Merge 🐼 Tracker

[g11tech]

This is a tracker to track and close out pending items/issues pertaining to EL <> CL merge

Mainnet merge

• Configure mainnet merge #4429

Pending items

• Update forkchoice using latestValidHash updates from execution engine #4182
• Add ability to update the fee recipient for execution via beacon and/or validator defaults #3958
• Issue advance fcU for builing the EL block #3965
• Fix safe optimistic import #4340
• Update the gossip max chunk size to bellatrix specs #4450
• Eth1 + Builder API Metrics #3946
• Optimize merge tracker and add merge metrics #4350
• Add execution stats in grafana dashboard #4362
• Add and heartbeat to engine exchangeTransitionConfigurationV1 method #4411

Optimistic Sync
Feature Parity check: Upgrade to spec 1.2.0 ethereum/consensus-specs#2896
tracker: #4060

• Remove API restrictions for optimistic sync #4360
  • Remove API restrictions for optimistic sync ethereum/consensus-specs#2869
  • Ensure compliance in error code finalized in PR when merged
  • Don't produce messages for optimistic blocks ethereum/beacon-APIs#216

Testing Frameworks

• simulators/eth2/engine: Implement EL mock to test CLs ethereum/hive#540

Mev Tracker

• Mev/Builder api integration #3969 extends Add ability to update the fee recipient for execution via beacon and/or validator defaults #3958 and Issue advance fcU for builing the EL block #3965

Some improvements/fixes:

• Added retry mechanism in executionEngine for executePayload #3854
• Eth1 tracker improvements #3930
• Snappy frame encode big payloads as chunks as per the standard #3912 dependency: pending discussion on fix: compressor didn't chunkify big payload node-snappy-stream#3
• Enable using an engine endpoint for eth1 deposit/merge tracker #3949
• Add merge transition/finalization banners #3963
• Handle merge block fetch error #4016
• Optimize issuing advance engine fcU for prepare payload #4054 PrepareNextSlot scheduler #4209
• Optimistic Sync: remove INVALID_TERMINAL_BLOCK ethereum/consensus-specs#2891
• Run forkChoice to get correct head for proposal #4058

Good to haves:

• Ensure merge transition block contains 🐼 ethereum/consensus-specs#2875
• Contribute merge transition 🐼 ascii art for log #3961
• Followup tracker for MeV related pending issues/cleanup #4208
• Investigate: ETH1_ERROR_NON_CONSECUTIVE_LOGS  #3853

[philknows]

Question... is ethereum/consensus-specs#2875 a joke or are we for real adding this as a feature @dapplion

[dapplion]

Question... is ethereum/consensus-specs#2875 a joke or are we for real adding this as a feature @dapplion

🐼

[philknows]

@g11tech Likewise with #4060, should we compile remaining tasks here into #4455 ?

[g11tech]

@g11tech Likewise with #4060, should we compile remaining tasks here into #4455 ?

sounds good to me! 👍

[philknows]

Incomplete tasks have been compiled into #4455. Closing.