Incentivized Testnet Tracking Issue

[evan-forbes]

Incentivized Testnet

This issue is meant to help track the remaining issues for incentivized testnet for both core/app. We will probably not be able to finish all of these things, but

Picking Parameters and Defaults

• EPIC: Parameter picking Tracking issue #669

Non-interactive defaults

• Tracking: Non-interactive defaults #382

Add tail padding share count to the header

• feat: Add number of tail padding shares to the header #577

Docs, Stability, and additional Testing

• Tracking: testing and stability testnet #411
• testing: Add integration test for tx prioritization #513

State Machine

• Re-enable IBC #412
• feature: add real vesting module  #280
• Investigate limiting IBC connections #235
• slim down abci app #57

Share encoding/decoding

• EPIC: Universal share prefix #659 (all breaking changes already completed)
• Add information byte to message share format celestia-core#839
• Switch to using klauspost/reedsolomon celestia-core#673
• Increase share size to 512 bytes #711
• Use the new rsmt2d.TreeConstructorFn #712

Nice To Haves

Will save us time in the future, as we could avoid a hard fork/migrations

• Use smt instead of iavl #511
• Charge gas per message share #431
• Ensure that all namespaces can be used in the data square  celestia-core#722
• Merge QGB feature branch into main #742
• Add InfoReservedByte to compact and sparse shares #691
• ADR: Pay for multiple blobs with a single MsgPayForBlob #388

Can be done whenever

• Optimize square size estimation during PrepareProposal #489
• Use a wrapped tx decoder in decode sub command #485
• Investigate checking the square sizes that are signed over before estimating square size #434
• Use the file keyring backend as a default #405
• app/init: app is always looking for a user in HOME path through etc/passwd #377
• Add CI test for compiling proto files #284
• Optimize number of share commitments signed over when creating a WirePayForMessage #236
• Implement end to end tests that attempt to propose invalid blocks #233
• EPIC: Add an official spec for the app #650
• Create a custom query route for tendermint to use to create transaction inclusion proofs #698
• Limit validators' set for the PoA network #685
• Manually test hardware wallet support #771
• Update the tx inclusion proving code to follow the non-interactive defaults #703
• app/init: app is always looking for a user in HOME path through etc/passwd #377

Documentation

• Document gas usage by MsgPayForBlobs #397
• restructure modules to be canononical and for readability #331
• docs: adopt spec structure in x/payment and x/qgb #330
• Reduce complexity and document retrieval of malleated transacions #942

Needs more investigation

• feature: share encoding versioning celestia-core#759
• Investigate and decide on a different length delimiter for messages celestia-core#757
• Investigate time to consensus for really large block sizes celestia-core#438

[evan-forbes]

we still have some parameters to pick, but this issue is mostly completed, and we aren't using it any longer, so I'm closing it for now