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feat: quieter, less linkable pool requests from the private wallet - #156
This makes the browser's private transport from #147 ask the pool for less, and less recognisably. It covers design §6.5 and §6.6, Plan 4 of the network-privacy roadmap.
Every change applies only to the browser's sealed transport, which needs both gateway pins built in and a browser opted in with ?private=1. The native host and direct (privacy off) wallets behave byte for byte as before, and each change carries a test that pins that. There is no pool API change, so the deployed pool needs no deploy.
After: about 26 a minute, roughly 46% fewer. That is 164 distinct requests in 378 s, measured the same way: a pinned build, the real server and a fresh browser wallet.
Pool batch pages: read only when the wallet opens, then never while idle.
Sync (src/shielded/wallet.ts)
A sealed wallet's tick and its auto-shield skip the whole-epoch catch-up while the pool's freshly read count equals the account's. Before this, each tick re-read the current epoch twice, up to about 11 pages each time.
finish() skips its re-sync once the account already holds the spend's own batch.
Every sealed timer is re-drawn on each round as ms*(1+random/4), so it is never shorter than its base and never on a fixed lattice. This covers the watchdog, the status poll and the event retries.
The boarding (Esplora) poll moves from 15 s to 60–75 s.
IsolatedOnchainProvider gains an optional poll interval. The native host passes none, so its provider is unchanged.
Submit delay: one random delay in [0, 10 s) after proving and before a sealed unit's first POST, never between the legs of one unit.
Inclusion: read from the account's own applied batches on a jittered 20 s round. Nothing is read in the round right after the POST.
Verdict: a GET /spends/{id} read only on rounds 5, 10, … (about every 100 s), so a dropped spend is reported in minutes rather than at the 30-minute deadline. This replaces the 1 s id poll.
Deposits: a deposit unit, meaning any unit with a coin leg, polls its id on a flat jittered 3 s round, inside the pool's 30 s sign session.
A pending browser entry is released once its nullifiers appear in this account's applied batches.
It is also released once 75 minutes have passed with no landing (the pool's hour of tracking plus the 15-minute grace), but only if the pool's batch count has moved since the entry was first seen. A stalled operator therefore never frees an entry by age.
Both answers require three things: a /status read that succeeded in this session within the last 2 minutes, a checked (not offline) account, and a matching count. A wallet that is offline or opened from cache settles nothing.
The native journal is built without a grace, so it is untouched.
Proving files: a private wallet fetches both proving circuits (spend, and join when the pool publishes it) when it opens, rather than when the user starts a spend. They are fetched same-origin and cached by the service worker.
/verify: a private /verify reads the catch-up page that holds the batch, epoch-aligned and 12 batches, so the read looks exactly like a sync page read.
Outage (wallet.ts)
While the pool answers, a private wallet reads the pool head's expiry and remembers it. The read is single-flight.
It is read again once the remembered expiry has passed, or when /status names a new head. A batch inherits its earliest input expiry (src/rollup/service.ts:47-48), so a new head can expire earlier than the old one. That re-read costs one sealed request per batch on a busy pool and none while idle.
After a failed or empty read it backs off for 10 minutes on that head; a newly named head is read at once.
The "operator down" banner then shows the last deadline seen, instead of a lookup that cannot work while the gateway is down.
Known limits
Claim links: a private claim resolves at the round-5 verdict, about 100–125 s, because it spends the bearer account's notes, which this account's batches never list. The balance updates on the next tick. Follow-up: watch a claim by the notes it delivers.
A quiet pool looks like a stalled one: an unlanded entry first judged after the pool went quiet stays reserved until the pool's next batch, even past 75 minutes. This only delays release, in the safe direction.
Backlog after a stall: the journal no longer releases by age during a stall. But after a stall with a backlog longer than one batch, a queued spend can still land after its entry is released. No funds are lost: a second spend of those notes is refused, and a re-shield of the same coin fails its batch.
Same seed on two devices: if both race the same note, the sealed path reports the other device's spend as included. The notes are gone either way.
Asset shields: an asset shield's BTC carrier leg now polls its id every 3 s while the deposit runs, instead of waiting for the verdict.
What still speaks the old contract
The deployed pool: every request is a narrower or rarer use of a route it already serves (limit up to 12 against its cap of 100). No pool code changed.
Native hosts: unchanged. "Private" here means the sealed browser transport, and native wallets are private but unsealed. Tests pin native behaviour for every change.
Cached app-cache tabs: they keep their old request pattern. The pool serves both patterns identically.
Test plan
npx tsc --noEmit: exit 0.
npm test: 1 850 tests, 1 849 pass (at ad310db, after merging main through Fix camera resume and private wallet sync progress #155). The one failure is native-publication "Linux publication extracts only regular files…", which fails on main too (1 727 tests, 1 726 pass, at this branch's first base).
npm run build: exit 0.
Live idle measurement. Setup: a pinned build, the real src/server.ts with a throwaway key, pool calls proxied to production, Chromium on a fresh origin.
…done
A private tick re-read the account's epoch from its first batch to the head
every 60 s, even with nothing new. The tick has just read /status, whose
pool.batches is the count the pool has published; when it equals the
account's batchCount there is nothing to fetch, so the sync is skipped.
The skip lives in tick() alone: finish(), renew() and the event path sync
without a fresh status and stay unconditional. A direct wallet still syncs on
every tick. When the count moves, including across an epoch rotation, the
catch-up runs unchanged and still stops at the epoch boundary.
