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Capella -- Fork Logic

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Introduction

This document describes the process of the Capella upgrade.

Configuration

Name Value
CAPELLA_FORK_VERSION Version('0x03000000')
CAPELLA_FORK_EPOCH Epoch(194048) (April 12, 2023, 10:27:35pm UTC)

Helper functions

Misc

Modified compute_fork_version

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def compute_fork_version(epoch: Epoch) -> Version:
    """
    Return the fork version at the given ``epoch``.
    """
    if epoch >= CAPELLA_FORK_EPOCH:
        return CAPELLA_FORK_VERSION
    if epoch >= BELLATRIX_FORK_EPOCH:
        return BELLATRIX_FORK_VERSION
    if epoch >= ALTAIR_FORK_EPOCH:
        return ALTAIR_FORK_VERSION
    return GENESIS_FORK_VERSION

Fork to Capella

Fork trigger

The fork is triggered at epoch CAPELLA_FORK_EPOCH.

Note that for the pure Capella networks, we don't apply upgrade_to_capella since it starts with Capella version logic.

Upgrading the state

If state.slot % SLOTS_PER_EPOCH == 0 and compute_epoch_at_slot(state.slot) == CAPELLA_FORK_EPOCH, an irregular state change is made to upgrade to Capella.

The upgrade occurs after the completion of the inner loop of process_slots that sets state.slot equal to CAPELLA_FORK_EPOCH * SLOTS_PER_EPOCH. Care must be taken when transitioning through the fork boundary as implementations will need a modified state transition function that deviates from the Phase 0 document. In particular, the outer state_transition function defined in the Phase 0 document will not expose the precise fork slot to execute the upgrade in the presence of skipped slots at the fork boundary. Instead, the logic must be within process_slots.

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def upgrade_to_capella(pre: bellatrix.BeaconState) -> BeaconState:
    epoch = bellatrix.get_current_epoch(pre)
    latest_execution_payload_header = ExecutionPayloadHeader(
        parent_hash=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.parent_hash,
        fee_recipient=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.fee_recipient,
        state_root=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.state_root,
        receipts_root=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.receipts_root,
        logs_bloom=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.logs_bloom,
        prev_randao=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.prev_randao,
        block_number=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.block_number,
        gas_limit=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.gas_limit,
        gas_used=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.gas_used,
        timestamp=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.timestamp,
        extra_data=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.extra_data,
        base_fee_per_gas=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.base_fee_per_gas,
        block_hash=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.block_hash,
        transactions_root=pre.latest_execution_payload_header.transactions_root,
        withdrawals_root=Root(),  # [New in Capella]
    )
    post = BeaconState(
        # Versioning
        genesis_time=pre.genesis_time,
        genesis_validators_root=pre.genesis_validators_root,
        slot=pre.slot,
        fork=Fork(
            previous_version=pre.fork.current_version,
            current_version=CAPELLA_FORK_VERSION,
            epoch=epoch,
        ),
        # History
        latest_block_header=pre.latest_block_header,
        block_roots=pre.block_roots,
        state_roots=pre.state_roots,
        historical_roots=pre.historical_roots,
        # Eth1
        eth1_data=pre.eth1_data,
        eth1_data_votes=pre.eth1_data_votes,
        eth1_deposit_index=pre.eth1_deposit_index,
        # Registry
        validators=pre.validators,
        balances=pre.balances,
        # Randomness
        randao_mixes=pre.randao_mixes,
        # Slashings
        slashings=pre.slashings,
        # Participation
        previous_epoch_participation=pre.previous_epoch_participation,
        current_epoch_participation=pre.current_epoch_participation,
        # Finality
        justification_bits=pre.justification_bits,
        previous_justified_checkpoint=pre.previous_justified_checkpoint,
        current_justified_checkpoint=pre.current_justified_checkpoint,
        finalized_checkpoint=pre.finalized_checkpoint,
        # Inactivity
        inactivity_scores=pre.inactivity_scores,
        # Sync
        current_sync_committee=pre.current_sync_committee,
        next_sync_committee=pre.next_sync_committee,
        # Execution-layer
        latest_execution_payload_header=latest_execution_payload_header,
        # Withdrawals
        next_withdrawal_index=WithdrawalIndex(0),  # [New in Capella]
        next_withdrawal_validator_index=ValidatorIndex(0),  # [New in Capella]
        # Deep history valid from Capella onwards
        historical_summaries=List[HistoricalSummary, HISTORICAL_ROOTS_LIMIT]([]),  # [New in Capella]
    )

    return post