Helen

Decouple dev genesis file for Privacy

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### Context Currently testing features for mainnet and privacy both require to use the same dev genesis file and the hash is hard-coded which makes it difficult to modify the...

Update config default values for header and chain segment requests

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- `--Xsynchronizer-downloader-chain-segment-size=100` - `--Xsynchronizer-downloader-header-request-size=100` - `--Xsynchronizer-fast-sync-full-validation-rate=0.0001`

Crash during full sync

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**Actual behavior:** [What actually happens] Besu crashed while doing full sync on a newer block `7342831` on Goerli. it was running normally and synced. several other Besu nodes and all...

### Desired Outcome Do performance profiling across different types of eth_call. Consider for: - simple eth_call for ERC20 balanceOf **Tasks** - [ ] Evaluate tools - [ ] Enable performance...

Fix Broken RPC Hive Tests

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### Acceptance Criteria - Investigate why `rpc-compat` and `rpc` test suites have so many [failing tests](https://images.zenhubusercontent.com/5f4844bf1815e2a545fbfd12/ab9637e4-ba35-47df-97b1-7ae7bce0ef23) - Fix any correctly failing tests ### Note - [Hive Tests](https://hivetests2.ethdevops.io/)

May cause sync and timeouts

### Desired Outcome - Propose a reputation scoring system to the team, incorporate feedback, and implement the reputation scoring system - After implementing the scoring system, compare the snapsync completion...

### Context Anecdotally we've been hearing that other Ethereum client nodes are disconnecting Besu nodes. If this is true, this will affect Besu's ability to hear about transactions fast and...

### Desired Outcome - Adjust peer reputation based on how quickly peers are returning what we are asking for Timebox: Run the benchmarking for 2 weeks