## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Downgrade a `CRIT` to an `ERRO` when there's an `Irrecoverable` error whilst publishing a blinded block.
It's quite common for builders successfully broadcast a block to the network whilst failing to respond to the BN when it publishes a signed, blinded block. The VC is currently raising a `CRIT` when this happens and I think that's excessive.
These changes have the same intent as #4073. In that PR I only managed to remove the `CRIT`s in the BN but missed this one in the VC.
I've also tidied the log messages to:
- Give them all the same title (*"Error whilst producing block"*) to help with grepping.
- Include the `block_slot` so it's easy to look up the slot in an explorer and see if it was actually skipped.
## Additional Info
This PR should not change any logic beyond logging.
## Issue Addressed
Closes#4354Closes#3987
Replaces #4305, #4283
## Proposed Changes
This switches the default slasher backend _back_ to LMDB.
If an MDBX database exists and the MDBX backend is enabled then MDBX will continue to be used. Our release binaries and Docker images will continue to include MDBX for as long as it is practical, so users of these should not notice any difference.
The main benefit is to users compiling from source and devs running tests. These users no longer have to struggle to compile MDBX and deal with the compatibility issues that arises. Similarly, devs don't need to worry about toggling feature flags in tests or risk forgetting to run the slasher tests due to backend issues.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
This change will log the value of the relay block and the local block when the relay block is more profitable.
## Additional Info
This change will help validators understand the block selection (as it looks like the execution reward sometimes is higher that the MEV-reward).
The rationale for this change is to aid operators to better understand why a relay-block was chosen over a local block.
Looking at produced blocks (at beaconcha.in for example) it sometimes looks like the builder is making a profit just from the execution reward vs the MEV-reward, and creates the nagging question: "Could i have built this block and made that extra profit?"... The answer is probably "No, not without the extra transactions included by the relay", but by logging the value of the local block-candidate, this will no longer be an issue..
### Example (Mainnet)
https://beaconcha.in/block/17370329
MEV Block Reward: 0.17122 Ether to 0xE35bBaFa0266089f95d745d348b468622805D82B
Execution Reward: 0.17528 Ether to 0x1f9090aaE28b8a3dCeaDf281B0F12828e676c326
Difference: 0.00406 Ether
### Examples (Goerli)
https://goerli.beaconcha.in/block/9040065
MEV Block Reward: 0.56423 Ether to 0xF5794543CF6055Ae710E9c8E99E31343Cea004a8
Execution Reward: 0.56488 Ether to 0xfC0157aA4F5DB7177830ACddB3D5a9BB5BE9cc5e
Difference: 0.00065 Ether
https://goerli.beaconcha.in/block/9019921
MEV Block Reward: 1.39440 Ether to 0xF5794543CF6055Ae710E9c8E99E31343Cea004a8
Execution Reward: 1.39469 Ether to 0xfC0157aA4F5DB7177830ACddB3D5a9BB5BE9cc5e
Difference: 0.00029 Ether
https://goerli.beaconcha.in/block/9015583
MEV Block Reward: 1.04356 Ether to 0xF5794543CF6055Ae710E9c8E99E31343Cea004a8
Execution Reward: 1.04896 Ether to 0xfC0157aA4F5DB7177830ACddB3D5a9BB5BE9cc5e
Difference: 0.0054 Ether
## Issue Addressed
On deneb devnetv5, lighthouse keeps rate limiting peers which makes it harder to bootstrap new nodes as there are very few peers in the network. This PR adds an option to disable the inbound rate limiter for testnets.
Added an option to configure inbound rate limits as well.
Co-authored-by: Diva M <divma@protonmail.com>
## Proposed Changes
This is a light refactor of the execution layer's block hash calculation logic making it easier to use externally. e.g. in `eleel` (https://github.com/sigp/eleel/pull/18).
A static method is preferable to a method because the calculation doesn't actually need any data from `self`, and callers may want to compute block hashes without constructing an `ExecutionLayer` (`eleel` only constructs a simpler `Engine` struct).
## Issue Addressed
Update Information in Lighthouse Book
## Proposed Changes
- move Validator Graffiti from Advanced Usage to Validator Management
- update API response and command
- some items that aren't too sure I put it in comment, which can be seen in raw/review format but not live
## Additional Info
Please provide any additional information. For example, future considerations
or information useful for reviewers.
