Breakout from: - https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/9295 We currently do not handle the verification of payload attestations on non-canonical side chains, we always attempt to use the head. The included regression test demonstrates this, and there is _also_ a fork choice compliance test in #9295 that triggers it. This PR is a bit opinionated, but I'll explain my judgements: - We need a way to get the PTC for an arbitrary slot from an arbitrary state. This involves potential state advances, database lookups, etc. There is some fiddly logic required to check that states are in range/etc. - We _already have_ a cache with the exact same lifecycle as the PTCs, namely the attester shuffling cache. Therefore, we can de-duplicate a lot of the complexity by storing the PTCs for a given epoch (and decision block) in this cache. The other opinionated change is in the tests. The previous tests were set up kind of nicely to avoid instantiating a `BeaconChainHarness`. However they were not using mocking, which made testing the non-canonical chain case kind of infeasible. To remedy this, I've changed them to just use a beacon chain harness and create two chains using its relatively easy to use methods for doing this. The running time of the tests goes from something like 2.6s for 8 tests to 3.3s for 9 tests, which is only an increase of 0.04s/test. Negligible. Another plus to using the `BeaconChainHarness` is that it avoids a bunch of the cruft to create synthetic non-mocked beacon chain bits. At the same time, I've made some attempt to improve modularity (and fit with the `GossipVerificationContext`) by pulling out the guts of `with_committee_cache` into a new function (`with_cached_shuffling`) that clearly shows its dependency surface. Co-Authored-By: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io> Co-Authored-By: dapplion <35266934+dapplion@users.noreply.github.com>
Lighthouse: Ethereum consensus client
An open-source Ethereum consensus client, written in Rust and maintained by Sigma Prime.
Overview
Lighthouse is:
- Ready for use on Ethereum consensus mainnet.
- Fully open-source, licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Security-focused. Fuzzing techniques have been continuously applied and several external security reviews have been performed.
- Built in Rust, a modern language providing unique safety guarantees and excellent performance (comparable to C++).
- Funded by various organisations, including Sigma Prime, the Ethereum Foundation, Consensys, the Decentralization Foundation and private individuals.
- Actively involved in the specification and security analysis of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus specification.
Staking Deposit Contract
The Lighthouse team acknowledges
0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa
as the canonical staking deposit contract address.
Documentation
The Lighthouse Book contains information for users and developers.
The Lighthouse team maintains a blog at https://blog.sigmaprime.io/tag/lighthouse which contains periodic progress updates, roadmap insights and interesting findings.
Branches
Lighthouse maintains two permanent branches:
stable: Always points to the latest stable release.- This is ideal for most users.
unstable: Used for development, contains the latest PRs.- Developers should base their PRs on this branch.
Contributing
Lighthouse welcomes contributors.
If you are looking to contribute, please head to the Contributing section of the Lighthouse book.
Contact
The best place for discussion is the Lighthouse Discord server.
Sign up to the Lighthouse Development Updates mailing list for email notifications about releases, network status and other important information.
Encrypt sensitive messages using our PGP key.
Donations
Lighthouse is an open-source project and a public good. Funding public goods is hard and we're grateful for the donations we receive from the community via:
- Gitcoin Grants.
- Ethereum address:
0x25c4a76E7d118705e7Ea2e9b7d8C59930d8aCD3b(donation.sigmaprime.eth).
