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Users want Platform→Core withdrawals to be rapidly respendable with InstantSend finality. Today that is impossible: an Asset Unlock can expire before it is mined, Platform then re-signs the withdrawal, and because the re-signed transaction has a different txid, any transaction spending the unmined unlock's outputs is invalidated — so spends of unmined unlocks can never be islocked.

This PR implements version 2 Asset Unlock transactions (spec: dashpay/dips#189), activating with DEPLOYMENT_V24: the txid itself is computed with the quorum signing info (requestedHeight, quorumHash, quorumSig) zeroed — exactly and provably the only fields Platform changes when it re-signs an expired withdrawal. Every re-signed instance of one withdrawal is therefore the same transaction: children reference one stable txid forever and survive expiry and re-signing. This is segwit's txid/wtxid split applied to the quorum-sig fields — no aliasing in the mempool, UTXO set, or wallet layers; the spending model stays completely standard.

On top of that, the unlock itself is InstantSend-locked as soon as it can be mined in the next block, using its withdrawal index as a synthetic input. An islock attests "this will be mined and nothing in consensus prevents it"; for an unlock that holds as long as Platform keeps re-signing, which it is obligated to do (there is no refund path), and signing only minable-now instances makes any failure a double fault. Once locked, the withdrawal is like any other locked transaction: children are ordinary islocked spends, the wallet trusts its outputs, and Platform→Core transfers become rapidly respendable.

What was done?

Consensus — hashing rule (primitives/transaction, evo/assetlocktx)

  • v2 payloads are serialized byte-identically to v1; the version byte (gated on v24, bad-assetunlocktx-version-2, mirroring Asset Lock v2) changes hashing: the txid zeroes the trailing 132 payload bytes. The full-serialization hash remains available as GetInstanceHash() (cached member, equal to the txid for every other transaction).
  • The signed message hash is unchanged — it zeroes only quorumSig and still commits to requestedHeight/quorumHash — and is now computed explicitly from the full serialization (using GetHash() on the sig-zeroed copy would silently zero all three fields under the new rule). Signature validity rules (48-block window, active-quorum-set+1 recency) are identical to v1.

Consensus — coinbase commitment (evo/cbtx, validation, node/miner, blockencodings)

  • v2 txids exclude the sig bytes, so the block merkle root no longer commits to them. CbTx version 4 (required post-v24) adds merkleRootAssetUnlocks: the merkle root over the instance hashes of the block's v2 unlocks (null when none). Verified in CheckMerkleRoot as a mutation check (bad-cbtx-assetunlockmerkleroot, BLOCK_MUTATED), mirroring segwit's witness commitment: a middleman can flip sig bytes without breaking the merkle root, and treating that as invalidity would let it poison an honest block's hash.
  • Compact block short IDs are computed from instance hashes (BIP152v2's wtxid move): a mempool entry holding a different re-signed instance of a mined withdrawal is requested via getblocktxn instead of being spliced into the reconstructed block; FillBlock's existing IsBlockMutated check backstops short-ID collisions.

Mempool (validation, txmempool, node/transaction, node/miner)

  • A re-signed instance shares the entry's txid; ATMP routes it through a refresh path that fully validates it and, when requestedHeight is higher, swaps the CTransactionRef in place — descendants, ancestry, and fee accounting untouched because everything the txid covers is identical. Stale/duplicate instances are rejected (assetunlock-stale-instance). sendrawtransaction submits refreshes instead of short-circuiting on the known txid.
  • v2 unlocks are not expiry-evicted: an expired instance waits in the mempool for its replacement, so children never die with it; the miner instead skips instances that aren't currently minable. Since unlocks have no inputs, a new outputs-already-known check prevents an already-mined instance from re-entering (and, for v2, lingering).
  • The mempool tracks the pending withdrawal total (outputs + fee of every unlock it holds, the quantity the credit pool charges) and a withdrawal-index map. The credit pool limit is enforced only at block connect, so this is what lets InstantSend tell an over-limit unlock from a minable one. Exposed as getmempoolinfo.pendingassetunlocks. Mining any instance of a withdrawal evicts every other instance claiming its index.

InstantSend (instantsend/*, validation)

  • The v2 unlock itself is islocked, not just its children. Unlocks have no inputs, so the lock pins one synthetic outpoint: {DIP-27 request id = SHA256d("plwdtx" ‖ index), 0} (instantsend::GetLockInputs). Every instance of one withdrawal, whatever its version or txid, maps to that outpoint, so a lock binds the index to one txid, any other claimant conflicts through the ordinary outpoint conflict path, and a re-sign (same txid) leaves the lock intact. Wire format unchanged.
  • Masternodes sign the lock only when the unlock is minable in the next block (CheckCanLockAssetUnlock): stable-txid instance, passes the full special-tx check at the tip including its quorum signature, no other instance of its index in the mempool (a withdrawal signed as v1 pre-fork can be re-signed as v2 post-fork under a different txid), and the mempool's pending withdrawal total fits the credit pool's current limit. Platform pools withdrawals under the same limit, so a pending total above it indicates a fault and nothing is signed until the window clears. Both the height window and the limit move with the tip, so every tracked unmined unlock is re-evaluated on each connected block; a refresh re-triggers an attempt too.
  • Consequences that fall out for free: children are ordinary islocked spends (the rev-3 CheckCanLock exception is gone), the wallet trusts a locked withdrawal's outputs via IsTxLockedByInstantSend, and the mempool's time-based expiry already spares locked transactions.
  • Every vin.empty() early-out in InstantSend (including the IS-DB block hooks that mark locks mined and the block-connect conflict filter) goes through HasLockInputs. A peer islock on an unlock whose inputs are anything but the synthetic outpoint is dropped. Mined unlocks are tracked but not locked retroactively, since ChainLocks never wait for them.
  • getassetunlockstatuses reports instantlock for mempooled indexes.

P2P relay (net_processing, protocol, version)

  • txid-based announcement can never propagate a refresh (known-txid dedup; rejects-filter poisoning). New MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inventory type (protocol 70242) announces v2 unlocks by instance hash; getdata is answered with a plain tx message; requests and the rejects filter are tracked per instance. Older peers get a MSG_TX announcement of the current instance and never see refreshes.

RPC & signing tooling (core_write, rpc/quorums, llmq/signing*)

  • instanceHash in v2 unlock JSON. platformsign allows re-signing a request id with a different message hash (truncating the prior recovered sig so the new session isn't short-circuited), and ProcessRecoveredSig lets a fresher recovered sig supersede the stored one for the platform quorum type — Platform legitimately re-signs one request id with changing message hashes. Production Platform signing (Tenderdash vote extensions) is unaffected; this aligns Core's local signing path used by tests/tooling.