Co-authored-by: chonghe <44791194+chong-he@users.noreply.github.com>
## Issue Addressed
Added some frequently asked questions in the Lighthouse Book
## Proposed Changes
Created another file faqV2.md which categorises the FAQs into different sections for better organisation. For review purpose, a review on faq.md will suffice. Then, if faqV2.md looks better, can delete faq.md; otherwise if the changes to the faqV2.md is too much, can keep faq.md and delete faqv2.md.
## Additional Info
Please provide any additional information. For example, future considerations
or information useful for reviewers.
Co-authored-by: chonghe <44791194+chong-he@users.noreply.github.com>
## Issue Addressed
-
## Proposed Changes
Add information to use SSH to connect to Siren beyond the local computer
## Additional Info
Please provide any additional information. For example, future considerations
or information useful for reviewers.
Co-authored-by: chonghe <44791194+chong-he@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
This PR address the following spec change: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs/pull/3312
Instead of subscribing to a long-lived subnet for every attached validator to a beacon node, all beacon nodes will subscribe to `SUBNETS_PER_NODE` long-lived subnets. This is currently set to 2 for mainnet.
This PR does not include any scoring or advanced discovery mechanisms. A future PR will improve discovery and we can implement scoring after the next hard fork when we expect all client teams and all implementations to respect this spec change.
This will be a significant change in the subnet network structure for consensus clients and we will likely have to monitor and tweak our peer management logic.
## Issue Addressed
Realized this was missing while discussing #4280
## Proposed Changes
Add an Item to the list of additional requirements for developers.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Geth's latest release breaks our CI with the following message
```
Fatal: Failed to register the Ethereum service: ethash is only supported as a historical component of already merged networks
Shutting down
```
Latest geth version has removed support for PoW networks. Hence, we need to add an extra `terminalTotalDifficultyPassed ` parameter in the genesis config to start from a merged network.
## Issue Addressed
Add a new `--output values` option to `db inspect` for dumping raw database values to SSZ files.
This could be useful for inspecting the database when we're unable to start the beacon node.
Example usage:
```
# Output the `ForkChoice` column to an SSZ file
lighthouse db inspect --column frk --output values
```
By default, it stores the output files in the current directory, and can be overriden with `--ouput-dir`.
List of columns can be found here:
c547a11b0d/beacon_node/store/src/lib.rs (L169-L216)
## Issue Addressed
None
## Proposed Changes
Tiny change to the documentation: Bellatrix happened for Gnosis so also needs a merge-ready config.
## Additional Info
None
This PR adds the ability to read the Lighthouse logs from the HTTP API for both the BN and the VC.
This is done in such a way to as minimize any kind of performance hit by adding this feature.
The current design creates a tokio broadcast channel and mixes is into a form of slog drain that combines with our main global logger drain, only if the http api is enabled.
The drain gets the logs, checks the log level and drops them if they are below INFO. If they are INFO or higher, it sends them via a broadcast channel only if there are users subscribed to the HTTP API channel. If not, it drops the logs.
If there are more than one subscriber, the channel clones the log records and converts them to json in their independent HTTP API tasks.
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/4309#issuecomment-1556052261
## Proposed Changes
Log the `Connected to beacon node` message only if the node was previously offline. This avoids a regression in logging after #4295, whereby the `Connected to beacon node` message would be logged every slot.
The new reduced logging is _slightly different_ from what we had prior to my changes in #4295. The main difference is that we used to log the `Connected` message whenever a node was online and subject to a health check (for being unhealthy in some other way). I think the new behaviour is reasonable, as the `Connected` message isn't particularly helpful if the BN is unhealthy, and the specific reason for unhealthiness will be logged by the warnings for `is_compatible`/`is_synced`.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Gnosis preset values have been updated from previous placeholder values. This changes are required for chiado since it inherits the preset from gnosis mainnet.
- preset values update PR ref: https://github.com/gnosischain/configs/pull/11
## Additional Info
N/A
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds metrics to track validators that are submitting equivocating (but not slashable) sync messages. This follows on from some research we've been doing in a separate fork of LH.
## Additional Info
@jimmygchen and @michaelsproul have already run their eyes over this so it should be easy to get into v4.2.0, IMO.
## Issue Addressed
#4281
## Proposed Changes
- Change `ShufflingCache` implementation from using `LruCache` to a custom cache that removes entry with lowest epoch instead of oldest insertion time.
- Protect the "enshrined" head shufflings when inserting new committee cache entries. The shuffling ids matching the head's previous, current, and future epochs will never be ejected from the cache during `Self::insert_cache_item`.
## Additional Info
There is a bonus point on shuffling preferences in the issue description that hasn't been implemented yet, as I haven't figured out a good way to do this:
> However I'm not convinced since there are some complexities around tie-breaking when two entries have the same epoch. Perhaps preferring entries in the canonical chain is best?
