@lodestar/beacon-node 1.43.0-dev.5f9285892c → 1.43.0-dev.9fa9f08ef6

package/src/chain/blocks/importBlock.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import {
   ForkChoiceErrorCode,
   NotReorgedReason,
   getSafeExecutionBlockHash,
-  isGloasBlock,
 } from "@lodestar/fork-choice";
 import {
   ForkPostAltair,
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
   fullyVerifiedBlock: FullyVerifiedBlock,
   opts: ImportBlockOpts
 ): Promise<void> {
-  const {blockInput, postBlockState, parentBlockSlot, executionStatus, dataAvailabilityStatus, indexedAttestations} =
+  const {blockInput, postState, parentBlockSlot, executionStatus, dataAvailabilityStatus, indexedAttestations} =
     fullyVerifiedBlock;
   const block = blockInput.getBlock();
   const source = blockInput.getBlockSource();
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
   const blockEpoch = computeEpochAtSlot(blockSlot);
   const prevFinalizedEpoch = this.forkChoice.getFinalizedCheckpoint().epoch;
   const blockDelaySec =
-    fullyVerifiedBlock.seenTimestampSec - computeTimeAtSlot(this.config, blockSlot, postBlockState.genesisTime);
+    fullyVerifiedBlock.seenTimestampSec - computeTimeAtSlot(this.config, blockSlot, postState.genesisTime);
   const recvToValLatency = Date.now() / 1000 - (opts.seenTimestampSec ?? Date.now() / 1000);
   const fork = this.config.getForkSeq(blockSlot);
 
@@ -122,10 +121,10 @@ export async function importBlock(
   // 2. Import block to fork choice
 
   // Should compute checkpoint balances before forkchoice.onBlock
-  this.checkpointBalancesCache.processState(blockRootHex, postBlockState);
+  this.checkpointBalancesCache.processState(blockRootHex, postState);
   const blockSummary = this.forkChoice.onBlock(
     block.message,
-    postBlockState,
+    postState,
     blockDelaySec,
     currentSlot,
     fork >= ForkSeq.gloas ? ExecutionStatus.PayloadSeparated : executionStatus,
@@ -134,11 +133,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
 
   // This adds the state necessary to process the next block
   // Some block event handlers require state being in state cache so need to do this before emitting EventType.block
-  // Pre-Gloas: blockSummary.payloadStatus is always FULL, payloadPresent = true
-  // Post-Gloas: blockSummary.payloadStatus is always PENDING, so payloadPresent = false (block state only, no payload processing yet)
-  const payloadPresent = !isGloasBlock(blockSummary);
-  // processState manages both block state and payload state variants together for memory/disk management
-  this.regen.processBlockState(blockRootHex, postBlockState);
+  this.regen.processState(blockRootHex, postState);
 
   // For Gloas blocks, create PayloadEnvelopeInput so it's available for later payload import
   if (fork >= ForkSeq.gloas) {
@@ -161,17 +156,9 @@ export async function importBlock(
     // which is all the information we need so there is no reason to delay until execution payload arrives
     // TODO GLOAS: If we want EL retries after this initial attempt, add an explicit retry policy here
     // (for example later in the slot). Do not couple retries to incoming gossip columns.
-    this.getBlobsTracker.triggerGetBlobs(payloadInput, () => {
-      // TODO GLOAS: come up with a better mechanism to trigger processExecutionPayload after data becomes available,
-      // similar to how pre-gloas uses waitForBlockAndAllData with a cutoff timeout and incompleteBlockInput event
-      this.processExecutionPayload(payloadInput, {validSignature: true}).catch((e) => {
-        this.logger.debug(
-          "Error processing execution payload after getBlobs",
-          {slot: blockSlot, root: blockRootHex},
-          e as Error
-        );
-      });
-    });
+    // Columns fetched here feed payloadInput.addColumn, which resolves waitForAllData for any
+    // in-flight importExecutionPayload. No processExecutionPayload trigger needed from this path.
+    this.getBlobsTracker.triggerGetBlobs(payloadInput);
   }
 
   this.metrics?.importBlock.bySource.inc({source: source.source});
@@ -191,7 +178,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
     (opts.importAttestations !== AttestationImportOpt.Skip && blockEpoch >= currentEpoch - FORK_CHOICE_ATT_EPOCH_LIMIT)
   ) {
     const attestations = block.message.body.attestations;
-    const rootCache = new RootCache(postBlockState);
+    const rootCache = new RootCache(postState);
     const invalidAttestationErrorsByCode = new Map<string, {error: Error; count: number}>();
 
