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store_masternode_state had no caller on dev: masternode persistence was declared,
implemented and delegated, but never ran. A full mainnet sync on dev confirms it —
no state on disk, and the whole masternode list re-downloaded on every start.

This PR wires it up and changes what gets written. Instead of a snapshot of the engine
(a Vec<u8> of JSON re-serialized as a pretty-printed JSON array of bytes: 1.23 GiB
rewritten in full on every update), it stores the network messages that produced it —
one file per MnListDiff/QRInfo and height — and rebuilds the engine by replaying
them at startup, or on demand when a ChainLock falls outside the prune window.

Measured over three full mainnet syncs:

  • Disk: 1.23 GiB → 18.9 MiB (-98.5%). Whole sync directory: 3.52 → 2.31 GiB (-34%).
  • Memory: peak allocation per write 1.38 GiB → 687 KiB (~2100x). Process peak RSS
    is unchanged — it is dominated by filter scanning.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Masternode and quorum data now persists across restarts, allowing synchronization to resume with previously stored information.
    • Chain locks can be validated using the masternode list corresponding to their signing height.
  • Improvements

    • Masternode data is retained and replayed more reliably when restoring application state.
    • Obsolete masternode lists are automatically pruned to manage storage usage.
    • Quorum and signing-height calculations now use standardized network offsets for more consistent validation.

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The PR replaces JSON masternode state with persisted MnListDiff and QRInfo messages. It replays messages on startup, persists new sync data, prunes obsolete lists, and uses stored lists for ChainLock validation fallback.

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Masternode persistence and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Engine height and quorum semantics
dash/src/ephemerealdata/chain_lock.rs, dash/src/sml/llmq_type/*, dash/src/sml/masternode_list_engine/*
Adds centralized height offsets, ChainLock signing-height lookup, QRInfo work-block helpers, quorum-list lookup updates, and masternode-list pruning.
Persistent message storage and replay
dash-spv/src/storage/*
Replaces JSON state storage with indexed binary diff and QRInfo files. Replays persisted messages into a MasternodeListEngine and caches height-based list lookups.
Synchronization and validation wiring
dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs, dash-spv/src/sync/*, dash-spv/src/test_utils/*
Loads persisted masternode messages during client startup. Persists incoming messages, prunes in-memory lists, and uses stored lists for ChainLock validation fallback.
Persistence restart validation
dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/*, dash/src/test_utils/*
Adds storage snapshots, restart replay checks, and shared masternode test constructors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d6083

Masternode message storage will continue growing as synchronization proceeds because obsolete persisted messages are not retired. Add retention before merging to prevent increasing disk use and replay work.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DashSpvClient
  participant PersistentMasternodeStorage
  participant MasternodeListEngine
  participant ChainLockManager
  DashSpvClient->>PersistentMasternodeStorage: load_engine()
  PersistentMasternodeStorage->>MasternodeListEngine: replay persisted messages
  MasternodeListEngine-->>DashSpvClient: rebuilt engine
  DashSpvClient->>ChainLockManager: provide persistent storage handle
  ChainLockManager->>PersistentMasternodeStorage: load list at signing height
  PersistentMasternodeStorage-->>ChainLockManager: masternode list
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❌ Patch coverage is 93.49442% with 35 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 77.15%. Comparing base (7e315af) to head (d6083c6).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on dev.

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dash-spv/src/client/lifecycle.rs 66.66% 3 Missing ⚠️
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ZocoLini force-pushed the feat/masternode-diff-storage branch from 15ef160 to ae334bc Compare August 31, 2026 10:11
@ZocoLini ZocoLini changed the title Feat/masternode diff storage feat(dash-spv): masternode diff storage Sep 1, 2026
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ZocoLini force-pushed the feat/masternode-diff-storage branch from 61fc19d to 5d1aebf Compare September 2, 2026 18:08
ZocoLini and others added 2 commits September 8, 2026 14:59
`test_masternode_list_sync_with_restart` compared masternode sync progress
either side of a restart. A from-scratch network re-sync produces the same
progress as a restored one, so the test passed while the list was being rebuilt
from nothing every time (#988).

