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This week our team had a nice-to-have debate about design pattern and code structure. The new-staking-flow code is refactored based on our solution. It took us three days but will be rewarded.
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WONDERFUL NEWS
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Let’s explain a little bit about these features. Both these features effect directly our dear end-user, especially those who run node.
Unstake feature is a desirable feature since our first day. It allows user to withdraw his/her stake amount whenever user’s node in candidate list, which mean it plays no role in any shards (neither committees in block creation phase nor committees in preparation phase). In short, Unstake feature tells one how long he/she must wait to get back one’s staking amount (in PRV).
New Swap/Assignment Rule makes Incognito’s consensus more secure and changes reward amount in short term duration.
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Update 21 Sep 2020
The new swap rule (swap rule v2) which is implemented last month seem not meet our needs. So far, this month we are discussing how to implement it properly. The swap rule v2 allows beacon chain to force shard chain changing shard’s committees.
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With this development speed, I am confident that we will finish implementing two task above by the end of next week (2 Otc 2020). After that, team will move to testing & debugging phase. I am so excited that team found a proper design for slashing flow after a couple times of trying.
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Implementation of new Shard Block Creation V2. From now on, a new shard block is only allowed to created if it find a higher beacon block. Otherwise, shard chains will stop producing new block
New Swap (change committee) rule. This is a really big change to our consensus working mechanism. At first, we think that shard independently changing its committee after one epoch will make Incognito more secure. But seem that, it create more problem than helping the chain. The Shard chains and Beacon chain must synchronize too many kinds of information, which is very hard to get the same correct answer. The New Swap Rule, swap-rule-v2, forbid shard to change its committee by them self. Instead, the Beacon chain will force shard to change its committee. Less data to synchronize, less problem to tackle.
Slashing module by counting missing signatures from committees in 1 epoch creation. For example, if one shard creates 100 blocks in 1 epoch, each nodes must sign at least 50 blocks or it be force un-stake. This module is carried by the Beacon chain.
Documenting Implementation detail, integration testcase.
Refactoring a huge amount of code which covered by thoughtful unit-test.
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I am so glad that this feature is getting much better, clearer. It took us almost five months from researching to implementation, testing. A lot of re-design, re-work was conducted. If luck is on our side, this feature will be launched in testnet by the end of this month (October).
This is our specification link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19KChrg0B2LmfT_t-K8vovCG-mXUkAYG88j5FQsKPXT4/edit#heading=h.k9idjn4fvxia
It would be useful, to me at least, that there is a process when this is rolled out that if a vNode is getting slashed there is some notification to user. Especially when this roles out, as currently I believe there may be vNodes incorrectly configured on the network, and due to the current setup the nodes are still earning even if they are missing blocks (or completely offline and unreachable). It would be nicer if when this is rolled out the nodes in committee that are not providing incorrect solutions/missing blocks were not initially penalized, but rather notified so validators could have an opportunity to fix any configuration issues they may have. Otherwise there may be quite a few validators that see drops without an understanding of why… Just something to consider.
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Am I reading this correctly, that if your validator gets “slashed” it will be forced to unstake?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We will figure out a way to notify slashed vNode via out mobile application.
The current slashing rule only force Node out of committee. The staking-amount and reward which node received in that epoch will remain intact. We assume that all our users are trying to contribute to the system. When something go wrong, node get slashed, is a kind of notification to our users their nodes are not working properly
Yes, force to unstake is the only current penalty for slashing solution. So get slashed means node will be force to unstake
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Hey @hungngo,
I examine the code for a while. I see “autostake” properties in the response of “getbeaconbeststatedetail” RPC method. Some of them are true, others are false. What is the exact usage of “autostake”? Is there any relation with the committee?
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autostake == true means your node will automatically get into candidate list once you finish your role as committee.autostake == false means after you finish your role as committee, you will be completely out of Incognito Chain (no longer hold any role) and your staking will also be returned.At this time, there’s no force unstake action or unstake rpc in Mainnet. This mode is in development and testing phase. Only stop auto stake action and stop auto stake rpc.
@hungngo It would be very beneficial to have the notification feature put in place prior to the slash/auto unstake feature takes place. So the community members hosting vNodes and pNodes can make sure their validators are operating as they expected (solid internet connection, bandwidth, etc.). I also think that community members are trying to contribute, but what I dont want to see is a large number of validators get slashed as the new update goes live because of misconfiguration…
For example, if you look back at the info on previous post there was misinformation on whether an ETH client was needed, and it was shown that it was to validate un/shield transactions, but there are several people who do not have an eth client running as they didn’t think it was needed.
I think it is also possible that some people using WiFi connections could have more unstable connections than they realize and would only realize this if there was some sort of notification that they were getting slashed.
These are just two possible things I can think of off top of my head, and it would be beneficial to the community to get these notifications prior to the full release of the dynamic committee being released, so they can make adjustments and fix their setups without being auto unstaked.
Going to cc @Peter on here, as I think this could really fall into a community experience realm
hey @doc, thanks for this. we released a topic earlier today that gives a general overview of the release plan, briefly mentioning validator support for the transition. would be great to hear your thoughts on how best to structure that!
to all validators reading this – please feel free to share your ideas here:
Your concern came cross our mind as well. We believe that our community is trying to help. The team will show the data of how vNodes and pNodes are working to all users, before any slashing in enable.
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UPDATE 13 DEC 2020
These two weeks, we make a lot of progress. We expect to finalize code base for staking flow V2 at the end of November. However, merge code from development branch requires QC to test from the beginning. And also, we decide a good strategy for the community to change from current version to slashing version. All the code, business rules are almost finalized. Last but not least, thanks @trungtin2qn1, @khanhj, @dungtran for your hard work.
As planned, we are try to launch Staking Flow V2 + Slashing at the end of this month.
The team moved into new features, Dynamic Committee Size feature.
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