Tests

  • Unit: txid invariance across the signing fields (and only those), CMutableTransaction agreement, msgHash semantics, v1 hashing unchanged, DIP-0027 worked-example vectors, CbTx unlock-root calculation.
  • Unit: lock inputs of an unlock (synthetic outpoint, same for every version/instance of an index, distinct per index; ordinary txs / commitments / coinbase unchanged); mempool pending amount and index map across add, refresh, cross-version duplicate, index-conflict eviction and removal.
  • Functional (feature_asset_locks.py): pre-fork v2 rejection; spend of an unmined v2 unlock by its stable txid; refresh in place (same txid, child untouched, instanceHash rotates); MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inv observed for both the initial instance and the refresh; stale-instance rejection; survival of the expired instance + child; window clearing; fresh re-sign mined together with the child; CbTx v4 commitment asserted against the mined instance hash. With InstantSend enabled: the unlock is not locked while the pending total exceeds the limit (an ordinary tx is), the wallet does not trust the child's output, the re-signed minable instance within the limit is locked with the withdrawal index as its single input, the child is then locked through the ordinary path and trusted by the wallet, and a second withdrawal refused on the limit is locked by the per-block retry once the window clears and it is refreshed.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • feature_asset_locks.py passes locally (macOS arm64) including the extended test_asset_unlock_v2 scenario; also feature_llmq_is_retroactive.py, feature_llmq_is_cl_conflicts.py, feature_llmq_chainlocks.py, feature_llmq_singlenode.py, feature_notifications.py, rpc_netinfo.py, p2p_dstx.py, feature_protx_version.py, mempool_unbroadcast.py, interface_rest.py, wallet_basic.py.
  • Full test_dash unit suite passes.
  • Lints: circular dependencies (two new expected entries registered), whitespace, python, assertions.
  • The DIP worked-example vectors produced by dip-0027/dip-0027-txid-calc.py match Core's hashing byte-for-byte (pinned in a unit test).

Breaking Changes

  • Consensus (v24 EHF, inactive until params are set): v2 Asset Unlock payloads become acceptable and CbTx v4 becomes required once v24 activates; before activation both are rejected. This must be code-complete before the v24 EHF parameters (bit 12, currently NEVER_ACTIVE) are finalized.
  • Hashing: for v2 unlocks (which cannot exist pre-fork), txid ≠ H(full serialization). Light clients verifying merkle proofs for these transactions and explorer libraries computing txids from raw bytes need the one scoped rule; SPV output tracking and spending are otherwise completely standard.
  • P2P: protocol bumped to 70242 for the MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inventory type.

Known follow-ups (deliberately out of scope):

  • Platform-side emitter PR (payload version byte + deterministic v24 gate on core_chain_locked_height); Platform's Tenderdash signing already produces the unchanged message hash.
  • Restart gap: LoadMempool re-runs acceptance, so an expired v2 instance (and its children) is dropped on restart until the refresh arrives; the islock itself is persisted in the IS DB and wallet rebroadcast heals it. Accepting an expired instance whose txid is islocked on reload is a possible refinement.
  • Ecosystem: anything computing txids from raw bytes (rust-dashcore Transaction::txid(), dash-spv, DashSync, dashj, explorers) needs the scoped v2 rule before activation.
  • p2p-level regression tests for the legacy-peer (<70242) MSG_TX announcement path and for the rejects-filter poisoning scenario a rejected instance is announced over p2p, then a fresh instance must still propagate. The current functional test exercises the mempool refresh and MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inv end-to-end but drives the stale-instance rejection via sendrawtransaction.
  • The wallet keeps whatever instance it first saw (AddToWallet is a no-op on a known txid), so gettransaction may show a stale instance's requestedHeight/quorumSig; ZMQ/index consumers do observe each refresh. No fund-safety impact (outputs are identical across instances).
  • TryAssetUnlockRefresh is wired into single-tx acceptance only; a refresh submitted via package acceptance would be rejected as a duplicate txid (safe, and not a path Platform/RPC uses).

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txmempool.cpp:690:13: error: reading variable 'mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds' requires holding mutex 'cs' [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
  690 |             mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds.insert_or_assign(*withdrawal_id, tx_hash);
      |             ^
txmempool.cpp:691:13: error: calling function 'linkAssetUnlockChildren' requires holding mutex 'cs' exclusively [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
  691 |             linkAssetUnlockChildren(newit, *withdrawal_id);
      |             ^
txmempool.cpp:792:27: error: reading variable 'mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds' requires holding mutex 'cs' [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
  792 |             if (auto it = mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds.find(*withdrawal_id);
      |                           ^
txmempool.cpp:793:23: error: reading variable 'mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds' requires holding mutex 'cs' [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
  793 |                 it != mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds.end() && it->second == tx_hash) {
      |                       ^
txmempool.cpp:794:17: error: reading variable 'mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds' requires holding mutex 'cs' [-Werror,-Wthread-safety-analysis]
  794 |                 mapAssetUnlockWithdrawalIds.erase(it);
      |                 ^
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@PastaPastaPasta PastaPastaPasta changed the title feat: version 2 asset unlocks with a stable withdrawal id (DIP-0027 amendment, v24) feat: version 2 asset unlocks with stable txids (DIP-0027 amendment, v24) Aug 25, 2026
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  • #7437: feat!: implement Decentralized Masternode Shares DIP Changed files: src/Makefile.am, src/core_write.cpp, src/evo/assetlocktx.cpp, src/evo/core_write.cpp, src/evo/specialtxman.cpp, src/node/miner.cpp, src/primitives/transaction.h, src/rpc/json_help.cpp, src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp, src/txmempool.cpp, src/validation.cpp.

… signing info zeroed

Version 2 asset unlock payloads are serialized identically to version 1; the version byte, gated on DEPLOYMENT_V24, changes how the transaction is hashed: the txid excludes the trailing requestedHeight, quorumHash and quorumSig payload fields - exactly the fields Platform changes when it re-signs an expired withdrawal - so every re-signed instance of one withdrawal is the same transaction. Spends of its outputs reference that stable txid and stay valid across re-signs with no aliasing in the mempool, UTXO or wallet layers.

The full-serialization hash remains available as GetInstanceHash() to distinguish the instances of one withdrawal for relay and for the coinbase commitment introduced in the next commit. The signed message is unchanged: it zeroes only quorumSig and must be computed from the full serialization, never via GetHash().
…se transaction

Version 2 asset unlock txids exclude the quorum signing info, so the block merkle root no longer commits to those bytes. Coinbase transaction version 4, required once v24 activates, adds merkleRootAssetUnlocks: a merkle root over the instance hashes of the block's version 2 asset unlocks in block order, null when there are none. The root is verified in CheckMerkleRoot as a mutation check, mirroring segwit's witness commitment: a middleman can alter signing-info bytes without breaking the merkle root, and treating the mismatch as block invalidity would let it poison an honest block's hash.

Compact block short IDs are computed from instance hashes (equal to the txid for every other transaction), so a mempool entry holding a different re-signed instance of a withdrawal is requested via getblocktxn instead of being spliced into the reconstructed block; the FillBlock mutation check backstops any remaining short ID collision.
… EvoDB transaction

CCreditPoolManager::AddToCache persists a snapshot every 576th height via evoDb.WriteDerived. When a pool is constructed on a cold cache from a transaction-less context - mempool acceptance or block template creation right after startup - that write lands in an EvoDB transaction nobody commits and trips the clean-transaction assertion (evodb.cpp:99) at the next root commit, aborting the node at flush/shutdown. Skip the optional snapshot outside a block-scoped transaction; a skipped snapshot is simply reconstructed from an earlier one.
…d version 2 asset unlocks

A re-signed instance of a pending withdrawal shares the mempool entry's txid; AcceptToMemoryPool routes it through a refresh path that fully validates the fresh instance and, when its requestedHeight is higher, swaps it into the existing entry in place - descendants, ancestry and fee accounting are untouched because everything the txid covers is identical. Stale or duplicate instances are rejected (assetunlock-stale-instance). BroadcastTransaction submits such refreshes instead of short-circuiting on the known txid.

