Questions tagged [forks]
forks are events where the blockchain consensus is not guaranteed and clients may have different states
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When did each opcode get added to the EVM?
After the original set defined in the Ethereum yellow paper,
many new opcodes have been added.
I'm after a list of when each one was added (by fork).
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Using hardhat to fork a node but getting 'Missing Trie Node'
Im using hardhat to fork a node in the command line.
cmd> npx hardhat node --fork https://therpcnodehere.com
After about 10 minutes or so the fork starts responding to requests with 'missing trie ...
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Forking Ethereum Blockchain to run a blockchain at your mainnet
I want to fork Ethereum blockchain and after forking the chain i want to set up my nodes network, And want to rebrand it and want to live the chain and want to run it on EVM
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hardhat fork of private network with zero gas fees still requires a balance to perform a transaction
I forked my private network in hardhat using the below hardhat.config.js
My network gas zero gas fees so we dont have any balances.
module.exports = {
networks: {
hardhat: {
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Why would Ethereum forks chose different Bip39 Derivation paths derivation path than ethereum?
Just wondering why Ethereum forks like Ethereum Classic or others would chose a different derivation path than Ethereum? Having the same derivation path would guaranty greater support as it would be ...
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How to calculate max buy and sell amounts of a token?
There are some contracts on the ethereum blockchain (like this one) that has either predefined max buy and sell amounts and/or function for setting max buy and sell percent/amount etc. I am trying to ...
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Solidity assembly function returns false on forked blockchain
I try to simulate submitting transaction to Multisig contract and confirming transaction by other multisig members by impersonating their account on Hardhat with forking.
I managed submitting and ...
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Network partitioning and FINALITY
Imagine China has switched the internet off.
Half validators are in the China, half in the rest of the world. So we have a 2 separate networks (like a fork).
Each side produces some blocks and votes ...
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Hardhat: Detect script is running on forked network
I want to detect in my JS script that the code is running against a forked network, and therefore run conditional code based on this.
In hardhat.config.js I have added to networks:
networks: {
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How to fork the Ethereum mainnet from height 10000
I tried using ganache to fork, but it only provides rpc not 30303, others can't sync my node. So how do I do it?
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Fork of geth - activate mining ONLY when there's transaction(s) that've come from a certain wallet/address. How?
This may be a fork of geth, or any other node client, or a tweak in its functionality:
I want to be able to activate mining process only when, and if, there have come transaction(s) from a certain ...
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Include balance in accounts results in: Invalid account: #0 for network:- Expected string, received object
When working with external networks in hardhat, accounts are supossed to be of type HardhatNetworkAccountsUserConfig, according to types/config,ts inside the hardhat code, that can be
export type ...
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Forking the chain locally
I would like to fork the ETH chain and play around with it locally, maybe even buy a few raspberry pi's and run some nodes just to present it visually.
Can someone please point me to some ...
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Can not deploy my contract on ganache-cli using ETH mainnet fork
I used ganache-cli in combination with my Infura key to fork ETH mainnet so I could use the Uniswap router in my development environment:
ganache-cli --fork https://mainnet.infura.io/v3/<mykeyhere&...
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What happens to NFTs when the blockchain is forked?
When the blockchain underlying a cryptocurrency is forked, both the ownership status of all the currency is cloned, and everyone possesses the coins they had on the original blockchain then on both ...
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Brownie contract Interface not working on mainnet-fork
I'm following Patric Collins youtube video and trying to deposit wETH in the wETH contract using an interface and working using a fork of mainnet. I am trying to deposit eth in the next contract.
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How are updates rolled out?
if an update to Ethereum or any other cryptocurrency is rolled out, how to ensure that everyone in the network is running the same 'version'.
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I can't set the limit that the contract accumulates tokens to exchange for BNB
My contract is a safemoon fork. He must tax transactions, accumulate some tokens and sell these tokens by BNB to send to the 4 wallets in the code. Turns out he must sell the tokens when he hits a ...
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Spin up custom ETH based blockchain: just changing the genesis and toml?
If I wanted, lets say, to power on a clone of BSC (just to have a PoA version of the thing), would it be enough to follow the full node setup guide from Binance and just edit the config.toml and the ...
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Does anyone know how to fork a chain at a particular block on Brownie?
I am trying to fork the ethereum mainnet at a past block number on brownie. But I dont see any way to do that in the brownie docs .
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Invalid value undefined for HardhatConfig.networks.mainnet_fork.url - Expected a value of type string
I have an ALCHEMY_MAINNET_RPC_URL environment that is of type string. I can verify it as such with:
const ALCHEMY_MAINNET_RPC_URL = process.env.ALCHEMY_MAINNET_RPC_URL || ''
console.log(typeof (...
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Listen for Reorganized Blocks using Web3js
Assuming there is a reorganization at block height N, the block with hash H being the forked block and H' the block that is the 'actual' one.
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Will web3.eth.subscribe('newBlockHeaders' \[, callback\]...
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How common are orphaned blocks on Ethereum?
How often do orphaned blocks happen on Ethereum? I have read about the 3000 orphaned chain of block on Ethereum Classic, what has been the longest orphaned chain on Ethereum?
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hardhat mainnet forking and impersonating an account isnt working, help!
So I'm trying to fork the mainnet using hardhat, impersonate a Dai whale, and transfer its Dai to a hardhat wallet for testing a smart contract, but I'm running into problems.
My code looks like this:
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Uniswap Fork: Able to add liquidity, but not able to swap
I am forking uniswap and deploying it on Rinkbey TestNet.
