v0.7.0-alpha1

PolyBFT Introduction

PolyBFT is a Proof-of-Stake protocol that enables staking, reward distribution and validator selection via smart-contracts. It also utilizes the concept of voting power and enables bridging functionality.

• It uses Ibft 2.0 protocol as a consensus engine to seal blocks (https://github.com/0xPolygon/go-ibft).
• It has a built-in bridge mechanism that enables arbitrary messages to pass between rootchain to sidechain (aka StateSync) and vice versa (aka Checkpoint).
  • Supports Erc20, Erc721, and any other of the open token specs.
• It uses system smart contracts (https://github.com/0xPolygon/core-contracts) to implement the staking solution of the protocol: reward distribution, validator selection, slashing.

Debug trace functionality

New debug endpoints were added to JSON RPC:

• debug_traceBlock
• debug_traceBlockByNumber
• debug_traceBlockByHash
• debug_traceCall
• debug_traceTransaction

Other improvements

• The native gas token is ERC-20 compatible.
• Several property-based tests added
• Overall quality of the codebase improvements

Important notice

This version is not backward compatible

Changelog

• d239096 Removing GenesisTarget and adding the NodeID field to Validator struct (#985)
• 4828279 Fix data race in fsm (#982)
• f33af57 Change genesis premine logic (#981)
• 82fd78d Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into feature/v3-parity
• a219437 Integrate with CheckpointManager.sol (#952)
• 7d8338f Passing account codehash to j.state.GetCode (#976)
• af0dee1 Extracted GetAccountImpl into fn for use in txPoolHub and jsonRPCHub (#975)
• ec48ac4 Make "pending" block param act as "latest" (#974)
• e96eeda Replace BLS library with github.com/kilic/bn254 (#978)
• 2962f20 improving workflow dependency (#966)
• 07ce7e6 Remove State Sync execution step (#964)
• e5688ba Set address to the result instance on applyCreate
• 0ee71ed Fix e2e tests
• b544aa3 Merge branch 'develop' into feature/v3-parity
• 316ce9b Debug tracing (#836)
• 1e4a66a Align v3-parity with develop branch (#971)
• b8ecb2b Polybft voting power (#944)
• b8d35ac Fix data race to polybft unit test (#965)
• e7ff3f3 EVM-220 TestClusterBlockSync/BLS fails in voting power branch (#926)
• 3ed0370 Epikichi/edge 973 change v3 parity workflow to devnet (#957)
• e22c827 Docker setup: Wait for genesis file to exist before starting nodes (#949)
• 64f728a Track updates for validators (#939)
• 461300f Add performance tests to devnet deployments (#918)
• 26663db EVM-232 Keep polybft bls and ecdsa keys in separate secrets manager namespaces (#953)
• dc33bad introducing workflow dispatch trigger for Devnet V3 workflow. (#927)
• 01014e8 Epikichi/edge 964 implement multiple erc mode support (#954)
• db63825 Fix unit test for event tracker (#935)
• 2968d5f Merge branch 'develop' into feature/v3-parity
• f80b615 Add unit tests for jsonrpc transaction encoding (#923)
• 5250168 Epikichi/edge 904 investigate and add reproducable build (#928)
• edf9d96 Merge branch 'develop' into feature/v3-parity
• a191a54 Local cluster - adapt port for ibft to polybft (#931)
• 4a3f562 Fix assigned boot nodes port number in genesis (#930)
• 3c8ccd7 Revert removal of MarshalText function (#919)
• 44c2ab3 Hotfix to solve a backup stream limit Issue (#816)
• 8627f12 Introduce local development cluster script (#912)
• 3335564 adding devnet-v3 workflow for parity testing. Adding needed secrets for other workflows (#916)
• d67d898 EVM-152 Fix Unit Tests (#910)
• cc3159b Deprecate sql driver types (#913)
• c1ffc39 Jsonrpc fix race conditions (#908)
• 0ab9ae7 Change ValidatorMetadata methods to pointer receivers (#911)
• 4f0161f Add read abstraction to the State (#827)
• 455f185 Remove Polybft dummy smart contracts (#909)
• 62d5981 Fix unstable behaviour in TestContractValidatorStore_CacheChange (#810)
• 4ab595c Use a local account object and refactor the store account interface (#902)
• bd80d1c Use jsonrpc block header in subscription (#901)
• 88310e7 Remove store getHeaderByNumber (#900)