mark makeWithdrawalCredentials(...), get_validator_churn_limit(...), get_total_balance(...), is_valid_indexed_attestation(...), bls_aggregate_pubkeys(...), initial genesis value/constants, Attestation, get_randao_mix(...), mainnet preset max operations per block constants, minimal preset Gwei values and time parameters, process_eth1_data(...), get_shuffled_seq(...), compute_committee(...), and process_slots(...) as 0.9.0; partially update get_indexed_attestation(...) to 0.9.0 by removing crosslink refs and associated tests
* mark initiate_validator_exit(...), process_registry_updates(...), BeaconBlock, Eth1Data, compute_domain(...), process_randao(...), process_attester_slashing(...), get_base_reward(...), and process_slot(...) as 0.9.0
* working justification, 1 node, 64 validators
* closer to tn1 params: 256 validators
* more debugging output; switch to minimum test case
* working justification and finalization in local network simulation
* fix currently incorrect state transition/attestation test assumption
* State sim compiles and run
* Works on libp2p testnet1
* Successfully update the state transition tests
* naive update of attestation pool (failing attstations can arrive in any order)
* Remove an official assert to allow attestation reordering
* rename slot_to_epoch(...) to compute_epoch_of_slot(...)
* rename aggregation_bitfield/custody_bitfield fields to aggregation_bits/custody_bits; rename convert_to_indexed(...) to get_indexed_attestation(...); mark BeaconBlockHeader as 0.8.0; update minimal preset MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY/time parameters in general to 0.8
* fix beacon node compilation; it used slightly different capitalizations of slot_to_epoch/slotToEpoch
* mark integer_squareroot(...), Deposit, VoluntaryExit, and Transfer as 0.8.0; rename get_epoch_start_slot(...) to compute_start_slot_of_epoch(...)
* add new Domain alias for uint64; rename bls_domain(...) to compute_domain(...), MAX_INDICES_PER_ATTESTATION to MAX_VALIDATORS_PER_COMMITTEE, and SignatureDomain to DomainType; update get_domain(...) to 0.8.0
* update/mark initiate_validator_exit(...) and Crosslink as 0.8.0; rename BeaconState.latest_block_roots -> BeaconState.block_roots; mark HistoricalBatch as 0.8.0
* migrate attestation pool tests from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* rm obsolete, unused get_crosslink_committees_at_slot_cached(...) and migrate tests/test_state_transition from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* migrate tests/testutil from get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...) to get_crosslink_committee(...)
* use more pervasive caching infrastructure, initially of compute_committee; remove buggy (and per-index) shuffling to fix research/state_sim, which was noticing validators on multiple shard committees; rm now-unused specific get_attesting_balance_cached
* add some get_active_validator_index caching
* rm obsolete/unused get_attesting_indices_cached
* rm get_crosslink_committees_at_slot(...)
* some more 0.7 changes -- some of which can't be completed pending some data structure updates -- and shard handling changes to offset with epoch start shards
* update Deposit and BeaconBlockHeader to 0.7.0
* update get_total_balance(...) and get_base_reward(...) to 0.7.0
* rename initial value constant BLS_WITHDRAWAL_PREFIX_BYTE to BLS_WITHDRAWAL_PREFIX
* mark minimal presets as entirely migrated to 0.7.0; update process_rewards_and_penalties(...) to 0.7.0
* specify that targeting 0.7.0; adopt 0.7.0 refactoring of bls_domain/get_domain to update get_domain(...) to 0.7.0; mark that mainnet constant presets and block header processing are 0.7.0-consistent; update process_justification_and_finalization to 0.7.0 to fix potential underflow errors
* address mratsim's comment to copy whole spec comment
* update IndexedAttestation, verify_slashable_attestation/verify_indexed_attestation, and attester slashing processing to 0.6.3
* rm debug scaffolding
* rename Attestation.aggregate_signature -> Attestation.signature; convert various references to AttestationData.slot to get_attestation_slot; implement convert_to_indexed; update checkAttestation and processAttestations to 0.6.3; remove spurious assertion in beacon node related to invalid attestations
* replace 0.5 get_winning_root_and_participants with 0.6 get_winning_crosslink_and_attesting_indices; update process_crosslinks to 0.6.3
* mark both remaining 0.6.0 spec implementations as 0.6.3
* clear out all remaining spec version 0.6.1 refs
* GENESIS_SLOT and GENESIS_EPOCH are 0
* rm 0.5 get_attestation_participants in favor of 0.6 get_attesting_indices
* address mratsim's comment