     const addAttestation = fork >= ForkSeq.electra ? addAttestationPostElectra : addAttestationPreElectra;
@@ -205,7 +192,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
         const attDataRoot = toRootHex(ssz.phase0.AttestationData.hashTreeRoot(indexedAttestation.data));
         addAttestation.call(
           this,
-          postBlockState,
+          postState,
           target,
           attDataRoot,
           attestation as Attestation<ForkPostElectra>,
@@ -320,7 +307,7 @@ export async function importBlock(
 
   if (newHead.blockRoot !== oldHead.blockRoot) {
     // Set head state as strong reference
-    this.regen.updateHeadState(newHead, postBlockState);
+    this.regen.updateHeadState(newHead, postState);
 
     try {
       this.emitter.emit(routes.events.EventType.head, {
@@ -390,10 +377,10 @@ export async function importBlock(
       // we want to import block asap so do this in the next event loop
       callInNextEventLoop(() => {
         try {
-          if (isStatePostAltair(postBlockState)) {
+          if (isStatePostAltair(postState)) {
             this.lightClientServer?.onImportBlockHead(
               block.message as BeaconBlock<ForkPostAltair>,
-              postBlockState,
+              postState,
               parentBlockSlot
             );
           }
@@ -415,11 +402,11 @@ export async function importBlock(
   // and the block is weak and can potentially be reorged out.
   let shouldOverrideFcu = false;
 
-  if (blockSlot >= currentSlot && isStatePostBellatrix(postBlockState) && postBlockState.isExecutionStateType) {
+  if (blockSlot >= currentSlot && isStatePostBellatrix(postState) && postState.isExecutionStateType) {
     let notOverrideFcuReason = NotReorgedReason.Unknown;
     const proposalSlot = blockSlot + 1;
     try {
-      const proposerIndex = postBlockState.getBeaconProposer(proposalSlot);
+      const proposerIndex = postState.getBeaconProposer(proposalSlot);
       const feeRecipient = this.beaconProposerCache.get(proposerIndex);
 
       if (feeRecipient) {
@@ -499,22 +486,22 @@ export async function importBlock(
     }
   }
 
-  if (!postBlockState.isStateValidatorsNodesPopulated()) {
-    this.logger.verbose("After importBlock caching postState without SSZ cache", {slot: postBlockState.slot});
+  if (!postState.isStateValidatorsNodesPopulated()) {
+    this.logger.verbose("After importBlock caching postState without SSZ cache", {slot: postState.slot});
   }
 
   // Cache shufflings when crossing an epoch boundary
   const parentEpoch = computeEpochAtSlot(parentBlockSlot);
   if (parentEpoch < blockEpoch) {
-    this.shufflingCache.processState(postBlockState);
+    this.shufflingCache.processState(postState);
     this.logger.verbose("Processed shuffling for next epoch", {parentEpoch, blockEpoch, slot: blockSlot});
   }
 
   if (blockSlot % SLOTS_PER_EPOCH === 0) {
     // Cache state to preserve epoch transition work
-    const checkpointState = postBlockState;
+    const checkpointState = postState;
     const cp = getCheckpointFromState(checkpointState);
-    this.regen.addCheckpointState(cp, checkpointState, payloadPresent);
+    this.regen.addCheckpointState(cp, checkpointState);
     // consumers should not mutate state ever
     this.emitter.emit(ChainEvent.checkpoint, cp, checkpointState);
 
@@ -602,11 +589,11 @@ export async function importBlock(
   this.metrics?.parentBlockDistance.observe(blockSlot - parentBlockSlot);
   this.metrics?.proposerBalanceDeltaAny.observe(fullyVerifiedBlock.proposerBalanceDelta);
   this.validatorMonitor?.registerImportedBlock(block.message, fullyVerifiedBlock);
-  if (isStatePostAltair(fullyVerifiedBlock.postBlockState)) {
+  if (isStatePostAltair(fullyVerifiedBlock.postState)) {
     this.validatorMonitor?.registerSyncAggregateInBlock(
       blockEpoch,
       (block as altair.SignedBeaconBlock).message.body.syncAggregate,
-      fullyVerifiedBlock.postBlockState.currentSyncCommitteeIndexed.validatorIndices
+      fullyVerifiedBlock.postState.currentSyncCommitteeIndexed.validatorIndices
     );
   }
 

package/src/chain/blocks/importExecutionPayload.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {BeaconChain} from "../chain.js";
 import {RegenCaller} from "../regen/interface.js";
 import {PayloadEnvelopeInput} from "../seenCache/seenPayloadEnvelopeInput.js";
 import {ImportPayloadOpts} from "./types.js";
+import {verifyPayloadsDataAvailability} from "./verifyPayloadsDataAvailability.js";
 
 const EVENTSTREAM_EMIT_RECENT_EXECUTION_PAYLOAD_SLOTS = 64;
 
