Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1966,
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1963 and
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1962.

Disabling strategy specification
[here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2955). (Updated
13/02/2024)

Implements:
* validator disabling for a whole era instead of just a session
* no more than 1/3 of the validators in the active set are disabled
Removes:
* `DisableStrategy` enum - now each validator committing an offence is
disabled.
* New era is not forced if too many validators are disabled.

Before this PR not all offenders were disabled. A decision was made
based on [`enum
DisableStrategy`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb66316/substrate/primitives/staking/src/offence.rs#L54).
Some offenders were disabled for a whole era, some just for a session,
some were not disabled at all.

This PR changes the disabling behaviour. Now a validator committing an
offense is disabled immediately till the end of the current era.

Some implementation notes:
* `OffendingValidators` in pallet session keeps all offenders (this is
not changed). However its type is changed from `Vec<(u32, bool)>` to
`Vec<u32>`. The reason is simple - each offender is getting disabled so
the bool doesn't make sense anymore.
* When a validator is disabled it is first added to
`OffendingValidators` and then to `DisabledValidators`. This is done in
[`add_offending_validator`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb66316/substrate/frame/staking/src/slashing.rs#L325)
from staking pallet.
* In
[`rotate_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bdbe9829/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L623)
the `end_session` also calls
[`end_era`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb66316/substrate/frame/staking/src/pallet/impls.rs#L490)
when an era ends. In this case `OffendingValidators` are cleared
**(1)**.
* Then in
[`rotate_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bdbe9829/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L623)
`DisabledValidators` are cleared **(2)**
* And finally (still in `rotate_session`) a call to
[`start_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb66316

/substrate/frame/staking/src/pallet/impls.rs#L430)
repopulates the disabled validators **(3)**.
* The reason for this complication is that session pallet knows nothing
abut eras. To overcome this on each new session the disabled list is
repopulated (points 2 and 3). Staking pallet knows when a new era starts
so with point 1 it ensures that the offenders list is cleared.

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Co-authored-by: ordian <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: ordian <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Maciej <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Gonçalo Pestana <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kian Paimani <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: command-bot <>
Co-authored-by: Ankan <[email protected]>

Currently we discard errors content
We should at least log it.

Code now is more similar to what is written in try_on_runtime_upgrade.

label should be R0

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Co-authored-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Liam Aharon <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Javier Bullrich <[email protected]>

There are some accounts that do not have a consumer ref while having a
reserve.
This adds a fail-safe mechanism to trigger in the case that
`does_consume` is true, but the assumption of `consumer>0` is not.

This should prevent those accounts from loosing balance and the TI from
getting messed up even more, but is not an "ideal" fix. TBH an ideal fix
is not possible, since on-chain data is in an invalid state.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>

Changes:
- Add new error variant `ProcessMessageError::StackLimitReached` and
treat XCM error `ExceedsStackLimit` as such.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Branislav Kontur <[email protected]>

See 
https://github.com/paritytech/ink/pull/1912
https://github.com/paritytech/ink-docs/pull/338

Revert "pallet-xcm: Deprecate `execute` and `send` in favor of
`execute_blob` and `send_blob` (#3749)"

This reverts commit feee773d

.

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Co-authored-by: Adrian Catangiu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Javier Bullrich <[email protected]>

Trying to split parts of the
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1903 into smaller PRs

For https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/1903 it would help
if `verify_with_validator_set()` returned the list of valid
authority-signatures pairs, since after the verification we need to send
them in the equivocation proof.

Seems like Externalities already [return a
vector](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/ffbce2a8

/substrate/primitives/externalities/src/lib.rs#L86),
so calling `to_vec` on a vector just results in an unneeded copying.

Co-authored-by: Liam Aharon <[email protected]>

This PR updates the `validate_unsigned` hook for `frame_system` to allow
valid tasks to be submitted as unsigned transactions. It also updates
the task example to be able to submit such transactions via an off-chain
worker.

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Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

Basically combines all the recommended calls into one
`build_using_defaults()` call or `init_with_defaults()` when there are
some custom changes required.

This PR:
- sanitizes all `UniversalLocation`s with `GlobalConsensus` (when
possible) - addressing
[comment](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4025#discussion_r1557361473)
- adds `DefaultConfig` for `pallet-xcm-benchmarks` for `system`

Generated type is not camel case this generate some warnings from IDE

label should be R0

This is the first PR in preparation for
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/454.

## Follow ups:
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3904.
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3905.

Overall changes are documented here (lot more visual 😍):
https://hackmd.io/@ak0n/454-np-governance

[Maybe followup](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4217)
with migration of storage item `VirtualStakers` as a bool or enum in
`Ledger`.

