After LoadSnapshot, the daemon has headers + UTXOs but the raw block
bodies haven't been downloaded yet — they'll arrive via P2P as the
node syncs past the snapshot tip. LoadBlockIndex's verification
loop tries to read the last 50 block bodies from disk and fails
with 'OpenBlockFile failed' because the data isn't on disk yet.
Add fLoadedFromSnapshot global, set true at the end of successful
LoadSnapshot. In both txdb-leveldb.cpp and txdb-rocksdb.cpp LoadBlockIndex
verification loops, when ReadFromDisk fails AND fLoadedFromSnapshot is
true, log a warning and continue (the UTXO set itself was already
content-hash verified during LoadSnapshot, so we have strong evidence
the chain state is correct).
For non-snapshot chains (full blk0001.dat downloaded, normal IBD), the
ReadFromDisk failure remains a fatal error as before.
Combined with the prior fix in utxosnapshot.cpp that sets
fSerializeChainTrust=true before writes, the full snapshot path now
works end-to-end on a fresh datadir.
Persisted hashNext can be stale or zeroed by crash-interrupted reorgs, breaking GetKernelStakeModifier()'s forward walk and silently rejecting valid new PoS blocks ('check kernel failed', hashProof=0). On DNS3 every one of 2,201,458 links was zeroed on disk. Root cause of the 2026-04-24 chain halt. Rebuild the in-memory links from pindexBest at every startup.
Migration from boost to std-library equivalents and removal of unreachable
code paths. Touches infrastructure only — no consensus rule or wallet
serialization changes.
Dead code removed:
- IRC bootstrap (irc.cpp/h, 417 lines): orphan from pre-Tor era, no callers.
- Alert system (alert.cpp/h + sendalert RPC + Qt UI signal, ~500 lines):
retired post-V5 fork; old peers' alert messages now hit the unknown-cmd
default branch, logged + ignored.
- Legacy P2P handlers in main.cpp: "checkpoint" (already a no-op stub since
V5 fork master-key removal), "checkorder"/"reply" (2010-era Receive-by-IP
feature), plus their unused supporting structures (CRequestTracker,
PushRequest overloads, mapRequests/cs_mapRequests, mapReuseKey).
- Unreachable RPCs clearwallettransactions and scanforalltxns (~175 lines):
defined in rpcwallet.cpp but never registered in the dispatch table.
- Stale -alertnotify CLI help text (option was advertised but never wired).
boost::filesystem -> std::filesystem (C++17):
- 30 source files, 5 headers. namespace fs = boost::filesystem swapped to
namespace fs = std::filesystem; boost::filesystem::ifstream/ofstream
replaced with std::ifstream/ofstream (path-aware in C++17);
fs::system_complete -> fs::absolute; boost::filesystem::filesystem_error
-> std::filesystem::filesystem_error.
- Build system: dropped Boost::filesystem from link libs and Boost
components; PCH includes updated.
- Added explicit <filesystem> includes where types were previously
available only transitively (db.h, rpcblockchain.cpp).
boost::thread -> std::thread (12 files):
- sync.h CCriticalSection/CWaitableCriticalSection now alias
std::recursive_mutex/std::mutex. boost::unique_lock and
boost::condition_variable / boost::mutex::scoped_lock swapped to std
equivalents; sync.cpp boost::thread_specific_ptr -> thread_local
std::unique_ptr.
- init.cpp boost::thread_group rewritten as std::vector<std::thread> with
manual join loop. boost::thread::hardware_concurrency ->
std::thread::hardware_concurrency.
- main.cpp/wallet.cpp -blocknotify/-walletnotify shell-out threads now use
std::thread(...).detach() — fixes a latent bug where modern boost::thread
destructor would call std::terminate on the joinable thread.
- util.cpp NewThread now catches std::system_error.
- No interruption_point/interrupt usage anywhere — pure mechanical swap.
boost::chrono / boost::posix_time -> std::chrono (3 of 5 files):
- util.h: MilliSleep, GetTimeMillis, GetTimeMicros rewritten on std::chrono
(system_clock for epoch math, sleep_for for delays).
- snapshotnet.cpp: sleep_for swapped.
- DoS_tests.cpp: timing harness uses steady_clock.
- Skipped: rpcdump.cpp (boost::posix_time::time_input_facet has no clean
std::get_time equivalent) and qt/qtipcserver.cpp (locked to
boost::posix_time by boost::interprocess::message_queue::timed_receive).
Other housekeeping:
- Dropped unnecessary "using namespace boost;" from txdb-leveldb.cpp,
txdb-rocksdb.cpp, walletdb.cpp, db.cpp (verified no unqualified boost
names in those TUs).
