ObolNetwork / ObolNetwork/charon
Feature flag for agreement on head vote
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- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 222
- Forks
- 138
- Avg merge
- 2d 6h
- Merged PRs (30d)
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Description
🎯 Problem to be solved
Previously we have introduced chain_split_halt feature so that Charon nodes continue QBFT rounds for attestation only if the proposed attestation has the same source and target votes as the one they have fetched. The intent of this is to protect against chain forks in scenarios of faulty CL/EL. We have purposefully excluded head votes from this, as they can differ because of purely performance reasons and it may cause unnecessarily missing of attestations.
However, matching head votes can improve a cluster's head vote accuracy in cases when there is low enough latency between the nodes. If we use the same logic as chain_split_halt, we can agree on the proposed attestation only if it has the same head vote as ours. Optionally, we can do this check only for the first and/or second QBFT round, so that we don't risk of missing the whole attestation because of that.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the existing chain_split_halt feature and the QBFT attestation agreement path. Determine where feature configuration and round-specific checks are handled; done means the new head-vote agreement behavior is configurable, including the first and/or second round options, without changing the existing source and target vote protection.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- blockchain, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100