feat: isolate Evo state per chainstate while an AssumeUTXO snapshot is active by PastaPastaPasta · Pull Request #7887 · dashpay/dash

PastaPastaPasta · 2026-10-15T12:04:21Z

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

This is the first Evo-state PR of the reworked AssumeUTXO series. It is stacked on four open PRs: #8049 (DKG idle during background validation), #8067 (bitcoin#28685), #8066 (BLS scheme per thread) and #8069 (Platform quorum lookup). The stack is those four, then this PR, then #7593, then #7601, then two more drafts. Against develop this PR shows 19 commits: the first 8 are the commits of those four PRs and only the last 11 belong to this PR. It stays a draft until the four merge.

While a snapshot chainstate and the background chainstate run together, they share one EvoDB keyspace and one set of Evo-derived caches: MN lists, quorums, the credit pool, MNHF/EHF and versionbits. As a result:

State seeded or written by the snapshot chainstate can be read by background validation. That can make the background mark valid blocks invalid.
State written by a rejected snapshot stays readable after the rejection.
Missing snapshot data ("this node can't decide yet") turns into BLOCK_FAILED_VALID, a peer penalty, AbortNode or assert. It should be a local, retryable condition.
Nothing guarantees that code with no view bound reads the chainstate it means to.

Review of #7593 and #7601 kept running into these problems. Two independent designs (Claude Opus and GPT) were reconciled into one agreed design, which puts the isolation in its own reviewable PR on develop. With no snapshot loaded, the isolation changes no behaviour. The only way to get a dual chainstate today is a regtest UTXO-only snapshot. The typed-error handling in commit 1 does change behaviour with a single chainstate, wherever a block body Evo needs is missing or pruned (see Breaking Changes).

What was done?

Eleven atomic commits. The first six are the isolation itself; the last five were found while the layers above were stacked on it.

fix(evo): pass snapshot-data and mismatch errors through generic catches. Typed local errors (evo::LocalStateError: unavailable data, view-binding faults, snapshot mismatch) pass through generic catch (...)/std::exception handlers. They are never turned into block invalidity or a peer penalty.
- Missing or pruned historical block bodies needed to rebuild the credit pool (GetCreditDataFromBlock) or EHF signals (CMNHFManager::GetForBlock) raise BlockDataUnavailableError. An unreadable body the node should have keeps the old plain error.
- A stall has its own validation result (LocalEvoStateResult, queried with IsLocalEvoStateError()), distinct from invalid blocks, disk errors and snapshot mismatch. ConnectTip, DisconnectTip and TestBlockValidity classify into it. A snapshot mismatch still rejects the snapshot, through the new ChainstateManager::HandleSnapshotStateMismatch. ConnectTip rolls back its Evo transaction first.
- ConnectTip catches the error around BeginTransaction/ConnectBlock only, then fires one BlockChecked after classification. A subscriber's exception is never recorded as a stall or reported twice. submitblock returns RPC_VERIFY_ERROR "evo-local-unavailable". PeerManagerImpl::BlockChecked sees an error: it neither punishes nor credits the peer, and it erases the mapBlockSource entry.
- A stall never leaves the block index inconsistent: the tip and the viable disconnected candidates are listed again inside the same cs_main hold, so CheckBlockIndex does not abort after a stall, and memo entries for blocks that later failed or conflict with a ChainLock are ignored.
- A block that is flagged as having data but cannot be read raises BlockDataReadError; the flag and the block position are read under one cs_main hold. submitpackage and testmempoolaccept report the package error evo-local-unavailable.
- The chainstate remembers each block it stalled on and skips only the branches that need one of them, so usable branches keep advancing. The memory lasts until restart or a view change. It is not cleared when snapshot validation completes (the snapshot chainstate keeps reading its own generation until promotion at the next startup). If a stall is still live at completion, the node logs a warning and sets the misc warning asking for a restart. An in-process handoff or NORMAL fallback is deliberately not added: it would need to cover every partitioned cache without leaking unvalidated state.
- Import, ActivateBestChain, ChainLock enforcement, DisconnectTip and InstantSend conflict resolution log the stall and stop. They no longer abort or assert. A stall partway through a rewind keeps the blocks already disconnected and announces the tip reached (InvalidateBlock, ChainLock conflict marking, and a reorg that stalled before connecting). A block whose disconnect stalls stays in the chain, with the best header restored.
- InstantSend keeps conflicting blocks it could not invalidate and retries them on the next tip or ChainLock event. The temporary invalidation used for a lock whose transaction is unknown is undone by a scope guard on every exit, including a stall, so no BLOCK_FAILED_VALID flags are left behind.
- Mempool acceptance (AcceptToMemoryPool single and test-accept, and ProcessNewPackage) turns a local Evo error into an error result (evo-local-unavailable) and uncaches the coins it loaded. The asset-unlock credit-pool precheck rethrows the typed error before its generic catch, so it is no longer reported as failed-getcreditpool.
refactor(evo): add EvoDB view tokens and scopes.
- An immutable token: (EvoDB, identity, generation, base).
- A nestable thread-local EvoViewScope.
- CurrentView(), which must agree with any open transaction; a conflict raises EvoViewBindingError.
- Nothing binds scopes yet, so behaviour is unchanged.
feat(evo): store snapshot-identity state in a generation namespace with journaled promotion.
- Snapshot-chainstate writes go to a per-generation key prefix. There is no read fallback to NORMAL. WriteDerived compares only within its own view; WriteImmediate is the view-aware write outside a transaction used by StoreSnapshotForBlock. It is not synced: it survives a process crash but not an OS crash, and its only caller re-derives a lost record.
- Rejection marks the generation in the same synced batch that discards the markers. The rejected record stays until the snapshot's coins directory has been invalidated, then the generation is collected, so a crash in between still finishes at startup.
- RecoverSnapshotCleanup renames chainstate_snapshot only when no live generation is bound, so a stale rejected record cannot invalidate a live snapshot's directory.
- Promotion is a journaled merge that resumes after a crash at any phase. Every seeded key is recorded in a seed manifest with its family's merge policy. Seeded keys are never copied into NORMAL, which derives that state itself. Where NORMAL holds the same key, a masternode list must be canonically equal (same masternodes, internal ids and registration counter) and a byte-deterministic record byte-equal; an unseeded key NORMAL also holds fails the promotion, and only the LLMQ best-block singleton is superseded.
- LevelDB skips a table block that fails its checksum and its iterator stays valid at the next one, reporting the error only through its status. Promotion, collection and generation loading check that status before each key and at the end, and stop with their journal and records in place.
- Each generation records a versioned deployment and LLMQ configuration fingerprint. A restart under a different configuration refuses the generation, and the refusal names the generation, its base and height, its phase and how to recover; it says the changed component is unknown because only the aggregate fingerprint is recorded.
- An in-progress snapshot from a datadir that predates isolation is detected, and startup suggests -reindex-chainstate.
fix(evo): partition Evo-derived caches by view.
- MN-list, quorum, quorum-snapshot, credit-pool, MNHF/EHF, commitment and special-tx/ChainLock caches, plus the versionbits cache, are keyed by view (EvoViewCache). Retiring a generation (a rejection or an abandon) drops only that generation's SNAPSHOT partitions, so NORMAL keeps its partitions and its MN-list tip; opening a CEvoDB and promotion still drop every partition, and startup follows with InitializeCurrentBlockTip. The chainman overloads of DeploymentActiveAfter/At decide buried deployments by height alone, as the params overloads already did. A view's MN-list cache is pruned against the higher of its tip and the highest block it processed.
- Pre-base unavailability. This PR carries no Evo/LLMQ state at or below the snapshot base B. Under a SNAPSHOT view whose base is at or past DIP3, a read on a validation, mempool, miner or P2P-validation path whose answer depends on that history throws BlockDataUnavailableError, and the chainstate stalls. Above B the generation is complete, so its answers are authoritative. There is one gate per path class:
  - commitments by hash: the miss branch of HasMinedCommitment (LacksQuorumHistory);
  - height-index scans: RequireSatisfiedScan in the two scan primitives. This covers ScanQuorums/ScanCommitments and what uses them (asset-unlock, ChainLock, InstantSend and signing quorum selection, the CbTx quorum root, rotation scans);
  - block bodies: the credit pool, EHF, and the coinbase ChainLock read in GetNonNullCoinbaseChainlock (CbTx best-ChainLock check and quorum work-block modifiers);
  - MN lists and quorum snapshots already threw typed errors.
- Below DIP3 no quorum can be mined, so an empty history there stays authoritative.
- EHF signals persist only inside a block transaction. CMNHFManager::MaybePersist writes only while HasActiveTransaction(). A transactionless lookup (getdeploymentinfo, mempool, miner, versionbits) keeps the rebuilt signals in cache only, and a later lookup inside a transaction persists them. A transactionless rebuild can no longer leave partial records or trip the clean-transaction assertion at the next root commit. This was latent for NORMAL on develop; the isolated generation made it reachable.
- New test hooks: CDeterministicMNManager::SetListSnapshotMissHookForTesting and CachedListHeightsForTesting.
fix(evo): bind non-active paths and dispatcher boundaries explicitly.
- Every Chainstate method that reads Evo state binds its own view. Startup, the post-import tail (FinishImportedStartup), export, completion, VerifyDB and TestBlockValidity bind explicitly. ForceSignalDBUpdate takes the intended view and uses its identity for the transaction and root commit; signals the view cannot rebuild are left to be rebuilt on demand. DMN repair binds NORMAL.
- Active-chain dispatchers bind the active view unless the thread is already bound: RPC and REST, the miner, mempool admission, the Evo-reading interfaces:: methods, each node-scheduler task, and each ChainLock, DKG and InstantSend work round. While no snapshot generation is live, a single-view turn binds without taking cs_main; the hold stays while a generation is live. The signing, cleaning, dispatcher and DKG worker loops run their rounds through RunActiveEvoRound, which rate-limits repeated errors per operation, generation and reason and logs a recovery line.
- P2P. CConnman::ServicePeer binds and contains each peer's whole turn (GETDATA drain, orphans, next message, SendMessages). A local Evo error in a message handler drops that message without punishing the peer; one from the peer's queued GETDATA requests ends receiving for that turn. Neither ends the message-handler thread, and the peer's sends (including discouragement and ping timeout) still run. ProcessGetData takes each request off the queue before serving it, so a failed lookup neither re-serves earlier requests nor leaves the failed request blocking the peer's later messages, and the peer receives NOTFOUND for the failed item.
- Startup ordering. The scheduler and REST start before the block databases load, and a load retry replaces the Evo database. They bind only to NodeContext::evodb_for_dispatch, which startup publishes once loading is final and withdraws before destroying the database; until then their work runs unbound. ReleaseChainstateLoadAttempt() runs queued validation events before a retry resets the managers and evodb.
- Startup EHF warm-up. ForceSignalDBUpdate catches LocalStateError: it restores the BLS scheme, rolls back its scoped transaction, logs that the update was skipped and returns success. Loading then continues to snapshot completion and promotion.
- Queued work. Queued validation events and LLMQ worker-pool tasks capture the enqueuing thread's token, reinstall it when they run, and drop themselves if their generation changed or the binding cannot be installed. What the enqueuer claimed for them is released exactly once. A local Evo error in one subscriber to a queued event stays with that subscriber and the others still receive the event; synchronous signals still pass it to the caller. Subscriber registration counts stay correct either way.
- Interfaces. Every Evo-reading interfaces:: method goes through WithActiveEvoView or a dispatcher that binds and contains: EVO provider operations, getListAtChainTip, governance reads (including getCurrentVotes, and getGovernanceInfo's fundingthreshold), LLMQ reads, isV24Active and listMNCollaterials. Each logs once per operation and generation, sets the misc warning, and reports failure through its own channel. Methods with none now return std::optional (getCurrentVotes returns nullopt). The Qt and wallet callers keep their current data, show "unavailable" or refuse the action, instead of treating it as data.
- While the MN list is unavailable, wallet outputs that can't yet be classified are kept out of automatic coin selection and CoinJoin. They are rechecked every block, including blocks before the wallet birthday; a WalletBatch is constructed only when there is classification work.
- The Platform quorum lookup is feat(interfaces): look up a Platform quorum at its signed Core height #8069's getPlatformQuorum, wrapped like the other Evo-reading interfaces:: methods. (The earlier getPlatformQuorums no longer exists.)
- opencon skips its round when the MN list can't be read, as mncon does. The DKG phase-thread retry delay is ten 100 ms sleeps that check IsStopRequested().
- A chainstate's remembered stall lapses once its view changes.
feat(evo): reject unbound Evo reads during dual operation. While a snapshot generation is live, an Evo read, write, iterator or cache lookup with no view bound, or bound to a retired generation, raises EvoViewBindingError in every build before touching state. ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock, UndoSpecialTxsInBlock and the quorum block processor's ProcessBlock/UndoBlock refuse to run unless the thread is bound to the chainstate's view. With one chainstate, NORMAL stays the default. The hidden -checkevobinding option extends the check to single-chainstate operation: it defaults to the consistency-check default (on in regtest) and is forced on in the unit-test setup, and an unbound read then throws there too. A binding fault is a local error everywhere: a BINDING stall in validation (connect and undo throw the same typed EvoViewBindingError), RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR over RPC, an aborted operation for P2P and the miner, a logged and ended task for queued and scheduled work, and an initialization failure at startup.
fix(instantsend): skip only the islocks whose quorum is below the snapshot base. A quorum based at or below the base is in history the snapshot view does not have. That error escaped BuildVerificationBatch, ended the work round, and dropped every lock FetchPendingLocks had already taken off the queue, so one such lock cost up to 31 others. It is now caught per lock; the lock is left out of the batch and its peer is not blamed.
fix(llmq): treat short scans of types not enabled up to the snapshot base as complete. A type that was not enabled up to the base has no commitments there, so its short scan is complete, but it still threw and stalled the snapshot chainstate until promotion. The type must be enabled at the end of the missing range or at DIP3 activation; the check runs before the EvoDB lock is taken because deployment state can read EvoDB. The base is checked first, and the DIP3 ancestor is only looked up when that fails (a chain that does not reach genesis has none). The non-throwing mined-commitment scans behind getPlatformQuorum report a walk that ends short in missing history as incomplete by the same rule, so such a quorum is UNAVAILABLE and not INVALID.
fix(interfaces): raise the Evo-unavailable warning once per operation and view. GUI models poll the wrapped operations, and every failed poll set the warning again. It is raised with the log line, once per operation and active view. Without a snapshot it says block data was pruned and suggests -reindex.
fix(node): keep an earlier invalid snapshot dir when finishing a rejection. Startup recovery of a persisted rejection renamed chainstate_snapshot over an existing chainstate_snapshot_INVALID and aborted. The earlier directory, which may be the one the user was asked to report, is kept and the interrupted one is durably deleted.
fix(validation): stop reading a rejected snapshot when its rejection is not saved. When the rejection could not be persisted, the generation stayed bound and the default identity stayed SNAPSHOT although the IBD chainstate was active again, so dispatches and already-bound operations kept reading the rejected generation. The generation is now revoked in memory for the rest of the run (CEvoDB::RevokeSnapshotGeneration); its records stay on disk so startup recovery still rejects it.

ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock and UndoSpecialTxsInBlock take an explicit view argument, which avoids a new circular dependency.

Design notes and audits

Each audit below found its gaps and they are fixed in the commits above:

Pre-base history. Every reader of Evo/LLMQ state at or below the base was classified into the path classes in commit 4. Each class has one helper or branch, so feat: v4 evo snapshot with derived quorum dependencies, credit window and base coinbase #7593 can wrap it with its carried data. Scans request max(count, keepOldConnections), so a SNAPSHOT view stalls until that many quorums of the type are mined above B. This is a deliberate over-approximation.
Transactionless writers. Every derived-state writer reachable without a transaction was checked. The EHF writer was the only unguarded one. The credit pool and quorum snapshots were already safe, and the rest run only inside block connection or at startup.
Generic catches. Every catch (...)/std::exception/std::runtime_error in evo, llmq, instantsend, governance, validation, txmempool and the miner. The asset-unlock precheck was the only gap.
Interfaces. Every override in the node, wallet and CoinJoin interfaces. getCurrentVotes was the only gap.
Thread entry points. Every thread that reaches Evo/LLMQ state binds and contains at its root or per work item. The message handler was the only gap.
Mempool and non-validation EHF callers. Miner, RPC, REST, wallet/GUI and CoinJoin callers already sit behind a contained boundary; mempool acceptance was the gap.

Coverage deferred to #7601

The 110/200 regtest fixture predates DIP3, so some outcomes need the DIP3-active snapshot fixture that #7601 builds with the v4 emitter. #7601 adds tests for most of these. The InstantSend end-to-end path waits for loadtxoutset (M5).

background NotifyMasternodeListChanged suppression;
real q_mc records and real quorum caches;
promotion of real records;
background ForceSignalDBUpdate;
bounded NORMAL caches under sustained background connects;
the end-to-end stall through reorg, ChainLock and InstantSend.

Deferred non-test items:

clearing the sticky misc warning;
stale labels on retained GUI data;
tipIndex after a cache drop.

For #7593

Under this PR alone a post-DIP3 snapshot chainstate stalls at B+1 on the first scan. feat: v4 evo snapshot with derived quorum dependencies, credit window and base coinbase #7593's carried commitments and scan-coverage proof lift it. The proof wraps RequireSatisfiedScan (the single scan branch), and the carried base coinbase is consulted before the coinbase gate.
LacksQuorumHistory applies to every LLMQ type once DIP3 is active at B. feat: v4 evo snapshot with derived quorum dependencies, credit window and base coinbase #7593 bounds it per type through the validated payload's coverage, so types disabled at B, types enabled after B, and pre-DIP3 bases do not stall.

How Has This Been Tested?

Linux x86_64 containers, gcc-11.5 with --enable-werror (release configuration, Qt and sqlite, no BDB) unless stated. The runs below were made on the top of the stack that contains this layer (d2e3675bd6b9, or 7cba3d1c15, which differs only by an LSan suppression file added in #7601); this layer's own tip is 5739985872c8.

Per commit: a matrix from this layer's tip up through the top of feat: emit, pin, seed and verify the v4 evo snapshot section #7601 (12 commits): 12 of 12 build and 11 of 11 pass the 16 targeted suites. Earlier rounds built and tested the commits they changed the same way.
Unit and Qt: all 172 unit suites pass; test_dash-qt 163 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped.
Sanitizers: a from-scratch make check with CI's ASan/UBSan flags (clang-19, -Wthread-safety -Werror) reports no sanitizer finding. evo_db_tests, validation_chainstatemanager_tests, validation_chainstate_tests, evo_snapshot_tests, interfaces_tests and llmq_dkg_tests pass under TSan with 0 warnings.
Functional: the default suite at the top of the stack ran 334 tests: 271 passed, 62 skipped, 1 failed. The failure, rpc_wipewallettxes.py, passes alone and in 30 of 30 sequential runs against the same binaries, and the stack touches neither the test nor the code behind it. rpc_dumptxoutset.py, feature_assumeutxo_dash.py, feature_utxo_set_hash.py, feature_coinstatsindex.py, feature_asset_locks.py and rpc_blockchain.py pass.
Static checks: ci/dash/lint.sh over the stack and cppcheck-dash.py exit 0; clang-tidy 19 reports nothing on the files changed in the last round.
Fork CI: the run for the top of the stack (d2e3675bd6b9, which contains this layer) passed (PastaPastaPasta/dash run 42447332795). The run for this layer's own head was cancelled, so there is no separate CI result for it on its own.
New and extended tests (extending existing scenarios where possible):
- typed errors stay out of BLOCK_FAILED_VALID;
- stalls through InvalidateBlock, EnforceBlock, a reorg that stalls before connecting, and temporary IS invalidation, each calling CheckBlockIndex after every step and checking flags, tip and announcements (chainstatemanager_activate_snapshot);
- chainstatemanager_missing_body_stalls: a pruned body stalls the credit pool and EHF, a transactionless EHF rebuild leaves nothing persisted, the startup warm-up skips, ATMP, the package RPCs and the asset-unlock precheck return error results, and submitblock returns "evo-local-unavailable";
- chainstatemanager_mined_commitment_is_chain_aware: the by-hash and scan gates, with a NORMAL-only pre-base quorum, plus rows for DIP3 above B and satisfied scans;
- chainstatemanager_snapshot_completion_keeps_stall: completion keeps the stall and changes the warning;
- chainstatemanager_peer_turn_is_bound: a resumed GETDATA is answered under the bound view, a local error is contained and the peer's next PING is still answered;
- rejection isolation with real snapshot-written MN-list, credit-pool and EHF records, and NORMAL reconstruction after rejection and restart; retiring a generation keeps the active tip list (evo_db_tests/retiring_a_generation_keeps_the_active_tip_list);
- promotion crash recovery at each phase, including a multi-batch interrupt at every boundary, a promotion over a corrupt table block (refused, journal and generation kept), fingerprint refusal, partitioned-cache isolation including versionbits;
- an unsaved rejection while a DKG-style round bound to the snapshot view waits at its start (unsaved_rejection);
- a single-view ActiveEvoViewScope binds NORMAL while another thread holds cs_main, and still waits while a generation is live;
- queued-task and subscriber handling, and the scheduler binding before and after evodb_for_dispatch is published;
- interfaces_tests/evo_state_unavailable_is_contained, including getCurrentVotes and a sweep of every Evo-reading interfaces:: method from an unbound thread, single and dual mode;
- unbound-read errors, stalled-branch selection with 40 stalled branches plus one usable block, and wallet and CoinJoin collateral exclusion.
Fail-without-fix: the regression tests above were run with their fix reverted and failed. Examples: the old epoch bump (null-hash tip list after an abandon), the old iterator handling (promotion succeeds and lacks a payload), the revocation (revoke), and the unbound-turn hold.
Not covered by a test: the mismatch rollback in ConnectTip (the only SnapshotStateMismatchError source needs a rotated commitment mined at or below the base, which the unit fixtures cannot mine); the opencon skip; the wallet retry before the birthday early return (m_birth_time is private).

