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* Perform block pre-check before validating execution When syncing, blocks have not been gossip-validated and are therefore prone to trivial faults like being known-unviable, duplicate or missing their parent. In addition, the duplicate-block check in BlockProcessor was not considering the quarantine flow and would therefore cause recently-quarantined blocks to be silenty dropped when their parent appears delaying the sync end-game and thus causing longer startup resync time. This PR verifies trivial conditions before performing execution validation thus avoiding duplicates and missing parents alike. It also ensures that the fast-sync EL mode is used for finalized blocks even if the EL is timing out / slow to respond - this allows the CL to complete its sync faster and switch to "normal" lock-step at the head of the chain more quickly, thus also allowing the EL to access the latest consensensus information earlier. * oops * remove unused constant |
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README.md
Consensus object pools
This folder holds the various consensus object pools needed for a blockchain client.
Object in those pools have passed the "gossip validation" filter according to specs:
- blocks: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.3.0/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#beacon_block
- aggregate attestations: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.4.0-beta.0/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#beacon_aggregate_and_proof
- unaggregated attestation: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.3.0/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#beacon_attestation_subnet_id
- voluntary exits: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.4.0-alpha.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#voluntary_exit
- Attester slashings: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.3.0/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#attester_slashing
- Proposer slashings: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/blob/v1.4.0-alpha.1/specs/phase0/p2p-interface.md#proposer_slashing
After "gossip validation" the consensus objects can be rebroadcasted as they are optimistically good, however for internal processing further verification is needed. For blocks, this means verifying state transition and all contained cryptographic signatures (instead of just the proposer signature). For other consensus objects, it is possible that gossip validation is a superset of consensus verification (TODO).
The pools presenet in this folder are:
- block_pools:
- block_quarantine: for seemingly valid blocks that are on a fork unknown to us.
- block_clearance: to verify (state_transition + cryptography) candidate blocks.
- blockchain_dag: an in-memory direct-acyclic graph of fully validated and verified blockchain candidates with the tail being the last finalized epoch. A block in the DAG MUST be in the fork choice and a block in the fork choice MUST be in the DAG (except for orphans following finalization). On finalization non-empty epoch blocks are stored in the beacon_chain_db.
- attestation_pool: Handles the attestation received from gossip and collect them for fork choice.
- exit_pool: Handle voluntary exits and forced exits (attester slashings and proposer slashings)