introduce payload_status to attestation data #4655
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This PR removes the
attestation_data
index
field which is not used anymore sinceElectra
(always set to 0) and introduces a newpayload_status
field that signals the payload status of the block being attested to instead of reusing the existingindex
field.The motivations behind these changes are the following:
Drawbacks:
AttestationData
container and indirectly theAttestation
one has been proved to be not trivial and could introduce complexity and bugs (EIP-7549 was a proof of that)Impacts:
These changes were first discussed during the EIP-7732 Breakout Room Call 25 ethereum/pm#1744 (comment)
There is also a discord thread https://discord.com/channels/595666850260713488/874767108809031740/1427220882811523157