Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum liquid staking protocol. The repository contains the complete smart contract system for the protocol, including staking contracts (minipools and megapools), the rETH liquid staking token, node operator onboarding, DAO governance, and a custom RocketStorage key-value storage layer. The codebase is built on Hardhat with comprehensive test coverage, deployment scripts for multiple chains, and a mix of Solidity 0.7.6 (legacy) and 0.8.30 (new) contracts. The architecture follows an upgradeable proxy pattern where contracts fetch the latest implementation address from RocketStorage via getContractAddress(name). The protocol supports two concurrent validator systems: the legacy RocketMinipoolDelegate (0.7.6) and the newer RocketMegapoolDelegate (0.8.30). The test suite is extensive, covering deployment, staking flows, DAO governance, and edge cases, but includes several test-only contracts and helpers explicitly marked not for production use. Notable strengths include production-grade Solidity practices (explicit version pragmas, constant definitions, event emission, role-based access control), event-driven logging for off-chain tracking, and a comprehensive test suite. Notable concerns include mixed Solidity versions, potential reentrancy in some external calls, test-only contracts mixed with production code, and complex settings validation logic that may be brittle.
This repository implements the Dusk Network blockchain node (Rusk), a full Proof-of-Stake node with privacy-preserving transactions (Phoenix) and public transactions (Moonlight). The system is a Rust workspace containing a consensus engine (succinct attestation consensus with proposal/validation/ratification steps), a WebAssembly-based smart contract VM (Piecrust), a RocksDB/SQLite ledger, a mempool, an HTTP/GraphQL API server (Axum), and a CLI/TUI wallet. It also includes a JavaScript SDK (w3sper.js) for browser/Deno wallet interaction and a wallet-core library compilable to WASM. The architecture is modular: the node binary (rusk/src/bin/main.rs) composes services via a builder pattern (RuskNodeBuilder), supporting both full-chain and HTTP-only modes. Key data flows include transaction submission via RUES (Rusk Event System) or GraphQL, consensus message propagation over Kadcast P2P, block execution through the VM with hard-fork feature gating, and state persistence via RocksDB column families. External dependencies include dusk-plonk, dusk-poseidon, jubjub-schnorr, wasmtime, rkyv, and sqlx. The codebase demonstrates high craftsmanship in areas like deterministic committee sortition, zero-knowledge proof verification caching, and a reusable data-driver pattern for contract encoding/decoding.