Version 2 unlocks are not expiry-evicted: an expired instance stays in the mempool awaiting its replacement so descendants never die with it, and the miner instead skips instances that are not currently minable.
Re-signed instances of one withdrawal share a txid, so txid-based announcement can never propagate a refresh: peers holding the stale instance see a known txid and don't fetch, and a rejected stale instance in the rejects filter would poison the fresh one. A new MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inventory type (protocol 70242) announces these transactions by instance hash; getdata for it is answered with a plain tx message, requests and rejects are tracked per instance, and AlreadyHave consults the mempool's instance map. Peers on older protocol versions receive a plain MSG_TX announcement of the current instance and never see refreshes.
…ning with withdrawal re-signs

Transaction JSON for version 2 asset unlocks gains instanceHash, the full-serialization hash distinguishing the re-signed instances that share one txid.

platformsign allows signing a request id again with a different message hash, truncating the previously recovered signature so the new session is not short-circuited, and ProcessRecoveredSig lets a fresher recovered signature supersede the stored one for the platform quorum type. Platform legitimately re-signs one withdrawal (one request id) with changing message hashes - the message hash commits to the signing height and quorum - so the one-recovered-sig-per-id constraint must not pin the first signature forever. This also removes a narrow pre-existing race for EHF signals.
Pre-fork rejection; spending an unmined version 2 unlock by its stable txid; an in-place refresh by a fresher re-signed instance with the child untouched and the instanceHash rotating; MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK announcements observed for both the initial instance and the refresh; stale-instance rejection; survival of the expired instance and its child; flushing leftover withdrawals and clearing the window; and mining a fresh re-sign together with the child, asserting the CbTx version 4 commitment against the mined instance hash.

sync_mempools() compares txid sets and is satisfied before a refresh (same txid) has propagated, so a sync_unlock_instance helper waits for every node to hold the exact instance. The test framework negotiates protocol 70242 to receive MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK invs.
The credit pool's withdrawal limit is enforced only when a block is connected, so an unlock that exceeds the day's remaining limit is indistinguishable in the mempool from one miners will include. The mempool now keeps the sum of the withdrawal amounts (outputs plus fee, the quantity the credit pool charges) of every asset unlock it holds, and a withdrawal-index map over them. When the pending total does not exceed the credit pool's current limit every pending withdrawal fits the next block; InstantSend uses this in the next commit to decide whether an unlock may be locked. The total is exposed as pendingassetunlocks in getmempoolinfo.

Instances of one withdrawal signed under different versions have different txids but claim the same index, so mining any one of them evicts the others (removeAssetUnlockConflicts), including version 2 instances that are never expiry-evicted. Sanity checks in check() recompute both the total and the index map.
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Version 2 Asset Unlock transactions now use stable transaction IDs and separate instance hashes. The change updates validation, InstantSend lock inputs, mempool replacement, peer relay, mining, RPC output, and test coverage. Protocol version 70242 adds MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK announcements keyed by instance hash. CbTx version 4 commits to Asset Unlock instance hashes.

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  participant Peer
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  Peer->>PeerManager: Announce MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK by instance hash
  PeerManager->>Mempool: Request and accept transaction
  Mempool->>InstantSend: Submit canonical lock input
  InstantSend-->>Mempool: Record InstantSend lock
  Miner->>Mempool: Select minable Asset Unlock
  Miner->>Miner: Commit instance hashes in CbTx
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In `@src/evo/evodb.h`:
- Line 125: Update HasActiveTransaction() to return true only when called from
the thread that owns the active transaction; otherwise return false, while
preserving the existing active_transaction.has_value() behavior for the owning
thread.

In `@src/llmq/signing.cpp`:
- Line 552: Update TruncateRecoveredSig and both of its call sites to pass
deleteTimeKey=true when removing the recovered signature, ensuring the stale
rs_t entry is deleted while rs_h and rs_s are retained.

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- Around line 662-664: Strengthen the assertions after
ReplaceAssetUnlockInstance by verifying that unlock_v2 and unlock_v2_resigned
have different instance hashes, then retrieve the mempool transaction using its
stable transaction ID and assert its instance hash equals
unlock_v2_resigned->GetInstanceHash().
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values. In the make_unlock_tx helper, verify that changing quorumSig preserves
the stable txid while changing the instance hash; in the Asset Unlock commitment
test, verify that changing quorumSig changes the commitment root.

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same instance-hash and freshness handling used by TryAssetUnlockRefresh before
stable transaction ID rejection or de-duplication. Ensure a fresher Asset Unlock
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Comment thread src/llmq/signing.cpp
Comment on lines +507 to +511
auto make_unlock_tx = [&](uint8_t version, uint64_t index, uint32_t fee, uint32_t requested_height,
const uint256& quorum_hash) {
CMutableTransaction tx_tmp(tx);
SetTxPayload(tx_tmp, CAssetUnlockPayload{version, index, fee, requested_height, quorum_hash,
unlockPayload->getQuorumSig()});

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Exercise quorumSig in all re-signing hash tests.

The current cases vary other signing fields but keep quorumSig empty.

  • src/test/evo_assetlocks_tests.cpp#L507-L511: verify that changing quorumSig preserves the stable txid and changes the instance hash.
  • src/test/evo_assetlocks_tests.cpp#L635-L638: verify that changing quorumSig changes the Asset Unlock commitment root.
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Applied the validated review fixes in 585ac12926 and pushed them:

  • HasActiveTransaction() now reports an active transaction only to its owning thread.
  • Recovered-signature replacement removes stale time-index bookkeeping while retaining hash/session keys.
  • Asset Unlock mempool refresh tests now verify instance-hash rotation and stable-txid lookup.

The incremental build and targeted evo_assetlocks_tests / evo_islock_tests pass. Package acceptance refresh handling remains under review because it requires restructuring package validation and submission semantics.


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const uint256& relay_hash{is_stable_unlock ? tx.GetInstanceHash() : txid};
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P1 Badge Relay refreshed unlocks by instance hash

When a re-signed version-2 Asset Unlock is accepted, this code computes the required instance-hash announcement, but the successful receive path later calls _RelayTransaction(tx.GetHash()) (the shared stable txid). Peers that already hold the previous signing instance therefore see the MSG_TX announcement as already known and do not request the refreshed transaction, so the new quorum signature cannot propagate and the withdrawal can remain unminable after expiry. Relay the instance hash using the MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK path for stable unlocks.

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Add a single-transaction admission test for Asset Unlock refresh.

The test invokes CTxMemPool::ReplaceAssetUnlockInstance directly. AcceptToMemoryPool reaches this method through MemPoolAccept::TryAssetUnlockRefresh, which also validates the fresher height and quorum signature. Submit the initial and fresher version 2 instances with test_accept=false, then assert that the stored instance hash changes. Do not use ProcessNewPackage; package admission intentionally deduplicates an existing transaction ID.

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Fixed the CI failure in 01146aaba2: the nowallet build omitted src/instantsend/lock.cpp, leaving HasLockInputs and GetLockInputs undefined at link time. Added the source to the nowallet target. Full local build passes.


