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Summary

  • Implement MNT (Multi-Native Token) transfer, gas metering, and precompile contracts in the EVM execution layer
  • Introduce the TokenIDQueried flag mechanism, requiring contracts to acknowledge non-default token transfers by calling the currentMntID precompile
  • Add 5 QKC MNT precompiles: currentMntID, transferMnt, mintMNT, balanceMNT, and deploySystemContract

Background

This PR builds on feature/mnt-state. The EVM layer needs to support:

  1. MNT gas token: Message.GasTokenID allows gas to be paid with a specified token (currently only the QKC default token is supported; non-default tokens revert).
  2. MNT transfer token: Message.TransferTokenID specifies the token used for the transfer. The EVM Transfer() routes to ETH balance or MNT balance based on the token ID.
  3. TokenIDQueried mechanism: A contract receiving a non-default token must call the currentMntID precompile during execution, otherwise the EVM rolls back the transfer. This mirrors pyquarkchain's is_token_id_queried logic, preventing MNT-unaware contracts from silently receiving tokens they cannot handle.

Key Design Decisions

TokenIDQueried propagation: DELEGATECALL / CALLCODE propagate TokenIDQueried back to the caller via ModifyTokenIDQueried(), ensuring correct semantics under proxy contract patterns:

CALL(transferMnt, tokenID=X, value=V)
  └─ temporarily set TxContext.TransferTokenID = X
     └─ CALL(recipient, data, value=V)
          ├─ contract calls currentMntID → sets TokenIDQueried=true → OK
          └─ contract does not call currentMntID → TokenIDQueried=false → transfer reverts

CanTransfer / Transfer signature change: Both functions gain a tokenID uint64 parameter to route value transfers to the correct token balance. All call sites (including tests) are updated to pass the token ID.

QKC Precompile Contracts

Address Contract Gas Description
0x...514b430001 currentMntID 3 Return the current transfer token ID; set TokenIDQueried=true
0x...514b430002 transferMnt dynamic Transfer a specified MNT token and optionally call the recipient
0x...514b430003 deploySystemContract 3 Deploy an MNT system contract (index 2 or 3)
0x...514b430004 mintMNT 9000 Mint a new MNT token (only callable by the NonReservedNativeToken system contract)
0x...514b430005 balanceMNT 400 Query the MNT token balance of an address

MNT System Contracts

Two Solidity system contracts are deployed on-chain via the deploySystemContract precompile. Their bytecode is ported directly from goquarkchain and embedded in contracts_qkc.go.

Address Contract Description
0x514b430000000000000000000000000000000002 NonReservedNativeToken Manages auction-based registration and lifecycle of non-reserved MNT token IDs
0x514b430000000000000000000000000000000003 GeneralNativeToken Manages reserved MNT token IDs with fixed exchange rates

Changed Files

Core execution

File Description
core/evm.go CanTransfer / Transfer take a tokenID param and route to MNT balance methods
core/state_transition.go Add GasTokenID / TransferTokenID to Message; validate non-default gas token in buyGas()
core/vm/interface.go Add GetMntBalance / AddMntBalance / SubMntBalance to StateDB interface
core/vm/evm.go Add GasTokenID / TransferTokenID to TxContext; add TokenIDQueried check in Call(); add runMNTPrecompiledContract dispatch
core/vm/contract.go Add TokenIDQueried bool field to Contract
core/vm/instructions.go CALL / CALLCODE / DELEGATECALL / STATICCALL propagate the flag via ModifyTokenIDQueried()
core/vm/contracts.go Register QKC MNT precompile contracts; add PrecompiledContractWithEVM interface
core/vm/contracts_qkc.go 5 QKC precompile implementations; embeds bytecode for the two MNT system contracts (ported from goquarkchain)

Tests — adapter updates (safe to ignore during review)

These files only update CanTransfer / Transfer call sites to pass the new tokenID parameter, or add MNT stubs to satisfy the updated StateDB interface. No test logic changed.