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ function toForkChoiceExecutionStatus(status: ExecutionPayloadStatus): PayloadExe
 export async function importExecutionPayload(
   this: BeaconChain,
   payloadInput: PayloadEnvelopeInput,
+  signal: AbortSignal,
   opts: ImportPayloadOpts = {}
 ): Promise<void> {
   const signedEnvelope = payloadInput.getPayloadEnvelope();
@@ -112,11 +114,15 @@ export async function importExecutionPayload(
     });
   }
 
-  // 3. Apply backpressure from the write queue early, before doing verification work.
+  // 3. Wait for data columns to be available before claiming a write-queue slot.
+  // The helper is shared with future gloas sync services; take the single-item batch form here.
+  await verifyPayloadsDataAvailability([payloadInput], signal);
+
+  // 4. Apply backpressure from the write queue, before doing verification work.
   // The actual DB write is deferred until after verification succeeds.
   await this.unfinalizedPayloadEnvelopeWrites.waitForSpace();
 
-  // 4. Get pre-state for processExecutionPayloadEnvelope
+  // 5. Get pre-state for processExecutionPayloadEnvelope
   // We need the block state (post-block, pre-payload) to process the envelope
   const blockState = await this.regen.getBlockSlotState(
     protoBlock,
@@ -131,9 +137,7 @@ export async function importExecutionPayload(
     });
   }
 
-  // 5. Run verification steps in parallel
-  // Note: No data availability check needed here - importExecutionPayload is only
-  // called when payloadInput.isComplete() is true, so all data is already available.
+  // 6. Run verification steps in parallel
   const [execResult, signatureValid, postPayloadResult] = await Promise.all([
     this.executionEngine.notifyNewPayload(
       fork,
@@ -240,10 +244,10 @@ export async function importExecutionPayload(
   );
 
   // 8. Cache payload state
-  this.regen.processPayloadState(postPayloadState);
+  this.regen.processState(blockRootHex, postPayloadState);
   if (postPayloadState.slot % SLOTS_PER_EPOCH === 0) {
     const {checkpoint} = postPayloadState.computeAnchorCheckpoint();
-    this.regen.addCheckpointState(checkpoint, postPayloadState, true);
+    this.regen.addCheckpointState(checkpoint, postPayloadState);
   }
 
   // 9. Record metrics for payload envelope and column sources

package/src/chain/blocks/index.ts

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ export async function processBlocks(
     const fullyVerifiedBlocks = relevantBlocks.map(
       (block, i): FullyVerifiedBlock => ({
         blockInput: block,
-        postBlockState: postStates[i],
+        postState: postStates[i],
         postPayloadState: null,
         parentBlockSlot: parentSlots[i],
         executionStatus: executionStatuses[i],

package/src/chain/blocks/payloadEnvelopeInput/payloadEnvelopeInput.ts

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeInput {
   private timeCreatedSec: number;
 
   private readonly payloadEnvelopeDataPromise: PromiseParts<gloas.SignedExecutionPayloadEnvelope>;
+  private readonly allDataPromise: PromiseParts<gloas.DataColumnSidecar[]>;
   private readonly columnsDataPromise: PromiseParts<gloas.DataColumnSidecar[]>;
 
   state: PayloadEnvelopeInputState;
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeInput {
     this.custodyColumns = props.custodyColumns;
     this.timeCreatedSec = props.timeCreatedSec;
     this.payloadEnvelopeDataPromise = createPromise();
+    this.allDataPromise = createPromise();
     this.columnsDataPromise = createPromise();
 
     const noBlobs = props.bid.blobKzgCommitments.length === 0;
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeInput {
 
     if (hasAllData) {
       this.state = {hasPayload: false, hasAllData: true, hasComputedAllData: true};
+      this.allDataPromise.resolve(this.getSampledColumns());
       this.columnsDataPromise.resolve(this.getSampledColumns());
     } else {
       this.state = {hasPayload: false, hasAllData: false, hasComputedAllData: false};
@@ -203,6 +206,12 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeInput {
       return true;
     }
 
