The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.
Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.
In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.
All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.
Caveats:
- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.
Questions:
- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.
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This PR implements EIP-7702: "Set EOA account code".
Specification: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7702
> Add a new transaction type that adds a list of `[chain_id, address,
nonce, y_parity, r, s]` authorization tuples. For each tuple, write a
delegation designator `(0xef0100 ++ address)` to the signing account’s
code. All code reading operations must load the code pointed to by the
designator.
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
This pull request refactors the EVM constructor by removing the
TxContext parameter.
The EVM object is frequently overused. Ideally, only a single EVM
instance should be created and reused throughout the entire state
transition of a block, with the transaction context switched as needed
by calling evm.SetTxContext.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the code, the EVM object is repeatedly
created, resulting in unnecessary complexity. This pull request is the
first step towards gradually improving and simplifying this setup.
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This is one further step towards removing account management from
`geth`. This PR deprecates the flag `unlock`, and makes the flag moot:
unlock via geth is no longer possible.
This PR moves the logging/tracing-facilities out of `*state.StateDB`,
in to a wrapping struct which implements `vm.StateDB` instead.
In most places, it is a pretty straight-forward change:
- First, hoisting the invocations from state objects up to the statedb.
- Then making the mutation-methods simply return the previous value, so
that the external logging layer could log everything.
Some internal code uses the direct object-accessors to mutate the state,
particularly in testing and in setting up state overrides, which means
that these changes are unobservable for the hooked layer. Thus, configuring
the overrides are not necessarily part of the API we want to publish.
The trickiest part about the layering is that when the selfdestructs are
finally deleted during `Finalise`, there's the possibility that someone
sent some ether to it, which is burnt at that point, and thus needs to
be logged. The hooked layer reaches into the inner layer to figure out
these events.
In package `vm`, the conversion from `state.StateDB + hooks` into a
hooked `vm.StateDB` is performed where needed.
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This is a successor PR to #25743. This PR is based on a new iteration of
the spec: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/484.
`eth_multicall` takes in a list of blocks, each optionally overriding
fields like number, timestamp, etc. of a base block. Each block can
include calls. At each block users can override the state. There are
extra features, such as:
- Include ether transfers as part of the logs
- Overriding precompile codes with evm bytecode
- Redirecting accounts to another address
## Breaking changes
This PR includes the following breaking changes:
- Block override fields of eth_call and debug_traceCall have had the
following fields renamed
- `coinbase` -> `feeRecipient`
- `random` -> `prevRandao`
- `baseFee` -> `baseFeePerGas`
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This PR changes how sidechains are handled.
Before the merge, it was possible to import a chain with lower td and not set it as canonical. After the merge, we expect every chain that we get via InsertChain to be canonical. Non-canonical blocks can still be inserted
with InsertBlockWIthoutSetHead.
If during the InsertChain, the existing chain is not canonical anymore, we mark it as a sidechain and send the SideChainEvents normally.
This pull request fixes the broken feature where the entire storage set is overridden.
Originally, the storage set override was achieved by marking the associated account
as deleted, preventing access to the storage slot on disk. However, since #29520, this
flag is also checked when accessing the account, rendering the account unreachable.
A fix has been applied in this pull request, which re-creates a new state object with all
account metadata inherited.
* all: refactor so NewBlock(..) and WithBody(..) take a types.Body
* core: fixup comments, remove txs != receipts panic
* core/types: add empty withdrawls to body if len == 0
* miner: untangle miner
* miner: use common.hash instead of *types.header
* cmd/geth: deprecate --mine
* eth: get rid of most miner api
* console: get rid of coinbase in welcome message
* miner/stress: get rid of the miner stress test
* eth: get rid of miner.setEtherbase
* ethstats: remove miner and hashrate flags
* ethstats: remove miner and hashrate flags
* cmd: rename pendingBlockProducer to miner.pending.feeRecipient flag
* miner: use pendingFeeRecipient instead of etherbase
* miner: add mutex to protect the pending block
* miner: add mutex to protect the pending block
* eth: get rid of etherbase mentions
* miner: no need to lock the coinbase
* eth, miner: fix linter
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Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
This PR fixes an overflow which can could happen if inconsistent blockchain rules were configured. Additionally, it tries to prevent such inconsistencies from occurring by making sure that merge cannot be enabled unless previous fork(s) are also enabled.
This change adds support for blob-transaction in certain API-endpoints, e.g. eth_fillTransaction. A follow-up PR will add support for signing such transactions.
This change simplifies the logic for indexing transactions and enhances the UX when transaction is not found by returning more information to users.
Transaction indexing is now considered as a part of the initial sync, and `eth.syncing` will thus be `true` if transaction indexing is not yet finished. API consumers can use the syncing status to determine if the node is ready to serve users.
EIP-4844 adds a new transaction type for blobs. Users can submit such transactions via `eth_sendRawTransaction`. In this PR we refrain from adding support to `eth_sendTransaction` and in fact it will fail if the user passes in a blob hash.
However since the chain can handle such transactions it makes sense to allow simulating them. E.g. an L2 operator should be able to simulate submitting a rollup blob and updating the L2 state. Most methods that take in a transaction object should recognize blobs. The change boils down to adding `blobVersionedHashes` and `maxFeePerBlobGas` to `TransactionArgs`. In summary:
- `eth_sendTransaction`: will fail for blob txes
- `eth_signTransaction`: will fail for blob txes
The methods that sign txes does not, as of this PR, add support the for new EIP-4844 transaction types. Resuming the summary:
- `eth_sendRawTransaction`: can send blob txes
- `eth_fillTransaction`: will fill in a blob tx. Note: here we simply fill in normal transaction fields + possibly `maxFeePerBlobGas` when blobs are present. One can imagine a more elaborate set-up where users can submit blobs themselves and we fill in proofs and commitments and such. Left for future PRs if desired.
- `eth_call`: can simulate blob messages
- `eth_estimateGas`: blobs have no effect here. They have a separate unit of gas which is not tunable in the transaction.
* eth/gasestimator: early exit for plain transfer and error allowance
* core, eth/gasestimator: hard guess at a possible required gas
* internal/ethapi: update estimation tests with the error ratio
* eth/gasestimator: I hate you linter
* graphql: fix gas estimation test
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* core/vm: set basefee to 0 internally on eth_call
* core: nicer 0-basefee, make it work for blob fees too
* internal/ethapi: make tests a bit more complex
* core: fix blob fee checker
* core: make code a bit more readable
* core: fix some test error strings
* core/vm: Get rid of weird comment
* core: dict wrong typo
So apparently in the spec the base block parameter of eth_call is optional.
I agree that "latest" is a sane default for this that most people would use.
The Go authors updated golang/x/ext to change the function signature of the slices sort method.
It's an entire shitshow now because x/ext is not tagged, so everyone's codebase just
picked a new version that some other dep depends on, causing our code to fail building.
This PR updates the dep on our code too and does all the refactorings to follow upstream...
This adds support for the "yParity" field in transaction objects returned by RPC
APIs. We somehow forgot to add this field even though it has been in the spec for
a long time.
* all: move main transaction pool into a subpool
* go.mod: remove superfluous updates
* core/txpool: review fixes, handle txs rejected by all subpools
* core/txpool: typos
Adds an optional config parameter to eth_call which allows users to override block context fields (same functionality that was added to traceCall in #24871)
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Checks that Transaction.MarshalJSON and newRPCTransaction JSON output can be parsed by Transaction.UnmarshalJSON
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
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