dankrad

https://spadina.beaconcha.in/validator/2621 Graffiti: 'sparkpool | prysm'

https://medalla.beaconcha.in/validator/6545 Graffitis: poapFA4yQ0B9peFxKji9NocEShBGTHwA, railgun.eth Eth1 address: 0xA29FD283430Ab091434161Ec847A125BDAB0230F

Attester slashing 5212

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See https://medalla.beaconcha.in/validator/5212 (no blocks proposed, so graffiti not known)

Minimal SSV API

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Suggested API for VC to communicated with SSV node (SSV node will emulate BN API to VC, to keep things simple)

Prevent slashings from accidental double starts

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Starting a validator client for the same validator twice is of course a user error. However, it's probably the most common user error that leads to slashing. If the to...

Better recovery from inactivity leaks

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**Rationale:** The quadratic inactivity leak is a penalty for being offline that increases in time quadratically in periods where the beacon chain doesn't finalized. It has the effect that should...

Prevent validators from exiting when there are open bit or chunk challenges or when not all custody keys were revealed

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We need to prevent validators from exiting voluntarily if any of these conditions are fulfilled: - Open chunk/bit challenges - Custody keys not revealed This was originally implemented by the...

Move last chunk challenge to cleared chunk challenge to get rid of replace_empty_or_append

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Suggestion, but not sure if it breaks when multiple operations are involved: move the last element to the index that is cleared, and reduce the length by one. That way...

Gold coin approach to encourage policing of custody

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I estimate that computing a custody bit comes at a CPU cost of ca. 1-5ms: The main computation is just to compute a Universal Hash Function, which is just evaluating...

Consider the future of the VC/BN architecture

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At the moment, we have an architecture of a Beacon Node (BN) that does all networking, fork choice rule, state transition etc. work and a Validator Client (VC) whose very...