+    // Resolve allDataPromise on the first transition to hasAllData (either sampled-complete or
+    // reconstruction-threshold branch). Guarded so it fires exactly once.
+    if (!this.state.hasAllData && hasAllData) {
+      this.allDataPromise.resolve(sampledColumns);
+    }
+
     if (hasComputedAllData) {
       this.columnsDataPromise.resolve(sampledColumns);
     }
@@ -315,6 +324,24 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeInput {
     return this.state.hasComputedAllData;
   }
 
+  waitForAllData(timeout: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<gloas.DataColumnSidecar[]> {
+    if (this.state.hasAllData) {
+      return Promise.resolve(this.getSampledColumns());
+    }
+    return withTimeout(() => this.allDataPromise.promise, timeout, signal);
+  }
+
+  async waitForEnvelopeAndAllData(timeout: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<this> {
+    if (!this.state.hasPayload || !this.state.hasAllData) {
+      await withTimeout(
+        () => Promise.all([this.payloadEnvelopeDataPromise.promise, this.allDataPromise.promise]),
+        timeout,
+        signal
+      );
+    }
+    return this;
+  }
+
   waitForComputedAllData(timeout: number, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<gloas.DataColumnSidecar[]> {
     if (this.state.hasComputedAllData) {
       return Promise.resolve(this.getSampledColumns());

package/src/chain/blocks/payloadEnvelopeProcessor.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ enum PayloadEnvelopeImportStatus {
 
 /**
  * PayloadEnvelopeProcessor processes payload envelope jobs in a queued fashion, one after the other.
+ *
+ * Jobs are enqueued only on envelope arrival (gossip or API). The envelope may reach us before
+ * the sampled data columns; importExecutionPayload awaits `verifyPayloadsDataAvailability`
+ * internally, so a queued job can pend for up to `PAYLOAD_DATA_AVAILABILITY_TIMEOUT` while
+ * waiting for columns. Duplicate triggers for the same payloadInput are deduped via `importStatus`.
  */
 export class PayloadEnvelopeProcessor {
   readonly jobQueue: JobItemQueue<[PayloadEnvelopeInput, ImportPayloadOpts], void>;
@@ -25,7 +30,7 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeProcessor {
     this.jobQueue = new JobItemQueue<[PayloadEnvelopeInput, ImportPayloadOpts], void>(
       (payloadInput, opts) => {
         this.importStatus.set(payloadInput, PayloadEnvelopeImportStatus.importing);
-        return importExecutionPayload.call(chain, payloadInput, opts);
+        return importExecutionPayload.call(chain, payloadInput, signal, opts);
       },
       {maxLength: QUEUE_MAX_LENGTH, noYieldIfOneItem: true, signal},
       metrics?.payloadEnvelopeProcessorQueue ?? undefined
@@ -33,10 +38,6 @@ export class PayloadEnvelopeProcessor {
   }
 
   async processPayloadEnvelopeJob(payloadInput: PayloadEnvelopeInput, opts: ImportPayloadOpts = {}): Promise<void> {
-    if (!payloadInput.isComplete()) {
-      return;
-    }
-
     if (this.importStatus.get(payloadInput) !== undefined) {
       return;
     }

package/src/chain/blocks/types.ts

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export type ImportBlockOpts = {
 
 type FullyVerifiedBlockBase = {
   blockInput: IBlockInput;
-  postBlockState: IBeaconStateView;
+  postState: IBeaconStateView;
   parentBlockSlot: Slot;
   proposerBalanceDelta: number;
   dataAvailabilityStatus: DataAvailabilityStatus;

package/src/chain/blocks/verifyPayloadsDataAvailability.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import {DataAvailabilityStatus} from "@lodestar/state-transition";
+import {gloas} from "@lodestar/types";
+import {PayloadEnvelopeInput} from "../seenCache/seenPayloadEnvelopeInput.js";
+
+// we can now wait for full 12 seconds because sync and reconstruction will try pulling
+// the data columns from the network anyway while the envelope is being processed
+export const PAYLOAD_DATA_AVAILABILITY_TIMEOUT = 12_000;
+
+/**
+ * Verifies that all payload envelope inputs have their data columns available.
+ * - Waits a max of PAYLOAD_DATA_AVAILABILITY_TIMEOUT for all data to be available
+ * - Returns the time at which all data was available
+ * - Returns the data availability status for each payload input
+ */
+export async function verifyPayloadsDataAvailability(
+  payloadInputs: PayloadEnvelopeInput[],
+  signal: AbortSignal
+): Promise<{
+  dataAvailabilityStatuses: DataAvailabilityStatus[];
+  availableTime: number;
+}> {
+  const promises: Promise<gloas.DataColumnSidecar[]>[] = [];
+  for (const payloadInput of payloadInputs) {
+    if (!payloadInput.hasAllData()) {
+      promises.push(payloadInput.waitForAllData(PAYLOAD_DATA_AVAILABILITY_TIMEOUT, signal));
+    }
+  }
+  await Promise.all(promises);
+
+  const availableTime = Math.max(0, Math.max(...payloadInputs.map((payloadInput) => payloadInput.getTimeComplete())));
+  const dataAvailabilityStatuses: DataAvailabilityStatus[] = payloadInputs.map((payloadInput) =>
+    payloadInput.getBlobKzgCommitments().length === 0
+      ? DataAvailabilityStatus.NotRequired
+      : DataAvailabilityStatus.Available
+  );
+
+  return {dataAvailabilityStatuses, availableTime};
+}