It now looks at the disk. After the first session's clean shutdown every
directory that session earned must hold a file, and across the restart no
directory may disappear or lose files.

Fails as written: the first session builds four masternodes and writes no
`masternodestate/`, while `block_headers/`, `filter_headers/`, `metadata/` and
`peers/` all persist through the same shutdown to the same directory — so the
storage layer and the shutdown are ruled out as causes.

`filters/` and `blocks/` are left out of the must-hold set on purpose: the
client stops as soon as the masternode phase reports `Synced`, which is before
the filter phase leaves `WaitForEvents`, so they are legitimately empty here.
The no-shrink check still covers them.

The engine is read before the shutdown and the count carried into the failure
message, so the assertion cannot be satisfied by a session that synced nothing
— which is the shape #954 produces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015NhHBDGiKfiGpy7FwooyfS
…f the engine

The masternode storage wrote a serialized `MasternodeListEngine` plus its own
copy of the block hash/height container. That second copy of a mapping the
header storage already owns can only diverge - a reorg rewrites one of them -
and the snapshot had to be rewritten whole on every update.

It now stores the two network messages that produced the state, one file per
message and height (`masternodes/diff_<h>.dat`, `qrinfo_<h>.dat`, atomic
writes, indexed on open), and rebuilds the engine by replaying them. The replay
runs the same path the live sync does, only reading from disk instead of
waiting for peers: QRInfo through `feed_qrinfo_heights_to_engine`, MnListDiff
through its file name plus a lookup of the base hash it extends. Heights are
resolved against the header storage, which is injected at construction, so
there is one mapping and it is the one the header chain maintains.

Messages are written as they arrive, so this storage has no buffered state:
`PersistentStorage` is gone from it, along with the no-op `persist` the
background worker woke up every five seconds. `MasternodeState` and
`storage/types.rs` go with it - the on-disk shape is no longer named outside
`storage/`.

`MasternodeStorage` takes and returns the engine rather than the file format,
and knows its own network from `open`, so `load_engine()` and
`masternode_list_at_or_before(height)` lose a parameter their callers were
only forwarding. `ChainLockManager` loses the `network` field it carried for
that.

Retention is now bounded. `prune_obsolete_lists` keeps the engine to the span
`quorum_entry_for_hash_at_or_before_height` can walk back over, and a ChainLock
whose signing height falls outside it is verified against a list rebuilt from
storage instead of failing. `masternode_list_at_or_before` caches that list
with its validity range, so consecutive ChainLocks around one height replay
once.

Protocol rules that were spelled `- 8` at four call sites across both crates
now have names where they are defined: `LLMQ_SIGN_HEIGHT_OFFSET` (DIP-0007,
via `ChainLock::signing_height`) and `QUORUM_MEMBER_LIST_OFFSET` (DIP-0024),
next to `WORK_DIFF_DEPTH`, which they are unrelated to despite sharing a value.
The QRInfo's own shape stays in the engine: `qr_info_work_block_hashes` and
`cycle_boundary_height` replace the hand-rolled diff enumeration dash-spv used
to keep in step by hand. `verify_chain_lock_with_masternode_list` is public for
the rebuilt-list path and derives its own request id, which the caller was
having to fabricate. `prune_masternode_lists` is no longer gated on
`quorum_validation`: nothing in it needs the feature, and bounding memory is
not a validation concern.

Verified against dashd regtest and the full unit suites: 590 dashcore, 570
dash-spv, 10 dashd_masternode, 32 dashd_sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SbgCpMiBjnpvW4CyEEsKXw
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ZocoLini force-pushed the feat/masternode-diff-storage branch from 5d1aebf to 1cf5bdd Compare September 8, 2026 15:35
@ZocoLini ZocoLini changed the title feat(dash-spv): masternode diff storage fix(dash-spv): wire up masternode persistence and shrink it 67x Sep 8, 2026
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dash/src/sml/masternode_list_engine/helpers.rs (1)

18-33: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add direct unit tests for the new masternode helpers.

