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* Store finalized block roots in database (3s startup) When the chain has finalized a checkpoint, the history from that point onwards becomes linear - this is exploited in `.era` files to allow constant-time by-slot lookups. In the database, we can do the same by storing finalized block roots in a simple sparse table indexed by slot, bringing the two representations closer to each other in terms of conceptual layout and performance. Doing so has a number of interesting effects: * mainnet startup time is improved 3-5x (3s on my laptop) * the _first_ startup might take slightly longer as the new index is being built - ~10s on the same laptop * we no longer rely on the beacon block summaries to load the full dag - this is a lot faster because we no longer have to look up each block by parent root * a collateral benefit is that we no longer need to load the full summaries table into memory - we get the RSS benefits of #3164 without the CPU hit. Other random stuff: * simplify forky block generics * fix withManyWrites multiple evaluation * fix validator key cache not being updated properly in chaindag read-only mode * drop pre-altair summaries from `kvstore` * recreate missing summaries from altair+ blocks as well (in case database has lost some to an involuntary restart) * print database startup timings in chaindag load log * avoid allocating superfluos state at startup * use a recursive sql query to load the summaries of the unfinalized blocks