Cluster Configuration

warning

These cluster definition and cluster lock files are a work in progress. The intention is for the files to be standardised for operating distributed validators via the EIP process when appropriate.

This document describes the configuration options for running a charon client (or cluster) locally or in production.

Cluster Configuration Files

A charon cluster is configured in two steps:

• cluster-definition.json which defines the intended cluster configuration before keys have been created in a distributed key generation ceremony.
• cluster-lock.json which includes and extends cluster-definition.json with distributed validator BLS public key shares.

The charon create dkg command is used to create cluster-definition.json file which is used as input to charon dkg.

The charon create cluster command combines both steps into one and just outputs the final cluster-lock.json without a DKG step.

The schema of the cluster-definition.json is defined as:

{
  "version": "v1.0.0",                  // Schema version
  "num_validators": 100,                // Number of validators to create in cluster.lock
  "threshold": 3,                       // Optional threshold required for signature reconstruction
  "uuid": "1234-abcdef-1234-abcdef",    // Random unique identifier
  "name": "best cluster",               // Optional name field, cosmetic.
  "fee_recipient_address":"0x123..abfc",// ETH1 fee_recipient address
  "withdrawal_address": "0x123..abfc",  // ETH1 withdrawal address
  "algorithm": "foo_dkg_v1" ,           // Optional DKG algorithm
  "fork_version": "0x00112233",         // Fork version lock, enum of known values
  "operators": [
    {
      "address": "0x123..abfc",         // ETH1 operator identify address
      "enr": "enr://abcdef...12345",    // charon client ENR
      "signature": "123456...abcdef",   // Signature of enr by ETH1 address priv key
      "nonce": 1                        // Nonce of signature
    }
  ],
  "definition_hash": "abcdef...abcedef",// Hash of above field (except free text)
  "operator_signatures": [              // Operator signatures (seals) of definition hash
    "123456...abcdef",
    "123456...abcdef"
  ]
}

The above cluster-definition.json is provided as input to the DKG which generates keys and the cluster-lock.json file.

The cluster-lock.json has the following schema:

{
  "cluster_definition": {...},                              // Cluster definiition json, identical schema to above,
  "distributed_validators": [                               // Length equaled to num_validators.
    {
      "distributed_public_key":  "0x123..abfc",             // DV root pubkey
      "threshold_verifiers": [ "oA8Z...2XyT", "g1q...icu"], // length of threshold
      "fee_recipient": "0x123..abfc"                        // Defaults to withdrawal address if not set, can be edited manually
    }
  ],
  "lock_hash": "abcdef...abcedef",                          // Config_hash plus distributed_validators
  "signature_aggregate": "abcdef...abcedef"                 // BLS aggregate signature of the lock hash signed by each DV pubkey.
}