- Removed unused extern declaration for clearwallettransactions.
Build fixes for non-unity builds on MinGW64/GCC 15:
- net.cpp: dropped stale #include "irc.h".
- addrman.cpp + main.cpp: explicit <cmath> include for sqrt/pow (was
arriving transitively via boost headers).
- rpcblockchain.cpp + init.cpp: defensive #undef STRICT/ADVISORY/PERMISSIVE
since windows.h macros collide with the Checkpoints:: enum values when
std headers reorder include flow.
- tor_embed_hooks.cpp: triangles_tor_check_interrupted now polls fShutdown
instead of boost::this_thread::interruption_requested (we never used
boost interruption — the hook was always effectively a no-op).
- snapshotnet.cpp: fs::remove error handle uses std::error_code.
- serialize.h: added <ios> for std::ios::badbit/failbit (was relying on
transitive include via boost).
Note: unity builds currently fail on this branch due to std::byte (C++17)
colliding with COM 'byte' typedef from shlobj.h when 'using namespace std;'
from earlier files in the unity slice leaks into util.cpp's parse of
shlobj.h. Build with -DENABLE_UNITY_BUILD=OFF (the default).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First step of the multi-phase chaindb modernization plan. Introduces a
backend-agnostic abstraction over the chain database:
* CTxDBBase — abstract class owning all serialization and named
operations (ReadTxIndex, WriteBlockIndex, ReadAddressBalance, etc.).
Templated Read/Write/Erase/Exists dispatch to byte-level virtuals
(ReadRaw/WriteRaw/EraseRaw/ExistsRaw) so every backend produces
bit-identical key bytes — required for migration and dual-backend
parity testing later.
* CTxDBIteratorBase — abstract iterator. Backends implement Seek,
Valid, Next, KeyStr, ValueStr.
* CTxDB now inherits from CTxDBBase and only implements the byte-level
I/O, batch lifecycle, NewIterator, and LoadBlockIndex (which still
uses leveldb directly during the v3 dbformat upgrade — extracted to
base in a later phase).
* UTXO read-through cache moved to txdb-base.cpp under an anonymous
namespace — backend-agnostic so RocksDB will get it for free.
* GetAddressUtxos / GetAddressTxIds / SumUtxoValues moved to base,
using NewIterator() instead of pdb->NewIterator().
No call-site changes — every existing CTxDB user keeps working exactly
as before. Stack allocations like `CTxDB txdb("r")` still work because
CTxDB remains a concrete, cheap-to-construct class. Behavior is
bit-identical: same key serialization, same batch semantics, same
LoadBlockIndex flow.
Sets up M1.2 (factory + caller conversion to CTxDBBase&) and M1.3
(RocksDB backend) — neither requires touching consensus paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Version System:
- Unified version display as v5.8.2 (removed trailing .0)
- Single source of truth in clientversion.h
- Fixed version.cpp to use CLIENT_VERSION_* macros
Staking Improvements:
- Enhanced getstakinginfo with detailed diagnostics
- Shows specific reasons when staking is disabled
- Added wallet lock status, mature coins check, peer count
Performance & Sync:
- Added checkpoint at block 2,200,000 (hash: 0a8d0442...)
- 14 total checkpoints for faster sync
- Enhanced recalculatesupply RPC with safety validation
- Prevents changes > 1M TRI, fixes money supply tracking
Anti-Fork Protection:
- Enhanced reorganize logging with fork details
- Shows old/new tips, fork point, disconnect/connect counts
- Works with existing anti-oscillation and chain re-eval fixes
Recovery Tools (Krystie):
- -reindex flag for full block index rebuild
- recalculatesupply RPC to fix money supply from UTXOs
- SumUtxoValues() helper for UTXO set analysis
All changes are non-consensus and wallet-safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Krystie <krystie@cryptographic-triangles.org>
- Fix moneysupply calculation in FastImportBlockFile and ConnectBlock assumevalid path
- Route bootstrap downloads through Tor SOCKS proxy (no more clearnet leaks)
- Remove hardcoded clearnet fallback IP from bootstrap
- Fix snprintf missing argument in walletmodel.cpp narration key (UB/crash)
- Fix potential null deref from db_strerror() in rpcwallet.cpp
- Filter non-.onion addresses from HTTPS seed list parser
- Add periodic re-seeding when node has 0 outbound peers
- Make clientversion.h single source of truth for version display string
- Remove redundant DISPLAY_VERSION macros from version.h
- Update README: max supply 2,222,222, CMake build instructions, Tor-only config
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace per-transaction CTxIndex spent tracking with per-output UTXO
database (CUtxoEntry). ConnectBlock writes/erases UTXOs as blocks are
processed. FetchInputs reads directly from UTXO DB instead of
deserializing full transactions from disk.