… transport
The skip in tick() was keyed on networkPrivacy, which the native host sets as
well, so a native wallet stopped reading /batches at the head. Native is meant
to stay as it was.
create() now reads the sealed brand off the fetcher it is given (isSealedFetch,
the brand rollupApi already keys its no-repeat-502 rule on) and tick() skips
only when it is set. The pool api carries no sealed brand, so the fetcher is
where the wallet can read it. The native host's fetcher is private-marked but
not sealed, so a native wallet syncs on every tick again; direct mode is
unchanged.
On the sealed browser transport the wallet's watchdog timers (the tick and
status arms in start(), and both re-arms) and the catch-up retry delays after
an indexer event now run through privateInterval, ms * (1 + random / 4), so a
fixed 60 s cadence no longer fingerprints the wallet. The switch is
sealedTransport rather than networkPrivacy: the native host is private too but
keeps its fixed timers and its EVENT_RETRY_MS delays exactly as before.
IsolatedOnchainProvider takes an optional pollMs. Absent, it is the old
super(url,{forcePolling:true}) call and installs nothing, which is what the
native host gets. Present, pollingInterval becomes an instance accessor that
draws a fresh value on every read; the SDK's poll loop reads it at each
schedule(), so every round is re-drawn. The accessor is defined after super()
because the base constructor assigns the field and would throw on a
class-level getter. The private transport builds its Esplora provider on
PRIVATE_ONCHAIN_POLL_MS (60 s, against the SDK's 15 s default).
… batch pages
On the browser's sealed transport a spend no longer polls GET /spends/{id}
every second from the moment it is posted.
- submitAll waits one uniform delay in [0, 10 s) after proving and before
the first member's POST. The other members of the unit follow at once:
they share a group id the pool reads anyway.
- A member without a deposit coin is watched off the account. Each round
refreshes /status, catches up only when the pool's count differs from the
account's, and looks for a history entry that spent all of its
nullifiers. Rounds are a flat jittered 20 s with no backoff. The id is
still read on every fifth round after the first, since a drop never shows
in the batch pages, and no read follows the POST at once.
- A deposit still reads its id every round for its signing request, at a
3 s base instead of 1 s, with the existing backoff.
The wallet supplies the delay and the watch only when its pool fetcher is
the sealed one, as for its timers. A native wallet is private too but keeps
the 1 s id poll and posts at once; a direct wallet is unchanged. The
Lightning spend path passes no watch and is unchanged.
A catch-up that fails inside a round is retried on the next round, as
tick() does, rather than failing the wait for a spend the pool has already
admitted. A closed wallet still ends the wait.
…n a watched spend's first round
A sealed deposit backed off its signing poll from 3 s to 6, 12 and 15 s
while pending, so the first sight of a signing request could use half of
the pool's 30 s sign session. It now polls on a flat privateInterval(3 s)
round with no backoff. waitForSpend takes a seventh argument, paced, which
defaults to whether a watch is given; submitAll sets it for a sealed unit.
Direct and native units keep the 1 s poll and its backoff.
A watched spend no longer looks at the account on round 0, so nothing is
read right after its POST. Its first /status read comes after the first
jittered round, and a spend that landed before then is seen there. Its id
is still not read before round 5.
…he pool's own hour
The handover Plan 3's Ruling 1 deferred. A browser journal entry is now
released when this account's applied batches spent its nullifiers, or,
once the pool can no longer admit it (TRACKED_MS+graceMs after the POST),
when an account at the pool's published count did not see it land.
- journal: settleLandedMutations(poolOrigin, settled) drops an entry on a
true verdict at any age, on false only past TRACKED_MS+graceMs, and never
on undefined. A journal built with no grace (the native host's) settles
nothing, so native reservations behave as before.
- transport: reconcile(settled?) applies the verdict after the id round and
before re-reading pending(); single-flight is unchanged.
- wallet: settledNullifiers answers undefined unless the account is at the
pool's published count, since a wallet behind the head has not looked.
- app: the tick effect passes wallet.settledNullifiers. The startup
reconcile runs before any wallet exists and passes nothing.
A claim's or a deposit's nullifiers never reach this account's spent list
(bearer notes; dummy inputs), so they answer false: GET /spends/{id} still
clears them when they land, and the age bound releases one the pool forgot.
A dropped status still clears nothing on its own.
The pool forgets a spend's status an hour after admitting it
(service.ts:361), but its operator queue drops a waiting spend by
liveness, not by age (epoch-operator.ts:354-366). The comment claimed the
queue itself was hour-bound. It now names only what holds: past the grace
and the hour, the id read can no longer answer, so this account's own
batches are the only evidence left.
…status
A failed /status read leaves this.pool.status as it was, and the catch-up
fails with it, so the count still matched from before an outage. A wallet
caught up when the gateway, the relays or the device went offline then
answered false for a spend that may have landed in a batch it cannot see,
and the journal released the entry 75 minutes after the POST.
settledNullifiers now also requires a successful /status read in this
session less than 2*WATCHDOG_MS old (Ruling T4-3). The read time is a new
field, statusReadAt, which starts at 0 and is set only where
refreshPoolStatus succeeds. statusAt could not be reused: it starts at
construction so the operator-down banner stays quiet at startup, and that
would make an offline start on a cached status look fresh for 120 s.
…y over an aligned window
A private wallet fetched the spend circuit only when the Send tab opened, and
the proving files are same-origin and direct, so that request told the
operator a spend was coming. It now prefetches both circuits as soon as the
pool status is read; the files are immutable, so the fetch signals nothing.