## Context
We want to achieve a way for a user (`Delegator`) to delegate their
funds to another account (`Agent`). Delegate implies the funds are
locked in delegator account itself. Agent can act on behalf of delegator
to stake directly on Staking pallet.

The delegation feature is added to Staking via another pallet
`delegated-staking` worked on
[here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3904).

## Introduces:
### StakingUnchecked Trait
As the name implies, this trait allows unchecked (non-locked) mutation
of staking ledger. These apis are only meant to be used by other pallets
in the runtime and should not be exposed directly to user code path.
Also related: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3888.

### Virtual Bond
Allows other pallets to stake via staking pallet while managing the
locks on these accounts themselves. Introduces another storage
`VirtualStakers` that whitelist these accounts.

We also restrict virtual stakers to set reward account as themselves.
Since the account has no locks, we cannot support compounding of
rewards. Conservatively, we require them to set a separate account
different from the staker. Since these are code managed, it should be
easy for another pallet to redistribute reward and rebond them.

### Slashes
Since there is no actual lock maintained by staking-pallet for virtual
stakers, this pallet does not apply any slashes. It is then important
for pallets managing virtual stakers to listen to slashing events and
apply necessary slashes.

This PR stabilizes the txBroadcast API to version 1.

Needs from spec:
- https://github.com/paritytech/json-rpc-interface-spec/pull/153 
- https://github.com/paritytech/json-rpc-interface-spec/pull/154


cc @paritytech/subxt-team

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

This PR stabilizes the txBroadcast API to version 1.

Ideally needs:
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4050
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3772

cc @paritytech/subxt-team

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

This PR limits the number of active calls to the transactionBroadcast
APIs to 16.

cc @paritytech/subxt-team 

Closes: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3081

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: James Wilson <[email protected]>

This PR stabilizes the chainHead API to version 1.

Needs:
- https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3667

cc @paritytech/subxt-team

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

This PR ensures that broadcast future cleans-up the submitted extrinsic
from the pool, iff the `broadcast_stop` operation has been called.

This effectively cleans-up transactions from the pool when the
`broadcast_stop` is called.

cc @paritytech/subxt-team

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

cc https://github.com/paritytech/ci_cd/issues/974

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Co-authored-by: command-bot <>
Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

Introduce `touch` call designed to address operational prerequisites
before providing liquidity to a pool.

This function ensures that essential requirements, such as the presence
of the pool's accounts, are fulfilled. It is particularly beneficial in
scenarios where a pool creator removes the pool's accounts without
providing liquidity.

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Co-authored-by: command-bot <>

- Moved `substrate/frame/contracts/src/tests/builder.rs` into a pub
test_utils module, so we can use that in the
`pallet-contracts-mock-network` tests
- Refactor xcm tests to use XCM builders, and simplify the use case for
xcm-send

Preparation for https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3935

Changes:
- Add some `default-features = false` for the case that a crate and that
dependency both support nostd builds.
- Shuffle files around of some benchmarking-only crates. These
conditionally disabled the `cfg_attr` for nostd and pulled in libstd.
Example [here](https://github.com/ggwpez/zepter/pull/95). The actual
logic is moved into a `inner.rs` to preserve nostd capability of the
crate in case the benchmarking feature is disabled.
- Add some `use sp_std::vec` where needed.
- Remove some `optional = true` in cases where it was not optional.
- Removed one superfluous `cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std..`.

All in all this should be logical no-op.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>

This PR ensures that the reported pruned blocks are unique.

While at it, ensure that the best block event is properly generated when
the last best block is a fork that will be pruned in the future.

To achieve this, the chainHead keeps a LRU set of reported pruned blocks
to ensure the following are not reported twice:

```bash
	 finalized -> block 1 -> block 2 -> block 3
	
	                      -> block 2 -> block 4 -> block 5
	
	           -> block 1 -> block 2_f -> block 6 -> block 7 -> block 8
```

When block 7 is finalized the branch [block 2; block 3] is reported as
pruned.
When block 8 is finalized the branch [block 2; block 4; block 5] should
be reported as pruned, however block 2 was already reported as pruned at
the previous step.

This is a side-effect of the pruned blocks being reported at level N -
1. For example, if all pruned forks would be reported with the first
encounter (when block 6 is finalized we know that block 3 and block 5
are stale), we would not need the LRU cache.

cc @paritytech/subxt-team  

Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3658

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Kunert <[email protected]>

Improve doc:

* the pallet macro is actually referring to 2 places, for the module and
for the struct placeholder but doesn't really clarify it (I should have
named the latter just `pallet_struct` or something but it is a bit late)

* The doc of `with_default` is a bit confusing too IMO.

CC @Kianenigma



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Co-authored-by: Liam Aharon <[email protected]>

Introduce `PalletId` as an additional seed parameter for pool's account
id derivation.

