Questions tagged [beacon-chain]
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When do verifications of attestations take place over the beacon chain?
I'm struggling figuring out every case where validators have to verify BLS signatures. According to the Ethereum spec, during each slot aggregators gather attestations and aggregate them: do ...
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How to estimate the number of gossiped attestations per second?
In the eth2book by Ben Edgington, it is mentioned in chapter 2.9.1 BLS Signatures that With 500,000 active validators, the current beacon chain design calls for over 1,300 attestations per second to ...
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EIP-4788: Who is proving what to whom and why?
I am starting to study Eth2, and came across EIP-4788. EIP-4788 states: Roots of the beacon chain block roots are cryptographic accumulators that allow proofs of arbitrary consensus state I ...
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Is there a client that stores blobs forever?
I need a consensus client (beacon chain client) that keeps blobs forever. And I need a way / place to download all the data (blobs) from. AFAIK the standard clients store the blob for 18 days, which ...
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Block number across execution and consensus layers
How can I look up the corresponding Beacon block for an execution block by block number? If I use the block number of an execution block to request a Beacon block, the Beacon block in the response ...
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Why does `eth1_data` exist in the beacon block if there is `execution_payload`?
There is a eth1_data field in a block and a execution_payload. We understand that the execution_payload links the execution layer blocks to the beacon chain, it has all the transactions in it. However,...
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Waiting for deposit to be observed days after activation epoch already passed
I am running a main net eth validator AND a holesky validator on the same machine. The mainnet is doing fine and the Holesky side is synced up on execution and consensus clients, running as expected. ...
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How to retrieve a validator Fields and Index from the Beacon Chain?
I'm working on a stacking / restacking project where I need to call that function: function verifyWithdrawalCredentials( uint64 oracleTimestamp, BeaconChainProofs.StateRootProof calldata ...
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How to connect eth2 private network with another machine!
Actually I made my own PoS Ethereum testnet which is public!(It means I can make a transaction to my network from anywhere available Internet.) However my testnet is working with only ONE NODE with 64 ...
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How to activate a validator in a local testnet?
I am trying to add a validator to my local testnet, however the validator keeps giving the same message ( awaiting activation ); For context, the network topology is as follows; There are two ...
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API to get MEV reward recipient from Beacon Chain
Is there any API which I can reliably use to get the MEV reward recipient and block reward for a particular block number as shown on the beacon chain page? I can use the flashbots relay API but this ...
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Why would a slot have 0% participation from sync committee (Sepolia)?
I'm working on a service that listens to blocks from the Ethereum Beacon chain (both mainnet and Sepolia), and uses the sync committee for submitting proofs of transactions to a light client. I ...
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Are there any good tools, specifically code packages to checksum eth validator addresses?
Are there any good tools, specifically code packages to checksum eth validator addresses? They are longer than normal Ethereum addresses, and because of that I find the Web3 python library refuses to ...
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Accessing state of Beacon Chain in a solidity smart contract
I'm working on a Solidity smart contract and need to access info about the state of the Beacon Chain. For example, I would like to get a list of current validators, their balances,slashings, previous ...
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beacon chain cannot sync with geth ethereum and error engine in geth
I had a problem while run Go Ethereum and Prysm. when both are executed, there is an error response on the Prysm beacon-chain and an error on geth ethereum. here is the error, Beacon Chain Geth ...