File Description
core/vm/gas_table_test.go Update CanTransfer / Transfer stubs to include tokenID param
core/vm/interpreter_test.go Update Transfer stub to include tokenID param
eth/tracers/js/tracer_test.go Add MNT stub methods to dummyStatedb

Tests — new and updated logic

File Description
core/vm/contracts_qkc_test.go New: MNT transfer and token ID propagation tests
core/eth_transfer_logs_test.go QKC fork: Transfer() no longer emits EthTransferLog (only SELFDESTRUCT retains it)

Test Plan

  • go test -run=Mnt ./core/vm — all pass
  • go test ./core/vm — all pass
  • go build ./... — build successful

Comment thread core/vm/contracts.go
case rules.IsByzantium:
return PrecompiledAddressesByzantium
default:
return PrecompiledAddressesHomestead

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MNT precompiles are executable through activePrecompiledContracts, but ActivePrecompiles still returns only the base address slices. StateDB.Prepare warms vm.ActivePrecompiles(rules), so under EIP-2929 the MNT precompiles are charged as cold accounts on first access. Please include the MNT addresses when rules.IsQKCMNT. (but need to check the existing behavior to avoid forking)

Comment thread core/vm/evm.go
if isPrecompile {
ret, gas, err = RunPrecompiledContract(evm.StateDB, p, addr, input, gas, evm.Config.Tracer, evm.chainRules)
if mntP, ok := p.(PrecompiledContractWithEVM); ok {
ret, gas, err = runMNTPrecompiledContract(evm, mntP, addr, input, gas, caller, value)

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Call dispatches MNT precompiles through RunWithEVM, but CallCode, DelegateCall, and StaticCall still use RunPrecompiledContract, which calls the plain Run method. The MNT precompile Run methods intentionally return errMNTNotDispatchedDirectly, so these opcodes fail for MNT precompiles. This especially breaks read-only precompiles such as balanceMNT/currentMntID, which should be callable via STATICCALL.

Comment thread core/vm/contracts_qkc.go
return nil, err
}
contract.Gas = leftOver
return targetAddr.Bytes(), nil

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deploySystemContract selects a fixed targetAddr, but then calls normal evm.Create, which deploys to CreateAddress(caller, nonce) instead. The precompile returns targetAddr without putting code there, so the system contracts remain undeployed and later calls/mints cannot work.

ping-ke and others added 8 commits August 3, 2026 15:27
- Add TokenBalances type with sorted list encoding compatible with pyquarkchain
- Add StateAccount.MntBalances field and QKC 6-element RLP codec
  (replaces generated gen_account_rlp.go with hand-written EncodeRLP/DecodeRLP)
- Add uint32 RLP encoding helpers for token IDs
- Update genesis hashes to reflect QKC 6-element account encoding
- Add comprehensive tests: roundtrip, pyquarkchain encode/decode compatibility
Comment 1: SlimAccount only held {Nonce,Balance,Root,CodeHash}, so the
slim-RLP path used by SlimAccountRLP (stateupdate.go account updates/
origins), FullAccount (pathdb rollback in triedb/pathdb/execute.go) and
flatReader.Account (snapshot flat read) silently dropped MntBalances and
FullShardKey. A QKC account served from any of those paths came back with
MntBalances=nil / FullShardKey=0 and re-committed a corrupted account,
forking the trie root.

Extend SlimAccount with:
  - MntBal       []byte (rlp optional) = TokenBalances.SerializeToBytes()
  - FullShardKey uint32 (rlp optional)

MntBal uses the []byte serialization (TokenBalances holds an unexported
map, not RLP-struct-encodable) and preserves the nil-vs-empty distinction
so the 0x80 / 0x8200c0 trie encoding stays byte-stable across the slim
round-trip. Unlike the trie qkcAccountRLP.TokenBal, the QKC default
balance is NOT merged into MntBal — slim keeps it in the Balance field.
Both fields are rlp optional so pre-MNT snapshots still decode. Because
FullAccount now reconstructs both fields, the pathdb rollback path is
covered without further changes.

Extend TestSlimRLPRoundTripEquivalence with fullShardKey / MNT-only /
MNT+QKC+shard cases (direct-QKC-encode == via-slim-encode).

Comment 3: remove the rlpgen go:generate directive. StateAccount now uses
the hand-written QKC codec (EncodeRLP/DecodeRLP in state_account_qkc.go);
regenerating gen_account_rlp.go would reintroduce a conflicting standard
4-field codec that drops MntBalances / FullShardKey. Replaced the
directive with a NOTE explaining why it must stay removed.

