Deploy a swarm of semi-autonomous network agents masquerading as an Eth2 node that communicate with a command & control service. This service will collect, aggregate and analyze information from individual agents to evaluate network health. Additionally the command & control service can coordinate the agents to perform attacks to the network, evaluating the security and resilience of the protocol.
Monitor network health in real-time
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Realtime stats
- message propagation times
- pings/status of each peer
- ENR changes of each peer (ip rotation, seqnr changes)
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Analysis
- How quick can we discover peers?
- What percent of peers are pingable?
- How fast are messages propagated?
- What does the network topology look like?
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Provide feedback to the network specification
Note: Depending on how clients decide to treat non beacon chain nodes, the Eth2 node may or may not be needed.
- send commands to agents
- collect data from agents
- REST API available for agents to query so they can can answer requests from real nodes on the network
- network crawler
- send network data to command & control service
- accept remote commands from command & control service
- libp2p networking component
- servers and ip addresses
Evaluate weaknesses in the Eth2 network
- What attacks could stall consensus?
- What is the cost of these attacks?
Propose fixes
- Findings will be used to harden the spec