The utxo_snapshot fuzz target aborts in its own initialization (Params() before any chain is selected, in develop code), so no fuzz result is claimed. CI on dashpay/dash for this head has not run when this description was written.

Breaking Changes

User-visible changes, including with a single chainstate:

Missing or pruned block bodies stall instead of failing the block. If a block's credit-pool or EHF rebuild needs a historical block body that is missing or pruned, the chainstate stalls with a typed local error and the misc warning. Before, it marked the block BLOCK_FAILED_VALID. This also applies to NORMAL on a pruned node. A real disk read failure keeps its old handling. A stalled block stays refused until restart, or until its view changes. Import, ActivateBestChain, ChainLock enforcement and InstantSend log the stall and continue instead of aborting.
submitblock for a block whose connection stalls returns RPC_VERIFY_ERROR "evo-local-unavailable" (previously "inconclusive"). A relaying peer is neither punished nor credited.
Mempool acceptance (AcceptToMemoryPool, ProcessNewPackage, and so sendrawtransaction/wallet broadcast) returns an error result (evo-local-unavailable; MEMPOOL_ERROR from BroadcastTransaction) instead of an exception or, for the asset-unlock precheck, a failed-getcreditpool reject.
RPC and REST: a local Evo error returns RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR (REST: its handler wrapper) instead of escaping or being reported as data.
Snapshot completion with a live stall logs a warning and sets the misc warning asking for a restart. The in-process handoff is deferred.
Startup: the EHF warm-up is skipped and rolled back on a local error, instead of failing the load. A datadir with a regtest snapshot chainstate in progress from before this change is detected and needs -reindex-chainstate. A published generation whose deployment/LLMQ configuration fingerprint no longer matches is refused.
P2P: a local Evo error drops the message (or, from queued GETDATA, ends receiving for that turn) with no penalty; the peer's sends still run. A failing GETDATA lookup no longer re-serves earlier requests or blocks the peer's later messages.
Validation events: one subscriber's local Evo error no longer prevents the other subscribers from receiving a queued event.
GUI and wallet: while Evo state is unavailable, the GUI keeps its previous data or shows "unavailable", and the wallet keeps unclassifiable masternode-collateral candidates out of automatic selection and CoinJoin until the next block.
The DKG phase-thread retry delay now reacts to a stop request within 100 ms.
submitpackage and testmempoolaccept report the package error evo-local-unavailable when a local Evo error stops them.
Regtest enables strict Evo binding by default (the hidden -checkevobinding). A pruned node no longer marks a block invalid when its Evo state needs pruned data; it stalls with a warning until restarted with -reindex (release note in doc/release-notes-7887.md).

Otherwise, behaviour with one chainstate is unchanged.

Internal API changes:

several interfaces:: methods now return std::optional (isV24Active, listMNCollaterials, listProTxCoins, getProviderTxCapabilities, getObjVotes, getObjUniqueVoters, getCurrentVotes, getFundableProposalHashes, getCreditPoolCounts, getQuorumStats, plus others), and GovernanceInfo::fundingthreshold is optional;
ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock/UndoSpecialTxsInBlock take a view argument, and ForceSignalDBUpdate takes the view to use;
BlockDataUnavailableError moves to evo/snapshot_types.h beside the new LocalStateError, SnapshotStateMismatchError and EvoViewBindingError;
BlockValidationState gains LocalEvoStateResult and IsLocalEvoStateError(); ChainstateManager::HandleSnapshotStateMismatch is extracted;
CEvoDB gains view tokens, EvoViewScope, CurrentView(), WriteImmediate and RevokeSnapshotGeneration; CMNHFManager::MaybePersist is added;
CConnman::ThreadMessageHandler takes the CEvoDB, and CConnman::ServicePeer is added;
NodeContext::evodb_for_dispatch, RunSchedulerTask and ReleaseChainstateLoadAttempt are added in init.h.

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Walkthrough

The change adds generation-isolated EvoDB storage for snapshot chainstate, with consensus-configuration fingerprints and journaled promotion. Chainstate operations and Evo-dependent caches use view bindings. Local Evo-state failures are tracked separately from consensus-invalid blocks. Node interfaces represent unavailable results explicitly, and RPC, REST, GUI, and wallet callers handle them. The wallet tracks ProTx collateral that cannot yet be classified and excludes it from automatic coin selection.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChainstateManager
  participant SnapshotChainstate
  participant CEvoDB
  participant NormalEvoStore
  ChainstateManager->>CEvoDB: Create and publish generation
  SnapshotChainstate->>CEvoDB: Write snapshot-view Evo records
  ChainstateManager->>CEvoDB: Prepare promotion journal
  CEvoDB->>NormalEvoStore: Merge generation records
  CEvoDB->>CEvoDB: Collect generation and finalize markers

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 569ca

Snapshot promotion may block startup if it encounters an unlisted mutable record, and wallet collateral classification may leave mixed-credit totals stale. Resolve or explicitly accept these risks before merging.

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786-789: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The stop request waits behind an uninterruptible sleep.

If Evo state stays unavailable, each failed round ends with UninterruptibleSleep(1s). NetDKG::Stop() sets the stop flag, but the thread checks it only after the sleep ends. The delay is at most one second per round, and all phase threads sleep in parallel. Shutdown therefore takes up to one second longer. This is acceptable, but you can use an interruptible wait on the handler's stop condition if one exists.
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Review comment at @src/llmq/net_dkg.cpp around lines 786 - 789:
Replace the UninterruptibleSleep in the LocalStateError catch within NetDKG with
an interruptible wait on the handler’s stop condition, if available, so a stop
request wakes the retry delay promptly.

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Review comments at @src/evo/evodb.cpp:
- Around line 653-666: Update MergeGeneration so q_mcih and q_mcihi keys bypass
the conflicting-value rejection and the generation’s value replaces the NORMAL
value during promotion. Preserve the existing conflict check for other keys, and
add a regression test that promotes differing values for these LLMQ height-index
keys.

Review comments at @src/instantsend/net_instantsend.cpp:
- Around line 623-634: In the defer lambda within
NetInstantSend::InvalidateConflictingBlocks, set m_retry_conflicts when storing
the deferred conflict in m_unresolved_conflicts so WorkThreadMain will retry it
after Evo state recovers.

Review comments at @src/net.cpp:
- Around line 3154-3155: Update the `opencon` call to `RunActiveEvoRound` so a
`LocalStateError` skips this masternode round, matching the masternode thread’s
behavior, rather than continuing with an empty `mnList` and attempting duplicate
outbound connections.

Review comments at @src/node/chainstate.cpp:
- Around line 54-63: In the HasRejectedGeneration startup branch, only rename
the snapshot directory when no live snapshot generation is bound. Add a
GetSnapshotGeneration check to the existing existence condition so a rejected
record cannot invalidate a directory owned by a live generation.

Review comments at @src/wallet/wallet.cpp:
- Around line 1575-1583: Move the unclassified-output retry using
m_unclassified_protx_coins and LockProTxCoins out of the blockConnected path
that returns early for blocks before the wallet birthday. Run it before that
return or otherwise ensure the retry executes independently of the birthday
check.

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Review comments at @src/llmq/net_dkg.cpp:
- Around line 786-789: Replace the UninterruptibleSleep in the LocalStateError
catch within NetDKG with an interruptible wait on the handler’s stop condition,
if available, so a stop request wakes the retry delay promptly.

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PastaPastaPasta · 2026-10-15T13:31:43Z

Re the CodeRabbit nitpick on src/llmq/net_dkg.cpp:786-789:

Fixed in fix(evo): bind non-active paths and dispatcher boundaries explicitly: The handler has no stop condition variable to wait on, so the retry delay is now ten 100 ms sleeps that check IsStopRequested(). A stop request wakes the phase thread within 100 ms instead of up to a second.

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- Around line 3158-3159: Update the tip-list handling in both `opencon` rounds
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Review comments at @src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp:
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Review comments at @src/wallet/wallet.cpp:
- Around line 1568-1571: Update the unclassified ProTx coin handling in
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github-actions · 2026-10-15T15:05:42Z

This pull request has conflicts, please rebase.

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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Two recoverable Evo-error paths leave validation subscribers or tip-dependent state inconsistent and require changes. Both issues were verified against the exact head using static source inspection; no builds or tests were run. In the supplied CI snapshot from 2026-10-15T14:25:41Z, the listed source-build checks passed and lint remained in progress.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate change directly modifies persistent storage layout and migration in src/evo/evodb.cpp, introducing generation namespaces, rejection cleanup, and crash-resumable journaled promotion into the normal EvoDB keyspace.
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In `src/validationinterface.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/validationinterface.cpp:187-190: Contain local Evo exceptions inside each validation subscriber
  The new catch boundary surrounds the entire subscriber fanout, but MainSignalsImpl::Iterate increments each subscriber's count before invoking it and decrements it only after a normal return. A LocalStateError from a subscriber—for example, CDSNotificationInterface::UpdatedBlockTip calling governance, which reads GetListAtChainTip—therefore skips both the decrement and all later subscribers. EvoViewCapture::Run suppresses the exception and processing continues with the count permanently elevated. Unregister then removes the map entry without removing the list entry, so future events still invoke the unregistered subscriber; RegisterValidationInterface uses a non-owning shared_ptr, making this a potential use-after-free once the owner destroys it. Make iteration accounting exception-safe and catch recoverable local errors per subscriber so the remaining subscribers receive the event.