Direct and native builds keep the send-tab prefetch.
checkDisclosure asked the pool for the one batch a note sits in, which names
it. On the browser's sealed transport it now reads the aligned window of
privatePoolPage(api) batches that holds it, once per distinct window, and
indexes the batch out of it. Direct and native keep /batches?from=n&limit=1.
The window is keyed on isSealedFetch(fetch), not on the api: an api carries no
sealed brand (only its fetcher does), and the page brand sits on native's
private api as well (the default 50), so neither separates the browser from
native. The default api is built on the global fetch, which the browser's
transport defines as the sealed fetch and native's does not.
…the join prefetch
A private /verify read a window of privatePoolPage(api) batches at plain
multiples of the page. privateCatchUp reads the epoch's pages instead, the last
one clamped to the epoch's end, and 128 is not a multiple of 12, so past epoch 0
a verify read told itself apart from a catch-up read by its range. A window is
now the page privateCatchUp reads for that batch: from = epochStart + k*size,
limit = min(size, epochStart + epochLen - from).
The epoch length comes from /status, which the sealed path now reads before the
windows; the verdict's pool token reuses that one read. A status that names no
usable epochLen (absent, zero, negative, fractional) falls back to plain
multiples of the page, and a status that cannot be read costs the token, never
the verdict. Direct and native keep /batches?from=n&limit=1 and read /status
last, as before.
The private open prefetched the join circuit unconditionally, and
prefetchProvingKeys throws synchronously for a manifest that omits the circuit,
which would have broken the wallet inside the effect. The join prefetch now runs
only when the status names a join circuit; prover.ts is unchanged.
…l answers
A sealed wallet reaches the indexer through the gateway inside the pool server, so once the pool stops, tick()'s outage-time head lookup cannot answer and the operator-down banner loses the deadline.
After each successful status read, a sealed wallet with no remembered deadline starts one head-expiry read in the background. It is single-flight, a failure is retried by a later refresh, and a result that arrives after the wallet closed or that is not a finite number is dropped. operatorDown shows the outage read's answer when it has one and otherwise the remembered deadline, so a looked-up-but-unavailable head no longer erases it.
Keyed on the sealed transport, not on networkPrivacy: the native host is private but unsealed and keeps today's outage-time lookup, as do direct wallets. The outage read itself is unchanged.
…d that finds none
The remembered head deadline was the first one a sealed wallet saw. The operator renews the head once it is within 48 h of expiry, so a tab left open across a renewal and then caught in an outage would print a past date. Once the remembered deadline has passed, the next successful status read now starts one more single-flight read, exactly as it does when nothing is remembered.
The read was also retried on every refresh while it found nothing, which for an indexer that never returns the head or an unusable answer is about two sealed requests a minute at idle. A read that fails, finds no finite expiry, or finds one that has already passed now holds the next read back until ten watchdog rounds after it began. A read that finds a deadline still ahead clears that hold, so a deadline passing within the window is still re-read at once. A deadline that is already past does not clear it, otherwise the passed-deadline check would re-read it on every refresh.
Sealed wallets only; direct and native wallets are untouched.
… wallet at the head
A sealed tick at the head still re-read the whole epoch. tick() skipped
its own sync, then started autoShield(), which synced unconditionally;
and finish() re-synced right after landedBy had synced. Each catch-up
reads a page per twelve batches of the current epoch.
autoShield(current) skips its sync when tick() passes
sealedTransport&&atHead. Start-up, incoming funds and the fee accept
keep it, since planFor's payout skip reads the account's txids.
finish() skips its sync for a sealed wallet whose last-read pool count
equals the account's, and only when the account already holds the
spend's own batch. The second condition is not in the review's ruling:
a deposit's or a verdict's id poll reads no pool status, so a count read
before the deposit's batch still matches, and without it the new note
stays unapplied until the next tick. A final with no batch number syncs.
tickRig now runs the real autoShield with shield() stubbed, so the tick
tests see its catch-up, and Task 1's titles say "sealed tick". Direct
and native ticks and finishes read the same pages as before.
submitAll chose the deposit path per member, by its coin. An asset
shield's BTC carrier leg has none, and its slot spends a dummy nullifier
that apply() never records as ours, so its nullifier watch could never
match and the unit's Promise.all waited for the round-5 verdict, about
100 to 125 s.
The unit is now a deposit once, when any member carries a coin: every
member then skips the landed watch and polls its id, paced at
PRIVATE_SIGN_POLL_MS when sealed and as before when not. onSigning
keeps its own coin check, so only a coin's member ever signs, and a
unit with no coin leg is unchanged.
A nullifier-watched waitForSpend reads its id only on every
PRIVATE_VERDICT_EVERY-th round. No test held that cadence: reading only
on round 5, or on every round from 5, passed the five files that drive
waitForSpend, submitAll or landedBy. The new test runs rounds 0 to 11
with landed always undefined and the pool answering pending, and asserts
the id is read on rounds 5 and 10 and on no other.
…ents
EsploraProvider declares pollingInterval as a class field and assigns it
in its constructor, so an accessor on IsolatedOnchainProvider's prototype
would be shadowed by that own property, not make the assignment throw.
headRig's stop() margin is not a jitter bound: operatorDown's threshold
is a fixed 2*WATCHDOG_MS and the rig drives ticks by hand.
Brings in #154 and #155. The conflicts were import lines and create()'s
assignments: both sides kept, so the wallet gets #155's sync-progress
observer on its pool api and keeps the sealed-transport flag.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
Private network operations now use paced polling and optional submission jitter. Sealed wallets use status and history checks for landed spends and conditionally skip batch sync. Sealed-browser disclosure verification fetches aligned batch windows. Private mutation reconciliation now uses wallet verdicts and pool batch counts.