Persist nChainTrust in block index (dbformat v3) to skip expensive
recalculation on every startup. Only populate setStakeSeen for last
500 blocks instead of all 2M+.
Lazy fallback to old CTxIndex path for databases upgrading from
pre-UTXO format - no big-bang migration required.
Fixes pre-existing bugs in introdialog.cpp (extra brace) and
net_bootstrap.cpp (namespace extern).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Major sync performance improvements while preserving consensus:
- Header-first sync planner: receives and caches headers ahead of block
downloads, building a verified chain-trust map. Uses a sliding download
window (128 blocks in-flight, 30s timeout) to request blocks in order
from the best known header chain.
- Merged DB transactions: AddToBlockIndex and SetBestChain now share a
single LevelDB WriteBatch, halving the per-block commit count.
- Multi-peer block requests: pipeline refill and stall recovery now send
getblocks+getheaders to ALL connected full-node peers, not just one.
- LevelDB tuning: 64MB write buffer (vs 4MB default), 1000 max open files
for reduced memtable flush frequency during IBD.
- Larger getdata batches: 4000 items during IBD (vs 1000) to reduce
round-trip overhead with small PoS blocks.
- Tighter stall detection: 5-second timeout (vs 10s) for faster rotation
away from slow peers.
- Higher orphan limit during IBD: 4000 (vs 750) to prevent eviction and
re-download when blocks arrive out-of-order from parallel peers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Changes improve sync speed without changing consensus:
- dbcache: 128MB → 2048MB (better caching during sync)
- checkblocks: 2500 → 24 (faster startup validation)
- checklevel: 1 → 2 (lighter verification during sync)
These changes make the node faster to sync and restart while maintaining
security and consensus compatibility.
The sync checkpoint (hashSyncCheckpoint) was persisted in LevelDB pointing
to block 2,186,940. On startup it was loaded from DB, overriding any code
change to the initial value. CheckSync then rejected every block below
that height during IBD since they weren't in mapBlockIndex yet.
Three-pronged fix:
- CheckSync now always returns true (master key disabled, no new sync
checkpoints will ever be broadcast)
- AcceptBlock no longer calls sync checkpoint enforcement
- LoadBlockIndex resets sync checkpoint to genesis if stored hash is
not in the block index (prevents assert crash)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Startup optimization (fixes multi-minute hang on 2M+ block chain):
- Skip computing SHA-256 stake modifier checksum for blocks below last
checkpoint (was doing 2M+ unnecessary hashes on every startup)
- Reduce default -checkblocks from 2500 to 50 (disk read savings)
- Add progress percentage reporting during block index load
Headers-first sync (faster initial sync):
- Switch initial sync from getblocks to getheaders protocol
- Add PushGetHeaders and headers message handler in net/main
- Downloads 80-byte headers first, then requests blocks — allows
the node to learn chain structure before downloading full blocks
Address-index accelerated wallet rescan:
- New ScanForWalletTransactionsFromIndex() uses address index to find
only transactions touching wallet keys (skips scanning every block)
- Follows spend chains to find related transactions
- Falls back to full scan if index unavailable
- Track index sync state with addressIndexBestChain/StartHeight in LevelDB
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Defer SecureMsgStart and ReacceptWalletTransactions to background thread
so GUI appears faster during startup
- Add shutdown checks in wallet scan/reaccept to prevent hanging on exit
- Smart wallet rescan: start from wallet birthday instead of genesis block
- Raise default dbcache from 25 to 128 MB for better performance
- Replace deprecated QDesktopServices with QStandardPaths (Qt5 compat)
- Enforce Qt5+ requirement in build system, remove -fpermissive flag
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Port codebase to build with OpenSSL 3.x and Boost 1.90+:
- Rewrite bignum.h to use BIGNUM* pointer instead of inheriting from opaque BIGNUM
- Fix ECDSA_SIG, EVP_CIPHER_CTX, HMAC_CTX opaque type access across key.cpp, crypter.cpp, smessage.cpp
- Modernize Boost.Asio API (io_context, resolver, executor) in trianglesrpc.cpp
- Remove embedded Tor v2 client (incompatible with OpenSSL 3.x), keep Tor v3 SOCKS5 approach
- Update header logo to Cryptographic Triangles branding (300x63)
- Replace Bittrex exchange link with Pinball (313.cash) across all locales
- Fix MSYS2/MinGW64 build: linker flags, Boost library names, miniupnpc static linking
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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