Andrea V

# Description of change Issue #2380 Implementation of the `Warpsync` plugin that will allow to retrieve entire epoch's content for a specific epoch commitment chain: for faster syncing and for...

Epochs can be used to obtain entire temporal chunks of the Tangle in order to aid node's bootstrapping. Additionally, epoch syncing will be used to obtain a specific epoch chain,...

The solid entrypoints of an epoch can be determined on message arrival: the message's references that cross to an older epoch.

Intense deep spam leads to an overflow of opinions that need to be expressed so that a block can be picked up, leading to a tip explosion where no tip...

In order to properly initialize Mana vectors, nodes' activity record must be recorded as part of the epoch committments. This will allow not only to initialize the node's perception of...

`(s *SimpleFinalityGadget) FirstUnconfirmedMarkerIndex` addresses a ever-growing map containing the `lastConfirmedMarkers`. The map should be re-created periodically, or on some heuristic to free-up space.

Create a mechanism to collect and aggregate every (or a subset of) event triggering and processed on all nodes, sorted by time.

Instead of merging Confirmed branches into the Master branch, we tag the inclusion state of branches as "Confirmed" and "Rejected"; but we don't prune or reorder the BranchDAG. On one...