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Builder and proposer preferences are lost on beacon node restart #9920

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@nflaig

The validator client submits proposer preferences and builder preferences once per proposal slot within the SUBMIT_BEFORE_PROPOSAL_SLOTS window and tracks submissions per dependent root, so a successful submission is never repeated unless the proposer shuffling shifts.

The beacon node keeps preferences in memory only. A restart between the submission and the proposal empties the pool, and peers do not re-gossip preferences they already sent, so bid validation at the proposal fails with No proposer preferences found for gossip and builder api bids alike, forcing a self-build even though builders hold the preferences and are bidding.

Options, not mutually exclusive:

  • resubmit every slot within the submission window and rely on pool dedup instead of tracking submitted slots in the validator client
  • resubmit when the validator client detects a beacon node restart
  • persist the preferences pools on the beacon node

Related to #9919 since a combined service would only need the fix once.

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