In `src/validation.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/validation.cpp:3582-3585: Publish partial tip movement before deferring a disconnect stall
  Returning a recoverable stall here preserves the failed DisconnectTip's starting tip, but does not undo successful disconnects earlier in the caller's loop. In InvalidateBlock, if one disconnect succeeds and a later one stalls, the immediate return at line 4294 bypasses all final SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip, UpdatedBlockTip and UI notifications. NetInstantSend::InvalidateConflictingBlocks then stores the deferred conflict and returns without calling ActivateBestChain. The successful DisconnectTip calls have already moved m_chain and queued BlockDisconnected, while CDeterministicMNManager's per-view tipIndex is still the old tip because UpdateTip does not update it; that happens through CDSNotificationInterface::SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip. GetListAtChainTip can consequently serve the disconnected tip's masternode list while the node continues running on the rewound chain. Finalize and announce successful partial tip movement before returning a recoverable failure, and add a regression case where an earlier disconnect succeeds and a later one stalls.

thepastaclaw · 2026-10-15T16:37:53Z

+            evo_view.Run([&] {                                                              \
+                LOG_EVENT(fmt, local_name, __VA_ARGS__);                                    \
+                event();                                                                    \
+            });                                                                             \


✅ Resolved at e118c68b; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Contain local Evo exceptions inside each validation subscriber

The new catch boundary surrounds the entire subscriber fanout, but MainSignalsImpl::Iterate increments each subscriber's count before invoking it and decrements it only after a normal return. A LocalStateError from a subscriber—for example, CDSNotificationInterface::UpdatedBlockTip calling governance, which reads GetListAtChainTip—therefore skips both the decrement and all later subscribers. EvoViewCapture::Run suppresses the exception and processing continues with the count permanently elevated. Unregister then removes the map entry without removing the list entry, so future events still invoke the unregistered subscriber; RegisterValidationInterface uses a non-owning shared_ptr, making this a potential use-after-free once the owner destroys it. Make iteration accounting exception-safe and catch recoverable local errors per subscriber so the remaining subscribers receive the event.

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Fixed in fix(evo): bind non-active paths and dispatcher boundaries explicitly. MainSignalsImpl::Iterate now keeps its count bookkeeping right whenever a subscriber throws: before any exception leaves the loop, the entry's count is decremented, and the entry is erased once the count reaches zero, so Unregister never leaves a stale list entry. For queued events, an evo::LocalStateError is now caught per subscriber, logged, and delivery continues with the next subscriber. The queue has no caller that could handle the error, and before this change EvoViewCapture::Run already swallowed it for the whole fanout. Synchronous signals still propagate it to their caller, so behaviour there is unchanged: ConnectTip still classifies it as a stall, and the startup path still shuts down.

New test: validationinterface_tests/local_evo_error_in_subscriber. It registers a subscriber that throws and one that records calls, then checks that:

the recording subscriber still receives a queued event (ChainStateFlushed);

a synchronous event (BlockChecked) rethrows to the caller;

after UnregisterSharedValidationInterface the throwing subscriber is never called again.

Without the fix all three checks fail. The other subscriber never gets the queued event, and the unregistered subscriber keeps being called and keeps throwing.

🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta.

Resolved (re-reviewed at e118c68b): Your Iterate changes restore subscriber accounting before exceptions propagate and contain queued LocalStateError failures per subscriber, while preserving synchronous propagation to callers. The added scenario checks continued queued delivery and that unregistering the throwing subscriber prevents subsequent calls, addressing both parts of the original finding.

thepastaclaw · 2026-10-15T16:37:53Z

+    } catch (const evo::LocalStateError& e) {
+        LocalEvoStateError(m_chainman, e, state);
+        RecordEvoStall(pindexDelete, state);
+        return false;


✅ Resolved at e118c68b; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Publish partial tip movement before deferring a disconnect stall

Returning a recoverable stall here preserves the failed DisconnectTip's starting tip, but does not undo successful disconnects earlier in the caller's loop. In InvalidateBlock, if one disconnect succeeds and a later one stalls, the immediate return at line 4294 bypasses all final SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip, UpdatedBlockTip and UI notifications. NetInstantSend::InvalidateConflictingBlocks then stores the deferred conflict and returns without calling ActivateBestChain. The successful DisconnectTip calls have already moved m_chain and queued BlockDisconnected, while CDeterministicMNManager's per-view tipIndex is still the old tip because UpdateTip does not update it; that happens through CDSNotificationInterface::SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip. GetListAtChainTip can consequently serve the disconnected tip's masternode list while the node continues running on the rewound chain. Finalize and announce successful partial tip movement before returning a recoverable failure, and add a regression case where an earlier disconnect succeeds and a later one stalls.

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Fixed in fix(evo): pass snapshot-data and mismatch errors through generic catches. All three places that can stall after moving the tip now finish and announce the tip they reached, then return the stall:

InvalidateBlock: a stall breaks out of the disconnect loop into the normal tail. The last disconnected block is marked as when the loop is interrupted, candidates are refreshed, and SynchronousUpdatedBlockTip/UpdatedBlockTip/NotifyBlockTip fire for the current tip. If nothing was disconnected yet, it returns the stall without announcing anything, as before.

MarkConflictingBlock had the same pattern. The blocks it already disconnected are marked BLOCK_CONFLICT_CHAINLOCK and the tip is announced. The block that stalled stays in the chain unmarked, and EnforceBlock retries it on its next run.

ActivateBestChain already announced partial connects. A reorg that disconnected and then stalled before connecting anything left pindexFork == pindexNewTip and announced nothing; it now announces that rewind with a null fork, the same way InvalidateBlock does.

chainstatemanager_activate_snapshot covers each case: a stall at the second disconnect of an InvalidateBlock, the same through EnforceBlock, and a reorg that disconnects one block and then stalls connecting. Each case checks the chain tip and the last synchronous and queued tip announcements. Reverting any one of the three changes fails that case.

🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta.

Resolved (re-reviewed at e118c68b): Your updated InvalidateBlock and MarkConflictingBlock paths now finish and announce successful partial disconnects before returning the stall, and ActivateBestChain publishes a disconnect-only rewind. I also checked that the added scenario asserts the actual chain tip and both synchronous and queued announcements for all three paths; I did not execute the tests or independently verify the mutation-run claim.

PastaPastaPasta · 2026-10-15T17:39:31Z

About the linux64_asan-test failure of feature_governance.py --descriptors on 2d08c6ad (3/3 attempts): it's a test race that develop has too, not something this PR causes.

Failing step: the assertion at feature_governance.py:302 ("same YES and NO vote count for both triggers"). node0's governance sync finishes on a mocktime timeout that the test advances quickly. If one P2P message is delayed by about 500 ms, node0 finishes before it has the isolated node's trigger. When the isolated node is node1, it is reset next and ignores node0's vote request.
Reproduction: Linux, ASan with CI's flags. This branch failed 2 of 12 runs; develop failed 2 of 36. Delayed messages made up about 3.3% of messages on this branch and 3.2% on develop.
Unexplained part: an instrumented build showed the receiving node's epoll_wait sleeping its full 500 ms while data was already waiting. I haven't tracked that down yet, and it isn't specific to this PR.

The new head e118c68b has no timeout or test change for this. The test deserves its own fix: wait for the trigger to propagate before advancing mocktime past the sync timeout.

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Verified the supplied findings against exact head e118c68. Both prior blockers are fixed, but the new scheduler wrapper introduces an unsynchronized EvoDB lifetime race during initialization and database-load retries; neither new Codex finding demonstrates a current failing call path. This was static verification only: no builds or tests were run, and the supplied CI snapshot still has checks pending or queued.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The change is large and intricate and directly changes storage migration in src/evo/evodb.cpp through generation namespaces, rejection cleanup, and crash-resumable journaled promotion of snapshot state into the normal EvoDB keyspace.
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In `src/init.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/init.cpp:1676-1677: Protect the scheduler's EvoDB handle during startup retries
  The scheduler thread starts immediately after this wrapper is installed and can run periodic tasks while block-database initialization is still underway. Every task now reads node.evodb, but the initialization thread assigns it at line 2163 and resets it on database-load retries at line 2153 without synchronization with this reader. Accepting the rebuild prompt after a failed load therefore permits a callback to fetch the old pointer immediately before the retry destroys it, then dereference freed memory in ActiveEvoViewScope::HasLiveGeneration(). Single-chainstate startup is also affected because that dereference occurs before the single-view early return. Synchronize publication and replacement with lifetime protection, or use a synchronized readiness mechanism that prevents scheduler Evo binding until initialization and all retries have finished. An atomic raw pointer alone would not protect an already-fetched database.

thepastaclaw · 2026-10-15T17:58:10Z

+    node.scheduler->SetTaskWrapper(
+        [&node](const CScheduler::Function& task) { RunActiveEvoRound(node.evodb.get(), "scheduler", task); });


✅ Resolved at 3a14f806; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Protect the scheduler's EvoDB handle during startup retries

The scheduler thread starts immediately after this wrapper is installed and can run periodic tasks while block-database initialization is still underway. Every task now reads node.evodb, but the initialization thread assigns it at line 2163 and resets it on database-load retries at line 2153 without synchronization with this reader. Accepting the rebuild prompt after a failed load therefore permits a callback to fetch the old pointer immediately before the retry destroys it, then dereference freed memory in ActiveEvoViewScope::HasLiveGeneration(). Single-chainstate startup is also affected because that dereference occurs before the single-view early return. Synchronize publication and replacement with lifetime protection, or use a synchronized readiness mechanism that prevents scheduler Evo binding until initialization and all retries have finished. An atomic raw pointer alone would not protect an already-fetched database.

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Fixed in fix(evo): bind non-active paths and dispatcher boundaries explicitly. Dispatchers that start before the block databases load no longer read node.evodb at all; they now read a separate NodeContext::evodb_for_dispatch:

Publication: startup publishes evodb_for_dispatch once, after the load loop, so after every retry. While it is null, tasks run unbound, as they do on develop.

Withdrawal: Shutdown clears it before destroying the database, and only after the scheduler has been joined and REST stopped. So no reset ever happens while it is published. That publish-once lifetime, not the atomic on its own, is what makes this safe.

Who reads it: the scheduler task wrapper and the REST wrapper, the two dispatchers that start before loading.

Unchanged: RPC is blocked by warm-up until after loading, P2P starts later, and the ChainLock and InstantSend schedulers are created after loading.

chainstate_update_tip now checks that a scheduler task stays unbound before publication and is bound after it. Reverting the wrapper to read node.evodb makes that check fail.

🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta.

Resolved (re-reviewed at 3a14f806): Your publish-once evodb_for_dispatch handle fixes the original scheduler/REST wrapper race: it stays null throughout load retries, and shutdown stops those workers before withdrawing the handle and destroying EvoDB. The remaining lifetime finding concerns tokens explicitly captured by startup validation events, which bypass that handle; it is reported separately.

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🟡 Minor · 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality · Makefile.am:247-253

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The requested entries are absent from test/util/data/non-backported.txt, while the PR adds the four listed Evo files. Add each new Dash-specific file to the list so formatting lint includes them.
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Review comment at @src/Makefile.am around lines 247 - 253:
Add every newly introduced Dash-specific Evo file from this change to the
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93-108: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Confirm the flag reset when a queued event calls Iterate zero times.

