* Fix broken badge in README.md

Replaced broken Github link with IPFS link for long-term storage.

* update go badge

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Co-authored-by: lightclient <14004106+lightclient@users.noreply.github.com>

eth: refactor `GetVM`

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* accounts, ethclient: minor tweaks on the new simulated backend

* ethclient/simulated: add an initial batch of gas options

* accounts, ethclient: remove mandatory gasLimit constructor param

* accounts, ethclient: minor option naming tweaks

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…reum#28794)

This test was failling consistently on the github 32-bit build probably due to slow IO. Skipping it for that green check.

Given the discussions around deprecating pending (see ethereum#28623 or ethereum/execution-apis#495), we can move away from using the pending block internally, and use latest instead

Updates the reference tests to the latest version

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

This should fix a rare hang in waitSnapExtension during shutdown.

acounts:fix typo

 In the tracing tests, the base fee was generally set to nil. This commit changes this to pass the proper base instead, and fixes the few tests which become broken by the change.

EIP-4844 adds a new transaction type for blobs. Users can submit such transactions via `eth_sendRawTransaction`. In this PR we refrain from adding support to `eth_sendTransaction` and in fact it will fail if the user passes in a blob hash.

However since the chain can handle such transactions it makes sense to allow simulating them. E.g. an L2 operator should be able to simulate submitting a rollup blob and updating the L2 state. Most methods that take in a transaction object should recognize blobs. The change boils down to adding `blobVersionedHashes` and `maxFeePerBlobGas` to `TransactionArgs`. In summary:

- `eth_sendTransaction`: will fail for blob txes
- `eth_signTransaction`: will fail for blob txes

The methods that sign txes does not, as of this PR, add support the for new EIP-4844 transaction types. Resuming the summary:

- `eth_sendRawTransaction`: can send blob txes
- `eth_fillTransaction`: will fill in a blob tx. Note: here we simply fill in normal transaction fields + possibly `maxFeePerBlobGas` when blobs are present. One can imagine a more elaborate set-up where users can submit blobs themselves and we fill in proofs and commitments and such. Left for future PRs if desired.
- `eth_call`: can simulate blob messages
- `eth_estimateGas`: blobs have no effect here. They have a separate unit of gas which is not tunable in the transaction.

The code to compute a versioned hash was duplicated a couple times, and also had a small
issue: if we ever change params.BlobTxHashVersion, it will most likely also cause changes
to the actual hash computation. So it's a bit useless to have this constant in params.

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

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This change enables Cancun 

- Sepolia at 1706655072 (Jan 31st, 2024)
- Holesky at 1707305664 (Feb 7th, 2024)

Specification: ethereum/execution-specs#860

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This change simplifies the logic for indexing transactions and enhances the UX when transaction is not found by returning more information to users.

Transaction indexing is now considered as a part of the initial sync, and `eth.syncing` will thus be `true` if transaction indexing is not yet finished. API consumers can use the syncing status to determine if the node is ready to serve users.

go.{mod,sum}: upgrade go-ole

This change makes use of uin256 to represent balance in state. It touches primarily upon statedb, stateobject and state processing, trying to avoid changes in transaction pools, core types, rpc and tracers.

…ace (ethereum#28849)

This change switches from using the `Hasher` interface to add/query the bloomfilter to implementing it as methods.
This significantly reduces the allocations for Search and Rebloom.

fix misleading comment

… param checks (ethereum#28230)

 This PR introduces a few changes with respect to payload verification in fcu and new payload requests:

* First of all, it undoes the `verifyPayloadAttributes(..)` simplification I attempted in ethereum#27872. 
* Adds timestamp validation to fcu payload attributes [as required](https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/blob/main/src/engine/cancun.md#specification-1) (section 2) by the Engine API spec. 
* For the new payload methods, I also update the verification of the executable data. For `newPayloadV2`, it does not currently ensure that cancun values are `nil`. Which could make it possible to submit cancun payloads through it. 
* On `newPayloadV3` the same types of checks are added. All shanghai and cancun related fields in the executable data must be non-nil, with the addition that the timestamp is _only_ with cancun.
* Finally it updates a newly failing catalyst test to call the correct fcu and new payload methods depending on the fork.

…d reset (ethereum#28837)

This PR fixes an issues in the new simulated backend. The root cause is the fact that the transaction pool has an internal reset operation that runs on a background thread.

When a new transaction is added to the pool via the RPC, the transaction is added to a non-executable queue and will be moved to its final location on a background thread. If the machine is overloaded (or simply due to timing issues), it can happen that the simulated backend will try to produce the next block, whilst the pool has not yet marked the newly added transaction executable. This will cause the block to not contain the transaction. This is an issue because we want determinism from the simulator: add a tx, mine a block. It should be in there.

The PR fixes it by adding a Sync function to the txpool, which waits for the current reset operation (if any) to finish, and then runs an entire round of reset on top. The new round is needed because resets are only triggered by new head events, so newly added transactions will not trigger the outer resets that we can wait on. The transaction pool would eventually internally do a reset even on transaction addition, but there's no easy way to wait on that and there's no meaningful reason to bubble that across everything. A clean outer reset will at worse be a small noop goroutine.

This change moves all the transaction indexing functions to a separate txindexer.go file and defines a txIndexer structure as a refactoring.

GetPayloadVX should only return payloads which match its version. GetPayloadV2 is a special snowflake that supports v1 and v2 payloads. This change uses a a version-specific prefix within in the payload id, basically a namespace for the version number.

Fix flaky test due to incomplete transaction indexing