  • helpers.rs#L18-L33: cover heights at and around the pruning floor and assert the removal count.
  • mod.rs#L775-L794: cover all work-block hashes, optional h-4c handling, excluded fields, and saturating cycle_boundary_height.

Existing tests cover related flows but do not call these helpers directly. The repository requires tests for new functionality and keeps unit tests close to the code.

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In `@dash/src/sml/masternode_list_engine/helpers.rs` around lines 18 - 33, Add
direct unit tests for prune_obsolete_lists covering heights below, equal to, and
above the computed pruning floor, asserting the number of removed lists. Add
focused tests for the related helper in mod.rs covering all work-block hashes,
optional h-4c behavior, excluded fields, and saturating cycle_boundary_height,
keeping tests close to the implementations.
dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs (1)

152-152: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add focused persistence and recovery tests for PersistentMasternodeStorage.

The module has no #[cfg(test)] coverage, and existing QRInfo integration tests do not exercise storage. Add tests for write → reopen → replay, cache interval boundaries and invalidation, and corrupt message files skipped during replay. These paths control restart recovery and historical masternode-list lookup. The MasternodeStorage contract has no rollback or retention-cleanup operation, so do not test those unimplemented behaviors.

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In `@dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs` at line 152, Add a focused #[cfg(test)]
module for PersistentMasternodeStorage covering write–reopen–replay recovery,
cache interval boundaries and invalidation, and replay behavior that skips
corrupt message files. Exercise the storage through its existing public contract
and avoid tests for rollback or retention cleanup, which are not implemented.
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In `@dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs`:
- Around line 33-48: Add a persistent pruning method to the MasternodeStorage
contract and implement it in PersistentMasternodeStorage to delete obsolete diff
and QRInfo files, update both indexes, and invalidate affected cache entries.
Invoke this operation from MasternodesManager::prune_obsolete_lists while
preserving the existing in-memory pruning behavior and propagating storage
errors.

In `@dash-spv/src/sync/masternodes/manager.rs`:
- Around line 343-360: Update the manager’s store_diff and store_qr_info methods
to return storage errors instead of only logging them, and propagate those
errors through the synchronization flow before emitting MasternodeStateUpdated
or pruning in-memory lists. Preserve the existing no-message-storage behavior
and ensure both persistent write failures prevent sync completion.

In `@dash-spv/tests/dashd_masternode/tests_sync.rs`:
- Around line 120-124: Update the restart flow around DashSpvClient::new so the
restarted client is constructed before network startup, then assert
replay-dependent engine state such as the restored list height and block hash
rather than only checking persisted files. Ensure the test would fail if message
replay falls back to a default engine and avoid allowing a fresh dashd
synchronization to satisfy the assertions.

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In `@dash-spv/src/storage/masternode.rs`:
- Line 152: Add a focused #[cfg(test)] module for PersistentMasternodeStorage
covering write–reopen–replay recovery, cache interval boundaries and
invalidation, and replay behavior that skips corrupt message files. Exercise the
storage through its existing public contract and avoid tests for rollback or
retention cleanup, which are not implemented.

In `@dash/src/sml/masternode_list_engine/helpers.rs`:
- Around line 18-33: Add direct unit tests for prune_obsolete_lists covering
heights below, equal to, and above the computed pruning floor, asserting the
number of removed lists. Add focused tests for the related helper in mod.rs
covering all work-block hashes, optional h-4c behavior, excluded fields, and
saturating cycle_boundary_height, keeping tests close to the implementations.

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service_address: MasternodeNetInfo::Legacy(SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 19999))),
operator_public_key: BLSPublicKey::from([0u8; 48]),

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

Remove the hardcoded network address and key.

Line 24 hardcodes 127.0.0.1:19999. Line 25 hardcodes a BLS key value. Pass fixture values from the test setup or use a shared test configuration.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.rs: “Never hardcode network parameters, addresses, or keys.”

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construction around MasternodeNetInfo::Legacy and operator_public_key to obtain
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