We should be able to check if a block is on the canonical chain by:
```rust
canonical_head
.fork_choice_read_lock()
.contains_block(root)
```
However we need to interleave the shuffling and fork choice locks, which may cause deadlocks if we're not careful (mentioned by @paulhauner). Alternatively, we could use the `state.block_roots` field of the `chain.canonical_head.snapshot.beacon_state`, which avoids deadlock but requires more work.
I'd like to get some feedback on review & testing before I dig deeper into the preferences stuff, as having the canonical head preference may already be quite useful in preventing the issue raised.
Co-authored-by: Jimmy Chen <jimmy@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
Closes https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/4291, part of #3613.
## Proposed Changes
- Implement the `el_offline` field on `/eth/v1/node/syncing`. We set `el_offline=true` if:
- The EL's internal status is `Offline` or `AuthFailed`, _or_
- The most recent call to `newPayload` resulted in an error (more on this in a moment).
- Use the `el_offline` field in the VC to mark nodes with offline ELs as _unsynced_. These nodes will still be used, but only after synced nodes.
- Overhaul the usage of `RequireSynced` so that `::No` is used almost everywhere. The `--allow-unsynced` flag was broken and had the opposite effect to intended, so it has been deprecated.
- Add tests for the EL being offline on the upcheck call, and being offline due to the newPayload check.
## Why track `newPayload` errors?
Tracking the EL's online/offline status is too coarse-grained to be useful in practice, because:
- If the EL is timing out to some calls, it's unlikely to timeout on the `upcheck` call, which is _just_ `eth_syncing`. Every failed call is followed by an upcheck [here](693886b941/beacon_node/execution_layer/src/engines.rs (L372-L380)), which would have the effect of masking the failure and keeping the status _online_.
- The `newPayload` call is the most likely to time out. It's the call in which ELs tend to do most of their work (often 1-2 seconds), with `forkchoiceUpdated` usually returning much faster (<50ms).
- If `newPayload` is failing consistently (e.g. timing out) then this is a good indication that either the node's EL is in trouble, or the network as a whole is. In the first case validator clients _should_ prefer other BNs if they have one available. In the second case, all of their BNs will likely report `el_offline` and they'll just have to proceed with trying to use them.
## Additional Changes
- Add utility method `ForkName::latest` which is quite convenient for test writing, but probably other things too.
- Delete some stale comments from when we used to support multiple execution nodes.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Modifies the local testnet scripts to start a network with genesis validators embedded into the genesis state. This allows us to start a local testnet without the need for deploying a deposit contract or depositing validators pre-genesis.
This also enables us to start a local test network at any fork we want without going through fork transitions. Also adds scripts to start multiple geth clients and peer them with each other and peer the geth clients with beacon nodes to start a post merge local testnet.
## Additional info
Adds a new lcli command `mnemonics-validators` that generates validator directories derived from a given mnemonic.
Adds a new `derived-genesis-state` option to the `lcli new-testnet` command to generate a genesis state populated with validators derived from a mnemonic.
## Issue Addressed
#2335
## Proposed Changes
- Remove the `lighthouse-network::tests::gossipsub_tests` module
- Remove dead code from the `lighthouse-network::tests::common` helper module (`build_full_mesh`)
## Additional Info
After discussion with both @divagant-martian and @AgeManning, these tests seem to have two main issues in that they are:
- Redundant, in that they don't test anything meaningful (due to our handling of duplicate messages)
- Out-of-place, in that it doesn't really test Lighthouse-specific functionality (rather libp2p functionality)
As such, this PR supersedes #4286.
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds an additional check to a feature introduced in #4179 to prevent us from re-queuing already-known blocks that could be rejected immediately.
## Additional Info
Ideally this would have been included in v4.1.0, however we came across it too late to release it safely. We decided that the safest path forward is to release *without* this check and then patch it in the next version. The lack of this check should only result in a very minor performance impact (the impact is totally negligible in my assessment).
## Issue Addressed
NA
## Proposed Changes
Adds a flag to store invalid blocks on disk for teh debugz. Only *some* invalid blocks are stored, those which:
- Were received via gossip (rather than RPC, for instance)
- This keeps things simple to start with and should capture most blocks.
- Passed gossip verification
- This reduces the ability for random people to fill up our disk. A proposer signature is required to write something to disk.
## Additional Info
It's possible that we'll store blocks that aren't necessarily invalid, but we had an internal error during verification. Those blocks seem like they might be useful sometimes.