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Comment thread src/validation.cpp
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if (!args.m_test_accept) {
m_pool.ReplaceAssetUnlockInstance(ptx);
GetMainSignals().TransactionAddedToMempool(ptx, args.m_accept_time, m_pool.GetAndIncrementSequence());

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P1 Badge Update the InstantSend tracking entry when refreshing an unlock

When a stable-txid unlock is refreshed, this calls TransactionAddedToMempool with the new instance, but CInstantSendManager::AddNonLockedTx only stores the transaction pointer when the txid is first inserted. If the refresh is not lockable yet (for example because the pending withdrawal total exceeds the limit), RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks later queues the old expired instance from info.tx, so every retry rechecks the stale signature/window and the fresher instance is never locked unless Platform submits another refresh.

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- Around line 2633-2634: Make the `_RelayTransaction` announcement-version
lookup compile by declaring `GetTxAnnouncement` before its use and replacing the
nonexistent `Peer::GetCommonVersion()` call with the negotiated version
available from `CNode` (or persist that value in `Peer` during the version
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… unlocks

Three regressions from 214a10d:

- _RelayTransaction called GetCommonVersion() on a Peer, which has no such
  accessor, and used GetTxAnnouncement before its definition, breaking every
  build. The hunk was unnecessary: PushInv queues the txid and the trickle loop
  in SendMessages already converts it to a MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK announcement by
  instance hash for peers that understand it. Revert it.

- AcceptMultipleTransactions short-circuited a mempooled version 2 unlock
  through TryAssetUnlockRefresh with `continue`, leaving the Workspace fee and
  size fields uninitialized for the package feerate sum and the txid inside
  txns, so PackageMempoolChecks hit its not-in-mempool assertion. A two-entry
  testmempoolaccept containing a held unlock aborted the node. Revert the hunk;
  the package path now reports txn-already-in-mempool as before, and refreshes
  remain admitted via single-transaction submission and AcceptPackage.

- AddNonLockedTx only stored the transaction on first insert, so a re-signed
  instance that was not lockable on arrival left the expired instance tracked
  and RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks re-checked the stale window and signature every
  block. Replace the tracked instance when a stable-txid unlock with a
  different instance hash arrives.

Tests: unit test for the retry queue handing out the fresh instance, and a
functional assertion that package test acceptance of a held unlock returns
txn-already-in-mempool instead of crashing.

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Pushed 02f9ed4846 fixing three regressions from 214a10d44b:

  • Build break. _RelayTransaction called GetCommonVersion() on a Peer (only CNode has it) and used GetTxAnnouncement before its definition; every "Build source" job failed. The hunk was unnecessary since PushInv queues the txid and the trickle loop in SendMessages already announces stable-txid unlocks by instance hash. Reverted. The MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inv for a refresh is still observed by the functional test.
  • Node abort via testmempoolaccept. The continue in AcceptMultipleTransactions left the Workspace's vsize/fee uninitialized and the mempooled txid inside txns, tripping the PackageMempoolChecks assertion (reproduced with [held v2 unlock, unrelated tx]). Reverted; the package path reports txn-already-in-mempool again, refreshes remain admitted through single-tx submission and AcceptPackage. Added a functional assertion for this case.
  • Stale instance retried forever (Codex P1 on AddNonLockedTx). The tracker now replaces the stored transaction when a stable-txid unlock with a different instance hash arrives, so RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks evaluates the fresh instance. Added a unit test.

Local validation on macOS arm64: full test_dash passes, feature_asset_locks.py passes (188 s), circular-deps / whitespace / assertions / includes lints clean.


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Comment thread src/txmempool.cpp
Comment on lines 657 to +660
} else if (tx.nType == TRANSACTION_ASSET_UNLOCK) {
auto assetUnlockTx = *Assert(GetTxPayload<CAssetUnlockPayload>(tx));
mapAssetUnlockExpiry.insert({tx_hash, assetUnlockTx.getHeightToExpiry()});
const auto assetUnlockTx = *Assert(GetTxPayload<CAssetUnlockPayload>(tx));
m_asset_unlock_indexes.emplace(assetUnlockTx.getIndex(), tx_hash);
m_pending_asset_unlock_amount += GetAssetUnlockAmount(tx, assetUnlockTx);

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P1 Badge Reject duplicate asset-unlock indexes during mempool admission

When two otherwise distinct Asset Unlock transactions claim the same withdrawal index, this unconditionally adds both to m_asset_unlock_indexes and increases m_pending_asset_unlock_amount; normal admission only removes index conflicts when IsInstantSendWaitingForTx(hash) is true. Since CheckCanLockAssetUnlock refuses to lock an index while more than one claimant is present, these duplicates can remain indefinitely, inflate the pending total above the credit-pool limit, and prevent valid withdrawals from receiving InstantSend locks (and can cause the miner's credit-pool package to be skipped for a duplicate-index error). Reject or replace an existing claimant during ordinary mempool admission.

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// (e.g. a pool constructed on a cold cache during mempool acceptance or template creation),
// where the write would never be committed and would trip the clean-transaction assertion
// at the next root commit. A skipped snapshot is reconstructed from an earlier one.
if (height % DISK_SNAPSHOT_PERIOD == 0 && evoDb.HasActiveTransaction()) {

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Credit-pool disk snapshots are now effectively never written.

AddToCache() is only reached from ConstructCreditPool(), i.e. only on a cache miss. Gating the snapshot on HasActiveTransaction() therefore doesn't just defer the write — it drops it permanently:

  1. ConnectBlock(H) (where H % 576 == 0) only builds the pool for H-1; the pool for H is not yet cached.
  2. Before H+1 arrives, something constructs the pool for H outside a block-scoped transaction — getblocktemplate (CreateNewBlockGetCreditPoolDiffForBlockGetCreditPool(tip)), the new ATMP check in MemPoolAccept::PreChecks, getassetunlockstatuses (which Platform polls continuously on masternodes), or CheckCanLockAssetUnlock. HasActiveTransaction() is false, the snapshot is skipped, but the in-memory LRU is populated.
  3. ConnectBlock(H+1) calls GetCreditPool(H), hits the cache, and never calls ConstructCreditPool/AddToCache again.

So the snapshot for H is never persisted — and the same happens at every subsequent multiple of 576 on any node that mines or serves Platform. After a restart the LRU is empty, GetFromCache() only consults disk at heights divisible by 576, finds nothing, and GetCreditPool() walks back block by block to the V20 activation height, ReadBlockFromDisk-ing hundreds of thousands of blocks — under cs_main when the caller is ATMP.

Suggest persisting the snapshot outside the EvoDB transaction (a direct write, since a snapshot is derived and idempotent), or forcing a reconstruct-and-write at snapshot heights during block connect, rather than trading the assertion crash for a silent loss of the optimization.


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Comment thread src/validation.cpp
if (const auto opt_unlock = tx.IsPlatformTransfer() ? GetTxPayload<CAssetUnlockPayload>(tx) : std::nullopt;
opt_unlock && m_chain_helper.credit_pool_manager->GetCreditPool(m_active_chainstate.m_chain.Tip())
.indexes.Contains(opt_unlock->getIndex())) {
return state.Invalid(TxValidationResult::TX_CONFLICT, "txn-already-known");

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GetCreditPool() can throw, and there is no handler anywhere in the ATMP path.

