Block Producer Requirements

[jferrant]

I am mostly posting this for visibility. Suggestions on where this should live long term are appreciated.

Block Producer Requirements:

Initial (Mockamoto) Release

Assumptions:

• There is only one block producer and its always the leader
• DKG is therefore not STRICTLY necessary as no verification of schnorr sigs on Stacks side (however, will be implemented anyway)
• No configuration beyond just setting private key to sign with

Requirements:

• Generate a new block (API call)
• Validate a new block (API call)
• As there are no stacker signers, technically the producer would just take the produced, (mock-)signed block and upload it to the Stacks node (i.e. POST it to /v3/blocks)

Follow up Release

Requirements:

• Leadership election (every 10 bitcoin blocks)
• Trigger signing round
• Respond to sign request
• Block producer registration
• Configure amount BTC to pay per recipient
• Configure max tx fee
• Communication via Stacker DB

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