M2.1: Copper release (r3)

[maciejwitowski]

Goal

Enable sending funds to existing addresses and CALLing other EVM smart contracts

Implementation scope

This release:

• Ethereum JSON-RPC sans events, possibly with temporary in-protocol Ethereum signature validation if account abstraction not ready
• Adds support for REVERT opcode
• Cross-EVM contract calls (to enable sending funds to existing addresses), including METHODNUM opcode #805
• Implement missing opcodes
  • filecoin-project/builtin-actors#689
  • #838
• Account abstraction progress
• Extensible addressing progress

Work burndown

https://github.com/filecoin-project/ref-fvm/milestone/9

[maciejwitowski]

Update:

• ✅ Ethereum JSON-RPC sans events

  • ✅ filecoin-project/lotus#9287
  • ✅ filecoin-project/lotus#9208

• ✅ REVERT implementation filecoin-project/builtin-actors#633
  with a caveat described in #985

• Cross-EVM contract calls
  ✅ filecoin-project/builtin-actors#633
  ✅ #809

• ✅ #838

  • PR draft filecoin-project/builtin-actors#632

• ✅ Multiple improvements

  • filecoin-project/builtin-actors#619
  • filecoin-project/builtin-actors#621
  • filecoin-project/builtin-actors#615

• Extensible addressing

  • ✅ Spec opened for discussions filecoin-project/FIPs#459
  • #860
  • Implementation starting this week

• Account Abstraction

  • ✅ 5-15% of implementation done

[raulk]

Are we ready to close this issue that we've handed it off? 🎉

[maciejwitowski]

Yes! 🚀

[raulk]

Copper has arrived!