Prysmctl: generate genesis state with correct extra data #14803
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h/t to @yahgwai for the report
Extradata
specified in the execution layer's genesis JSON can be arbitrary in length. However, when used to generate an execution header for the beacon state, we made a deliberate choice to truncate it to 32 bytes instead of leaving it empty. This behavior has been in place since #11809.#14351 removed the extra data truncation, causing genesis state generation to fail as follows:
This PR reverts the changes related to extra data truncation.