Line 208 sets g_contain_local_evo_errors to true. Line 93 resets the flag only inside Iterate. Every current queued event lambda calls Iterate, so the flag is consumed before the next event runs. A future queued event that skips Iterate would leave the flag set on the scheduler thread. The next synchronous Iterate on that thread would then swallow its LocalStateError instead of propagating it. Reset the flag in the macro after event() returns, so the flag cannot outlive one event.
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                 g_contain_local_evo_errors = true;                                          \
                 event();                                                                    \
+                g_contain_local_evo_errors = false;                                         \
Note: a throw from event() would skip this reset. A small RAII guard handles that case too.
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Ensure the queued-event wrapper that sets g_contain_local_evo_errors resets it
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- Around line 93-108: Ensure the queued-event wrapper that sets
g_contain_local_evo_errors resets it when the event finishes, even if event()
throws or does not call Iterate; use a scoped guard so the flag cannot affect a
later synchronous Iterate.

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thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The PR correctly isolates Evo state, partitions derived caches, and contains local Evo failures across the reviewed boundaries. One in-scope blocking correctness issue remains: height-index scans unconditionally classify short results as unavailable for snapshot views whose base is post-DIP3, even when the queried block itself is pre-DIP3 and an empty result is authoritative. Several changed-code CI jobs are still queued or in progress; no completed changed-code check is currently failing.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that modifies consensus validation and chainstate/Evo storage behavior in files such as src/validation.cpp, src/node/chainstate.cpp, and src/evo/evodb.cpp, including state isolation and block-validity classification.
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In `src/llmq/blockprocessor.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/llmq/blockprocessor.cpp:688-695: Preserve authoritative empty quorum history below DIP3
  `RequireSatisfiedScan()` decides whether a short height-index scan is an unavailable snapshot-history miss solely from the snapshot view's base height. Consequently, when a snapshot base is at or above `DIP0003Height`, either `GetMinedCommitmentsUntilBlock()` or `GetLastMinedCommitmentsByQuorumIndexUntilBlock()` throws `BlockDataUnavailableError` for a query whose `pindex` is before DIP3 and whose scan returns no commitments. No quorum commitments can be mined before DIP3, so that empty result is authoritative rather than missing snapshot data. This can turn historical quorum queries into unnecessary local stalls; pass the queried height or equivalent range information to this helper and only apply the unavailable-history classification when the requested range reaches the DIP3 activation boundary.

thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

One blocking lifecycle defect remains in quorum data recovery. EvoViewCapture::Run() consumes local Evo errors as FAILED, while WithCapturedEvoView() invokes cleanup only for DROPPED; therefore both recovery workers can permanently retain the quorum’s recovery claim after a local-state failure, preventing future retries until restart. The current CI snapshot has build, cache, and lint checks still running, with no completed code-check failure on this head.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that directly modifies consensus validation and chainstate/storage behavior in files such as src/validation.cpp, src/node/chainstate.cpp, and src/evo/evodb.cpp, affecting block acceptance and persistent state isolation.
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In `src/llmq/net_quorum.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/llmq/net_quorum.cpp:652-655: Release quorum recovery claims when captured tasks fail with local Evo errors
  Both recovery workers call `TryClaimRecovery()` before enqueueing a task and rely on the inner `catch (const evo::LocalStateError&)` to call `release()`. However, `WithCapturedEvoView()` invokes `EvoViewCapture::Run()`, and `Run()` catches `LocalStateError` itself and returns `Outcome::FAILED`; the inner catches therefore never run for this failure mode. `on_drop` is called only for `Outcome::DROPPED`, not `FAILED`. If `GetQuorumRecoveryStartOffset()` or `DataRecoveryThread()` encounters unavailable or stale local Evo state, the normal `DataRecoveryThread()` cleanup is also skipped, leaving `fQuorumDataRecoveryThreadRunning` set permanently. Subsequent `IsRecoveryRunning()`/`TryClaimRecovery()` checks then suppress vvec and secret-share recovery for that quorum until restart. Release the claim on every started-task exit, preferably with RAII around the task or by making the capture wrapper invoke the cleanup for `FAILED` as well as `DROPPED`, while preserving exactly-once cleanup.

thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The six-commit stack addresses the previously identified Evo isolation, typed-error, lifecycle, dispatcher, and cache-partitioning issues. One new blocking concurrency defect remains: EvoViewCache validates a snapshot token while holding CEvoDB::cs, then releases that lock before accessing or updating its cache partitions, allowing retirement to race with partition use and even move the cache epoch backward. The current CI snapshot has source builds queued and lint in progress, with no completed code-check failure shown.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that modifies consensus validation and chainstate persistence/state handling in validation.cpp, src/node/chainstate.cpp, and src/evo/evodb.cpp, directly affecting block validity and storage isolation.
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In `src/evo/viewcache.h`:
- [BLOCKING] src/evo/viewcache.h:44-60: Retired snapshot views can access cache partitions after liveness validation
  `For()` obtains the snapshot liveness epoch through `LiveViewEpoch()`, but that method releases `CEvoDB::cs` before `For()` compares `m_epoch`, clears `m_parts`, or looks up and creates the partition. Snapshot rejection or promotion can therefore retire the generation after validation but before cache access, allowing an operation that captured the old view to use retired snapshot-derived state. A stale call can also overwrite a newer cache epoch: if another call has already observed the retirement and advanced `m_epoch`, the delayed call compares its previously returned old epoch, clears current partitions, and assigns the old value back. The owner cache lock does not prevent this because generation retirement only takes `CEvoDB::cs`. Keep lifecycle coordination active through the cache validation and partition operation, or revalidate under a lock that also prevents stale calls from mutating `m_parts`; a stale call must never restore an older epoch.

thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The current head contains no actionable in-scope defects. The Evo view isolation, generation lifecycle, cache partitioning, typed local-error propagation, dispatcher binding, and startup retry protections are consistently implemented, and all prior actionable findings are fixed or, in one case, withdrawn after the reported failure premise was disproven. Relevant source-build and lint checks are still queued or in progress in the supplied CI snapshot; no failed code check is reported.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that directly modifies consensus validation and persistent EvoDB state handling, including ConnectTip, chainstate activation, block validation, and snapshot-related storage isolation.
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thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Static verification of ecf3669..fe7f0ea found no blocking defect; the 28 prior findings reconcile as 26 fixed and two withdrawn, with one consolidated commit-history suggestion remaining. Current checks show lint and formatting passing, source builds pending, and only the process-only milestone check failing; no local builds or tests were run. The supplied base-drift analysis reports 122 commits behind develop with no conflicting files, and the overlapping base changes inspected do not supersede the isolation work.

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The range contains the six implementation stages described in the PR followed by five commits correcting behavior introduced by those stages. If the individual commits will be preserved at merge, fold these corrections into their owning stages so the intended behavior and regression coverage remain together: the short-scan correction in 4104ce1 belongs with cache partitioning in 2bcb82b; the per-lock containment in 43cdc47 and warning correction in 4e03f56 belong with the dispatcher/containment stage in 887d84e; and the rejection-recovery corrections in 5b6c4b4 and fe7f0ea belong with generation lifecycle handling in 77dbe1b. Retain the fixes' explanations and accompanying tests while preserving the useful six-stage structure rather than squashing the entire implementation.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate diff changes consensus validation behavior in src/validation.cpp (ConnectTip, DisconnectTip and TestBlockValidity) and persistent EvoDB keyspace and generation handling in src/evo/evodb.cpp.
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  The range contains the six implementation stages described in the PR followed by five commits correcting behavior introduced by those stages. If the individual commits will be preserved at merge, fold these corrections into their owning stages so the intended behavior and regression coverage remain together: the short-scan correction in 4104ce15359 belongs with cache partitioning in 2bcb82b9cb1; the per-lock containment in 43cdc47302a and warning correction in 4e03f56e972 belong with the dispatcher/containment stage in 887d84ecc91; and the rejection-recovery corrections in 5b6c4b4fa7b and fe7f0ea5337 belong with generation lifecycle handling in 77dbe1b0f74. Retain the fixes' explanations and accompanying tests while preserving the useful six-stage structure rather than squashing the entire implementation.

thepastaclaw

Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

At e5c27fc, static verification of the complete change range and all 29 prior findings found no remaining blocking defect; one non-blocking commit-organization suggestion remains. Current CI shows all completed code checks passing, with linux64_multiprocess-build / Build source still pending; no local builds or tests were run. The supplied drift analysis reports 125 commits behind develop with no conflicting files, and the inspected overlapping base commits do not supersede the Evo isolation work.

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The history contains six implementation stages followed by six commits correcting behavior introduced within those stages, while the PR description advertises six atomic commits. This affects the usefulness of the staged history: e5c27fc repairs the helper introduced by 4104ce1, and its commit message documents that the intermediate version aborts unit tests using a truncated chain. Before retaining this as unsquashed permanent history, fold the corrective tail into its owning implementation stages, including the associated regression tests. Preserve the six substantive stages rather than squashing the entire PR. This is a history-quality suggestion, not a defect in the final tree.

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Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This intricate, cross-cutting diff changes block acceptance and rejection handling in src/validation.cpp (ConnectTip and DisconnectTip) and persistent EvoDB generation namespaces in src/evo/evodb.cpp, directly affecting consensus validation and storage lifecycle.
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  The history contains six implementation stages followed by six commits correcting behavior introduced within those stages, while the PR description advertises six atomic commits. This affects the usefulness of the staged history: e5c27fc7950 repairs the helper introduced by 4104ce15359, and its commit message documents that the intermediate version aborts unit tests using a truncated chain. Before retaining this as unsquashed permanent history, fold the corrective tail into its owning implementation stages, including the associated regression tests. Preserve the six substantive stages rather than squashing the entire PR. This is a history-quality suggestion, not a defect in the final tree.

github-actions · 2026-10-31T14:47:25Z

This pull request has conflicts, please rebase.

PastaPastaPasta · 2026-11-09T17:42:42Z

Restack: head e5c27fc79503 → 5739985872c8. The branch now holds the reworked first layer of the AssumeUTXO series. It is a draft again, because the PRs it is stacked on are still open. The description is replaced to match.

Stack. The head is rebased onto develop 4c5c0153500f and sits on the four open base PRs: #8049 (DKG idle during validation), #8067 (bitcoin#28685), #8066 (BLS scheme per thread) and #8069 (Platform quorum lookup). Against develop the PR now shows 19 commits. The first 8 are the commits of those four PRs (git range-diff shows them identical to their heads), and the last 11 are this PR's. Until the four merge, review the last 11.