package/src/chain/chain.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import {BeaconConfig} from "@lodestar/config";
 import {CheckpointWithPayloadStatus, IForkChoice, ProtoBlock, UpdateHeadOpt} from "@lodestar/fork-choice";
 import {LoggerNode} from "@lodestar/logger/node";
 import {
-  BUILDER_INDEX_SELF_BUILD,
   EFFECTIVE_BALANCE_INCREMENT,
   type ForkPostFulu,
   type ForkPostGloas,
@@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ import {
   getEffectiveBalancesFromStateBytes,
   isStatePostAltair,
   isStatePostElectra,
-  isStatePostGloas,
 } from "@lodestar/state-transition";
 import {
   BeaconBlock,
@@ -93,8 +91,8 @@ import {
 } from "./opPools/index.js";
 import {IChainOptions} from "./options.js";
 import {PrepareNextSlotScheduler} from "./prepareNextSlot.js";
-import {computeNewStateRoot, computePayloadEnvelopeStateRoot} from "./produceBlock/computeNewStateRoot.js";
-import {AssembledBlockType, BlockType, ProduceFullGloas, ProduceResult} from "./produceBlock/index.js";
+import {computeNewStateRoot} from "./produceBlock/computeNewStateRoot.js";
+import {AssembledBlockType, BlockType, ProduceResult} from "./produceBlock/index.js";
 import {BlockAttributes, produceBlockBody, produceCommonBlockBody} from "./produceBlock/produceBlockBody.js";
 import {QueuedStateRegenerator, RegenCaller} from "./regen/index.js";
 import {ReprocessController} from "./reprocess.js";
@@ -118,7 +116,7 @@ import {DbCPStateDatastore, checkpointToDatastoreKey} from "./stateCache/datasto
 import {FileCPStateDatastore} from "./stateCache/datastore/file.js";
 import {CPStateDatastore} from "./stateCache/datastore/types.js";
 import {FIFOBlockStateCache} from "./stateCache/fifoBlockStateCache.js";
-import {PersistentCheckpointStateCache, fcCheckpointToHexPayload} from "./stateCache/persistentCheckpointsCache.js";
+import {PersistentCheckpointStateCache} from "./stateCache/persistentCheckpointsCache.js";
 import {CheckpointStateCache} from "./stateCache/types.js";
 import {ValidatorMonitor} from "./validatorMonitor.js";
 
@@ -685,8 +683,8 @@ export class BeaconChain implements IBeaconChain {
     checkpoint: CheckpointWithPayloadStatus
   ): {state: IBeaconStateView; executionOptimistic: boolean; finalized: boolean} | null {
     // finalized or justified checkpoint states maynot be available with PersistentCheckpointStateCache, use getCheckpointStateOrBytes() api to get Uint8Array
-    const checkpointHexPayload = fcCheckpointToHexPayload(checkpoint);
-    const cachedStateCtx = this.regen.getCheckpointStateSync(checkpointHexPayload);
+    const checkpointHex = {epoch: checkpoint.epoch, rootHex: checkpoint.rootHex};
+    const cachedStateCtx = this.regen.getCheckpointStateSync(checkpointHex);
     if (cachedStateCtx) {
       const block = this.forkChoice.getBlockDefaultStatus(
         ssz.phase0.BeaconBlockHeader.hashTreeRoot(cachedStateCtx.latestBlockHeader)
@@ -705,8 +703,8 @@ export class BeaconChain implements IBeaconChain {
   async getStateOrBytesByCheckpoint(
     checkpoint: CheckpointWithPayloadStatus
   ): Promise<{state: IBeaconStateView | Uint8Array; executionOptimistic: boolean; finalized: boolean} | null> {
-    const checkpointHexPayload = fcCheckpointToHexPayload(checkpoint);
-    const cachedStateCtx = await this.regen.getCheckpointStateOrBytes(checkpointHexPayload);
+    const checkpointHex = {epoch: checkpoint.epoch, rootHex: checkpoint.rootHex};
+    const cachedStateCtx = await this.regen.getCheckpointStateOrBytes(checkpointHex);
     if (cachedStateCtx) {
       const block = this.forkChoice.getBlockDefaultStatus(checkpoint.root);
       const finalizedEpoch = this.forkChoice.getFinalizedCheckpoint().epoch;
@@ -1062,7 +1060,7 @@ export class BeaconChain implements IBeaconChain {
       body,
     } as AssembledBlockType<T>;
 