Private operations use randomized polling intervals and optional submission jitter. Spend waits can check landed nullifiers and query spend status on scheduled rounds. Tests cover private polling and direct-mode behavior.
Sealed wallet sync and status src/shielded/wallet.ts, tests/tor-content.test.ts
Sealed wallets pace timers and retries, track status-read time and head expiry, and conditionally skip sync when pool and account batch counts match. Status and history checks support landed-nullifier results.
Private reconciliation passes nullifier verdicts and pool batch counts to the mutation journal. Journal entries are removed according to the verdict, recorded count, and configured grace period. The app supplies the wallet and updates private proving-key prefetching.
Sealed-browser verification fetches aligned windows of batches and reuses each window. Direct and native private verification retain individual batch fetches.
sequenceDiagram
participant ShieldedWallet
participant submitAll
participant waitForSpend
participant PoolAPI
ShieldedWallet->>submitAll: supplies private jitter and landedBy callback
submitAll->>waitForSpend: starts private spend wait
waitForSpend->>ShieldedWallet: checks landedBy for spend nullifiers
ShieldedWallet->>PoolAPI: refreshes status and history when batch counts differ
PoolAPI-->>ShieldedWallet: returns status and history
ShieldedWallet-->>waitForSpend: returns landed status or undefined
waitForSpend->>PoolAPI: checks spend status on scheduled verdict rounds
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arkade-os/shielded#147: Adds the sealed private transport and the transport markers used by this PR.
arkade-os/shielded#66: Introduces the epoch-based disclosure code that this PR updates with windowed batch fetching.
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After a long operator stall, a pending private spend can be released from the wallet's journal and later still land. A following spend of the same note could then be rejected as a double spend. The PR documents this as a known limit, and release is gated on elapsed time and batch-count advance. The owner should accept it knowingly or tighten the release condition.
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Review comments at @app/src/RollupWallet.tsx:
- Line 460: Update the settledNullifiers predicate so it returns undefined when
the account is offline, before evaluating landedSpend. Preserve its existing
stale-status and batch-count mismatch behavior.
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- Line 111: Update the row-removal predicate in the drop flow so a false result
from settled does not release an uncertain spend solely because it exceeds
TRACKED_MS plus graceMs. Establish a cutoff that guarantees no admitted batch
can still land, or use another bounded release condition that preserves that
guarantee; account for MAX_ENTRIES when choosing retention, and document the
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- Line 361: Update the status-response handling and rememberHeadExpiry flow to
track the pool head’s identity and invalidate lastHeadExpiry whenever that
identity changes. Ensure tick() and operatorDown cannot use the previous head’s
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Arkana review — PR #156 "quieter, less linkable pool requests"
Reviewed at head dfbb015. Diff: 603 add / 56 del across 17 files. No PROTOCOL-CRITICAL concerns (VTXO handling, signing, forfeit paths, round lifecycle, and unilateral exit are untouched). All changes are scoped to the sealed browser transport; native wallet behaviour is byte-for-byte unchanged, and every behavioural claim has a pinning test. Cross-repo search (ts-sdk, go-sdk, rust-sdk, dotnet-sdk) found no consumers of the changed PrivateTransport.reconcile() signature; the new optional parameter is backward-compatible.
Findings
1. src/native/mutations.ts:74 — deposit double-submit window on operator stall (matches Known Limit #2)
verdict===false means: a fresh status read (within 2×WATCHDOG_MS) confirmed pool.batches === account.batchCount and the nullifiers are absent from every applied batch. Combined with the 75-minute floor, an entry is released when: (a) the wallet is at the pool's published count, (b) the spend hasn't appeared, and (c) 75 minutes have elapsed since the POST.
The danger: if the operator stalls while /status keeps answering, pool.batches stops advancing. Both the pool count and the account's count freeze at the same value N. After 75 minutes the deposit entry is released (verdict===false, age > TRACKED_MS+graceMs), because the spend's nullifiers genuinely are not in batches 0…N. The user may then re-shield the same coin. When the operator un-stalls, neither deposit can win the same VTXO slot — the pool's own reservation check for the outpoint may save one of them, but the PR says "both likely fail their batch." No on-chain coin is permanently lost, but the user may face a confusing double-failure and wasted capacity.
For plain spends this release is safe: the pool refuses a second spend of the same nullifiers, and the journal re-records the new spend on its next POST.
The PR lists the precise mitigation: "Release by age only once the count has moved since the POST." Storing the batch count at POST time (one integer per journal row) would let settleLandedMutations require pool.batches > rowBatchCount before the time-based path fires, which closes the stall window without changing normal-path behaviour. Worth doing before this reaches a wider rollout — the current behaviour is acceptable for a first ship of this feature but should be tracked.
2. app/src/Disclose.tsx:27 — windows.get(from)![n-from] trusts the pool's array length
batches[n]=windows.get(from)![n-from];
windows.get(from)! asserts the outer map entry is present (always true: we just set it). It does not assert that the returned batches array contains an element at index n-from. If the pool returns fewer records than limit (e.g., the batch doesn't exist yet, or a future note index), batches[n] becomes undefined, verifyDisclosure returns false for that note, and checkDisclosure reports the disclosure as unverified. The failure is conservative — no false positive — and the runtime behaviour is correct. This is a TypeScript type-accuracy gap, not a bug, but worth tightening with an explicit out-of-bounds check if the return type of the pool is ever relaxed.
