[BEEFY]: ready for and deployed on Kusama

[acatangiu]

The Vision

Have the BEEFY-client/BEEFY-voter functioning correctly and reliably in all network conditions and scenarios, with no trust or assumptions of fairness from other nodes/voters/validators.

This means implementing and relying on economic (dis)incentivization mechanisms.

The Plan

• client/beefy: BEEFY equivocation processing substrate#12692
• BEEFY: Implement peer reputation changes for Request Response protocol exchanges substrate#12293
• BEEFY: Implement peer reputation changes for gossip exchanges substrate#12294
• client/beefy: add more metrics for production visibility substrate#12893
• documentation: add BEEFY 'spec' substrate#12920
• Proof verification optimisation for pallet-beefy-mmr substrate#12820
• beefy: add pruning for SetIdSession storage in pallet-beefy substrate#13404
• beefy: enhance gossip protocol with finality proofs substrate#13733
• Add BEEFY capabilities to Westend and Kusama polkadot#7591
• sc-consensus-beefy: fix BEEFY fast sync substrate#14752
• frame/beefy: add privileged call to reset BEEFY consensus polkadot-sdk#1534
• sc-consensus-beefy: restart voter on pallet reset substrate#14821
• cli: disallow BEEFY and warp sync together polkadot#7661

Deployment

• [BEEFY]: Deployed on Rococo #2150
• Enable BEEFY gadget/client on production networks Add BEEFY capabilities to Westend and Kusama polkadot#7591
• Release polkadot containing BEEFY on Kusama capabilities: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/releases/tag/polkadot-v1.1.0
• Deploy client to Kusama validators
• Upgrade Kusama runtime to BEEFY-capable version
• Initialize BEEFY pallet through governance

Monitoring

• Add BEEFY Grafana dashboards and alerts

[acatangiu]

Kusama runtime moved to https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes - waiting on a BEEFY capable kusama runtime release from there..

[acatangiu]

done