Week 12 Update

Status:

Updates to genesis code for eth2-testnet-genesis
- Encountered MacOS issues, fixed operation not permitted error in terminal
Meeting scheduled 5 October with mentors to review draft PRs and align on approach to Lodestar code
- Draft genesis script (Holly) + retention script (Adedamola)
  - Genesis script uses eth2-testnet-genesis to generate a new genesis.ssz at a specified out dir
  - Checkpointz and Lodestar ephemery flags in progress - see notes below
- Manual draft genesis script TODOs (see PR) include:
  - Iteration calc

Questions relating to:

GENESIS

Approach to out dir
Validator input
Approach to using eth2-testnet-genesis repository by Protolambda (I can't find anything in Lodestar already that would perform the equivalent, unless I should code the ssz from scratch)
- Paths
- Fix / validate input types
Iteration is 95 instead of 96

RESET

See Adedamola's dev update

Next steps:

Genesis (Holly)

Use checkpointz for checkpoint option “genesis checkpoint sync” usually from latest finalised checkpoint, but we will use the genesis epoch
- Learn about checkpointz! Verify feasibility for using this with ephemery :)
Second option is to use  ephemery.dev url is the “backup download option” (already implemented)
Third option to generate genesis with my script using another flag
Fourth option to generate with a flag to override with custom path to genesis.ssz provided by user [developer]

Reset (Adedamola)

Next steps

Talk to EF devops about checkpointz (pk’s colleague) as needed;
- Validate whether it possible to use with ephemery (Holly)
Connect with Lodestar (Mario will connect us on TG)
- Genesis:
  - Ask Lodestar for feedback on overall approach to ephemery code
  - Changes to config + cli (similar to Holesky)
  - New ephemery package
  - Flags
- Reset:
  - TBC what questions we have for Lodestar