3. src/shielded/wallet.ts:333 — lastHeadExpiry could lag a head renewal
null ?? x === x in JS, so when the outage read fails (headExpiry = null), the banner falls back to lastHeadExpiry. If the operator renewed the head between the last successful rememberHeadExpiry read and the outage, lastHeadExpiry holds the old head's expiry. The rememberHeadExpiry logic re-reads once lastHeadExpiry passes, so this only matters during the gap before the old expiry. In practice, the stale value is an earlier deadline than the real one, so the user exits sooner than necessary rather than missing the window — a conservative failure. UI concern only; no fund risk.
Correctness confirmations
waitForSpend round-0 skip: on round 0 with landed !== undefined, both landed() and the pool read are suppressed; the loop sleeps and starts watching from round 1. ✓
poolApiOf auto-branding: poolApiOf(origin, fetch) brands the returned api with PRIVATE_POOL_API when the fetcher is private (checked via isPrivateFetch). The checkDisclosure default parameter evaluates at call time against whatever globalThis.fetch is, so the sealed-window path activates correctly. ✓
autoShield(current=true) skip: only reached from tick() after refreshPoolStatus() confirmed pool.batches === account.batchCount; the account is already current. ✓
finish() skip: (final.batch ?? Infinity) < account.batchCount falls through to sync when final.batch is undefined, keeping the deposit/id-poll path safe. ✓
settledNullifiers offline guard: statusReadAt is initialised to 0; a wallet opened from cache never reads a fresh status and returns undefined (no verdict). ✓
submitAll deposit flag: when any member carries a coin, the entire group uses PRIVATE_SIGN_POLL_MS (3 s) id polling — correct because deposit slots use dummy nullifiers, and the signing round needs the id regardless. ✓
IsolatedOnchainProvider getter: Object.defineProperty with get: ()=>privateInterval(pollMs) re-draws each round; the test confirms 20 reads all differ and all lie in [60 000, 75 000]. ✓
Cross-repo: no consumers of PrivateTransport.reconcile() or waitForSpend outside this repo. reconcile(settled?) is backward-compatible. ✓
Minor
src/shielded/submit.ts:227: Math.floor(Math.random()*o.jitterMs) can produce exactly 0, meaning the jitter occasionally fires with no delay. This is intentional (the range is [0, jitterMs)), just noting it matches spec.
The 75-minute PRIVATE_GRACE_MS constant (900_000 ms) is re-used for both the 404-window (observeNativeResponse) and the settleLandedMutations floor. The two uses happen to match today but are semantically different (server tracking duration vs. user-facing grace). Consider a named constant for each to make future changes less error-prone.
The live spend test (noted as "Not run" in the test plan) leaves the deposit signing round untested end-to-end. The unit tests are comprehensive, but a follow-up live check would close that gap.
Summary
The design is sound and the implementation matches the documented behaviour. The timer jitter, skip-when-current sync, and account-based spend settlement are all correctly scoped to the sealed transport. The main open item is Finding 1: the deposit double-submit scenario under a prolonged operator stall. The fix is a one-line addition to the journal row (store the batch count at POST time) and is already on the follow-up list. The other findings are advisory. The test suite — 1 836 passing, with every new behaviour pinned — is thorough.
…cked
After an offline open, statusTick() can land a successful /status read
before tick() reloads the account from the pool. In that window
settledNullifiers() answered from the cached snapshot, so the journal
could age an entry out on an account the pool never checked. A wallet
still offline now answers undefined; once load() clears the flag it
answers true or false as before.
… batched
During a long operator stall /status keeps answering but the batch count
freezes, so the wallet counts as caught up and settleLandedMutations()
released an unlanded entry at TRACKED_MS+graceMs while its spend could
still land, leaving a deposit free to be shielded again.
The first settle pass that judges an entry false now records the pool
count on it as batchAt, and the age release also needs the count to have
moved past that mark. A true verdict still releases at once, an
undefined one marks nothing, and a pass saves only when it marked or
dropped something. load() accepts batchAt as a non-negative safe
integer, keeps it through every later save, and treats any other value
as an invalid journal; rows written without it still load. A count that
is not a whole number settles nothing, so the journal never writes a
mark its own loader would refuse.
The count comes through the verdict's owner: the tick effect hands
reconcile() the wallet itself, and reconcile() reads batchCount() right
before the synchronous settle pass. A count taken at the call site would
predate the id round, up to its 10 s deadline, so a batch synced in
between would be missing from the mark. The native journal is still
built without graceMs, so it settles nothing, as before.
…a new head
rememberHeadExpiry() kept the previous head's deadline while it was still
in the future, so after the pool moved its head an outage could show the
old head's deadline. /status names the head as pool.head {txid, vout}, so
the wallet now keeps that outpoint beside lastHeadExpiry. A successful
status read naming another head clears the remembered deadline, and the
same refresh reads it again, under the existing single-flight and
back-off rules.
A read begun for one head that answers after the pool named another is
not kept, since it may be the old head's deadline, and it clears the
back-off so the next refresh reads the new head at once.
The head moves with every batch (epoch-operator.ts sets head to coin(0)
of each batch) and with every renewal, so a sealed wallet now makes one
head read for each status read that sees a new head. With the pool idle
the head holds and nothing changes. Direct and native wallets never
remember a deadline, so they are unchanged.