The PR also introduces the `pallet_asset_conversion_ops` pallet with a
call to migrate a given pool to thew new account. Additionally
`fungibles::lifetime::ResetTeam` and `fungible::lifetime::Refund`
traits, to facilitate the migration of pools.

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Co-authored-by: command-bot <>

This PR introduces changes enabling the transfer of coretime regions via
XCM.

TL;DR: There are two primary issues that are resolved in this PR:

1. The `mint` and `burn` functions were not implemented for coretime
regions. These operations are essential for moving assets to and from
the XCM holding register.
2. The transfer of non-fungible assets through XCM was previously
disallowed. This was due to incorrectly benchmarking non-fungible asset
transfers via XCM, which led to assigning it a weight of `Weight::Max`,
effectively preventing its execution.

### `mint_into` and `burn` implementation

This PR addresses the issue with cross-chain transferring regions back
to the Coretime chain. Remote reserve transfers are performed by
withdrawing and depositing the asset to and from the holding registry.
This requires the asset to support burning and minting functionality.

This PR adds burning and minting; however, they work a bit differently
than usual so that the associated region record is not lost when
burning. Instead of removing all the data, burning will set the owner of
the region to `None`, and when minting it back, it will set it to an
actual value. So, when cross-chain transferring, withdrawing into the
registry will remove the region from its original owner, and when
depositing it from the registry, it will set its owner to another
account

This was originally implemented in this PR: #3455, however we decided to
move all of it to this single PR
(https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3455#discussion_r1547324892)

### Fixes made in this PR

- Update the `XcmReserveTransferFilter` on coretime chain since it is
meant as a reserve chain for coretime regions.
- Update the XCM benchmark to use `AssetTransactor` instead of assuming
`pallet-balances` for fungible transfers.
- Update the XCM benchmark to properly measure weight consumption for
nonfungible reserve asset transfers. ATM reserve transfers via the
extrinsic do not work since the weight for it is set to `Weight::max()`.

Closes: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/865

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Co-authored-by: Branislav Kontur <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Francisco Aguirre <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dónal Murray <[email protected]>

This PR sends the GrandpaNeighbor packet to lightclients similarly to
the full-nodes.

Previously, the lightclient would receive a GrandpaNeigbor packet only
when the note set changed.

Related to: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4120

Next steps:
-  [ ] check with lightclient

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

Add verify statement to ensure that benchmarks call do not revert

Also updated
[benchmarks](https://weights.tasty.limo/compare?unit=time&ignore_errors=true&threshold=10&method=asymptotic&repo=polkadot-sdk&old=master&new=pg/verify-benchmarks&path_pattern=substrate%2Fframe%2Fcontracts%2Fsrc%2Fweights.rs)

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Co-authored-by: command-bot <>

Introduce types to define 1:1 balance conversion for different relative
asset ids/locations of native asset.

Examples:
native asset on Asset Hub presented as `VersionedLocatableAsset` type in
the context of Relay Chain is
```
{
  `location`: (0, Parachain(1000)),
  `asset_id`: (1, Here),
}
```
and it's balance should be converted 1:1 by implementations of
`ConversionToAssetBalance` trait.

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Co-authored-by: Branislav Kontur <[email protected]>

Changes:
- Saturate in the input validation of he drop history function or
pallet-broker.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>

`LiveAsset` is an error to be returned when an asset is not supposed to
be live.
And `AssetNotLive` is an error to be returned when an asset is supposed
to be live, I don't think frozen qualifies as live.

The first test proves that parachains who were migrated over on a legacy
lease can renew without downtime.

The exception is if their lease expires in period 0 - aka within
`region_length` timeslices after `start_sales` is called. The second
test is designed such that it passes if the issue exists and should be
fixed.
This will require an intervention on Kusama to add these renewals to
storage as it is too tight to schedule a runtime upgrade before the
start_sales call. All leases will still have at least two full regions
of coretime.

This PR ensures the proper logging target (ie `libp2p_tcp` or `beefy`)
is displayed.

The issue has been introduced in:
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4059, which removes the
normalized metadata of logs.

From
[documentation](https://docs.rs/tracing-log/latest/tracing_log/trait.NormalizeEvent.html#tymethod.normalized_metadata):

> In tracing-log, an Event produced by a log (through
[AsTrace](https://docs.rs/tracing-log/latest/tracing_log/trait.AsTrace.html))
has an hard coded “log” target

>
[normalized_metadata](https://docs.rs/tracing-log/latest/tracing_log/trait.NormalizeEvent.html#tymethod.normalized_metadata):
If this Event comes from a log, this method provides a new normalized
Metadata which has all available attributes from the original log,
including file, line, module_path and target

This has low implications if a version was deployed containing the
mentioned pull request, as we'll lose the ability to distinguish between
log targets.

