Currently, PVFs are re-prepared if any execution environment parameter
changes. As we've recently seen on Kusama and Polkadot, that may lead to
a severe finality lag because every validator has to re-prepare every
PVF. That cannot be avoided altogether; however, we could cease
re-preparing PVFs when a change in the execution environment can't lead
to a change in the artifact itself. For example, it's clear that
changing the execution timeout cannot affect the artifact.

In this PR, I'm introducing a separate hash for the subset of execution
environment parameters that changes only if a preparation-related
parameter changes. It introduces some minor code duplication, but
without that, the scope of changes would be much bigger.

TODO:
- [x] Add a test to ensure the artifact is not re-prepared if
non-preparation-related parameter is changed
- [x] Add a test to ensure the artifact is re-prepared if a
preparation-related parameter is changed
- [x] Add comments, warnings, and, possibly, a test to ensure a new
parameter ever added to the executor environment parameters will be
evaluated by the author of changes with respect to its artifact
preparation impact and added to the new hash preimage if needed.

Closes #4132

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

Original PR:
https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/2884. Since
chain-specific code lives in the `parity-bridges-common` repo, some
parts of original PR will require another PR

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

supersedes https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/2873

Draft because of couple of TODOs:
- [x] fix remaining TODOs;
- [x] double check that all changes from
https://github.com/paritytech/parity-bridges-common/pull/2873 are
correctly ported;
- [x] create a separate PR (on top of that one or a follow up?) for
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/tree/sv-try-new-bridge-fees;
- [x] fix compilation issues (haven't checked, but there should be
many).

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

This PR:
- introduces `AllowHrmpNotificationsFromRelayChain` barrier for allowing
HRMP notifications just from the relay chain (to fulfill safety
assumptions -
[see](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/master/polkadot/xcm/src/v4/mod.rs#L532))
- sets it up for all testnet SP parachains

Continuation of: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3696

Change `transfer_assets_using_type()` to not assume `DepositAssets` as
the intended use of the assets on the destination.

Instead provides the caller with the ability to specify custom XCM that
be executed on `dest` chain as the last step of the transfer, thus
allowing custom usecases for the transferred assets. E.g. some are
used/swapped/etc there, while some are sent further to yet another
chain.

Note: this is a follow-up on
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3695, bringing in an API
change for `transfer_assets_using_type()`. This is ok as the previous
version has not been yet released. Thus, its first release will include
the new API proposed by this PR.

This allows usecases such as:
https://forum.polkadot.network/t/managing-sas-on-multiple-reserve-chains-for-same-asset/7538/4

BTW: all this pallet-xcm asset transfers code will be massively reduced
once we have https://github.com/paritytech/xcm-format/pull/54

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Signed-off-by: Adrian Catangiu <[email protected]>

Part of https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4126 we want
to safely increase the execute_workers_max_num gradually from chain to
chain and assess if there are any negative impacts.

This PR performs the necessary plumbing to be able to increase it based
on the chain id, it increase the number of execution workers from 2 to 4
on test network but lives kusama and polkadot unchanged until we gather
more data.

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Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <[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]>

Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4206

In #1340 one of the storage types was changed from `Candidates` to
`CandidateList`. Since the actual key includes the hash of this value,
all of the candidates stored here are (a) "missing" and (b) unable to
unreserve their candidacy bond.

This migration kills the storage values and refunds the deposit held for
each candidate.

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

This should be configured on the runtime level and not somewhere inside
the pallet.

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

Weights::v3 also accounts for PoV weight so we no longer need the
SafeCallFilter. All calls are allowed as long as they "fit in the
block".

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

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 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]>

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 <>

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]>

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]>

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]>

Updating the prdoc doc file to be a bit more useful for new contributors
and adding a SemVer section.

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Signed-off-by: Oliver Tale-Yazdi <[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.

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

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 <>

This PR mainly removes `xcm::v3` stuff from `assets-common` to make it
more generic and facilitate the transition to newer XCM versions. Some
of the implementations here used hard-coded `xcm::v3::Location`, but now
it's up to the runtime to configure according to its needs.

Additional/consequent changes:
- `penpal` runtime uses now `xcm::latest::Location` for `pallet_assets`
as `AssetId`, because we don't care about migrations here
- it pretty much simplify xcm-emulator integration tests, where we don't
need now a lots of boilerplate conversions:
      ```
      v3::Location::try_from(...).expect("conversion works")`
      ```
- xcm-emulator tests
- split macro `impl_assets_helpers_for_parachain` to the
`impl_assets_helpers_for_parachain` and
`impl_foreign_assets_helpers_for_parachain` (avoids using hard-coded
`xcm::v3::Location`)

1. The `CustomFmtContext::ContextWithFormatFields` enum arm isn't
actually used and thus we don't need the enum anymore.

2. We don't do anything with most of the normalized metadata that's
created by calling `event.normalized_metadata();` - the `target` we can
get from `event.metadata.target()` and level we can get from
`event.metadata.level()` - let's just call them direct to simplify
things. (`event.metadata()` is just a field call under the hood)

Changelog: No functional changes, might run a tad faster with lots of
logging turned on.