…es its mark
The age release needed count > batchAt. Journal rows are keyed by origin,
not token, so after a new genesis on the same origin the count restarts
below an entry's mark, and the entry stayed reserved until the new
genesis passed the old count, though the old pool's spends can never
land. The release now needs the count to differ from the mark. Within
one genesis the count only rises, so the two agree, and a stalled pool
still holds the entry at its mark.
…t names no pool
While the pool server is not live, as during a restart, /status returns
its bare status with no pool (service.ts:464). poolHead() was then
undefined, and rememberHeadExpiry() took that for a new head: it cleared
the remembered deadline and read it again. If that read failed, the
deadline stayed gone until the back-off let a read through, ten watchdog
rounds later. A read that succeeded was kept under no head, so the same
head named again after the restart read it once more. The clear now
needs a known head that differs from the remembered one.
Also rewords settleLandedMutations()'s JSDoc to the release rule as it
now stands: the pool count differs from the entry's mark, which covers a
new genesis whose count restarts lower as well as a new batch.
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- Line 362: Update the head-change handling in `poolHead` so a new pool head
resets the read backoff associated with the previous head, allowing the wallet
to read the new head’s deadline immediately. Track which head `headReadAt`
applies to, and clear or reset that backoff when the head changes; preserve the
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…led read
A head read that failed, found no usable expiry, or found one already
passed left the ten-round back-off set. When the next status named
another head, rememberHeadExpiry() forgot the old deadline but kept that
back-off, so the new head's deadline could go unread for up to ten
watchdog rounds, and an outage in that window showed none.
A known head other than the last one read now clears the back-off along
with the remembered deadline, so the next refresh reads it, still one
read at a time.
The back-off still holds for repeated failures on the same head. That
needs lastHead to name the head a read began for. It was written only
when a read was kept, so after a failed read it did not name the failed
head, and clearing the back-off for any head other than lastHead would
have re-read the same failing head on every status read. lastHead is
now written as the read begins, beside headReadAt, and the back-off's
JSDoc says it belongs to that head.
5 commits, 8 files changed (+105/−23 incremental). Prior Finding 1 (deposit stall window) Fixed; prior Finding 3 (stale head deadline) Fixed. Prior Finding 2 (Disclose.tsx array bounds) Still open (advisory, unchanged). One new blocking issue in the incremental diff.
Prior findings — status
Finding 1 — src/native/mutations.ts: deposit double-submit window on operator stall Fixed — commits 852e7fb0 and 866c7f87.
settleLandedMutations now stamps batchAt on the first false verdict and gates the age-based release on count !== row.batchAt. This closes the stall window precisely as described in the original finding: a frozen pool count means batchAt is never superseded, so the entry is held until the pool actually advances. Four new tests in tests/tor-mutations.test.ts pin the stalled-pool, genesis-restart, batchAt-write-once, and deserialization paths. The guard !Number.isSafeInteger(count)||count<0 correctly short-circuits for NaN, Infinity, negatives, and 2**53. The test for 2**53 both at runtime (guard) and in deserialization (load-time rejection) closes both surfaces.
Finding 2 — app/src/Disclose.tsx:50: windows.get(from)![n-from] trusts pool array length Still open — file is not in the incremental diff; unchanged from prior pass. Advisory, no false-positive risk. The failure mode (pool returns a short page → batches[n] becomes undefined → disclosure unverified) is conservative and correct at runtime. Remains worth tightening with an explicit out-of-bounds guard if the pool's return type is ever relaxed.
Finding 3 — src/shielded/wallet.ts:333: lastHeadExpiry could lag a head renewal Fixed — commits 2e8507932cc8 and 766084f07beb.
poolHead() serialises txid:vout as a stable key. On entry to rememberHeadExpiry, if the pool now names a head the wallet hasn't seen, lastHeadExpiry is cleared and a fresh read is queued. If the async read completes after the pool has since moved to yet-another head, the result is discarded and headReadAt is reset so the very next refresh re-reads. The fifth commit handles the edge case where /status returns no pool (e.g. restart with phase: 'starting'): poolHead() returns undefined, the head !== undefined guard prevents an unwarranted clear of lastHeadExpiry, and the remembered deadline survives until the pool names a head again. Three new tests in tests/tor-content.test.ts cover all three paths. ✓
settledNullifiers offline guard
My prior review listed this as ✓ confirmed correct on the basis that statusReadAt starts at 0. That was wrong — a session that immediately reads /status could also be offline:true (account unsynced), and the stale-status check alone would not catch it. Commit 852e7fb0 adds !this.offline&& explicitly and the new test at tests/tor-content.test.ts:347 pins it. The prior pass should have flagged this; I'm noting it here for the record.
New finding from incremental diff
src/native/mutations.ts: settleLandedMutations — age-release predicate uses strict inequality at the boundary
// mutations.ts (new code)returnat-row.createdAt<=TRACKED_MS+graceMs||count===row.batchAt;
An entry is kept while at - row.createdAt <= TRACKED_MS + graceMs. It is dropped at the first call where at - row.createdAt > TRACKED_MS + graceMsandcount !== row.batchAt. The old code used the same boundary (>) in the drop predicate, so this is not a regression. However, this is now the only place the boundary is defined for the age path (the drop helper is no longer used here), and the constant TRACKED_MS + graceMs is 3 600 000 + 900 000 = 4 500 000 ms (75 minutes). TRACKED_MS is local and graceMs is a constructor parameter: they are added implicitly. If graceMs is ever changed in installPrivateTransport without updating TRACKED_MS, the two halves of the floor drift apart silently. The minor note from the prior review about giving TRACKED_MS and graceMs separate named constants still applies here — this boundary is now load-bearing for the deposit-stall fix, so the relationship between the two constants deserves a comment at the definition site.
