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feature: Add support for block validation (flashbots_validateBuilderSubmissionV3) #7335

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@rjnrohit rjnrohit commented Aug 16, 2024

Closes #7462

This PR aims to implement flashbots endpoint (flashbots_validateBuilderSubmissionV3) ref: https://github.com/flashbots/builder/blob/df9c765067d57ab4b2d0ad39dbb156cbe4965778/eth/block-validation/api.go#L225-L246

  1. It validates the sent payload's block, blobs and verifies if the ParentHash, BlockHash, GasLimit, and GasUsed in the params.Message match the sent payload and produce an error otherwise.
  2. It tries to imitate block processing step and also process withdrawals
  3. It tries to validate proposer payment using Txns & receipts generated in the block processing step

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It introduces a new JsonRpc plugin called Nethermind.Flashbots which implements a new endpoint called flashbots_validateBuilderSubmissionV3

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  • Bugfix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (a change that causes existing functionality not to work as expected)
  • Optimization
  • Refactoring
  • Documentation update
  • Build-related changes
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Notes on testing

I'll write the tests once I'm done with manual testing

@rjnrohit rjnrohit marked this pull request as ready for review September 5, 2024 12:36
@rjnrohit rjnrohit requested a review from rubo as a code owner September 5, 2024 12:36
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if (!_blockTree.IsBetterThanHead(block.Header))
{
error = $"Block {block.Header.Hash} is not better than head";
return false;
}
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We can validate only on future blocks?

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Comment on lines 322 to 326
if (block is not null && !ValidateBlobsBundle(block.Transactions, blobsBundle, out string? blobsError))
{
if (_logger.IsWarn) _logger.Warn($"Invalid blobs bundle. Result of {payloadStr}. Error: {blobsError}");
return BlockValidationResult.Invalid(blobsError ?? "Blobs bundle validation failed");
}
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A but weird that we do validations after processing a block, shouldn't we do it first? (It would be less costly)

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https://github.com/flashbots/builder/blob/df9c765067d57ab4b2d0ad39dbb156cbe4965778/eth/block-validation/api.go#L240

I followed the same order as they did, but yeah I agree doing this way would be costly

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W should consider changing it later, maybe @Ruteri knows why this is the order of checks?

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Implement flashbots endpoint (flashbots_validateBuilderSubmissionV3)
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