Nico Flaig

It would be nice to be able to configure `-min-bid` on mev-boost via env variable

feat: add ssz support to builder api

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**Motivation** - https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs/pull/104 **Description** Minimal implementation to add SSZ support to Builder API as per https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs/pull/104. Few more things to consider - forward blinded block bytes directly to `submitBlindedBlock`, this...

chore: update block proposal errors dashboard panel

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Update `operationId` in block proposal errors dashboard panel to use latest version of apis as previous (deprecated) apis are unused in Lodestar by default (and soon to be removed).

Non-checkpoint states are added into checkpoint cache

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Currently it looks like we are adding non-checkpoint states into the checkpoint cache https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/blob/5f7f9951f09c3e8ab0187fe05e47b9a4c7786f5b/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/stateCache/stateContextCheckpointsCache.ts#L55 This happens when importing a block once every epoch https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/blob/903483107414fd64395c575b709f5158173bc607/packages/beacon-node/src/chain/blocks/importBlock.ts#L331-L335 Non-checkpoint states can be determined by...

Beacon node active handles after close sequence is completed

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### Describe the bug In some rare cases when the node is running for a longer time it does not exit when receiving a exit signal. **Active handles** ``` [WTF...

Lighthouse VC to Lodestar BN time discrepancy errors

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### Describe the bug Lighthouse VC reports time discrepancy between VC and BN. This started to happen when upgrading Lighthouse to v4.2.0. ``` May 25 14:55:59.013 ERRO Time discrepancy with...

Attestations are skipped for slots where previous slot tasks take > `SECONDS_PER_SLOT`

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Lodestar VC consciously skips attestations for slots if the previous slot tasks take > `SECONDS_PER_SLOT` due to `runAtMostEvery` function. https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/blob/f136f952ddb861976b3cc9484914c49a06ee8d90/packages/validator/src/util/clock.ts#L90 **Rational behind this** > If a task happens to take...

Print the set feeRecipient on startup of the VC

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**Description** Print the set feeRecipient on startup of the VC for each validator **Example** `info: Validator exists in beacon chain validatorIndex=xx, pubKey=0xxx, feeRecipient=Ox39` **Related** - https://discord.com/channels/593655374469660673/593655641445367808/1093177663511863356

getStateValidators does not dedupe validators

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**Describe the bug** Not sure if this should be considered a bug but I think it is better that we dedupe the result of [getStateValidators](https://ethereum.github.io/beacon-APIs/#/Beacon/getStateValidators) if the same validator index/pubkey...

Event loop utilization (ELU) metrics

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I think it's not as useful to track this as an average over time or at least I don't see which questions this helps to answer. What we might be...