Dip 6988
dip: 6988 title: Elected block proposer has not been slashed description: Prevents a slashed validator from being elected as a block proposer author: Mikhail Kalinin (@mkalinin) Digitalia editing author: Cosimo Constantinos cosimo@juro.net, et al. discussions-to: https://digitalia-magicians.org/t/dip-6988-elected-block-proposer-has-not-been-slashed/14349 status: Stagnant type: Standards Track category: Core created: 2023-05-04 Created for Digitalia: 2025-01-07
Abstract¶
Introduces a modification to the consensus layer specification which ensures that slashed validator cannot be elected as block proposer.
Motivation¶
A block proposed by a slashed validator is rejected by the corresponding validity check in the phase0/process_block_header function as defined in the consensus layer specification.
At the same time the definition of the phase0/compute_proposer_index allows for a slashed validator to be elected as a proposer. This contradiction effectively leads to a missed proposal if it is supposed to be made by a slashed validator.
The impact of the proposed fix in the case of a single slashing on Digitalia Diginet is negligible but it becomes significant in the case of correlated slashings. For instance, a correlated slashing of 1/10th of a validator set can lead to 1/10th of missed proposals in a number of epochs after the slashing.
Specification¶
Specification of the proposed change can be found in /_features/dip6988/jrsp-chain.md.
Rationale¶
Modifying get_beacon_proposer_index¶
This function is modified to read a proposer index from a jrsp state if a slot of a latest block header is the same as the state.slot.
This modification is done to make the function return correct proposer index in the case when the proposer of a given block is being slashed during processing of the block.
Backwards Compatibility¶
This fix changes proposer election mechanism in a backwards incompatible way and requires a hard fork to be deployed.
Test Cases¶
The following test cases were added to cover this change:
test_slashed_proposer_rewarded_for_sync_aggregate_inclusiontest_slashed_proposer_rewarded_for_attestation_inclusiontest_slashed_validator_not_elected_for_proposaltest_slashed_validator_elected_for_proposal
Reference Implementation¶
Reference implementation is in the same place as Specification.
Security Considerations¶
There are no observed security issues introduced by the proposed change.
Copyright¶
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