Alberto Benegiamo

## Why this should be merged MerkleDB is likely to require dropping the use of `Chain.GetTx` in txs execution in favour of smaller, more specific data, **whose lifetime is bounded...

Some more GetCanonicalValidatorSet benchmarks

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## Why this should be merged ## How this works ## How this was tested

Pchain Merkle DB

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## Why this should be merged It shouldn't! ## How this works Just trying to rebuild P-chain state on top of the MerkleDB. This requires also starting to define what...

Introducing GenericNodeID

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## Why this should be merged We relax the lenght requirement of NodeID type and allow avalanche go to smoothly handle NodeID of potentially different sizes and be more future...

P-chain - Technical docs update

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## Why this should be merged We have some technical documentation stored in `platformvm` package, which was not visible enough, nor updated. This PR start to tackle these issues. ##...

P-chain UTs consolidation 1 - Genesis

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## Why this should be merged This is the first of three PRs which simplify UT creation in P-chain. This PR centralize genesis creation in UTs. Genesis creation is moved...

P-chain UTs consolidation 2 - Context and Config

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## Why this should be merged In https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/2107 we moved to a `genesistest` the machinery to build UTs genesis. Here we keep on going with `vm.Config` and `vm.Ctx`, moving them...

P-chain UTs consolidation 3 - Fork Handling

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## Why this should be merged P-chain unit tests needs to be easier to maintain. Specifically I currently find non-trivial to understand what specific fork a unit test is testing...

Pull Genesis parsing out of state

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## Why this should be merged Building setup for unit test in platformVm is cumbersome. Once of the reasons is that we use genesisBytes to initialize the platformVM state. This...

Meter fee for testing

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## Why this should be merged ## How this works ## How this was tested