Comment 2 (empty() must consider MntBalances) is resolved downstream on
feature/mnt-state (stateObject.empty() checks IsBlankMnt(), covered by
TestEmptyAccountWithMntNotPruned); core/state is not part of this branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes found while reviewing the MNT account encoding:

- EncodeRLP no longer dereferences a nil *TokenBalances. When Balance is
  nil (or zero) and MntBalances is non-nil but empty, mergeQKCTokenBalances
  returns nil, and the old three-branch switch fell through to calling
  SerializeToBytes on that nil receiver. Collapsing the switch into a single
  nil-guarded path removes the whole class of gap.

- DecodeRLP rejects a non-empty optional field instead of silently dropping
  it. pyquarkchain's _Account always writes b"" there, so a non-empty value
  could only come from a foreign encoder, and discarding it would change the
  bytes on re-encode.

- Dropped the dead rlp:"optional" tag on StateAccount.MntBalances. The type
  has a hand-written codec so the tag never applied, and as written it was
  invalid (an optional field followed by the non-optional FullShardKey), which
  would break any future codec built for this struct.

- Removed qkc/common/uint32_rlp.go: qkc/common/special_rlp.go now provides
  Uint32 after it moved down from qkc/types.

Deliberately unchanged: the zero-valued-token-balance encoding is
non-idempotent (first encode 0x00c0, re-encode empty) because pyquarkchain's
TokenBalances.serialize tests len(_balances) before filtering zero balances.
Canonicalizing it would fork the account trie root. Pinned by
TestStateAccountEmptyBalancesPythonGolden.

SlimAccountRLP keeps panicking on a serialization error, matching the
surrounding geth convention.

Adds TestStateAccountEncodeBalanceMntCombinations, covering Balance
(nil/zero/non-zero) against MntBalances (nil/empty/zero-valued/non-zero) and
pinning the wire TokenBal for each.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build on feature/mnt-core-types to integrate MNT support into StateDB
and related infrastructure.

**common:**
- Add common/token_codec.go: standalone token encode/decode (mirrors
  qkc/common implementation, no import cycle)

**core/state:**
- Add StateDB MNT balance methods (Get/Add/Sub/SetMntBalance)
- Add state_object_qkc.go: MNT balance on state objects with
  QKC default token guard
- Add journal entries for MNT balance changes (mntBalanceChange)
- Add database_mpt.go: re-encode accountOrigin from slim-RLP to
  QKC 6-element format for pathdb history verification
- Add statedb_hooked.go MNT stubs
- Add statedb.go: fullShardKey tracking for new account creation

**triedb/pathdb:**
- Update execute.go to decode QKC 6-element accounts from accountOrigin
- Update database_test.go to encode accounts in QKC format
- Update generate_test.go golden hash for QKC encoding

**Tests:**
- Add core/state/mnt_test.go: MNT balance, journal revert, encode/
  decode roundtrip, empty account pruning, copy aliasing
- Fix state_test.go golden hashes (TestDump, TestIterativeDump)
- Skip TestGeneration/TestGenerateCorruptAccountTrie (golden hash
  recalculation needed for QKC trie node hashes)
- Skip upstream golden hash tests: forkid, genesis, filters, tracers,
  ethapi, block/state tests

**Tools:**
- Add tools/verify_state/main.go: QKC state verification tool
- Add tools/dump_state/dump_qkc_state_trie.py: state trie dump script

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…m account

An account served from the snapshot flat layer went StateAccount ->
SlimAccountRLP -> SlimAccount -> StateAccount, but SlimAccount only held
{Nonce, Balance, Root, CodeHash}. Any QKC account read from the snapshot
therefore came back with MntBalances=nil and FullShardKey=0, giving a
wrong balance and, on re-commit, a corrupted account that forks the
trie root.

Extend SlimAccount with:
  - MntBal       []byte
  - FullShardKey uint32

MntBal stores TokenBalances.SerializeToBytes() (TokenBalances holds an
unexported map and is not RLP-struct-encodable). The nil-vs-non-nil
distinction is preserved so the 0x80 / 0x8200c0 trie encoding stays
stable across a snapshot round-trip. Unlike the trie qkcAccountRLP the
QKC default balance is NOT merged into MntBal — the slim format keeps it
in the separate Balance field.

Both fields are rlp:"optional" so pre-MNT snapshots still decode.

