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lighthouse/testing/ef_tests
Eitan Seri-Levi eec0700f94 Gloas local block building MVP (#8754)
The flow for local block building is
1. Create execution payload and bid
2. Construct beacon block
3. Sign beacon block and publish
4. Sign execution payload and publish

This PR adds the beacon block v4 flow , GET payload envelope and POST payload envelope (local block building only). The spec for these endpoints can be found here:  https://github.com/ethereum/beacon-APIs/pull/552  and is subject to change.

We needed a way to store the unsigned execution payload envelope associated to the execution payload bid that was included in the block. I introduced a new cache that stores these unsigned execution payload envelopes. the GET payload envelope queries this cache directly so that a proposer, after publishing a block, can fetch the payload envelope + sign and publish it.

I kept payload signing and publishing within the validators block service to keep things simple for now. The idea was to build out a block production MVP for devnet 0, try not to affect any non gloas code paths and build things out in such a way that it will be easy to deprecate pre-gloas code paths later on (for example block production v2 and v3).

We will eventually need to track which beacon node was queried for the block so that we can later query it for the payload. But thats not needed for the devnet.


  


Co-Authored-By: Eitan Seri- Levi <eserilev@gmail.com>

Co-Authored-By: Michael Sproul <michael@sigmaprime.io>

Co-Authored-By: Jimmy Chen <jchen.tc@gmail.com>

Co-Authored-By: Eitan Seri-Levi <eserilev@ucsc.edu>
2026-02-17 02:09:35 +00:00
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2022-10-12 23:40:42 +00:00
2025-06-04 06:34:12 +00:00

Consensus Specification Tests

This crate parses and executes the test vectors at ethereum/consensus-spec-tests.

Functionality is achieved only via the $ cargo test --features ef_tests command.

Running the Tests

Because the test vectors are very large, we do not download or run them by default. To download them, run (in this directory):

$ make

Note: this may download hundreds of MB of compressed archives from the ethereum/consensus-spec-tests, which may expand into several GB of files.

If successful, you should now have the extracted tests in ./consensus-spec-tests.

Run them with:

$ cargo test --features ef_tests

The tests won't run without the ef_tests feature enabled (this is to ensure that a top-level cargo test --all won't fail on missing files).

The following is sometimes necessary to avoid stack overflow issues when running on MacOS:

$ export RUST_MIN_STACK=8388608

When debugging failing tests, it's often useful to disable parallization and output suppression:

$ cargo test --features ef_tests,disable_rayon -- --nocapture

Saving Space

When you download the tests, the downloaded archives will be kept in addition to the extracted files. You have several options for saving space:

  1. Delete the archives (make clean-archives), and keep the extracted files. Suitable for everyday use, just don't re-run make or it will redownload the archives.
  2. Delete the extracted files (make clean-test-files), and keep the archives. Suitable for CI, or temporarily saving space. If you re-run make it will extract the archives rather than redownloading them.
  3. Delete everything (make clean). Good for updating to a new version, or if you no longer wish to run the EF tests.