GetCreditPoolConstructCreditPoolGetCreditDataFromBlock throws std::runtime_error("failed-getcbforblock-read") when ReadBlockFromDisk fails (pruned or damaged block file); ConstructCreditPool itself throws on failed-getcreditpool-index-duplicated and on a negative limit; AddToCache can throw EvoDbInconsistencyError. Every other credit-pool caller wraps this — GetCreditPoolDiffForBlock has a try/catch, CheckSpecialTxInner has a try/catch — but PreChecks does not, and grep -n catch src/validation.cpp confirms nothing in AcceptToMemoryPool/AcceptSingleTransaction catches either.

Concretely: a peer relays any asset unlock while the local block store is degraded, the exception escapes AcceptToMemoryPool into PeerManagerImpl::ProcessMessage (aborting message handling for that message), and out of BroadcastTransaction into the RPC dispatcher. Please wrap the lookup, or route it through the same error translation GetCreditPoolDiffForBlock uses.


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// a minable one in the mempool. Platform pools withdrawals under the same daily limit, so
// the pending total exceeding it means something is wrong and nothing is locked until the
// window clears rather than guessing which withdrawals miners will pick.
const CCreditPool pool = chainstate.ChainHelper().GetCreditPool(tip);

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Same unguarded GetCreditPool() throw, but here it takes the node down.

CheckCanLockAssetUnlock is reached from NetInstantSend::WorkThreadMainProcessPendingRetryLockTxsProcessTxCheckCanLock, and RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks() now drives that path on every connected block for every tracked unmined unlock.

GetCreditPool() can throw std::runtime_error (failed-getcbforblock-read on a ReadBlockFromDisk failure, duplicated index, negative limit) or EvoDbInconsistencyError. WorkThreadMain has no try/catch, and util::TraceThread logs and rethrows, so the exception reaches std::terminate and kills the masternode — instead of just failing to sign this one lock. Worth a try/catch that logs and refuses the lock.


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Comment thread src/net_processing.cpp
} else {
m_recent_rejects.insert(tx.GetHash());
ForgetTx(tx.GetHash());
m_recent_rejects.insert(relay_hash);

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A rejected v2 unlock is never deduplicated when announced by txid.

Here only the instance hash goes into m_recent_rejects, but AlreadyHave() keeps consulting the rejects filter by txid for MSG_TX.

Scenario: a v2 unlock with a bad quorum signature arrives and is rejected; m_recent_rejects gets its instance hash, ForgetTx clears the tracker. A peer below ASSET_UNLOCK_INV_VERSION (70242) announces that transaction as MSG_TX + txid — GetTxAnnouncement deliberately downgrades for such peers. AlreadyHave(MSG_TX, txid) then checks the orphanage, m_recent_confirmed_transactions, m_recent_rejects, m_mempool.exists and the txindex, all keyed by txid, none of which know the instance hash → returns false → we re-request and fully re-validate the transaction, BLS quorum-signature check included, every time it is announced. A malicious peer can loop this for free.

Inserting the txid as well for stable-txid unlocks would restore the guard without reintroducing the poisoning problem: a fresh instance is admitted through AlreadyHave's MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK branch, which never consults the txid.


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Comment thread src/net_processing.cpp
// that a re-signed instance of a withdrawal already in the mempool (sharing its txid)
// still propagates.
const bool is_stable_unlock{IsAssetUnlockWithStableTxid(tx)};
if (is_stable_unlock) nInvType = MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK;

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Overwriting nInvType here makes a dstx carrying a v2 asset unlock skip ValidateDSTX entirely.

nInvType is set to MSG_DSTX when the message is parsed as NetMsgType::DSTX, and this line then replaces it with MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK. Both downstream if (nInvType == MSG_DSTX) blocks are consequently dead for such a transaction:

  • the ValidateDSTX() call is skipped — no masternode validity check, no DSTX rate limit, no Misbehaving scoring;
  • m_dstxman.AddDSTX(dstx) is never called on success.

A peer can wrap a v2 asset unlock in a dstx message to bypass the DSTX rate limiter. Keying those branches on msg_type == NetMsgType::DSTX (or on a separate is_dstx bool captured before the overwrite) rather than on the mutated nInvType would fix it.


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Comment thread src/net_processing.cpp
const bool is_stable_unlock{IsAssetUnlockWithStableTxid(tx)};
if (is_stable_unlock) nInvType = MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK;
const uint256& relay_hash{is_stable_unlock ? tx.GetInstanceHash() : txid};
AddKnownInv(*peer, relay_hash);

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Only the instance hash goes into the sender's known filter, so we echo v2 unlocks back to pre-70242 peers.

A peer negotiated below 70242 sends us a v2 asset unlock as a plain tx. AddKnownInv(*peer, relay_hash) records only tx.GetInstanceHash(). After acceptance, _RelayTransaction(tx.GetHash()) queues the txid for every peer, and in SendMessages GetTxAnnouncement(*txinfo.tx, pto->GetCommonVersion()) returns {MSG_TX, txid} for that legacy peer. m_tx_inventory_known_filter.contains(txid) is false (we only ever inserted the instance hash), so we announce the transaction straight back to the peer we got it from — wasted bandwidth, and exactly the originator echo the known filter exists to suppress.

Inserting both the txid and the instance hash for stable-txid unlocks (here and in the SendMessages announce paths) would keep refreshes propagating while restoring the echo suppression.


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__func__, txid.ToString(), retryChildren, retryChildrenCount);
}

void CInstantSendManager::RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks()

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This re-queues unlocks that have already left the mempool, forever.

An asset unlock that leaves the mempool without being mined or locked is never erased from nonLockedTxs:

  • TransactionRemovedFromMempoolCInstantSendManager::TransactionIsRemoved returns early because there is no islock for the txid;
  • NetInstantSend::ClearConflicting only runs for the mapNextTx-derived toDelete set, which by construction cannot contain an input-less unlock;
  • BlockConnected only clears the txid actually mined, which in the case that evicted it (removeAssetUnlockConflicts on a cross-version instance of the same index) is a different txid.

So the entry survives with info.tx set and pindexMined == nullptr, and this loop inserts it into pendingRetryTxs on every connected block for the life of the node. PrepareTxToRetry/ProcessTx then re-evaluates it each time (cheap — CheckCanLockAssetUnlock bails at not in mempool), but nonLockedTxs and the retry set grow without bound on a long-running masternode. Time-based mempool expiry of an unlocked v2 unlock produces the same orphaned entry.

Before this PR unlocks never entered nonLockedTxs at all (the vin.empty() early-out), so this is new. Either call RemoveNonLockedTx from removeAssetUnlockConflicts/the removal callback for unlocks, or have this loop skip (and drop) entries whose txid is no longer in the mempool.


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Preliminary review — Phase 1 blocker gate

The PR still contains several in-scope correctness, denial-of-service, and crash risks in the new Asset Unlock and InstantSend paths. The package-refresh and earlier build/relay regressions were addressed by the current head, but the remaining unguarded credit-pool lookups, duplicate-index admission, retry bookkeeping, DSTX classification, and rejection deduplication require changes.

