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Lighter Validation for Relays #127

Closed bhazzard closed 1 year ago

bhazzard commented 1 year ago

Related to #102

To reduce latency of block propogation, relay blocks before fully validating or computing state if:

Source can be trusted (valid signature from producer that should have produced for that block time)
Block hasn't been tampered with (Merkle root of transactions is valid)

Nodes should fully validate the block before applying it to their blockchain.

Benefits:

Reduce latency
Could allow the creation of a new class of node (potentially an entirely new Antelope implementation for relay nodes)

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heifner commented 1 year ago

Currently this requires a jump to the main thread to get the previous block from the fork database. It would be nice to not have to jump to the main thread to verify and propagate the block. One possibility is to make the forkdb thread-safe.