Commit structure. 12 own commits become 11.

The published last commit (e5c27fc79503, "only walk to the DIP3 ancestor when the base check is not enough") is folded into the short-scan commit (now ea27b9d2346). As published, that commit aborted quorum_proofs_tests/generation_retries_retired_checkpoint_signer in CBlockIndex::GetAncestor at four consecutive commits, which broke bisection. The base is now checked first.
Two patches are unchanged (the view tokens and the "keep an earlier invalid snapshot dir" commit). The other nine were reworked.

What changed in the code (agreed review findings):

Stall handling (222f2e1f982). A stall now re-lists the tip and the viable disconnected candidates inside the same cs_main hold, so CheckBlockIndex no longer aborts after one; memo entries for failed or ChainLock-conflicting blocks are ignored. Body readers return a typed BlockDataReadError when a block is flagged as having data but cannot be read. submitpackage and testmempoolaccept report evo-local-unavailable.
Generation store (5cd8a58ab59). Promotion and collection check the LevelDB iterator status on every key: LevelDB skips a table block that fails its checksum and stays valid at the next one, so a promotion could previously succeed after copying only part of a generation (reproduced). Added a multi-batch interrupt-and-reopen test, a merge policy per seeded family (a masternode list must be canonically equal including internal ids and the registration counter), a fingerprint-refusal message that names the generation, base, phase and recovery, and WriteDurable renamed WriteImmediate with its real guarantee documented.
Cache partitioning (c71d4f29e96). Retiring a generation no longer drops NORMAL's cache partitions. Before, an abandoned or rejected generation made GetListAtChainTip() return an empty list until the next block. Buried deployments are decided by height alone, which fixes the unbound read in EstablishActiveBLSScheme that threw on every snapshot activation.
Binding (bd952c74a39, d1c2b86b923). ActiveEvoViewScope always binds, NORMAL included, and the hidden -checkevobinding makes an unbound read throw in every build (default on in regtest). A single-view dispatch turn binds without cs_main; the hold stays while a snapshot generation is live. The signing, cleaning, dispatcher and DKG worker loops run through RunActiveEvoRound, which throttles repeated errors per operation, generation and reason. GETDATA answers NOTFOUND for the failed item and keeps serving. The wallet constructs a WalletBatch only when there is classification work and reuses it, instead of building one per pre-birthday block.
Platform quorum API (bd952c74a39). feat(interfaces): look up a Platform quorum at its signed Core height #8069 replaced getPlatformQuorums with getPlatformQuorum, so this PR wraps the new method and drops the old hunks. getPlatformQuorums is no longer in the list of methods that return std::optional.
Short scans (ea27b9d2346). The mined-commitment scans that getPlatformQuorum uses report a walk that ends short in history the view lacks as incomplete, so such a quorum is UNAVAILABLE rather than INVALID.
Warnings (63a221358d6). On a node without a snapshot the warning now says that block data was pruned and suggests -reindex; a test covers the wording.
Rejection not saved (5739985872c8). If the rejection cannot be persisted, the generation is revoked in memory (CEvoDB::RevokeSnapshotGeneration) instead of only switching the default identity, so bound turns, queued events and DKG rounds stop reading it. The test synchronizes with a promise instead of a timeout.

Checks. A gcc-11.5 --enable-werror per-commit matrix from this layer's tip up through the top of #7601 (12 commits): 12 of 12 build and 11 of 11 pass the 16 targeted suites. At the top of the stack that contains this layer (d2e3675bd6b9, or 7cba3d1c15 for the build, unit and functional runs, which differs only by an LSan suppression file): all 172 unit suites pass; test_dash-qt 163 passed, 2 skipped; a from-scratch ASan/UBSan make check reports nothing; the six Evo and chainstate suites pass under TSan; lint and cppcheck report nothing, and so does clang-tidy 19 on the files changed in the last round; the full default functional suite ran 334 tests with one failure, rpc_wipewallettxes.py, which passes alone and 30 of 30 times in sequence and is not touched by the stack. Fork CI passed on d2e3675bd6b9 (run 42447332795). The fork CI run for this head alone was cancelled, so there is no separate CI result for this layer on its own.

Not covered or open. The earlier review threads were not re-checked against this head in this comment. A narrow LSan suppression for a pre-existing CDBWrapper constructor leak is carried higher in the stack (#7601) and is a draft-exit condition there.

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github-actions · 2026-11-09T18:31:12Z

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…ncomplete While the snapshot chainstate is active and unvalidated, every DKG phase handler thread spun with no delay: WaitForNextPhase(nullopt, Initialized), the first call of each round, threw AbortPhaseException on its first check, and PhaseHandlerThread caught it and restarted the round at once. Each iteration took cs_main, threw and caught an exception, called MarkAborted and, under -debug=llmq-dkg, logged four lines. No round can start in that state (InitNewQuorum refuses it), so the round-start wait now sleeps and re-checks instead of aborting. A round in progress is still abandoned, a stop request still ends the wait, and nodes not running on an unvalidated snapshot execute the same code as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

BLS operations that are not given a scheme read the process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme. Add bls::EffectiveLegacyScheme(), which returns a thread-local override when one is set (bls::ScopedLegacySchemeOverride) and the process-wide value otherwise, and route every implicit read through it: the CBLSWrapper and CBLSLazyWrapper serialization defaults, the implicit aggregate and verify overloads, sig share signing, recovered sigs, DKG contributions, the coinbase ChainLock decode cache, the miner and `verifyrecsig`. Work that runs on another thread captures the scheme where it is created: utils::BlsCheck (run by the commitment CCheckQueue), CBLSBatchVerifier, and CBLSWorker's AsyncSign and AsyncVerifySig jobs, using new explicit-scheme VerifyInsecureAggregated/VerifySecureAggregated overloads. AsyncVerifySig no longer batches jobs of different schemes. Nothing sets an override yet, so behaviour is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ConnectBlock establishes the BLS scheme of the block it connects by writing the process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme, and ConnectTip and DisconnectTip restore it only on return. A background chainstate validating pre-V19 history under a post-V19 snapshot therefore leaves the whole process on the legacy scheme for most of each background block connection, while other threads verify ChainLocks, recovered signatures and InstantSend locks for the active chain outside cs_main. Valid ChainLocks then fail (Misbehaving(10) and a poisoned seen set) and batched recovered-signature verification bans honest peers. ScopedBLSLegacyScheme now writes the process-wide scheme only for a scope that may commit the active chainstate's tip. Every other scope (a background chainstate, a TestBlockValidity dry run, VerifyDB, RollforwardBlock), and any scope nested in one, sets a thread-local override instead. The V19 switch in Process/UndoSpecialTxsInBlock goes through bls::SetEffectiveLegacyScheme(), and the EHF signal rebuild at startup uses a scoped override instead of flipping the global. ConnectTip and DisconnectTip Assume() that no thread-local scope encloses a move of the active chainstate's tip. With a single chainstate the active chain's path is unchanged. The thread-local scopes give their own thread the values the process-wide flag used to take, but other threads no longer see them; for example a `verifychain 4` reaching below V19 no longer switches the running node to legacy while it runs. VerifyDB no longer touches the process-wide scheme at all, so VerifyLoadedChainstate's re-store of it after VerifyDB (already unreachable, because VerifyDB restored the scheme on return) is removed. The existing background-connect test never connected a block (the snapshot setup drops the data below the base). It now restores one block's data, connects it, and checks from inside ConnectTip that another thread still verifies a basic signature and batch. The V19 boundary test also runs a level-4 VerifyDB across V19 and checks that the process-wide scheme stays basic throughout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…changes The process-wide bls::bls_legacy_scheme describes the active chainstate's tip, and while the node runs only the active chainstate's ConnectTip and DisconnectTip update it. ActivateSnapshot and the invalid-snapshot fallback in MaybeCompleteSnapshotValidation switch the active chainstate without doing so. After a node whose tip is pre-V19, or that has no coins yet, activates a post-V19 snapshot, every thread that verifies for the active chain stays on the legacy scheme until the snapshot chainstate connects a block above its base: valid ChainLocks fail and recovered-signature batches mark honest sources bad. The fallback leaves the reverse mismatch. Set the process-wide scheme from the new active tip right after both switches. The fallback runs inside the background chainstate's ConnectTip, under that thread's override, so the helper writes the global directly instead of going through SetEffectiveLegacyScheme(). ActivateExistingSnapshot and InitializeChainstate need no call: they run at init, before the tip is loaded and before any consumer thread starts, and VerifyLoadedChainstate establishes a post-V19 tip's scheme. On develop only tests activate a snapshot, so this is latent until a snapshot loader lands. The new tests activate a post-V19 snapshot over a legacy process and a pre-V19 snapshot over a basic one, and fall back from an invalid snapshot under a thread-local override; each checks the process-wide scheme, and the first and last also check that a fresh thread accepts a signature in the new active tip's scheme. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

GetMinedCommitmentsUntilBlock stops silently when an index entry cannot be read, so a short result cannot tell a young chain from a damaged index. A caller that must not mistake a damaged index for a short one needs that difference. ScanMinedCommitmentsUntilBlock and its indexed variant return the same quorum bases plus `complete`: true when the requested number of entries was read or the walk left the type's index range, false when an entry inside the range could not be read or cannot be trusted: a value that does not deserialize, an impossible base height, quorum bases that do not strictly decrease along an index (a commitment is mined within its own quorum's DKG interval) or repeat across quorum indexes, a LevelDB read error, or a table block that the iterator stepped over because it failed its checksum. The bases read before that point are kept, except those a contradiction implicates: either entry of a pair that does not decrease, and both entries naming a repeated base, may be the wrong one, so neither is returned. Once the window is full no further entry or iterator status decides coverage. CDBIterator::HasError() exposes LevelDB's iterator status for this, since Valid() alone reads a skipped corrupt block as the end of the data. The range end is detected by comparing the raw key prefix before deserializing, and malformed values are reported instead of asserted on. Existing GetMinedCommitments* callers are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