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src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:247-273

PrepareTxToRetry() copies transactions from pendingRetryTxs but never removes the IDs. Every 100 ms the worker retries every still-unlockable unlock, including full special-transaction and signature checks plus credit-pool reconstruction/locking. The set is also repopulated on every block connection. This creates persistent needless CPU and lock contention. Remove the IDs from the pending queue when preparing a batch, while allowing the next block or refresh to enqueue them again.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

🔴 Blocking: A DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock bypasses DSTX validation and accounting
src/net_processing.cpp:4858-4888

For a DSTX message, nInvType is initially MSG_DSTX, but the stable-unlock branch overwrites it with MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK. The subsequent validation and successful-registration branches test nInvType == MSG_DSTX, so they are skipped for a v2 Asset Unlock carried in a DSTX envelope. This bypasses ValidateDSTX (including authorization, scoring, and rate limiting) and prevents the DSTX manager from recording the message. Preserve the original message-type test in those branches instead of using the rewritten inventory type.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

🟡 Suggestion: Snapshot-height credit-pool caches can be populated without persisting the snapshot
src/evo/creditpool.cpp:144-155

AddToCache persists only when a block-scoped EvoDB transaction is active, but it is reached only on a cache miss. At a snapshot height, callers such as ATMP, block-template construction, status RPCs, or InstantSend can construct and cache the pool outside that transaction. The later block connection then hits the in-memory cache and never retries persistence, so the disk snapshot is silently lost. Persist the derived snapshot in a safe non-transactional path or ensure block connection reconstructs and writes it at snapshot heights.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gemini-3.8-flash-high (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-gate-verifier, role: verifier)

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6-astra (effort low) — This large, intricate diff directly changes consensus transaction hashing and coinbase merkle commitments, cryptographic signature handling, mempool/UTXO behavior, and peer-facing compact-block and InstantSend networking in files such as src/primitives/transaction.cpp, src/evo/cbtx.cpp, src/validation.cpp, and src/instantsend/signing.cpp.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: gemini-3.8-flash-high — general (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer, gemini-3.8-flash-high — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer
  • Phase 1 model: gemini-3.8-flash-high — antigravity quota: weekly 64% left, 5h 67% left
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6-astra — verifier; agent astra-gate-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: not run (deferred by blocker gate)
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In `src/instantsend/signing.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/signing.cpp:224-227: Unguarded credit-pool lookup can terminate the node from the InstantSend worker
  `CheckCanLockAssetUnlock` calls `GetCreditPool(tip)` without handling its exceptions. The lookup can throw while reconstructing the pool, including on block-read failures, inconsistent duplicate indexes, negative limits, or EvoDB inconsistencies. This function is reached from the background InstantSend worker, whose thread wrapper rethrows uncaught exceptions, so a transient or persisted credit-pool problem can terminate the process instead of simply refusing this lock. Catch the relevant exception and return a lock refusal.

In `src/validation.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/validation.cpp:888-892: Credit-pool lookup escapes the mempool admission path
  The new mined-index check calls `GetCreditPool(...)` directly from `MemPoolAccept::PreChecks`. `GetCreditPool` can throw while reconstructing or validating the credit pool, but this path does not translate the failure into `TxValidationState`. A peer-submitted unlock or an RPC submission can therefore escape normal ATMP error handling, rather than being rejected with a validation error. Wrap the lookup and convert failures to an appropriate state error, consistently with the other credit-pool callers.

In `src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:247-273: Retry queue is never drained, causing repeated expensive lock attempts
  `PrepareTxToRetry()` copies transactions from `pendingRetryTxs` but never removes the IDs. Every 100 ms the worker retries every still-unlockable unlock, including full special-transaction and signature checks plus credit-pool reconstruction/locking. The set is also repopulated on every block connection. This creates persistent needless CPU and lock contention. Remove the IDs from the pending queue when preparing a batch, while allowing the next block or refresh to enqueue them again.
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:247-255: Removed unmined unlocks remain in InstantSend tracking indefinitely
  `RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks()` requeues every tracked, unmined asset unlock without checking that it remains in the mempool. Asset Unlocks have empty `vin`, so the ordinary conflicting-input cleanup cannot remove these records. If an unlock is evicted, expires, or is displaced by an index conflict without being mined or locked, its `nonLockedTxs` entry remains indefinitely and is retried on every block. Remove entries whose stable transaction ID no longer exists in the mempool, or perform equivalent cleanup from the removal path.

In `src/txmempool.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/txmempool.cpp:660-666: Mempool admission permits duplicate withdrawal indexes
  The asset-unlock insertion path unconditionally inserts the withdrawal index and adds the amount to the pending total. The corresponding admission logic does not reject an ordinary second claimant unless the InstantSend-waiting path happens to run. Two distinct unlocks for one index can therefore coexist, causing the InstantSend eligibility check to reject both and inflating the pending total. A peer can use this to prevent a valid withdrawal from receiving an InstantSend lock. Reject or explicitly replace an existing claimant for the same withdrawal index during normal admission.

In `src/net_processing.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/net_processing.cpp:4858-4888: A DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock bypasses DSTX validation and accounting
  For a `DSTX` message, `nInvType` is initially `MSG_DSTX`, but the stable-unlock branch overwrites it with `MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK`. The subsequent validation and successful-registration branches test `nInvType == MSG_DSTX`, so they are skipped for a v2 Asset Unlock carried in a DSTX envelope. This bypasses `ValidateDSTX` (including authorization, scoring, and rate limiting) and prevents the DSTX manager from recording the message. Preserve the original message-type test in those branches instead of using the rewritten inventory type.
- [SUGGESTION] src/net_processing.cpp:4983-4988: Rejected v2 unlocks are not deduplicated for legacy MSG_TX announcements
  The rejection path records only `relay_hash`, which is the instance hash for a v2 unlock. Legacy peers announce the same transaction as `MSG_TX` using the stable txid, and `AlreadyHave` checks the rejects filter with that txid. The node will therefore repeatedly request and revalidate the same rejected transaction from such peers, including its quorum-signature verification. Record the txid as well as the instance hash for stable-txid unlocks; fresh instances still use the instance-hash path.

In `src/evo/creditpool.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/evo/creditpool.cpp:144-155: Snapshot-height credit-pool caches can be populated without persisting the snapshot
  `AddToCache` persists only when a block-scoped EvoDB transaction is active, but it is reached only on a cache miss. At a snapshot height, callers such as ATMP, block-template construction, status RPCs, or InstantSend can construct and cache the pool outside that transaction. The later block connection then hits the in-memory cache and never retries persistence, so the disk snapshot is silently lost. Persist the derived snapshot in a safe non-transactional path or ensure block connection reconstructs and writes it at snapshot heights.
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These are valid observations, but they are outside this PR's scope and should be handled in separate issues or author/maintainer-requested PRs rather than blocking this review.

  • Squash broken commit 214a10d and reverting commit 02f9ed4 to prevent bisect breakages — NOT_ACTIONABLE: This is repository history/workflow advice rather than a defect in the exact head. The current head restores the build and removes the cited broken hunks; rebasing or squashing is controlled by the caller and is outside this code review.
    • Follow-up: Consider creating a separate issue or author/maintainer-requested PR for this.
  • Fix the Asset Unlock relay implementation and preserve BIP37 filtering — FIXED: The current head removes the broken relay implementation cited by this finding. The remaining BIP37 test suggestion is not an independently verified blocker and is outside the supplied actionable findings.
    • Follow-up: Consider creating a separate issue or author/maintainer-requested PR for this.