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

# Description

Add `transfer_assets_using()` for transferring assets from local chain
to destination chain using explicit XCM transfer types such as:
- `TransferType::LocalReserve`: transfer assets to sovereign account of
destination chain and forward a notification XCM to `dest` to mint and
deposit reserve-based assets to `beneficiary`.
- `TransferType::DestinationReserve`: burn local assets and forward a
notification to `dest` chain to withdraw the reserve assets from this
chain's sovereign account and deposit them to `beneficiary`.
- `TransferType::RemoteReserve(reserve)`: burn local assets, forward XCM
to `reserve` chain to move reserves from this chain's SA to `dest`
chain's SA, and forward another XCM to `dest` to mint and deposit
reserve-based assets to `beneficiary`. Typically the remote `reserve` is
Asset Hub.
- `TransferType::Teleport`: burn local assets and forward XCM to `dest`
chain to mint/teleport assets and deposit them to `beneficiary`.

By default, an asset's reserve is its origin chain. But sometimes we may
want to explicitly use another chain as reserve (as long as allowed by
runtime `IsReserve` filter).

This is very helpful for transferring assets with multiple configured
reserves (such as Asset Hub ForeignAssets), when the transfer strictly
depends on the used reserve.

E.g. For transferring Foreign Assets over a bridge, Asset Hub must be
used as the reserve location.

# Example usage scenarios

## Transfer bridged ethereum ERC20-tokenX between ecosystem parachains.

ERC20-tokenX is registered on AssetHub as a ForeignAsset by the
Polkadot<>Ethereum bridge (Snowbridge). Its asset_id is something like
`(parents:2, (GlobalConsensus(Ethereum), Address(tokenX_contract)))`.
Its _original_ reserve is Ethereum (only we can't use Ethereum as a
reserve in local transfers); but, since tokenX is also registered on
AssetHub as a ForeignAsset, we can use AssetHub as a reserve.

With this PR we can transfer tokenX from ParaA to ParaB while using
AssetHub as a reserve.

## Transfer AssetHub ForeignAssets between parachains

AssetA created on ParaA but also registered as foreign asset on Asset
Hub. Can use AssetHub as a reserve.

And all of the above can be done while still controlling transfer type
for `fees` so mixing assets in same transfer is supported.

# Tests

Added integration tests for showcasing:
- transferring local (not bridged) assets from parachain over bridge
using local Asset Hub reserve,
- transferring foreign assets from parachain to Asset Hub,
- transferring foreign assets from Asset Hub to parachain,
- transferring foreign assets from parachain to parachain using local
Asset Hub reserve.

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

Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/3576

Required by elastic scaling collators.
Deprecates old API: `candidate_pending_availability`.

TODO:
- [x] PRDoc

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

Implements https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/issues/82
Allow any parachain to have bidirectional channel with any system
parachains

Looking for initial feedbacks before continue finish it

TODOs:
- [x] docs
- [x] benchmarks
- [x] tests

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Co-authored-by: joe petrowski <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Adrian Catangiu <[email protected]>

Completes the removal of `try-runtime-cli` logic from `polkadot-sdk`.

This is phase 2 of async backing enablement for the system parachains on
the production networks. ~~It should be merged after
polkadot-fellows/runtimes#228 is enacted. After it is released,~~ all
the system parachain collators should be upgraded, and then we can
proceed with phase 3, which will enable async backing in the runtimes.

UPDATE: Indeed, we don't need to wait for the runtime upgrade enactions.
The lookahead collator handles the transition by itself, so we can
upgrade ASAP.

## Scope of changes

Here, we eliminate the dichotomy of having "generic Aura collators" for
the production system parachains and "lookahead Aura collators" for the
testnet system parachains. Now, all the collators are started as
lookahead ones, preserving the logic of transferring from the shell node
to Aura-enabled collators for the asset hubs. So, indeed, it simplifies
the parachain service logic, which cannot but rejoice.

fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4067

Also add an early bail out for look ahead collator such that we don't
waste time if a CollatorFn is not set.

TODO:
- [x] add test.
- [x] Polkadot System Parachain burn-in.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

Dear team, dear @NachoPal @joepetrowski @bkchr @ggwpez

,

This is a retry of #3957, after merging master as advised!,

Many thanks!

**_Milos_**

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

Reuse wasmi Module when validating.
Prepare the code for 0.32 and the addition of Module::new_unchecked