[Mega Tracking] - Align to spec freeze

[terencechain]

This is a tracking issue to ensure our beacon chain implementation is up to date with the latest v0.8 spec. The target is: ethereum/consensus-specs@8d324b7

features

• minor modification to inclusion rewards and adjust reward factor (Tweak inclusion delay rewards and set BASE_REWARD_FACTOR ethereum/consensus-specs#1159) Change Base Reward Factor #2888
• increase historical vectors length and cleanups (Increase historical length and cleanups ethereum/consensus-specs#1196) Update Configs for Freeze #2876
• introduce Checkpoint type (Checkpoints in beacon spec ethereum/consensus-specs#1210) Removes some deprecated fields from protobuf #2877
• slashing penalty calculation change to prevent gaming (Slashing penalty calculation change ethereum/consensus-specs#1217) Slashing Penalty Calculation Change #2889
• add compact committee roots for light client support (Compact committee roots ethereum/consensus-specs#1219, add back in active_index_roots ethereum/consensus-specs#1247) Implement Compact Committee Root #2897

simplifications

• cleanup containers (Cleanup containers ethereum/consensus-specs#1156) Align Protobuf Type Names  #2872
• remove sort from get_attesting_indices and instead return set (get_attesting_indices set instead of sorted ethereum/consensus-specs#1225) Update Freeze Spec Simplification Section - part 1 #2893
• cleanup how genesis is calculated and triggered (Add test_genesis.py and cleanup genesis trigger ethereum/consensus-specs#1202) Genesis trigger #2905 on-going
• cleanup helpers grouping, consistency in naming, comments, etc (Helpers cleanup ethereum/consensus-specs#1237, Renaming of functions in the Misc section ethereum/consensus-specs#1241) Update Helper Function's Pseudocode Definitions #2895
• add bls domain type (Fix bls domain type ethereum/consensus-specs#1246) (json encoder understands the bytes to uint64)
• basket of minor cleanups (#1244 without "5 slots is a Slot" ethereum/consensus-specs#1251) Update Freeze Spec Simplification Section - part 1 #2893

bugs

• critical Transfer bug (Critical fix: introduce back total-value check ethereum/consensus-specs#1220) Freeze Spec Bug Fixes #2890
• fix genesis effective balance in corner case (Fix genesis effective balance ethereum/consensus-specs#1248) Freeze Spec Bug Fixes #2890
• fix scaling for inclusion_reward (scale inclusion reward properly ethereum/consensus-specs#1257) Freeze Spec Bug Fixes #2890

misc

• set MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY to 1 in mainnet config (Set MIN_ATTESTATION_INCLUSION_DELAY to 1 ethereum/consensus-specs#1157) Update Configs for Freeze #2876
• make explicit which constants are configurable or not (split constants vs configuration ethereum/consensus-specs#1191) Make Constants Explicit and Minor Cleanups #2898
• clarify validity conditions for initiating a transfer (Clarify comment on phase 0 transfers ethereum/consensus-specs#1213)
• remove bounds check in compute_shuffled_index (remove bounds check in compute_shuffled_index and Fix ToC ethereum/consensus-specs#1252) (we'll still do this check)
• minor formatting/typos/etc PRs (Fix Gwei value table ethereum/consensus-specs#1203, Remove duplicate custom type definitions ethereum/consensus-specs#1214, Update 0_beacon-chain.md ethereum/consensus-specs#1215, phase 0 doc standardization b4 spec freeze ethereum/consensus-specs#1212, Fix comment ethereum/consensus-specs#1230, Clarify get_randao_mix accessor from generate_seed ethereum/consensus-specs#1221, Minor copyedit ethereum/consensus-specs#1235, Fix typo ethereum/consensus-specs#1234, Markdown Lint ethereum/consensus-specs#1243, Update ToC ethereum/consensus-specs#1245, Minor python style tweaks ethereum/consensus-specs#1249, remove unnecessary type casting ethereum/consensus-specs#1255, [meta] Fix ToC of SSZ spec and Use relative inner repo link ethereum/consensus-specs#1256)

[shayzluf]

working on add compact committee roots get_compact_committees_root

[terencechain]

working on add compact committee roots get_compact_committees_root

I'm pretty sure @nisdas has been working on that. It says on going with a PR number

[shayzluf]

yes he updated me. and i added his pr to the issue. just forgot to remove my comment. not working on it anymore

[terencechain]

This is done, great job everyone! 🎈