VITE Document

VEP-10: Vite TestNet-PreMainnet Data Migration Plan

Background

Due to massive optimizations made in blockchain's data structure and consensus algorithm, old transaction data cannot be verified in the pre-mainnet. Therefore, transactions in TestNet will not be retained after the migration, but only account status will be.

Objectives

  1. Keep complete account state information
  2. Ensure consensus works smoothly when pre-mainnet launches

Migration Plan

Generate a genesis block on each account involved to store balance, contract states and other information that should be migrated. Then snapshot these genesis account blocks into a genesis snapshot block.

User Account

User account status includes account balance and un-received transactions.

  • Balance is directly saved
  • Amounts of all un-received transactions are summed up and added into account balance
  • Only balances of VITE and VCP are retained

Contract Account

Contract account status includes contract information (code, delegated consensus group that the contract belongs to), contract states (contract storage), contract account balance and un-received transactions.

Built-in Contracts

  • Balance is directly saved
  • Amounts of all un-received transactions are returned to original accounts
  • Only balances of VITE and VCP are retained

Staking contract (address vite_0000000000000000000000000000000000000003f6af7459b9 )

  • Retain all staking information with new expiration height 1 (can be retrieved immediately after the pre-mainnet launches)

Original SBP registration contract, voting contract and consensus group contract are merged into new consensus group contract (address vite_0000000000000000000000000000000000000004d28108e76b )

  • Retain all valid SBP registrations with new registration expiration height 7776000 (about 3 months after pre-mainnet launches)
  • Retain all voting information
  • Retain all settings in snapshot consensus group and public delegated consensus group

Mintage contract (address vite_000000000000000000000000000000000000000595292d996d )

  • Retain token information for VITE and VCP
  • Change VITE to re-issuable
  • For other tokens, token issuance fee (1,000 VITE each) is refunded to issuer's account and the relevant token will not be retained

User-deployed Contracts

  • User-deployed contracts will not be retained
  • Contract deployment fee (10 VITE each) is refunded to contract creator
  • Contract balance is returned to contract creator
  • Amounts of all un-received transactions are returned to original accounts
  • Only balances of VITE and VCP are retained

Conclusion

  • Consensus state is carried over from TestNet. The snapshot consensus group info and SBP ranking is unchanged
  • Account information remain unchanged, including balance, staking, voting, SBP registration and token issuance information
  • All user-issued tokens need to be re-minted in pre-mainnet
  • All user-deployed smart contracts need to be re-deployed in pre-mainnet

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