getPlatformQuorums exported every retained Platform quorum key (1440 on mainnet) with no notion of when each quorum could sign. A verifier that accepts any of them accepts state signed by a quorum that was never in the signing set at the state's Core height, and an empty or short list reads the same as "this quorum does not exist", which would ban an honest endpoint on a node that is merely behind or has a damaged index. It has no production caller. getPlatformQuorum(llmq_type, quorum_hash, core_chain_locked_height) replaces it and answers FOUND (with the 48-byte basic-scheme key), INVALID or UNAVAILABLE: - FOUND: the quorum is in the window at that height, the newest commitments mined at or below it: signingActiveQuorumCount + 2 for a non-rotating type, and 3 * signingActiveQuorumCount for a rotating type, read cycle by cycle across its quorum indexes. Each is a quorum's signing-active period plus two DKG intervals of slack. - INVALID: not the Platform type; a height above INT32_MAX; a height more than those DKG intervals ((signingActiveQuorumCount + 2), or 3 for a rotating type) below a ChainLock this node knows, clamped to the tip; or a quorum hash that is no block of the active chain below that height, when the window was read in full and the block at that height is covered by the best ChainLock whose block this node knows. - UNAVAILABLE: everything else. That includes missing node services, a height above the tip, a height that only the tip shows stale because no ChainLock is known (after a restart during a ChainLock stall, Platform may still carry the stalled one), and a selected commitment record that cannot be read, is missing, is inconsistent with its index entry or carries an invalid key. Mined commitments passed consensus validation, so those record states are local faults, never evidence against the quorum, and a database read error is answered rather than thrown. A quorum outside the window is UNAVAILABLE, not INVALID, when it was mined at or below the height. Platform verifies a block against its last committed validator set, and Tenderdash installs a new set only when it commits, so after a Core-height jump the first Platform block carrying the new height is signed by the outgoing quorum however far it has fallen behind the window. The lookup counts a quorum as never mined by then only when its hash is no block of the active chain below the height. That proof covers this node's active chain only. Above a ChainLock that chain may be a competing branch, and a ChainLock's height alone does not rule that out: a CLSIG can name a block this node does not know or a branch it has not activated yet. A quorum found in the window is answered regardless of ChainLock coverage. Both ChainLock reads happen before taking cs_main: the best lock whose block is known, which alone can lock part of the active chain, and the best height, which bounds staleness only and is clamped to the tip, since a ChainLock can arrive before its block. The staleness bound is the pure llmq::PlatformQuorumMinSignedHeight, the window size is llmq::PlatformEligibleQuorumCount, and both follow llmq::PlatformEligibleIntervals. For non-rotating types a lookup reads at most signingActiveQuorumCount + 2 index entries and one commitment record. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

During dual-chainstate operation a snapshot chainstate block whose Evo state depends on data this node does not have yet (a pre-base MN-list diff on a cold EvoDB) raised BlockDataUnavailableError. The generic std::exception catch in ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock turned it into failed-procspectxsinblock, so the block was marked BLOCK_FAILED_VALID and its relayer could be punished, although nothing is wrong with it. Add evo/snapshot_types.h with a LocalStateError base for errors about this node's own Evo state: BlockDataUnavailableError (moved here), SnapshotStateMismatchError and EvoViewBindingError. Rebuilding the credit pool or the EHF signals from a block body this node does not have (pruned, or below a snapshot base) raises BlockDataUnavailableError; a body the node has (BLOCK_HAVE_DATA) but cannot read raises BlockDataReadError. The readers take the data flag and the block position under one cs_main lock. For a pruned node this changes NORMAL too: such a block now stalls the chainstate instead of being marked invalid. Every generic catch on the block-connection path (CheckSpecialTxInner, ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock, CheckCreditPoolDiffForBlock, UndoSpecialTxsInBlock, GetCreditPoolDiffForBlock, CMNHFManager::ProcessBlock, CDeterministicMNManager::ProcessBlock) rethrows them. ConnectTip, DisconnectTip and TestBlockValidity classify them: a mismatch rejects the snapshot through the new ChainstateManager::HandleSnapshotStateMismatch, a read error stops the node like a block ConnectTip cannot read (AbortNode), and anything else is state.Error, so the chainstate stalls instead of invalidating the block. ConnectTip announces that error through BlockChecked like any other connection result, so submitblock reports it and the relaying peer is neither punished nor credited. Mempool and mining callers of CheckSpecialTx fail locally, the asset-unlock credit-pool precheck passes the error on, and mempool acceptance (single, package and test-accept) turns any local Evo error into an error result, dropping the coins it loaded like any failure. A package is refused with the mempool error evo-local-unavailable, which testmempoolaccept reports as its package error and submitpackage as its failure. HandleSnapshotStateMismatch is extracted from the MaybeCompleteSnapshotValidation rejection lambda, and flushes both chainstates first so it can also run mid-connection. When it does, ConnectTip and DisconnectTip keep the BLS scheme it set for the again active background chainstate instead of restoring the rejected one's. A stall is typed: BlockValidationState carries a LocalEvoStateResult (unavailable data, a binding fault, or a mismatch that could not reject the snapshot), queried with IsLocalEvoStateError(). It is an error, never invalidity, and is distinct from storage errors and from a rejected snapshot. The chainstate remembers the blocks it stalled on (every one: they are all in the block index) and refuses them at once on later attempts instead of revalidating them, until the node restarts; the first stall logs an error and sets the misc warning. Without a snapshot, Evo state is missing only because the block data it is derived from was pruned, and the warning says so and suggests -reindex. Completing snapshot validation does not make the background chainstate's state readable to the snapshot chainstate before the next startup promotes it, so a chainstate still stalled then is told to restart. Candidate selection passes over the branches that need the stalled block connected (or disconnected), so a usable branch with less work still advances the chain; ActivateBestChain reports the stall when only it keeps a chain with more work out of reach. A stalled block found invalid or conflicting with a ChainLock since obstructs nothing: it is forgotten, and a branch through it is removed like any unusable one. Callers that treated any failure as fatal no longer abort on a stall: ActivateBestChain announces the blocks it connected before stopping, ActivateBestChainStep returns the disconnected transactions to the mempool without AbortNode, block import continues with the other chainstates and the rest of startup, LoadExternalBlockFile keeps importing for the other chainstates, ChainLock enforcement retries on its next run, and InstantSend keeps the conflicting blocks a lock could not invalidate and retries them after the next tip or ChainLock change instead of asserting; an invalidation that is only temporary, for a lock without its transaction, clears the failure flags it set however it ends. A stall partway through a rewind keeps the blocks already disconnected and announces the tip reached: InvalidateBlock and ChainLock conflict marking finish and announce what they disconnected, and ActivateBestChain never releases cs_main with the chain rewound below the candidates it passed: it lists them again, as InvalidateBlock does, and selects again with the stall remembered, so it normally reconnects the chain it started from before it reports the stall. A block whose disconnect stalls stays in the chain, so the best header (and best invalid block) adjusted for it are restored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

