Eth2 call - ethereum/eth2.0-pm#196
Testing infra : changes plan for January next year
Proposal: accounting reform
- ethereum/consensus-specs#2140
- ethereum/consensus-specs#2150 V. highly recommends for every dev to look at that.
Test proposal: BLS serialization tests
Teku:
- Focus on block processing, no more block orphaned
- Att for first slot more precise
- (?)
- Backing tree heap consumption
- Better attestation aggregates (?)
Prysm:
- Database backups at runtime
- Support reading graffiti from files
- Peer socring enabled
- Update golang
- Disk IO
- Eth1 fallback option for Eth1 node
Lighthouse:
- Slasher enhancement, fixed a missed proposer slashing bugs
- IO failures that may vause potential database corruption
- Eth1 fallback node
- (?)
- http API
- light attestation
- Gossipsub analysis, foun discrepencies
- WIP reduce block proposal time
- WIP Beacon node fallback
- experiments with new scoring parameter
Lodestar:
- Debug API
- BLS batch verification
- Takes a while to get peers
- will have release every 2 weeks
- Can try Lodestar on Pyrmont.
- will pause every few minutes (but can keep following the head)
Research updates
Vitalik:
- Data availability Sharding is now a PR
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- explanation of data availability sampling
- Dankrad optimized proof generation (8x faster)
How to implement Kate commitment?
- add, mul and multiscalar multiplication
- FFT not necessary for generation (?) but needed for verification (?)
- Dankrad ready to offer to walk through the optimization he did.
Twist in fork choice rule upcoming (theoretical issue with liveness)
Good holidays!