This is not a correctness bug in the current code; it is a maintainability concern that becomes more serious now that the boundary gates money-safe release. Raising it here rather than in a follow-up issue because the stall fix makes this code path higher-stakes than it was before.
Blocking issue: settleLandedMutations — a verdict===false entry from a different origin can mutate batchAt with the caller's count
// mutations.ts:106-114 (new code)constremaining=entries.filter(row=>{constverdict=row.origin===origin?settled(row.nullifiers.map(BigInt)):undefined;if(verdict!==false)returnverdict!==true;// ← unreachable for other-origin rowsif(row.batchAt===undefined){row.batchAt=count;marked=true;}returnat-row.createdAt<=TRACKED_MS+graceMs||count===row.batchAt;});
For a row whose row.origin !== origin, verdict is undefined. The first branch if(verdict!==false)return verdict!==true evaluates to return undefined!==true → return true — the row is kept. The batchAt stamping and age-release code is therefore never reached for other-origin rows.
This is correct: other-origin rows are always kept by the first branch; they cannot be mutated or dropped here.
However: settled() can return false only for the matching origin (by the first line of the filter). If settled() itself throws for some nullifier value, the exception propagates through .filter() and save() is never called — the journal is left unmodified, entries are not released, and the caller (in reconcile()) rejects with an unhandled error. The reconcile() promise's .finally(()=>{reconciling=undefined;}) clears the in-flight lock, but setJournalError(errorText(error)) in RollupWallet.tsx will surface the error to the user. The user sees a journal error rather than a silent stall, so the failure mode is observable and conservative. No funds are at risk, but a thrown settledNullifiers will permanently block reconcile until the user reloads.
settledNullifiers on ShieldedWallet does not throw under any observable input (it reads account.history and runs .find() / .every()). But the interface only requires boolean|undefined; a future implementation could throw. Worth noting explicitly in the settleLandedMutations JSDoc or wrapping the settled() call in a try/catch that returns undefined on error.
This is not exploitable by an external actor (the nullifiers come from the wallet's own journal, not from the pool), but a programming error in a future settledNullifiers implementation would cause a silent reconcile hang rather than a release, which is the wrong failure direction for a money-holding component.
Recommendation: Wrap settled(row.nullifiers.map(BigInt)) in a try/catch that returns undefined on error. One line. No behaviour change for the current implementation.
Correctness confirmations (incremental)
batchAt write-once: if(row.batchAt===undefined) ensures the count is stamped only once; subsequent calls with a different count see the original mark. The test 'an entry's first judgment marks the count...' pins this. ✓
save called iff state changed: if(marked||remaining.length!==entries.length)save(remaining) — a pass that only inspects (all undefined) writes nothing. The test confirms writes===2 after two no-op passes. ✓
Deserialization backward-compat: an entry written by an older build has no batchAt field; the guard value.batchAt!==undefined&&(...) correctly treats absence as valid and passes through. ✓
poolHead() with no pool: pool?.head is undefined when the status carries no pool; head&&... short-circuits to undefined; the head!==undefined&&head!==this.lastHead guard is false; lastHeadExpiry is not cleared. ✓
RollupWallet.tsx wallet reference: passing wallet directly instead of n=>wallet.settledNullifiers(n) holds the same React state reference; the live guard prevents post-unmount state updates. ✓
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A throwing settled() (the blocking item): left as is, with evidence.
The current judge cannot throw.settledNullifiers (src/shielded/wallet.ts:658) reads pool.status only after a successful status read has set it (:381). landedSpend (:659-661) is the same history search wallet.ts:555 already runs.
BigInt cannot throw on a stored row.load() accepts only nullifiers matching ^[1-9]\d{0,77}$ (src/native/mutations.ts:20), and a stored row must equal its body's parsed nullifiers (:42).
A future throw would fail closed and visibly. No row is released, reconcile rejects, and the tick shows the error under the balance (app/src/RollupWallet.tsx:460, :726). The pool's id round runs before the settle pass (src/shielded/private-transport.ts:55), so the pool's own verdicts keep releasing entries.
A catch that returns undefined would add nothing. It keeps the same row reserved anyway, and it hides the bug behind a reserved note with no stated reason.
TRACKED_MS plus graceMs: these two are independent. graceMs is the sealed copy's admission window. TRACKED_MS mirrors the pool's one-hour spend tracking (src/rollup/service.ts:255 and :361). That pool-to-client coupling predates this PR, so I've recorded naming it as a follow-up rather than restart both reviews over a comment.
Disclose.tsx window length: still left as is. An absent batch reads undefined, so the note is reported unverified, as you say.
Triggered fresh from scratch per comment request; previous conclusions not carried forward.
Protocol correctness
No changes to VTXO structure, transaction signing, the forfeit path, round lifecycle, or unilateral exit. All observable changes are confined to the sealed-browser transport layer (timing, page batching, journal settlement). This PR is not protocol-critical.
The companion test ('a wallet still offline gives no verdict after a fresh status read') pins the behaviour. ✓
settleLandedMutations age-only release during stall (src/native/mutations.ts:108–118)
Fixed via the batchAt mark. An entry is released only when both conditions fail: at-row.createdAt>TRACKED_MS+graceMsandcount!==row.batchAt. Because settledNullifiers only returns false when the account is fully caught up (pool.batches===account.batchCount), a false verdict after the counts match is a genuine non-landing: any new batch since batchAt would have been synced. If the spend had landed, it would appear in account.history and settled would have returned true. The logic is sound. ✓
rememberHeadExpiry multi-step fixes (src/shielded/wallet.ts:371–384)
Three commit-level fixes were applied since the prior review:
Keeps the remembered deadline through a no-pool restart status.
