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This is the first PR of the reworked AssumeUTXO Evo-snapshot series. The stack is now this PR, then #7593, then #7601.

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?

Six atomic commits:

1. 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.
   • 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.
2. 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.
3. 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; WriteDurable is the view-aware immediate write used by StoreSnapshotForBlock.
   • 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. Overlapping keys must be byte-identical; the only exception is the mutable q_bbu2 singleton. The merge resumes after a crash at any phase.
   • Each generation records a versioned deployment and LLMQ configuration fingerprint. A restart under a different configuration refuses the generation.
   • An in-progress snapshot from a datadir that predates isolation is detected, and startup suggests -reindex-chainstate.
4. 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). Rejection and promotion invalidate them through an epoch counter. 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.
5. 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.
   • P2P. CConnman::ServicePeer binds and contains each peer's whole turn (GETDATA drain, orphans, next message, SendMessages). A local Evo error ends that peer's turn, is logged under BCLog::NET, and never ends the message-handler thread or punishes the peer. 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.
   • 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.
   • 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.
6. 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. 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.

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?

All on macOS arm64 with a depends build: --enable-debug, with the GUI enabled for the Qt parts.

• Every commit builds dashd, test_dash, dash-qt and test_dash-qt, and passes 14 unit suites covering the touched code (Evo, LLMQ, chainstate/validation, MNHF, miner, wallet, interfaces, scheduler, validationinterface) plus test_dash-qt. dash-chainstate links.
• Functional: 13 tests pass, including rpc_dumptxoutset, feature_mnehf, feature_governance, feature_asset_locks, feature_dip3_deterministicmns, feature_llmq_rotation, both feature_llmq_signing variants, feature_llmq_chainlocks, feature_llmq_is_cl_conflicts, feature_pruning and interface_rest.
• clang-format 18, the lint scripts, clang-tidy 23 (nothing on changed lines) and cppcheck are clean.
• The full per-commit and functional matrix was rerun after each review round, most recently at 79aa0adfc350. In that run interface_rest failed once while another dashd was running on the machine, and passed on rerun.
• 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 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 and the asset-unlock precheck return error results, and submitblock returns "evo-local-unavailable" with a BlockChecked subscriber seeing the error;
  • 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 after mining the snapshot chain past DIP3/V20, and NORMAL reconstruction after rejection and restart;
  • chainstatemanager_snapshot_cleanup_keeps_live_snapshot_dir;
  • promotion crash recovery at each phase, fingerprint refusal, partitioned-cache isolation including versionbits;
  • queued-task and subscriber handling (local_evo_error_in_subscriber, load_retry_runs_queued_events_first, stale queued tasks), and the scheduler is unbound before evodb_for_dispatch is published and bound after (chainstate_update_tip);
  • interfaces_tests/evo_state_unavailable_is_contained, including getCurrentVotes;
  • unbound-read errors, stalled-branch selection with 40 stalled branches plus one usable block, and wallet and CoinJoin collateral exclusion.
• Each regression test above was confirmed to fail with its fix reverted. Not covered by a test:
  • the startup warm-up under a real restart: the snapshot fingerprint pins V20/DIP3 and an early V20 breaks the pinned regtest assumeutxo hash, so the test drives the startup step directly;
  • 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, and the wallet retry before the birthday early return (m_birth_time is private).
• CI linux64_asan-test failed feature_governance.py at line 302 on an earlier head. It is a test race that develop also hits (2 of 36 runs there, 2 of 12 here, reproduced on Linux with CI's ASan flags), not caused by this PR.

I did not run a local release-config build. The new checks are plain throws, not Assume, so they run in every build, and CI builds the release configurations.

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 ends that peer's turn, with no penalty. 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.

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, getPlatformQuorums, 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() and WriteDurable; 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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• #7763: feat(wallet): DIP-15, accountReference, asset-lock and eligibility seams for DashPay Changed files: src/interfaces/wallet.h, src/wallet/interfaces.cpp, src/wallet/spend.cpp, src/wallet/test/wallet_tests.cpp, src/wallet/wallet.cpp, src/wallet/wallet.h.
• #7860: feat: run governance on pruned nodes Changed files: src/Makefile.am, src/init.cpp, src/net_processing.cpp, src/node/context.h, src/node/interfaces.cpp.

