blockchain

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Overview

Package blockchain provides two implementations of the fast-sync protocol.

- v0 was the very first implementation. it's battle tested, but does not have a lot of test coverage. - v2 is the newest implementation, with a focus on testability and readability.

Check out ADR-40 for the formal model and requirements.

Termination criteria

1. the maximum peer height is reached 2. termination timeout is triggered, which is set if the peer set is empty or there are no pending requests.

Index

• Constants

Constants

const (
	MaxMsgSize = types.MaxBlockSizeBytes +
		bcproto.BlockResponseMessagePrefixSize +
		bcproto.BlockResponseMessageFieldKeySize
)