pessimism

As of May 28, 2024, Pessimism has been deprecated and is no longer being actively maintained

Because you can't always be optimistic

Pessimism is a public good monitoring service that allows for OP Stack and EVM compatible blockchains to be continuously assessed for real-time threats using custom defined user heuristic rule sets. To learn about Pessimism's architecture, please advise the documentation.

Warning: Pessimism is currently experimental and very much in development. It means Pessimism is currently unstable, so code will change and builds can break over the coming months. If you come across problems, it would help greatly to open issues so that we can fix them as quickly as possible.

Setup

To use the template, run the following command(s):

1. Create local config file (config.env) to store all necessary environmental variables. There's already an example config.env.template in the repo that stores default env vars.

2. Download or upgrade to golang 1.19.

3. Install all project golang dependencies by running go mod download.

To Run

1. Compile pessimism to machine binary by running the following project level command(s):

   • Using Make: make build-app

2. To run the compiled binary, you can use the following project level command(s):

   • Using Make: make run-app
   • Direct Call: ./bin/pessimism

Docker

1. Ensure docker is installed on your machine

2. Pull the latest image from Github container registry (ghcr) via docker pull ghcr.io/base-org/pessimism:latest

3. Make sure you have followed the above instructions to create a local config file (config.env) using the config.env.template

4. Run the following:

   • Without genesis.json:

   docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 7300:7300 --env-file=config.env -it ghcr.io/base-org/pessimism:latest

   • With genesis.json:

   docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 7300:7300 --env-file=config.env -it -v ${PWD}/genesis.json:/app/genesis.json ghcr.io/base-org/pessimism:latest

Note: If you want to bootstrap the application and run specific heuristics/paths upon start, update config.env BOOTSTRAP_PATH value to the location of your genesis.json file then run

Building and Running New Images

• Run make docker-build at the root of the repository to build a new docker image.

• Run make docker-run at the root of the repository to run the new docker image.

Linting

golangci-lint is used to perform code linting. Configurations are defined in .golangci.yml It can be ran using the following project level command(s):

• Using Make: make lint
• Direct Call: golangci-lint run

Linting Markdown Files

To ensure consistent formatting and avoid common mistakes in our Markdown documents, we use markdownlint. Before submitting a pull request, you can check your Markdown files for compliance.

Installation

1. Install Node.js: If you haven't already, install Node.js.

2. Install markdownlint CLI globally:

npm install -g markdownlint-cli

Linting with markdownlint

To lint your Markdown files, navigate to the root directory of the project and run:

markdownlint '**/*.md'

If markdownlint reports any issues, please fix them before submitting your pull request.

Testing

Unit Tests

Unit tests are written using the native go test library with test mocks generated using the golang native mock library. These tests live throughout the project's /internal directory and are named with the suffix _test.go.

Unit tests can run using the following project level command(s):

• Using Make: make test
• Direct Call: go test ./...

Integration Tests

Integration tests are written that leverage the existing op-e2e testing framework for spinning up pieces of the bedrock system. Additionally, the httptest library is used to mock downstream alerting services (e.g. Slack's webhook API). These tests live in the project's /e2e directory.

Running integration tests requires generating devnet allocation files for compatibility with the Optimism monorepo. The following scripts/devnet_allocs.sh can be run to do this generation. If successful, a new .devnet directory will be created in the project's root directory. These allocations should only be regenerated when go.mod rebases to a new monorepo release.

Integration tests can run using the following project level command(s):

• Using Make: make e2e-test
• Direct Call: go test ./e2e/...

Bootstrap Config

A bootstrap config file is used to define the initial state of the pessimism service. The file must be json formatted with its directive defined in the BOOTSTRAP_PATH env var. (e.g. BOOTSTRAP_PATH=./genesis.json)

Example File

[
    {
        "network": "layer1",
        "type": "contract_event", 
        "start_height": null,
        "alerting_params": {
            "message": "",
            "destination": "slack"
        },
        "heuristic_params": {
            "address": "0xfC0157aA4F5DB7177830ACddB3D5a9BB5BE9cc5e",
            "args": ["Transfer(address, address, uint256)"]
        }
    },
    {
        "network": "layer1",
        "type": "balance_enforcement", 
        "start_height": null,
        "alerting_params": {
            "message": "",
            "destination": "slack"
        },
        "heuristic_params": {
            "address": "0xfC0157aA4F5DB7177830ACddB3D5a9BB5BE9cc5e",
            "lower": 1,
            "upper": 2
       }
    }
]

Spawning a heuristic session

To learn about the currently supported heuristics and how to spawn them, please advise the heuristics' documentation.