An EvoViewToken names the Evo state one operation works on: an EvoDB, an identity, a generation and the snapshot base. EvoViewScope binds the calling thread's accesses on that EvoDB to a token until it goes out of scope; scopes nest and restore the enclosing binding on exit. A transaction the same thread holds open on the EvoDB also binds it, and a scope and a transaction must agree: a conflict in either order raises EvoViewBindingError. CEvoDB::CurrentView() resolves the open transaction, then the innermost scope, then the default identity. Nothing binds scopes yet, so behavior is unchanged: unbound access still resolves to the default identity. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…th journaled promotion The snapshot chainstate shared the NORMAL keyspace. Its records above the snapshot base (MN lists, mined commitments, credit pools) stayed readable by NORMAL after the snapshot was rejected, so the background chainstate could consume them instead of deriving its own state, or abort on a WriteDerived mismatch. Every key the SNAPSHOT identity writes is now stored as ("S", generation, key), and its reads and iterators see only that namespace: there is no NORMAL fallback, and NORMAL iterators step over all generations. Like the database iterator it wraps, a namespace iterator reports read errors (HasError). WriteDerived therefore compares only within its own view. CEvoDB gains WriteImmediate for view-aware writes outside a transaction, unsynced like the raw write it replaces; StoreSnapshotForBlock uses it, and under the snapshot view at or below the base it only compares a carried quarter and neither persists nor caches an uncarried one. The remaining raw-DB users (DMN migration and repair, quorum cleanup) are marked NORMAL-only lifecycle operations. Generations carry an unprefixed lifecycle record (unpublished, published, rejected, promoting; base; tip; local schema version) and the EvoSnapshotConsensusConfig fingerprint of the consensus and deployment configuration they were published under. Startup collects unpublished and rejected generations, refuses a published one whose fingerprint no longer matches, and refuses dual-chainstate markers that predate isolation. Rejection marks the generation rejected in the same synced batch that discards the markers. The rejected record stays until the snapshot's coins directory has been invalidated, and only then is the generation collected, so a crash in between still finishes the invalidation at startup. Promotion writes a journal before the first coins-directory rename, merges the generation into NORMAL keys with a resumable cursor, collects it, and publishes the final markers atomically with removing the journal. Startup finishes a journaled promotion; without a journal, a completed coins swap can only be an interrupted invalid-snapshot cleanup and is discarded. LevelDB skips a table block that fails its checksum and its iterator stays valid at the next one, reporting the error only through its status. Promotion, collection and generation loading check it before each key and at the end, and stop with their journal and records in place: otherwise a promotion could publish its tip without the records it never copied, and a collection erase the record of a generation it did not finish. Every key a generation is seeded with is recorded in its seed manifest with its family's merge policy (CEvoDB::WriteSeed). Promotion never copies a seeded key into NORMAL, which derives that state itself. Where NORMAL holds the same key, a masternode list must be canonically equal (the same masternodes, internal ids and registration counter, however the maps are laid out) and a byte-deterministic record byte-equal; snapshot-only scaffolding is never compared, and a policy this version does not know fails the promotion. An unseeded key comes from a block above the base, which NORMAL never connects while the generation is live, so one NORMAL also holds fails the promotion as well; only the LLMQ best-block singleton is superseded. A refusal for a changed consensus configuration names the generation, its base block and height, its phase, that the changed component is unknown because only the aggregate fingerprint is recorded, and how to recover. It is made before startup changes anything on disk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Isolating the snapshot generation's records is not enough while the managers keep one cache for both chainstates: a list, quorum member set, mined-commitment location or deployment state derived under the snapshot view at a block the background chainstate also reaches was served to NORMAL lookups, which then never derived their own. EvoViewCache keeps one partition per Evo view (EvoDB, identity, generation). Every cache keyed by a block or quorum hash now resolves the calling operation's view and uses only that partition: the MN-list lists, diffs, tip and initial-snapshot anchor; quorum snapshots; credit pools; MNHF signals; mined-commitment locations and the qc-hash caches; the quorum member caches; the quorum manager's quorum, scan and commitment-scan caches; the versionbits and warning caches; and the previous-coinbase ChainLock statics. The versionbits partition and the EHF signals SignalHeight reads both come from the calling thread's view. Caches of data parsed from block bytes and the vvec/skshare stores stay shared. Retiring a generation drops its partitions at the next lookup and leaves NORMAL's, so a failed snapshot load no longer empties the active masternode list until the next block. Promoting a generation, like opening a CEvoDB, bumps an epoch that drops every partition. DeploymentActiveAfter/At through a ChainstateManager decide a buried deployment by height alone, without resolving a view. The MN-list cache of a view is pruned against the higher of its tip and the highest block it processed: a view stops receiving tip notifications once its chainstate is no longer the active one, so a stale tip would keep its cache from ever being pruned. A snapshot view has no quorum history at or below its base once DIP3 is active there (a base at or above the DIP3 height), so lookups that would need it raise BlockDataUnavailableError instead of answering from partial data: a mined-commitment scan that comes up short (GetMinedCommitmentsUntilBlock, and the rotating per-index scan on a miss), a HasMinedCommitment miss for a quorum at or below the base, and the coinbase ChainLock read of a block at or below the base whose body is not stored. EHF signals derived from block bodies are written only inside a block-scoped Evo transaction, on a cache hit too, so lookups from mempool acceptance, mining or RPC leave the view clean. Adds CDeterministicMNManager::SetListSnapshotMissHookForTesting, which reports lookups that miss both the cache and the stored lists, and CachedListHeightsForTesting, for the partition and pruning tests and the stall tests that need one lookup to fail. With the hook, a test also rejects a snapshot in the middle of a block connection and checks that the process-wide BLS scheme stays the background chainstate's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Evo accesses resolved their view from an open transaction or, failing that, the active chainstate. Work for the background chainstate outside a transaction, and work handed to another thread, silently used the active (snapshot) view instead. ForceSignalDBUpdate, for one, opened a NORMAL transaction at the active snapshot tip and flushed the NORMAL root. Every Chainstate method that reads Evo state (ActivateBestChain, ConnectTip, DisconnectTip, ReplayBlocks, LoadChainTip, RollforwardBlock, FlushStateToDisk, InvalidateBlock, EnforceBlock), TestBlockValidity, VerifyDB and the per-chainstate startup loops now bind that chainstate's view. ForceSignalDBUpdate takes the intended chainstate's view and uses its identity for the transaction and the root commit. Signals that view cannot rebuild are left to be rebuilt on demand when it is a snapshot view, so startup can still reach the promotion of a validated snapshot; NORMAL, which lacks history only when it was pruned, still fails startup, as does a body that cannot be read. DMN repair binds NORMAL. Active-chain dispatchers bind the active chainstate's view per operation unless the thread is already bound, with a single view too, so a turn that a snapshot publication overtakes finishes in the view it started in. While a snapshot generation is live, the view is read under cs_main, together with the active tip where the turn needs one (ActiveEvoViewScope::Tip()), so a turn never pairs one chainstate's view with another's tip. With a single view there is nothing to pair, and a turn that needs no tip binds without waiting for cs_main. The dispatchers are: RPC execution, each peer's message-handler turn (its queued GETDATA requests, its next message and its sends), the miner, mempool admission, Evo-reading interfaces calls, each node-scheduler task and each ChainLock, DKG and InstantSend work round. A failing work round, the LLMQ signing loops' and each DKG phase handler's included, is logged once per operation, view generation and reason, and its recovery once the operation has gone a minute without failing. A local Evo state error in a message handler drops that message, like any exception there, without punishing the peer; one from the peer's queued GETDATA requests ends receiving for that turn. Neither ends the message-handler thread, and the peer's sends (including its discouragement and ping timeout) still run. GETDATA requests leave the queue before they are served, so a failed lookup neither serves earlier requests again nor keeps the peer's later messages waiting; it is answered with NOTFOUND together with the requests found missing before it, and the requests after it are served on the next turn. The node scheduler and REST start before the block databases load, and a load retry replaces the Evo database, so they bind only to the one startup publishes once loading is final (and withdraws before destroying it, after they have stopped); until then their work runs unbound. RPC is held off by its warm-up until then. A chainstate load retry first lets the validation events the failed attempt queued run, since they are bound to the databases it then releases. Queued validation events and LLMQ worker-pool tasks capture the enqueuing thread's binding and reinstall it when they run; a task bound to a retired generation, or whose binding cannot be installed, is dropped, and what its enqueuer claimed for it is released. A local Evo state error in one subscriber to a queued event stays with that subscriber, and the others still receive the event; synchronous signals still pass it on to their caller. Either way the subscriber's registration count stays right, so it can still be unregistered. Every GUI- and wallet-facing interface operation that reads Evo state (the EVO provider operations, Evo, governance and LLMQ reads, isV24Active and listMNCollaterials) binds the active view and contains evo::LocalStateError at the interface boundary: it logs once per operation and generation, sets the misc warning, and reports failure through the operation's own channel. Operations without one now return std::optional (or, for GovernanceInfo, an optional fundingthreshold), and their Qt and wallet consumers keep their current data, show that the masternode state is unavailable, or refuse the action, instead of treating it as data. getPlatformQuorum runs Q's lookup in the bound view as well, and answers UNAVAILABLE when it cannot, or when a snapshot was published after it bound its view. While the masternode list is unavailable, the wallet keeps outputs it cannot classify out of automatic coin selection, CoinJoin's included, and classifies them again on the next block. A block builds its wallet batch only for that work or for a block it scans. A chainstate's remembered Evo stall lapses once its view changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

With two chainstates, an Evo access that no transaction or scope binds says nothing about which chainstate it serves. Resolving it to the default identity silently computed one chainstate's state from the other's data. While a snapshot generation is live, an unbound read, write, iterator or cache lookup, and one bound to a retired generation, now raises EvoViewBindingError before touching any state. The check is a plain throw, so it holds in release builds. Manager entry points that take an explicit chainstate (ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock, UndoSpecialTxsInBlock and the quorum block processor's ProcessBlock and UndoBlock) refuse to run unless the calling thread is bound to that chainstate's view, raising EvoViewBindingError on connect and undo alike, so the chainstate boundaries classify it as a local stall. With a single chainstate the NORMAL default is unchanged unless -checkevobinding is set. A binding fault is a local error everywhere: state.Error during validation, RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR over RPC, an aborted operation for P2P and the miner, a logged and ended task for queued and scheduled work, and an initialization failure at startup. It never becomes an empty success, consensus invalidity, a peer penalty or a process abort. A new test extends the snapshot chain past DIP3 and V20 activation and the first disk-snapshot period with a registered masternode, and checks that the real MN-list, credit-pool and EHF state it writes stays in its generation and its cache partitions, and that NORMAL rebuilds all of it after the snapshot is rejected and the node restarts. -checkevobinding (default: on for regtest, and forced on in the unit test fixtures) applies the same rule with a single chainstate: an unbound access raises EvoViewBindingError before any snapshot exists, so tests and regtest exercise the bindings everywhere. Test code that drives the node the way a dispatcher does binds like one: NotifyMNListTip delivers a tip notification in the active view, tests and fuzz targets that drive a peer through the test connman bind its turn as ServicePeer does, and test bodies that call into the node directly open an active-chain turn. The interfaces sweep covers getPlatformQuorum. The release note records the externally visible changes: RPC_INTERNAL_ERROR for local Evo errors, the package error, the read-error shutdown, the pruned-data wording, the stall that replaces invalidity on a pruned node, and strict binding on regtest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…pshot base During dual operation a quorum based at or below the snapshot base is in history the snapshot view does not have, and selecting it throws a local Evo state error. That error escaped BuildVerificationBatch, ended the work round, and dropped every lock FetchPendingLocks had already taken off the queue, so one such lock cost up to 31 others. Catch it per lock instead. The lock is left out of the batch and of the results: it cannot be verified in this run, and its peer is not to blame. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…base as complete RequireSatisfiedScan treated any short height-index scan under a snapshot view based at or above DIP3 as needing the missing history. A type that was not enabled up to the base has no commitments there, so its scan is complete, but it still threw: a CbTx quorum-root check over such a type stalled the snapshot chainstate until promotion. Require the type to be enabled at the end of the missing range or at DIP3 activation. Deployment-gated types stay enabled once enabled, and the types DIP0024 retires are enabled from DIP3 on. The check runs before the EvoDB lock is taken, because deployment state can read EvoDB. The non-throwing mined-commitment scans that getPlatformQuorum uses (ScanMinedCommitments[Indexed]UntilBlock) report a walk that ends short in history the view lacks as incomplete by the same rule, so a quorum that may have been mined at or below the base is UNAVAILABLE there, not INVALID. A contradiction still leaves out the entries it implicates, as in a full view. A quorum mined below the base is a block of the active chain below any later height, so it stays UNAVAILABLE once a window above the base has left it behind, too. The base is checked first, and the DIP3 ancestor is only looked up when that check fails: a chain that does not reach genesis, such as the testnet-height chain quorum_proofs_tests builds, has no such ancestor. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

… and view GUI models poll the wrapped operations, and every failed poll set the misc warning again and notified the GUI. Raise it together with the log line, once per operation and active Evo view. On a node without a snapshot it says that block data was pruned and suggests -reindex. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ction Startup recovery of a persisted snapshot rejection renamed chainstate_snapshot to chainstate_snapshot_INVALID. When an earlier rejection had left that directory behind, the rename failed and startup aborted until the user removed one by hand. Keep the earlier directory, which may be the one the user was asked to report, and durably delete the interrupted one instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…is not saved When HandleSnapshotStateMismatch could not sync EvoDB or persist the rejection, the snapshot generation stayed bound and the default Evo identity stayed SNAPSHOT, although the IBD chainstate was active again. For the rest of the run, dispatches bound to the active view read the rejected generation, and so did every operation that had bound it before the rejection: a DKG round waiting at its start for background validation, a message-handler turn waiting for cs_main, a queued event or task. In that case, revoke the generation for the rest of the run (CEvoDB::RevokeSnapshotGeneration). In memory it is retired as a saved rejection retires it: views bound to it no longer resolve, the default identity is NORMAL, the node no longer counts as running two chainstates, and what the generation has not written is dropped. Its records stay on disk, so startup recovery still rejects it, and until then no new generation can be created. A test makes the rejection fail to persist through a new CEvoDB test failpoint while a DKG-style round bound to the snapshot view waits at its start. The round resumes and fails instead of reading the rejected generation, active-view reads see NORMAL, and after a restart startup recovery rejects the generation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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feat: v4 evo snapshot with derived quorum dependencies, credit window and base coinbase #7593

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refactor: deduplicate LLMQ quorum scan and signing-quorum selection #7956

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fix(qt): reserve the same shared masternode contribution again after a release #8052

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feat: load AssumeUTXO snapshots with loadtxoutset and validate them in the background (regtest only) #8078

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backport: bitcoin#29215, #29370, #29720, #29726, #30053, #30267, #29996, #30320, #29519, #30807, #30962, #30909, #34286, #34728, #34852 #8079

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		node.scheduler->SetTaskWrapper(
		[&node](const CScheduler::Function& task) { RunActiveEvoRound(node.evodb.get(), "scheduler", task); });

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