Hi everyone,

My name is Chris Veselinov, CTO of LimeChain, and I’m writing this thread to propose the development (and funding) of a Parachain Validation Conformance Testing.

With this proposal, we’re looking to identify test cases and implement conformance tests for the execution of the parachain verification function across different node implementations and wasm engines.

This project is inspired by the currently open RFP for Parachain Validation Conformance Testing

The ultimate/end goal is to define the baseline for the execution of parachain validation functions within a reasonable limits across different implementations. This will ensure that updating wasm engines, introducing new node implementations etc. can be done in a sane way without hoping for the best.

Please see the official proposal document here. Any feedback or comments are highly appreciated.

About us: LimeChain is a blockchain development company founded in 2017 with a focus on building core blockchain infrastructure, developer tooling and dapps. We dove into the Polkadot ecosystem about 2 years ago with Subsembly - a framework used to design and implement Substrate runtimes in AssemblyScript, again funded by the W3F.
Some of the ecosystem work we’ve done involves the creation of Runtime from scratch and evolving it into fully capable frameworks for building Substrate Runtimes. Since the end of 2022, we are also actively working on gosemble which is a framework for developing Substrate compatible Runtimes.

LimeChain is also leading the initiative for Polkadot Java host implementation and research. This will further extend our knowledge of the PVFs and the specifics of their execution.

Thanks on behalf of the whole LimeChain team!