Clears lastHeadExpiry and headReadAt when a known head differs from lastHead (not on undefined pool head), preventing spurious re-reads during restart.
lastHead is now written as the read begins (not only when it succeeds), so a failed read on head A doesn't trigger an immediate re-read when the same head A is named again.
All covered by the dense test suite in tor-content.test.ts. ✓
New findings at this head
Disclose.tsx:31 — stale pool token for sealed transport (nit) checkDisclosure fetches /status upfront to obtain epochLen for window alignment, storing it as early. The returned Checked.pool token reuses early?.pool?.token. For non-sealed transports a fresh /status is fetched at the end. For sealed, if the pool operator rotated its token between the upfront call and the last batch read, the verification result carries the pre-rotation token. The window is seconds; operator token rotation is intentional and infrequent; no security or funds impact. The UI would show the previous token identity on that verification page. Worth a follow-up comment in code or a one-line note in the return, but not a blocker.
pool.ts:122–141 — dead interval write in paced deposit path (nit)
Inside waitForSpend, when paced=true and landed=undefined (all members of a deposit group in sealed mode), the interval=pollMs assignment on a signing response is dead: the paced sleep always draws privateInterval(pollMs). No behavioural difference; the assignment is never read. Harmless but slightly confusing to readers.
Cross-repo consumer check
Grepped /srv/arkana/repos for callers of waitForSpend, SubmitDeps, IsolatedOnchainProvider, and reconcile (the changed signatures). None found outside the shielded package. All new parameters are optional or defaulted; backward compatibility holds for any future consumer. ✓
SDK pollingInterval read-only field
Confirmed at ts-sdk/packages/sdk/src/providers/onchain.ts:171 that pollingInterval is readonly. The SDK reads it per-round (setTimeout(tick, this.pollingInterval * 2 ** failures)) and never writes after construction. The Object.defineProperty instance accessor correctly overrides the constructor-assigned class field with no setter needed. ✓
Test coverage
Coverage is thorough across the new paths. Highlights:
Every timer jitter path (watchdog, status tick, event retry, spend poll) has a sealed vs. native/direct matrix test.
The settleLandedMutations path has boundary tests for: immediate landing, stall hold, genesis restart below mark, NaN count, batchAt persistence across journal reloads.
finish() skip tests cover the matching-count case, the predating-count case (deposit id-poll), and both native and direct fallback.
The one known failure (native-publication Linux extraction) is pre-existing on main and unrelated.
Summary
All previously blocking issues are resolved at ad310db. The two nits above are both non-blocking. The design is sound: jitter prevents fixed-lattice fingerprinting, the sync skip reduces redundant epoch reads, and the journal's stall protection correctly prevents premature fund reservation release. No action required from the author on the nits; leaving them here for awareness.
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This makes the browser's private transport from #147 ask the pool for less, and less recognisably. It covers design §6.5 and §6.6, Plan 4 of the network-privacy roadmap.
Every change applies only to the browser's sealed transport, which needs both gateway pins built in and a browser opted in with
?private=1. The native host and direct (privacy off) wallets behave byte for byte as before, and each change carries a test that pins that. There is no pool API change, so the deployed pool needs no deploy.Measured idle load:
Sync (
src/shielded/wallet.ts)finish()skips its re-sync once the account already holds the spend's own batch.Timers (
wallet.ts,src/shielded/network-privacy.ts,src/native/providers.ts,src/shielded/private-transport.ts)ms*(1+random/4), so it is never shorter than its base and never on a fixed lattice. This covers the watchdog, the status poll and the event retries.IsolatedOnchainProvidergains an optional poll interval. The native host passes none, so its provider is unchanged.Spends (
src/shielded/submit.ts,src/shielded/pool.ts,wallet.ts)GET /spends/{id}read only on rounds 5, 10, … (about every 100 s), so a dropped spend is reported in minutes rather than at the 30-minute deadline. This replaces the 1 s id poll.Journal (
src/native/mutations.ts,private-transport.ts,wallet.ts,app/src/RollupWallet.tsx)/statusread that succeeded in this session within the last 2 minutes, a checked (not offline) account, and a matching count. A wallet that is offline or opened from cache settles nothing.Pages (
app/src/RollupWallet.tsx,app/src/Disclose.tsx)/verify: a private/verifyreads the catch-up page that holds the batch, epoch-aligned and 12 batches, so the read looks exactly like a sync page read.Outage (
wallet.ts)/statusnames a new head. A batch inherits its earliest input expiry (src/rollup/service.ts:47-48), so a new head can expire earlier than the old one. That re-read costs one sealed request per batch on a busy pool and none while idle.Known limits
included. The notes are gone either way.What still speaks the old contract
limitup to 12 against its cap of 100). No pool code changed.Test plan
npx tsc --noEmit: exit 0.npm test: 1 850 tests, 1 849 pass (atad310db, after mergingmainthrough Fix camera resume and private wallet sync progress #155). The one failure isnative-publication"Linux publication extracts only regular files…", which fails onmaintoo (1 727 tests, 1 726 pass, at this branch's first base).npm run build: exit 0.src/server.tswith a throwaway key, pool calls proxied to production, Chromium on a fresh origin.Follow-ups for the owner
poolApiOf. Today/verifyreads the sealed brand off the global fetch.Summary by CodeRabbit
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