Comment on lines +224 to +227
const CCreditPool pool = chainstate.ChainHelper().GetCreditPool(tip);
if (const CAmount pending{m_mempool.GetPendingAssetUnlockAmount()}; pending > pool.currentLimit) {
return log_refusal(strprintf("pending withdrawals %d exceed the credit pool limit %d", pending, pool.currentLimit));
}

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🔴 Blocking: Unguarded credit-pool lookup can terminate the node from the InstantSend worker

CheckCanLockAssetUnlock calls GetCreditPool(tip) without handling its exceptions. The lookup can throw while reconstructing the pool, including on block-read failures, inconsistent duplicate indexes, negative limits, or EvoDB inconsistencies. This function is reached from the background InstantSend worker, whose thread wrapper rethrows uncaught exceptions, so a transient or persisted credit-pool problem can terminate the process instead of simply refusing this lock. Catch the relevant exception and return a lock refusal.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

Comment thread src/validation.cpp
Comment on lines +888 to +892
if (const auto opt_unlock = tx.IsPlatformTransfer() ? GetTxPayload<CAssetUnlockPayload>(tx) : std::nullopt;
opt_unlock && m_chain_helper.credit_pool_manager->GetCreditPool(m_active_chainstate.m_chain.Tip())
.indexes.Contains(opt_unlock->getIndex())) {
return state.Invalid(TxValidationResult::TX_CONFLICT, "txn-already-known");
}

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🔴 Blocking: Credit-pool lookup escapes the mempool admission path

The new mined-index check calls GetCreditPool(...) directly from MemPoolAccept::PreChecks. GetCreditPool can throw while reconstructing or validating the credit pool, but this path does not translate the failure into TxValidationState. A peer-submitted unlock or an RPC submission can therefore escape normal ATMP error handling, rather than being rejected with a validation error. Wrap the lookup and convert failures to an appropriate state error, consistently with the other credit-pool callers.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

Comment on lines +247 to +255
void CInstantSendManager::RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks()
{
LOCK2(cs_nonLocked, cs_pendingRetry);
for (const auto& [txid, info] : nonLockedTxs) {
if (info.tx && !info.pindexMined && info.tx->IsPlatformTransfer()) {
pendingRetryTxs.emplace(txid);
}
}
}

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🔴 Blocking: Removed unmined unlocks remain in InstantSend tracking indefinitely

RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks() requeues every tracked, unmined asset unlock without checking that it remains in the mempool. Asset Unlocks have empty vin, so the ordinary conflicting-input cleanup cannot remove these records. If an unlock is evicted, expires, or is displaced by an index conflict without being mined or locked, its nonLockedTxs entry remains indefinitely and is retried on every block. Remove entries whose stable transaction ID no longer exists in the mempool, or perform equivalent cleanup from the removal path.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

Comment thread src/txmempool.cpp
Comment on lines +660 to +666
m_pending_asset_unlock_amount += GetAssetUnlockAmount(tx, assetUnlockTx);
if (IsAssetUnlockWithStableTxid(tx)) {
// Re-signed instances of one withdrawal share the txid. The withdrawal is kept while
// expired, awaiting a fresher instance, instead of being expiry-evicted (which would
// take its descendants with it); relay identifies instances by instance hash.
m_asset_unlock_instances.emplace(tx.GetInstanceHash(), tx_hash);
} else {

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🔴 Blocking: Mempool admission permits duplicate withdrawal indexes

The asset-unlock insertion path unconditionally inserts the withdrawal index and adds the amount to the pending total. The corresponding admission logic does not reject an ordinary second claimant unless the InstantSend-waiting path happens to run. Two distinct unlocks for one index can therefore coexist, causing the InstantSend eligibility check to reject both and inflating the pending total. A peer can use this to prevent a valid withdrawal from receiving an InstantSend lock. Reject or explicitly replace an existing claimant for the same withdrawal index during normal admission.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

Comment thread src/net_processing.cpp
Comment on lines 4983 to 4988
m_isman.TransactionIsRemoved(ptx);
}
} else {
m_recent_rejects.insert(tx.GetHash());
ForgetTx(tx.GetHash());
m_recent_rejects.insert(relay_hash);
ForgetTx(tx);
if (RecursiveDynamicUsage(*ptx) < 100000) {

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🟡 Suggestion: Rejected v2 unlocks are not deduplicated for legacy MSG_TX announcements

The rejection path records only relay_hash, which is the instance hash for a v2 unlock. Legacy peers announce the same transaction as MSG_TX using the stable txid, and AlreadyHave checks the rejects filter with that txid. The node will therefore repeatedly request and revalidate the same rejected transaction from such peers, including its quorum-signature verification. Record the txid as well as the instance hash for stable-txid unlocks; fresh instances still use the instance-hash path.

source: gemini-3.8-flash-high (phase1-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

@thepastaclaw thepastaclaw added the pastaclaw:changes-requested thepastaclaw's latest review requested changes label Sep 11, 2026
Caching m_instance_hash on CTransaction grew every transaction by 32
bytes, and the mempool's DynamicMemoryUsage accounts for that: with
-maxmempool=5 the pool now trimmed below the size mempool_limit.py fills
it to, so the "evicted immediately after submission" headroom assertion
failed on the --enable-debug -O0 CI job (100000 <= 136750) on every run
of that job.

The instance hash only differs from the txid for version 2 asset unlocks
and is read on their relay, compact-block and coinbase-commitment paths,
none of which are hot enough to justify a per-transaction cache. Compute
it on demand for those transactions and return the txid for all others,
restoring sizeof(CTransaction) to its previous value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@PastaPastaPasta

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Pushed 4e7496fa0e for the linux64_multiprocess-test failure (mempool_limit.py, 100000 <= 136750), which reproduced on rerun and is caused by this PR, not a flake.

Caching m_instance_hash on CTransaction added 32 bytes to every transaction (sizeof 112 → 144), and DynamicMemoryUsage accounts for that. With -maxmempool=5 the pool trimmed below the fill level the test expects, so the headroom assertion failed on the --enable-debug -O0 job. The instance hash is only read on relay, compact-block and coinbase-commitment paths for v2 unlocks, so it is now computed on demand there and returns the txid for every other transaction; sizeof(CTransaction) is back to 112.

Verified locally with base and head built using the multiprocess job's flags: mempool_limit.py passes on both after the change, plus feature_asset_locks.py, mempool_packages.py, p2p_compactblocks.py, rpc_packages.py, and the evo_assetlocks/evo_islock/mempool/txvalidation unit suites.


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Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)

The final head still contains multiple in-scope correctness and liveness defects in the new stable-txid Asset Unlock and InstantSend paths. Duplicate withdrawal claims, stale InstantSend tracking, unhandled credit-pool exceptions, and DSTX validation bypasses can block valid withdrawals, repeatedly consume resources, or terminate the node.

