FCR2026-06-23_009
Fast Confirmation Rule #009
2026-06-23 1 decision 291 transcript lines
Transcript
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Nico Flaig
we are also passing the fcr spec tests for gloas that we have since alpha.11
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Nico Flaig
Call summary
Targets
- •Lodestar public FCR release — this week or start of next week - 00:06:11
- •FCR edge case tests PR — tomorrow (June 24, 2026) - 00:17:25
- •FCR research paper publication — this week - 00:19:57
Decisions
- •EL block tag for FCR will reuse 'safe'; introducing a new tag requires hard fork coordination and is deferred until after Glamsterdam - 00:28:02
Highlights
- Client Updates:
- ·Lodestar: FCR deployed to test fleet and RC; public release + blog post expected this week or early next week - 00:05:51
- ·Lighthouse: investigating likely regression causing reversions to finality; test coverage needed for this case - 00:11:54
- ·Lodestar passing FCR spec tests for Gloas since alpha.11 (chat) - 00:13:45
- ·Grandine: metrics PR awaiting maintainer review; blocked on Samas or another core maintainer to merge - 00:12:05
- Api And Metrics:
- ·beacon-APIs PR #616 (adds current_slot to event stream) merged - 00:18:41
- ·beacon-metrics PR #22 (FCR metrics) approved; awaiting merge from Panda/Barnabas - 00:18:57
- ·Lodestar internal metric shows 3 FCR resets in last 7 days on Nico's node; cause uninvestigated - 00:20:33
- Research Updates:
- ·FCR research paper publication expected this week; no blockers identified - 00:19:54
- ·EL 'safe' block tag discussion: introducing a new fast-confirm tag would require hard fork coordination between CL and EL; deferred until after Glamsterdam - 00:27:41
- Testing Progress:
- ·New consensus-specs PR enables FCR tests for loss/hazard cases and disables BLS for stable, fork-independent shuffling - 00:15:12
- ·Edge case tests in progress; PR expected tomorrow — will complete initial FCR test suite - 00:17:18
Action Items
- •Mikhail Kalinin - Reach out to Panda/Barnabas to merge beacon-metrics PR #22 - 00:19:06
- •Nazar Hussain - Investigate cause of 3 FCR resets on Lodestar node; add debug logging for fallback-to-finality events - 00:23:09
- •Mikhail Kalinin - Investigate current usage of the EL 'safe' block tag by RPC providers - 00:31:13
Key decisions
EL block tag for FCR will reuse 'safe'; introducing a new tag requires hard fork coordination and is deferred until after Glamsterdam
to avoid hard fork coordination, the EL block tag for FCR will reuse 'safe' until after Glamsterdam