I have successfully deployed factory, router, weth contracts.
I have replaced the respective addresses in the uniswap interface code.
I ...
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How to fork the mainnet
I'm pretty new to Ethereum.
I'm trying to write a simple dapp, which can deposit and withdrawal from aave.
In order to communicate create the contract first I need to fork the mainnet.
I'm not exactly ...
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How many blocks were reversed with the DAO hard fork?
There are some facts regarding the DAO hack and the subsequent hard fork that can be found everywhere, e.g., that the hard fork happened at block height 1,920,000, that it was undertaken in an effort ...
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How do uncle blocks remain valid?
Even though Ethereum does not directly use GHOST, stale blocks can be included as uncles for a reward.
How can uncle blocks remain valid, as I suppose state transitions must be non-conflicting? The ...
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Could we fork Ethereum and make Ether ERC-20 compliant?
Is it possible for some future fork to make Ethereum ERC-20 compliant?
Since ERC-20 didn't exist at the beginning of Ethereum, I'm curious if it would be beneficial for Ether to interact more directly ...
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Uniswap Router deployment error: "UniswapV2Router02" -- Cannot create instance of UniswapV2Router02; no code at address 0xxxxxxxxx
I am trying to fork Uniswap and deploy on Ropsten testnet for educational and testing purposes. From what I gathered, it seems that we need to first deploy the UniswapV2Factory contract, followed by ...
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When forking MainNet with ganache-cli and trying to interact with contract -> error thrown
Forked MainNet with Ganache-ClI
wrote script to interact with on-chain DAI contract to send some Dai to account
Unlocked the DAI contract
const Web3 = require('web3');
const daiAbi = require('/Users/...
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Which fork implemented EIP-141? (invalid opcode)
EIP-141 https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-141 was introduced in 2017, but I cannot find it in any of the meta lists for forks https://eips.ethereum.org/meta. Is there a fork under which it was ...
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How would a 50/50 netsplit play out on Ethereum 2 (beaconchain)?
I'd like to know what would happen in terms of penalization of staked validators if there was some sort of major global netsplit that -- for the sake of this question -- resulted in exactly 50% of all ...
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HardHat deploy script works on testnet but not on forked hardhat network
The error that I am getting when running this is:
Error: Invalid RpcBlockWithTransactions or null
I have a contract called PriceConsumerV3 and it makes a view function call on a contract. I am ...
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Fork in Proof-of-Stake?
Regarding the fact that in Proof-of-Stake, a stakeholder will be elected randomly as the next author of the next block in each epoch (or each round or slot), logically, in each round (or slot) there ...
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What is the criteria to resync chain using proof of stake?
In PoW, nodes always resync their own chain to the longest chain in the network in order to respect the work the miners have done. In PoS, as I understand in its simplest form, the miner with the ...
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When running a geth node, how can I know when reorg occur?
I want to add a script to notify the dev team if re-org bigger than 200 blocks took place.
How can I achieve it?
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How can i create more that one node for test purposes?
I really need to have more than one node to test my smart contract. I'm using remix and i also installed ganache, however, ganache doesn't allow me to have more than one node as I hoped for...
I have ...
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Cost of forking Augur
Augur Version 2 is scheduled for launch on July 28th 2020. How can the cost of forking Augur version 2 (by disputing a market resolution) be calculated in REP? How dies this cost compare to the cost ...
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gas estimation about tests on Ganache forked mainnet
I come up with this solution with gas estimation. Could someone help check whether it is feasible?
If we want to send a transaction,
first, we just fork the newest mainnet blockchain using ganache-...
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Fork Choice Rule in Ethereum 2.0?
According to the "Fork choice rule" in Ethereum 2.0 (sharding), how to choose a branch in a fork? (A) or (B) ?
(A) branch, which has the most blocks in it. (similar to "longest
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Could smart contract use a fork block?
If generated two forked block A and B.
Can the smart contract in block A access to transaction in block B?
I know that PoS is consensus algorithm working by check all stake in block.
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How to fork current eth mainnet chain in new private blockchain from block #####
I want to run my own eth fork from mainnet (keeping history of transactions, balances & etc). How can I start my new geth instance that will start working after ###### block of mainnet chain? I ...
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PIVX fork CryptoDezire Coin SendRawTransaction not working
A CDZC coin basically fork of PIVX . I am trying to send coin via rpc calls. Successfuly created RawTxn, SignRawTxn but unable to SendRawTxn.
`await rpc.listunspent().then(async r => {
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Does uncle blocks in poa forks contains transactions?
Since that forks can happen in poa networks (I asked how to prevent forks here);
What does means ? is uncle blocks contains transactions or they are just empty blocks ?
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How to prevent fork in poa network?
I discover that forks in poa network can happen!
I have 4 nodes (trusted nodes) I want to create a poa network with no forks,
is it possible ?
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"Fork choice rule" : A general term? or a specific algorithm?
Is "Fork choice rule" a general term including all the algorithms used for choosing a branch among other branches in a fork (including longest chain rule etc) ?
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What way there is to implement a new signing scheme in Ethereum?
I want to deploy a new signing scheme for the Ethereum transactions as an alternative to the currently implemented ECDSA. This will be for future research purposes on post-quantum signing schemes.
The ...
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How can I extract sidechains (transient forks) from a geth node before they get discarded?
According to my understanding, transient forks (also known as sidechains in geth's source code) are discarded or overwritten when a reorganization happens.
But before that, when the node detects a ...
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