-    const {newStateRoot, proposerReward, postBlockState} = computeNewStateRoot(this.metrics, state, block);
+    const {newStateRoot, proposerReward} = computeNewStateRoot(this.metrics, state, block);
     block.stateRoot = newStateRoot;
     const blockRoot =
       produceResult.type === BlockType.Full
@@ -1071,26 +1069,9 @@ export class BeaconChain implements IBeaconChain {
     const blockRootHex = toRootHex(blockRoot);
 
     const fork = this.config.getForkName(slot);
-    if (isForkPostGloas(fork)) {
-      // TODO GLOAS: we should retire BlockType post-gloas, may need a new enum for self vs non-self built
-      if (produceResult.type !== BlockType.Full) {
-        throw Error(`Unexpected block type=${produceResult.type} for post-gloas fork=${fork}`);
-      }
-
-      const gloasResult = produceResult as ProduceFullGloas;
-      const envelope: gloas.ExecutionPayloadEnvelope = {
-        payload: gloasResult.executionPayload,
-        executionRequests: gloasResult.executionRequests,
-        builderIndex: BUILDER_INDEX_SELF_BUILD,
-        beaconBlockRoot: blockRoot,
-        slot,
-        stateRoot: ZERO_HASH,
-      };
-      if (!isStatePostGloas(postBlockState)) {
-        throw Error(`Expected gloas+ post-state for execution payload envelope, got fork=${postBlockState.forkName}`);
-      }
-      const payloadEnvelopeStateRoot = computePayloadEnvelopeStateRoot(this.metrics, postBlockState, envelope);
-      gloasResult.payloadEnvelopeStateRoot = payloadEnvelopeStateRoot;
+    // TODO GLOAS: we should retire BlockType post-gloas, may need a new enum for self vs non-self built
+    if (isForkPostGloas(fork) && produceResult.type !== BlockType.Full) {
+      throw Error(`Unexpected block type=${produceResult.type} for post-gloas fork=${fork}`);
     }
 
     // Track the produced block for consensus broadcast validations, later validation, etc.
@@ -1338,8 +1319,8 @@ export class BeaconChain implements IBeaconChain {
     checkpoint: CheckpointWithPayloadStatus,
     blockState: IBeaconStateView
   ): {state: IBeaconStateView; stateId: string; shouldWarn: boolean} {
-    const checkpointHexPayload = fcCheckpointToHexPayload(checkpoint);
-    const state = this.regen.getCheckpointStateSync(checkpointHexPayload);
+    const checkpointHex = {epoch: checkpoint.epoch, rootHex: checkpoint.rootHex};
+    const state = this.regen.getCheckpointStateSync(checkpointHex);
     if (state) {
       return {state, stateId: "checkpoint_state", shouldWarn: false};
     }

package/src/chain/emitter.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {DataColumnSidecar, RootHex, deneb, phase0} from "@lodestar/types";
 import {SignedExecutionPayloadEnvelope} from "@lodestar/types/gloas";
 import {PeerIdStr} from "../util/peerId.js";
 import {BlockInputSource, IBlockInput} from "./blocks/blockInput/types.js";
+import {PayloadEnvelopeInput} from "./blocks/payloadEnvelopeInput/payloadEnvelopeInput.js";
 