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• #7763: feat(wallet): DIP-15, accountReference, asset-lock and eligibility seams for DashPay Changed files: src/interfaces/wallet.h, src/wallet/interfaces.cpp, src/wallet/spend.cpp, src/wallet/test/wallet_tests.cpp, src/wallet/wallet.cpp, src/wallet/wallet.h.
• #7860: feat: run governance on pruned nodes Changed files: src/Makefile.am, src/init.cpp, src/net_processing.cpp, src/node/context.h, src/node/interfaces.cpp.
• #7934: perf: optimize dmnlist construction and payye validation Changed files: src/evo/deterministicmns.cpp, src/evo/deterministicmns.h, src/evo/specialtxman.cpp, src/evo/specialtxman.h, src/node/miner.cpp, src/validation.cpp, src/validation.h.
• #7935: perf: deserialize CbTx bestCLSignature lazily and avoid verifying of duplicated chainlocks Changed files: src/chainlock/handler.cpp, src/evo/cbtx.cpp, src/evo/specialtxman.cpp, src/node/miner.cpp.

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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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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

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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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Inline comments:
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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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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Review comments at @src/net.cpp:
- Around line 3158-3159: Update the tip-list handling in both `opencon` rounds
so an unset `tipIndex` from `GetListAtChainTip()` is represented as unavailable
and causes the rounds to skip, rather than treating the returned empty list as a
valid tip list.

Review comments at @src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp:
- Around line 1631-1645: Use an RAII guard in the test around the temporary
`consensus.V20Height` change so the original value is restored during stack
unwinding as well as normal completion. Remove the manual restoration at the
end; keep the existing test assertions and height value unchanged.

Review comments at @src/wallet/wallet.cpp:
- Around line 1568-1571: Update the unclassified ProTx coin handling in
blockConnected to preserve each output in m_unclassified_protx_coins until
LockProTxCoins completes, so its erase can trigger RecalculateMixedCredit to
invalidate the CoinJoin cache. Ensure the wallet-birthday early return cannot
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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]

✅ 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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[PastaPastaPasta]

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.

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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]

✅ 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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[PastaPastaPasta]

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.

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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]

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]

✅ 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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[PastaPastaPasta]

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.

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[thepastaclaw]

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.

[thepastaclaw]

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

Independent static review of the complete six-commit diff at b9a6c6f found no remaining actionable in-scope issues; all 20 prior findings are addressed in the current source or commit history. No builds or tests were run locally: the supplied exact-head CI snapshot shows successful completed builds, lint and nowallet tests, with four Linux test jobs and the multiprocess build still pending. The overlapping develop changes do not supersede this implementation, and the supplied base-drift analysis reports no merge conflicts despite the branch being 18 commits behind.

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Static verification of ab1b710..b99c535 found no remaining actionable findings, and all 20 prior findings are addressed in the current source or commit history. Snapshot completion deliberately retains unavailable-history stalls and requests restart-time promotion rather than crossing isolated views. No builds or tests were run locally; current-head CI has no failed checks, with ASan and TSan tests and the multiprocess build still pending, and the four base-only commits have no changed-file overlap or reported merge conflicts.

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• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate change modifies storage migration and recovery in src/evo/evodb.cpp through generation-namespaced Evo state and journaled promotion, alongside chainstate-specific validation and rollback handling.
• Phase 1 reviewers: gemini-3.8-flash-high — general (completed, effort high); agent phase1-reviewer
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The exact-head diff was reviewed against the surrounding validation, EvoDB, chainstate, networking, and test code. The remaining Codex finding is refuted: the validation-path binding guards intentionally return plain state errors, matching the PR's documented contract and the wrong-view regression test, while all normal production callers bind the intended Evo view. No in-scope findings remain; source-build CI checks are still queued, while lint and ClangFormat have passed.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate diff changes persistent EvoDB storage layout and generation promotion in src/evo/evodb.cpp, introducing namespaced state and journaled migration across snapshot and normal views.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (lane failed), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
• Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer

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CI failed after approval — commit a1e6e83

The standing review approved this commit; this follow-up moves the verdict to COMMENT: checks that failed after the review look related to this change.

Failing checks:

• linux64-test / Test source (failure)
• linux64_multiprocess-build / Build source (failure)

Why they look related: The test failure is in feature_llmq_simplepose.py, an Evo/LLMQ-related functional test, and this PR changes extensive LLMQ, chainstate, validation, and Evo state-handling code. The multiprocess build failure includes clang-tidy diagnostics in PR-modified tests and Evo snapshot code, so both failures plausibly relate to the changes.

Nothing was re-reviewed: the findings of the standing review are unchanged. The next push gets a full review; a re-run that passes does not restore the approval.

