This PR builds on #26299, but also updates the tests to the most recent version, which includes tests regarding TheMerge.
This change adds checks to the beacon consensus engine, making it more strict in validating the pre- and post-headers, and not relying on the caller to have already correctly sanitized the headers/blocks.
In many cases, it's desireable to use already-signed transactions as input to the state transition, instead of having the evm sign them internally (for example to use malformed or not-yet-valid transactions). This PR adds support + docs for that feature.
This PR implements the EVM state transition tool, which is intended
to be the replacement for our retesteth client implementation.
Documentation is present in the cmd/evm/README.md file.
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