 /**
  * Important chain events that occur during normal chain operation.
@@ -76,6 +77,11 @@ export enum ChainEvent {
    * cut-off window passes for waiting on gossip
    */
   incompleteBlockInput = "incompleteBlockInput",
+  /**
+   * Post-gloas: trigger BlockInputSync for payload envelopes whose envelope and/or sampled columns are partially
+   * received via gossip but are not complete by time the cut-off window passes for waiting on gossip
+   */
+  incompletePayloadEnvelope = "incompletePayloadEnvelope",
 }
 
 export type HeadEventData = routes.events.EventData[routes.events.EventType.head];
@@ -93,6 +99,11 @@ export type ChainEventData = {
   };
   [ChainEvent.unknownBlockRoot]: {rootHex: RootHex; peer?: PeerIdStr; source: BlockInputSource};
   [ChainEvent.incompleteBlockInput]: {blockInput: IBlockInput; peer: PeerIdStr; source: BlockInputSource};
+  [ChainEvent.incompletePayloadEnvelope]: {
+    payloadInput: PayloadEnvelopeInput;
+    peer: PeerIdStr;
+    source: BlockInputSource;
+  };
   [ChainEvent.unknownEnvelopeBlockRoot]: {rootHex: RootHex; peer?: PeerIdStr; source: BlockInputSource};
 };
 
@@ -116,6 +127,7 @@ export type IChainEvents = ApiEvents & {
   [ChainEvent.envelopeUnknownBlock]: (data: ChainEventData[ChainEvent.envelopeUnknownBlock]) => void;
   [ChainEvent.unknownBlockRoot]: (data: ChainEventData[ChainEvent.unknownBlockRoot]) => void;
   [ChainEvent.incompleteBlockInput]: (data: ChainEventData[ChainEvent.incompleteBlockInput]) => void;
+  [ChainEvent.incompletePayloadEnvelope]: (data: ChainEventData[ChainEvent.incompletePayloadEnvelope]) => void;
   [ChainEvent.unknownEnvelopeBlockRoot]: (data: ChainEventData[ChainEvent.unknownEnvelopeBlockRoot]) => void;
 };
 

package/src/chain/forkChoice/index.ts

@@ -150,7 +150,9 @@ export function initializeForkChoiceFromFinalizedState(
 
         ...(isStatePostBellatrix(state) && state.isExecutionStateType && state.isMergeTransitionComplete
           ? {
-              executionPayloadBlockHash: toRootHex(state.latestBlockHash),
+              executionPayloadBlockHash: isStatePostGloas(state)
+                ? toRootHex(state.latestBlockHash)
+                : toRootHex(state.latestExecutionPayloadHeader.blockHash),
               // TODO GLOAS: executionPayloadNumber is not tracked in BeaconState post-gloas (EIP-7732 removed
               // latestExecutionPayloadHeader). Using 0 as unavailable fallback until a solution is found.
               executionPayloadNumber: isStatePostGloas(state) ? 0 : state.payloadBlockNumber,
@@ -247,7 +249,9 @@ export function initializeForkChoiceFromUnfinalizedState(
     unfinalizedState.isExecutionStateType &&
     unfinalizedState.isMergeTransitionComplete
       ? {
-          executionPayloadBlockHash: toRootHex(unfinalizedState.latestBlockHash),
+          executionPayloadBlockHash: isStatePostGloas(unfinalizedState)
+            ? toRootHex(unfinalizedState.latestBlockHash)
+            : toRootHex(unfinalizedState.latestExecutionPayloadHeader.blockHash),
           // TODO GLOAS: executionPayloadNumber is not tracked in BeaconState post-gloas (EIP-7732 removed
           // latestExecutionPayloadHeader). Using 0 as unavailable fallback until a solution is found.
           executionPayloadNumber: isStatePostGloas(unfinalizedState) ? 0 : unfinalizedState.payloadBlockNumber,

package/src/chain/prepareNextSlot.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import {routes} from "@lodestar/api";
 import {ChainForkConfig} from "@lodestar/config";
-import {PayloadStatus, getSafeExecutionBlockHash} from "@lodestar/fork-choice";
+import {getSafeExecutionBlockHash} from "@lodestar/fork-choice";
 import {ForkPostBellatrix, ForkSeq, SLOTS_PER_EPOCH, isForkPostBellatrix} from "@lodestar/params";
 import {
   IBeaconStateView,
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ import {
   computeEpochAtSlot,
   computeTimeAtSlot,
   isStatePostBellatrix,
+  isStatePostGloas,
 } from "@lodestar/state-transition";
-import {Slot} from "@lodestar/types";
+import {Bytes32, Slot} from "@lodestar/types";
 import {Logger, fromHex, isErrorAborted, sleep} from "@lodestar/utils";
 import {GENESIS_SLOT, ZERO_HASH_HEX} from "../constants/constants.js";
 import {BuilderStatus} from "../execution/builder/http.js";
@@ -81,6 +82,8 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
       // calling updateHead() here before we produce a block to reduce reorg possibility
       const headBlock = this.chain.recomputeForkChoiceHead(ForkchoiceCaller.prepareNextSlot);
       const {slot: headSlot, blockRoot: headRoot} = headBlock;
+      // may be updated below if we predict a proposer-boost-reorg
+      let updatedHeadRoot = headRoot;
 
