Tsachi Herman

[merkledb] add support for snapshots

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Introduce ShortNodeID

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## Why this should be merged This PR is the first step toward [ACP-20](https://github.com/avalanche-foundation/ACPs/tree/main/ACPs/20-ed25519-p2p). The existing `NodeID` was renamed into `ShortNodeID`, and a new, backward compatible `NodeID` was added. Given...

ACP-113 : Provable Virtual Machine Randomness - Block

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## Why this should be merged This is the first part of the ACP-113 implementation. The rest is [here](https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/pull/3143) ## How this works The changes here are the block serialization...

[wip] Tsachi/generic node

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Cleanup predurango proposervm

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## Why this should be merged This PR removes from the proposerVM all the pre-durango block building support. We're far since the pre-durango era, and our codebase have no reason...

**Context and scope** increase the number of nodes during antithesis testing from 5 to 6. **Discussion and alternatives** The rationale for that is so that we can test use cases...

Write a unit test for the VM Initializer

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## Why this should be merged This PR adds a unit test to the VM initializer ## How this works Trivial ## How this was tested Manually. See recent vm...