## Issue Addressed
N/A
## Proposed Changes
Replace ganache-cli with anvil https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/blob/master/anvil/README.md
We can lose all js dependencies in CI as a consequence.
## Additional info
Also changes the ethers-rs version used in the execution layer (for the transaction reconstruction) to a newer one. This was necessary to get use the ethers utils for anvil. The fixed execution engine integration tests should catch any potential issues with the payload reconstruction after #3592
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
#4233
## Proposed Changes
Remove the `best_justified_checkpoint` from the `PersistedForkChoiceStore` type as it is now unused.
Additionally, remove the `Option`'s wrapping the `justified_checkpoint` and `finalized_checkpoint` fields on `ProtoNode` which were only present to facilitate a previous migration.
Include the necessary code to facilitate the migration to a new DB schema.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses #4238
## Proposed Changes
- [x] Add tests for the scenarios
- [x] Use the fork of the attestation slot for signature verification.
## Issue Addressed
Update some broken links in Lighthouse Book
## Proposed Changes
The updated links correctly link to the section of the book
## Additional Info
Please provide any additional information. For example, future considerations
or information useful for reviewers.
## Issue Addressed
Addresses #4234
## Proposed Changes
- Skip withdrawals processing in an inconsistent state replay.
- Repurpose `StateRootStrategy`: rename to `StateProcessingStrategy` and always skip withdrawals if using `StateProcessingStrategy::Inconsistent`
- Add a test to reproduce the scenario
Co-authored-by: Jimmy Chen <jimmy@sigmaprime.io>
## Issue Addressed
#4266
## Proposed Changes
- Log `Using external block builder` instead of `Connected to external block builder` on its initialization to resolve the confusion (there's no actual connection there)
## Additional Info
The log is mentioned in builders docs, so it's changed there too.
This commit adds a check to the networking service when handling core gossipsub topic subscription requests. If the BN is already subscribed to the core topics, we won't attempt to resubscribe.
## Issue Addressed
#4258
## Proposed Changes
- In the networking service, check if we're already subscribed to all of the core gossipsub topics and, if so, do nothing
## Additional Info
N/A
## Limit Backfill Sync
This PR transitions Lighthouse from syncing all the way back to genesis to only syncing back to the weak subjectivity point (~ 5 months) when syncing via a checkpoint sync.
There are a number of important points to note with this PR:
- Firstly and most importantly, this PR fundamentally shifts the default security guarantees of checkpoint syncing in Lighthouse. Prior to this PR, Lighthouse could verify the checkpoint of any given chain by ensuring the chain eventually terminates at the corresponding genesis. This guarantee can still be employed via the new CLI flag --genesis-backfill which will prompt lighthouse to the old behaviour of downloading all blocks back to genesis. The new behaviour only checks the proposer signatures for the last 5 months of blocks but cannot guarantee the chain matches the genesis chain.
- I have not modified any of the peer scoring or RPC responses. Clients syncing from gensis, will downscore new Lighthouse peers that do not possess blocks prior to the WSP. This is by design, as Lighthouse nodes of this form, need a mechanism to sort through peers in order to find useful peers in order to complete their genesis sync. We therefore do not discriminate between empty/error responses for blocks prior or post the local WSP. If we request a block that a peer does not posses, then fundamentally that peer is less useful to us than other peers.
- This will make a radical shift in that the majority of nodes will no longer store the full history of the chain. In the future we could add a pruning mechanism to remove old blocks from the db also.
Co-authored-by: Paul Hauner <paul@paulhauner.com>
## Issue Addressed
#3873
## Proposed Changes
add a cache to optimise historical state lookup.
## Additional Info
N/A
Co-authored-by: Michael Sproul <micsproul@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
Update Lighthouse book to include latest information especially after Capella upgrade
## Proposed Changes
Notable changes:
- Combine Sec 4.1 & 6.1 into Sec 4, because Sec 6.1 is importing validator key which is a required step when want to run a validator
- Combine Sec 5.1 & 5.2 with Sec 5, and move Sec 5 to under Sec 9
- Added partial withdrawals in Sec 6
## Additional Info
Please provide any additional information. For example, future considerations
or information useful for reviewers.
Co-authored-by: chonghe <tanck2005@gmail.com>
## Issue Addressed
This PR un-deprecates some commonly used test util functions, e.g. `extend_chain`. Most of these were deprecated in 2020 but some of us still found them quite convenient and they're still being used a lot. If there's no issue with using them, I think we should remove the "Deprecated" comment to avoid confusion.