       // PS: previously this was comparing slots, but that gave no leway on the skipped
       // slots on epoch bounday. Making it more fluid.
@@ -123,7 +126,6 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
         const proposerIndex = prepareState.getBeaconProposer(prepareSlot);
         const feeRecipient = this.chain.beaconProposerCache.get(proposerIndex);
         let updatedPrepareState = prepareState;
-        let updatedHeadRoot = headRoot;
 
         if (feeRecipient) {
           // If we are proposing next slot, we need to predict if we can proposer-boost-reorg or not
@@ -156,25 +158,39 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
               this.logger.error("Builder disabled as the check status api failed", {prepareSlot}, e as Error);
             });
           }
+        }
+
+        if (!isStatePostBellatrix(updatedPrepareState)) {
+          throw new Error("Expected Bellatrix state for payload attributes");
+        }
+
+        let parentBlockHash: Bytes32;
+        if (isStatePostGloas(updatedPrepareState)) {
+          parentBlockHash = this.chain.forkChoice.shouldExtendPayload(updatedHeadRoot)
+            ? updatedPrepareState.latestExecutionPayloadBid.blockHash
+            : updatedPrepareState.latestExecutionPayloadBid.parentBlockHash;
+        } else {
+          parentBlockHash = updatedPrepareState.latestExecutionPayloadHeader.blockHash;
+        }
 
+        if (feeRecipient) {
           const preparationTime =
             computeTimeAtSlot(this.config, prepareSlot, this.chain.genesisTime) - Date.now() / 1000;
           this.metrics?.blockPayload.payloadAdvancePrepTime.observe(preparationTime);
-          if (!isStatePostBellatrix(updatedPrepareState)) {
-            throw new Error("Expected Bellatrix state for payload preparation");
-          }
 
           const safeBlockHash = getSafeExecutionBlockHash(this.chain.forkChoice);
           const finalizedBlockHash =
             this.chain.forkChoice.getFinalizedBlock().executionPayloadBlockHash ?? ZERO_HASH_HEX;
+
           // awaiting here instead of throwing an async call because there is no other task
-          // left for scheduler and this gives nice sematics to catch and log errors in the
+          // left for scheduler and this gives nice semantics to catch and log errors in the
           // try/catch wrapper here.
           await prepareExecutionPayload(
             this.chain,
             this.logger,
             fork as ForkPostBellatrix, // State is of execution type
             fromHex(updatedHeadRoot),
+            parentBlockHash,
             safeBlockHash,
             finalizedBlockHash,
             updatedPrepareState,
@@ -187,10 +203,6 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
           });
         }
 
-        if (!isStatePostBellatrix(updatedPrepareState)) {
-          throw new Error("Expected Bellatrix state for payload attributes");
-        }
-
         this.computeStateHashTreeRoot(updatedPrepareState, isEpochTransition);
 
         // If emitPayloadAttributes is true emit a SSE payloadAttributes event
@@ -202,6 +214,7 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
             prepareState: updatedPrepareState,
             prepareSlot,
             parentBlockRoot: fromHex(headRoot),
+            parentBlockHash,
             // The likely consumers of this API are builders and will anyway ignore the
             // feeRecipient, so just pass zero hash for now till a real use case arises
             feeRecipient: "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
@@ -217,11 +230,7 @@ export class PrepareNextSlotScheduler {
       //  + if next slot is a skipped slot, it'd help getting target checkpoint state faster to validate attestations
       if (isEpochTransition) {
         this.metrics?.precomputeNextEpochTransition.count.inc({result: "success"}, 1);
-        // Determine payloadPresent from head block's payload status
-        // Pre-Gloas: payloadStatus is always FULL → payloadPresent = true
-        // Post-Gloas: FULL → true, EMPTY → false, PENDING → false (conservative, treat as block state)
-        const payloadPresent = headBlock.payloadStatus === PayloadStatus.FULL;
-        const previousHits = this.chain.regen.updatePreComputedCheckpoint(headRoot, nextEpoch, payloadPresent);
+        const previousHits = this.chain.regen.updatePreComputedCheckpoint(headRoot, nextEpoch);
         if (previousHits === 0) {
           this.metrics?.precomputeNextEpochTransition.waste.inc();
         }