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🔴 Blocking: Retry queue is never drained, causing repeated expensive lock attempts
src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:247-273

RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks inserts tracked unlocks into pendingRetryTxs, but PrepareTxToRetry only copies the set and never erases or acknowledges its entries. The worker therefore reprocesses every still-tracked unlock on each iteration rather than only after a new retry trigger. Because each attempt performs special-transaction and credit-pool checks, an unlock that remains unlockable can consume this work indefinitely. Drain the prepared entries, while explicitly re-queueing transactions when a later block or refresh requires another attempt.

source: gpt-6-astra (phase2-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

🔴 Blocking: A DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock bypasses DSTX validation and accounting
src/net_processing.cpp:4858-4888

For a DSTX message, nInvType is initially MSG_DSTX, but the stable-txid Asset Unlock check overwrites it with MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK before both DSTX-specific branches execute. Consequently, a DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock skips ValidateDSTX and is not passed to m_dstxman.AddDSTX after acceptance. The wrapper therefore bypasses the masternode-validity checks, rate limiting, and DSTX accounting. Preserve the original message type in a separate boolean, or key both DSTX branches directly on msg_type.

source: gpt-6-astra (phase2-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

🟡 Suggestion: Snapshot-height credit-pool caches can be populated without persisting the snapshot
src/evo/creditpool.cpp:140-155

AddToCache skips the disk write unless HasActiveTransaction is true, but it still inserts the reconstructed pool into the in-memory cache. AddToCache is reached on a cache miss, so a snapshot-height pool first constructed by mempool admission, template creation, status RPCs, or InstantSend is cached without being persisted. Later block connection hits the in-memory entry and does not retry the write. The snapshot is therefore silently absent after restart, forcing reconstruction from an older snapshot across potentially many blocks. Persist the derived snapshot through a committed mechanism, or force reconstruction and persistence during block connection.

source: gpt-6-astra (phase2-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)

5 carried-forward finding(s) already raised on this PR; not re-posting as new inline comments.

Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6-astra (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6-astra (agent: astra-verifier, role: final-verifier)

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6-astra (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that directly modifies consensus transaction hashing and validation, coinbase/merkle commitments, cryptographic signature handling, mempool behavior, and peer-facing compact-block and InstantSend networking in files such as src/primitives/transaction.cpp, src/validation.cpp, src/evo/cbtx.cpp, and src/instantsend/signing.cpp.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: not run (skipped for throughput: 15 PRs queued, above the 10 limit)
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6-astra — final-verifier; agent astra-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6-astra — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6-astra — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

In `src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:247-273: Retry queue is never drained, causing repeated expensive lock attempts
  RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks inserts tracked unlocks into pendingRetryTxs, but PrepareTxToRetry only copies the set and never erases or acknowledges its entries. The worker therefore reprocesses every still-tracked unlock on each iteration rather than only after a new retry trigger. Because each attempt performs special-transaction and credit-pool checks, an unlock that remains unlockable can consume this work indefinitely. Drain the prepared entries, while explicitly re-queueing transactions when a later block or refresh requires another attempt.
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/instantsend.cpp:131-140: Removed unmined unlocks remain in InstantSend tracking indefinitely
  (existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/7639#discussion_r3985714824)
  TransactionIsRemoved returns when the removed transaction has no InstantSend lock, so an unlocked Asset Unlock leaving the mempool is never removed from nonLockedTxs. Its synthetic input is not present in mapNextTx, so ClearConflicting cannot clean it up either. The stale entry retains the transaction and remains eligible for RetryUnminedAssetUnlocks even though it is no longer in the mempool, causing persistent tracking and repeated retry work. Remove the corresponding non-locked entry when an unlocked Asset Unlock is removed, or discard entries that are no longer in the mempool during retry processing.

In `src/net_processing.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/net_processing.cpp:4858-4888: A DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock bypasses DSTX validation and accounting
  For a DSTX message, nInvType is initially MSG_DSTX, but the stable-txid Asset Unlock check overwrites it with MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK before both DSTX-specific branches execute. Consequently, a DSTX-wrapped v2 unlock skips ValidateDSTX and is not passed to m_dstxman.AddDSTX after acceptance. The wrapper therefore bypasses the masternode-validity checks, rate limiting, and DSTX accounting. Preserve the original message type in a separate boolean, or key both DSTX branches directly on msg_type.
- [SUGGESTION] src/net_processing.cpp:4983-4988: Rejected v2 unlocks are not deduplicated for legacy MSG_TX announcements
  (existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/7639#discussion_r3985714834)
  The rejection path records only relay_hash, which is the instance hash for a stable-txid unlock. For peers below ASSET_UNLOCK_INV_VERSION, GetTxAnnouncement downgrades the announcement to MSG_TX carrying the stable transaction ID, while AlreadyHave(MSG_TX, txid) checks the rejects filter by txid. A rejected v2 instance can therefore be requested and fully signature-validated again whenever a legacy peer announces it by txid. Record the stable txid as a rejection guard for the legacy path, while retaining instance-hash rejection handling for MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK so fresh instances remain admissible.

In `src/evo/creditpool.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/evo/creditpool.cpp:140-155: Snapshot-height credit-pool caches can be populated without persisting the snapshot
  AddToCache skips the disk write unless HasActiveTransaction is true, but it still inserts the reconstructed pool into the in-memory cache. AddToCache is reached on a cache miss, so a snapshot-height pool first constructed by mempool admission, template creation, status RPCs, or InstantSend is cached without being persisted. Later block connection hits the in-memory entry and does not retry the write. The snapshot is therefore silently absent after restart, forcing reconstruction from an older snapshot across potentially many blocks. Persist the derived snapshot through a committed mechanism, or force reconstruction and persistence during block connection.

In `src/txmempool.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/txmempool.cpp:659-660: Mempool admission permits duplicate withdrawal indexes
  (existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/7639#discussion_r3985714828)
  Asset Unlock insertion unconditionally adds the withdrawal index and pending amount. The ordinary admission path calls removeAssetUnlockConflicts only when IsInstantSendWaitingForTx(hash) is true, so two distinct unlocks claiming the same index can coexist during normal admission. CheckCanLockAssetUnlock then refuses to lock while multiple claimants exist, while both entries continue inflating the pending total and can cause the miner to reject the duplicate package. Reject or replace an existing claimant for the same index during ordinary admission, while preserving the stable-txid refresh path.

In `src/validation.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/validation.cpp:888-892: Credit-pool lookup escapes the mempool admission path
  (existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/7639#discussion_r3985714823)
  PreChecks now calls GetCreditPool directly while checking whether an input-less Asset Unlock index was already mined, without translating exceptions into a validation result. Credit-pool reconstruction can throw on block-read failure, duplicate indexes, invalid limits, or EvoDB inconsistency. Since this lookup is reached from peer and RPC transaction admission and is outside the existing credit-pool exception-handling paths, the exception can escape AcceptToMemoryPool instead of producing a controlled rejection or node-abort result. Wrap the lookup and handle failures consistently with the other credit-pool callers.

In `src/instantsend/signing.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/instantsend/signing.cpp:224-226: Unguarded credit-pool lookup can terminate the node from the InstantSend worker
  (existing thread: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/pull/7639#discussion_r3985714817)
  CheckCanLockAssetUnlock calls GetCreditPool without handling its documented reconstruction and EvoDB exceptions. This path is reached from the InstantSend worker while processing pending retries, and the worker has no enclosing handler that converts the failure into a failed lock attempt. util::TraceThread rethrows uncaught exceptions, so a block-read failure or inconsistent reconstructed pool can terminate the process instead of merely refusing to sign this unlock. Catch and log the failure, then return false from the lockability check.

@thepastaclaw thepastaclaw added the pastaclaw:changes-requested thepastaclaw's latest review requested changes label Sep 11, 2026
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