- SlimAccountRLP / FullAccount: serialize / deserialize the new fields.
- flatReader.Account: decode MntBal and copy FullShardKey onto the
  returned StateAccount.
- Add TestSlimAccountRoundtripPreservesMNT guarding the regression.
- snapshot_test.go: %x/%#x on *SlimAccount no longer vet-compiles once it
  holds a []byte; switch those diagnostics to %+v.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… tool

Address MNT state-layer review findings:

- state_object.go: newObject aliased origin.MntBalances with data.MntBalances
  (shallow struct copy). SetMntBalance mutates the map in place, so an MNT
  change on a loaded object also rewrote s.origin, corrupting the pathdb
  rollback baseline at commit. Deep-copy the map, mirroring deepCopy().
- mnt_test.go: add TestLoadedObjectDoesNotAliasOriginMnt covering the
  load-path (newObject) aliasing that the existing Copy() test missed.
- statedb.go: fix stale createObject doc — it now intentionally reads the
  existing account to preserve the QuarkChain FullShardKey on resurrection.
- tools/verify_state: the tr.Hash() == stateRoot check was a tautology (a
  freshly opened root returns its cached hash). Add real integrity checks in
  recomputeRoot: keccak256(blob) == key per node, state root presence, and a
  full traversal asserting reachable node count == store size.
- triedb/pathdb/execute.go: document the invariant that ctx.accounts must be
  full QKC-account RLP; UBT's slim-RLP origins must never reach this MPT-only
  revert path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ping-ke force-pushed the feature/mnt-state branch from fb5eb96 to 2623b83 Compare August 3, 2026 08:17
ping-ke and others added 3 commits August 3, 2026 16:55
Integrate Multi-Native Token (MNT) support into the EVM execution layer,
building on the foundational types/state layer from feature/mnt-types-state.

**Core execution:**
- core/evm.go: Add tokenID params to CanTransfer/Transfer, route to
  GetMntBalance/SubMntBalance/AddMntBalance for non-QKC tokens
- core/state_transition.go: Add Message.GasTokenID/TransferTokenID fields,
  check MNT balance in buyGas(), debit correct token in state transition

**VM layer:**
- core/vm/interface.go: Add GetMntBalance/AddMntBalance/SubMntBalance to
  StateDB interface
- core/vm/evm.go: Add TxContext.GasTokenID/TransferTokenID, enforce MNT
  token acknowledgement check, route through runMNTPrecompiledContract
- core/vm/contract.go: Add Contract.TokenIDQueried flag for MNT acknowledgement
- core/vm/instructions.go: Add ModifyTokenIDQueried() to propagate flag from
  CALL/CALLCODE/DELEGATECALL/STATICCALL

**Precompiles:**
- core/vm/contracts.go: Register QKC precompiles (currentMntID, nativeMntTransfer)
- core/vm/contracts_qkc.go: Implement QKC-specific precompiles with EVM context
- core/vm/contracts_qkc_test.go: Add MNT transfer and token ID propagation tests

**Tests:**
- core/eth_transfer_logs_test.go: Update for QKC fork (Transfer() no longer
  emits EthTransferLog, only SELFDESTRUCT does)
- eth/tracers/js/tracer_test.go: Add MNT stubs to dummyStatedb

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Without timestamp gating, replaying blocks before MNT activation would
incorrectly execute the MNT precompile/system-contract addresses and
fork from the canonical chain.

Add ChainConfig.QKCMNTTime *uint64 (json:"qkcMNTTime") following the
same pattern as ShanghaiTime/CancunTime. Add Rules.IsQKCMNT bool and
ChainConfig.IsQKCMNT(time uint64) bool, populated in Rules().

In activePrecompiledContracts (core/vm/contracts.go) gate the MNT
precompile map merge behind rules.IsQKCMNT so that prior to activation
the addresses are ordinary accounts, mirroring goquarkchain's per-
contract enableTime check in core/vm/evm.go run().

Set QKCMNTTime=0 in TestChainConfig and MergedTestChainConfig so
existing MNT precompile tests continue to pass.

Ref: goquarkchain cmd/cluster/config.go SetEnableTime calls
     goquarkchain core/vm/evm.go run() enableTime gating

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ping-ke force-pushed the feature/mnt-state branch 2 times, most recently from d9ea7ce to d514d05 Compare August 6, 2026 03:39
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