* time can be equal to genesis
* fix invalid block assertions; those were essentially spurious
* allow toBeaconTime to handle time before genesis (in accordance with now(...) which states time can exist before GENESIS)
* Initial move constants to mainnet preset
* Bump fixtures to include shuffling with minimal preset
* Add minimal preset with shuffling test
* Add minimal preset to the full test suite
* use preset() everywhere
* initial new get_beacon_proposer_index and dependencies (get_shuffled_index, get_shard_delta, get_epoch_start_shard, get_crosslink_committee)
* more 0.6.1 updates
* clean up debugEchos and fix validator keygen to create correct indices
* signed_root -> signing_root
* implement new process_deposit; update timing parameters to 0.6.1; update Deposit to 0.6.1 and remove DepositInput
* update get_active_validator_indices and get_epoch_committee_count to 0.6.1; rm get_current_epoch_committee_count, get_previous_epoch_committee_count, and get_next_epoch_committee_count; bump state_sim default validator count a bit more
* re-introduce 0.5.1-ish get_active_validator_indices, get_epoch_committee_count as scaffolding for still-0.5.1ish shuffling
* begin 0.6.0: new get_domain/increase_balance/reduce_balance, BeaconState.validator_balances -> BeaconState.balances, some renamed constants, transaction processing changes, SlashableAttestation field name changes, 0.6.0 get_beacon_proposer_index always uses given state's slot, update tests subrepo
* mark get_bitfield_bit/bls_verify_multiple/stat-list-lengths/is_active_validator/is_surround_vote/slot_to_epoch/int_to_bytes/etc as unchanged in 0.6.0; rm Eth1DataVote/maybe_reset_eth1_period and thus adjust expected tree hash test results
* mark verify_bitfield/bls_verify/deposit-contract/VoluntaryExit/PendingAttestation/Historicalbatch/Fork as 0.6.0; update DOMAIN_BEACON_BLOCK to DOMAIN_BEACON_PROPOSER
* update Crosslink to 0.6.0 (also requires tree hashing test result change, so isolate in individual commit)
* mark verify_merkle_branch/get_delayed_activation_exit_epoch/ProposerSlashing/Attestation/AttestationDataAndCustodyBit/hash/integer_squareroot/get_epoch_start_slot/is_double_vote/get_randao_mix/generate_seed as 0.6.0; update reward and penalty quotients; SlashableAttestation -> IndexedAttestation; rm get_fork_version; ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_REWARD_QUOTIENT -> PROPOSER_REWARD_QUOTIENT
this is the beginning of tracking block-slots more precisely, so we can
the justification epoch slot bug.
* avoid asyncDiscard (swallows assertions)
* fix attestation delay
* fix several state root cache bugs
* introduce workaround for genesis epoch spec issue
* no need to pass prev_block_root when updating state
* some Slot fixes
* fix `hash_tree_root` for Slot, Epoch
* detect missing hash_tree_root type support
* remove some <0.5 state checks
* ssz: update to 0.5.1:ish
* slightly fewer seq allocations
* still a lot of potential for optimization
* fixes#174
* ssz: avoid reallocating leaves (logN merkle impl)
* rm gone-in-0.5.0 Proposal, verifyBlockSignature, and slot check which moved to spec function processBlockHeader
* mark get_attestation_participants and get_epoch_committee_count as 0.5.1; finish updating processAttestations to 0.5.1; add kludgy workaround for bug relating to get_winning_roots_etc using crosslink_data_root as index when we have that as ZERO_HASH for all leading to it confusing attesters on different shards; rm BeaconState.latest_attestations, which splits into previous_epoch_attestations and current_epoch_attestations
* Fix CI due to removed latest_attestations field
* add simple bitfield type (fixes#19)
* fix bit endianess to match spec
* consolidate attestation and block logging
* cruft cleanup
* run optimizer on tests, speeds up build
* begin refactoring 0.5.0 epoch transition at justification and finalization
* update processTransfers to 0.5.0 spec
* update get_crosslink_committees_at_slot to 0.5.0 except for noted workaround for pre-0.5.0 spec bug related to epoch boundary conditions, to be flipped in more coordinated way with other epoch processing changes
* mark ejection processing as 0.5.0
* 0.5.0 epoch update finalization
* rm BEACON_CHAIN_SHARD_NUMBER to complete updating miscellaneous constants to 0.5.0
* mark verify_slashable_attestation as 0.5.0
* update process_attester_slashing to 0.5.0
* update process_slashings(...) to 0.5.0 and mark process_exit_queue as 0.5.0
* refactor epoch processing by implementing 0.5.0's update_registry_and_shuffling_data(...)
Ștefan Talpalaru
Mamy André-Ratsimbazafy
tersec
Jacek Sieka
Zahary Karadjov
Zed
Mamy Ratsimbazafy
Jacek Sieka