Review provenance

Source: CI-check lane gpt-6.1-sol (agent: triage); no reviewer or verifier lanes ran for this follow-up

• Verdict moved because CI failed on this commit after the review; failure logs read: 2 GitHub Actions job(s)

[thepastaclaw]

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

The six-commit Evo isolation series is substantially correct, and the supplied prior findings are addressed at the current head. One blocking defect remains: the new connect-path binding guards return an untyped validation error instead of raising the typed local Evo binding error, so a violated binding precondition bypasses stall classification and related recovery/reporting. Several build and test checks remain in progress; no local tests were run under the static-review restriction.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This is a large, intricate change that directly alters consensus validation and persistent EvoDB state handling in src/validation.cpp, src/node/chainstate.cpp, and src/evo/evodb.cpp while coordinating peer-facing block processing and snapshot chainstate isolation.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (lane failed), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
• Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer

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In `src/evo/specialtxman.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/evo/specialtxman.cpp:901-903: Connect-path binding guard returns untyped Error instead of a local stall
  `ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock` rejects an unbound chainstate with `state.Error(...)`, leaving `LocalEvoStateResult` as `NONE`, so `IsLocalEvoStateError(state)` is false. If this guard is reached, `ConnectTip` treats the failure as a generic error rather than a local binding stall: it is not memoized for candidate selection, and the local-stall handling used by `BlockChecked`, `submitblock`, and peer processing is bypassed. The same defect exists in `CQuorumBlockProcessor::ProcessBlock` at `src/llmq/blockprocessor.cpp:221-223`. These guards are the enforcement point introduced by this PR and must produce the typed `EvoViewBindingError` used by the matching undo paths and by `LocalEvoStateError` classification.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Resolved at 87c5a9e8; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Connect-path binding guard returns untyped Error instead of a local stall

ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock rejects an unbound chainstate with state.Error(...), leaving LocalEvoStateResult as NONE, so IsLocalEvoStateError(state) is false. If this guard is reached, ConnectTip treats the failure as a generic error rather than a local binding stall: it is not memoized for candidate selection, and the local-stall handling used by BlockChecked, submitblock, and peer processing is bypassed. The same defect exists in CQuorumBlockProcessor::ProcessBlock at src/llmq/blockprocessor.cpp:221-223. These guards are the enforcement point introduced by this PR and must produce the typed EvoViewBindingError used by the matching undo paths and by LocalEvoStateError classification.

Suggested change

	if (!IsEvoViewBound(chainstate)) {
	return state.Error(strprintf("%s: not bound to the chainstate's Evo view", __func__));
	}
	throw EvoViewBindingError(strprintf("%s: not bound to the chainstate's Evo view", __func__));

_{source: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (phase1-reviewer: general)}

[PastaPastaPasta]

Fixed at 87c5a9e8e6a1. Fixed in feat(evo): reject unbound Evo reads during dual operation. The guards in ProcessSpecialTxsInBlock and CQuorumBlockProcessor::ProcessBlock now throw EvoViewBindingError, the same as the guards on the undo path.

The previous round accepted a plain state.Error, and that was inconsistent. The PR's rule is that a binding fault is a local Evo error wherever it happens. With the plain error, connect produced an untyped error while undo produced a typed one. IsLocalEvoStateError was then false on connect, which skipped the stall memo and the handling in BlockChecked, submitblock and peer processing. Now both directions reach the same LocalStateError boundaries, which classify the fault as a BINDING stall.

Every caller already handles the throw:

• ConnectTip catches it.
• TestBlockValidity, including the miner's call, catches it.
• VerifyDB and ReplayBlocks bind the chainstate's view on entry, and initialization catches anything deeper.

Each of these binds the chainstate's own view before connecting, so none of them can actually reach the guard. A direct call is the only way to trigger it.

So the wrong-view rows in chainstate_update_tip now call both entry points directly under the other chainstate's view. They expect EvoViewBindingError and an untouched state. Without the fix, both calls return false with an error state instead of throwing.

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🤖 Posted autonomously by Claude on behalf of pasta.

[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at 87c5a9e8): You now throw EvoViewBindingError from both connect-path guards, so binding faults are consistently classified as local Evo stalls in both directions.

[thepastaclaw]

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

The complete PR range was independently reviewed at the exact head. The Evo view binding, generation lifecycle, cache partitioning, local-state classification, asynchronous lifetime handling, networking boundaries, interfaces, wallet behavior, and partial-rewind paths are consistent with the stated isolation design, with no remaining actionable in-scope findings. Source builds and lint checks pass; the applicable Linux test checks are still pending, and no local tests were run.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 3: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate diff changes consensus validation and persistent EvoDB/chainstate state handling in functions such as ConnectTip, DisconnectTip, ChainstateManager, and EvoDB, directly affecting block acceptance and storage integrity.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
• Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (lane failed), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
• Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer

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