### Before this PR

```
2024-04-15 12:45:40.327  INFO main log: Parity Polkadot
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: ✌️  version 1.10.0-d1b0ef76
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: ❤️  by Parity Technologies <[email protected]>, 2017-2024
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: 📋 Chain specification: Development
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: 🏷  Node name: yellow-eyes-2963
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: 👤 Role: AUTHORITY
2024-04-15 12:45:40.328  INFO main log: 💾 Database: RocksDb at /tmp/substrated39i9J/chains/rococo_dev/db/full
2024-04-15 12:45:44.508  WARN main log: Took active validators from set with wrong size
...

2024-04-15 12:45:45.805  INFO                 main log: 👶 Starting BABE Authorship worker
2024-04-15 12:45:45.806  INFO tokio-runtime-worker log: 🥩 BEEFY gadget waiting for BEEFY pallet to become available...
2024-04-15 12:45:45.806 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker log: New listen address: /ip6/::1/tcp/30333
2024-04-15 12:45:45.806 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker log: New listen address: /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/30333
```

### After this PR

```
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: Parity Polkadot
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: ✌️  version 1.10.0-d1b0ef76
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: ❤️  by Parity Technologies <[email protected]>, 2017-2024
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: 📋 Chain specification: Development
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: 🏷  Node name: helpless-lizards-0550
2024-04-15 12:59:45.623  INFO main sc_cli::runner: 👤

 Role: AUTHORITY
...
2024-04-15 12:59:50.204  INFO tokio-runtime-worker beefy: 🥩 BEEFY gadget waiting for BEEFY pallet to become available...
2024-04-15 12:59:50.204 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker libp2p_tcp: New listen address: /ip6/::1/tcp/30333
2024-04-15 12:59:50.204 DEBUG tokio-runtime-worker libp2p_tcp: New listen address: /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/30333
```

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Vasile <[email protected]>

Part of: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4107

While `sp-api-proc-macro` isn't used directly and thus, it should have
the same features enabled as `sp-api`. However, I have seen issues
around `frame-metadata` not being enabled for `sp-api`, but for
`sp-api-proc-macro`. This can be prevented by using the
`frame_metadata_enabled` macro from `sp-api` that ensures we have the
same feature set between both crates.

As discovered during investigation of
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3314 and
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3673 there are active
validators which accidentally might change their network key during
restart, that's not a safe operation when you are in the active set
because of distributed nature of DHT, so the old records would still
exist in the network until they expire 36h, so unless they have a good
reason validators should avoid changing their key when they restart
their nodes.

There is an effort in parallel to improve this situation
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3786, but those changes
are way more intrusive and will need more rigorous testing, additionally
they will reduce the time to less than 36h, but the propagation won't be
instant anyway, so not changing your network during restart should be
the safest way to run your node, unless you have a really good reason to
change it.

## Proposal
1. Do not auto-generate the network if the network file does not exist
in the provided path. Nodes where the key file does not exist will get
the following error:
```
Error: 
   0: Starting an authorithy without network key in /home/alexggh/.local/share/polkadot/chains/ksmcc3/network/secret_ed25519.
      
       This is not a safe operation because the old identity still lives in the dht for 36 hours.
      
       Because of it your node might suffer from not being properly connected to other nodes for validation purposes.
      
       If it is the first time running your node you could use one of the following methods.
      
       1. Pass --unsafe-force-node-key-generation and make sure you remove it for subsequent node restarts
      
       2. Separetly generate the key with: polkadot key generate-node-key --file <YOUR_PATH_TO_NODE_KEY>
```

2. Add an explicit parameters for nodes that do want to change their
network despite the warnings or if they run the node for the first time.
`--unsafe-force-node-key-generation`

3. For `polkadot key generate-node-key` add two new mutually exclusive
parameters `base_path` and `default_base_path` to help with the key
generation in the same path the polkadot main command would expect it.
 
4. Modify the installation scripts to auto-generate a key in default
path if one was not present already there, this should help with making
the executable work out of the box after an instalation.

## Notes

Nodes that do not have already the key persisted will fail to start
after this change, however I do consider that better than the current
situation where they start but they silently hide that they might not be
properly connected to their peers.

## TODO
- [x] Make sure only nodes that are authorities on producation chains
will be affected by this restrictions.
- [x] Proper PRDOC, to make sure node operators are aware this is
coming.

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Markin <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: s0me0ne-unkn0wn <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Bastian Köcher <[email protected]>

Changes:
- Add pallet-parameters to Rococo to configure the NIS and preimage
pallet.
- Fix names of expanded dynamic params. Apparently, `to_class_case`
removes suffix `s`, and `Nis` becomes `Ni` 😑

. Now using
`to_pascal_case`.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alessandro Siniscalchi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Kian Paimani <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: command-bot <>

Closes: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4100