docs(dip27): version 2 Asset Unlock transactions with stable txids and InstantSend locks - #189
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…drawal identifier Version 2 Asset Unlock transactions are serialized identically to version 1 but introduce a withdrawal transaction identifier: the transaction hashed with signHeight, quorumHash, and quorumSig set to zeros. Outputs are referenced by this identifier, so transactions spending an unmined withdrawal remain valid when Platform re-signs it, and such spends become eligible for InstantSend. Also fixes existing errata (asset lock/unlock wording, duplicated word, TOC omission, table styles) and bumps the DIP-2 registry payload version.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe DIPs update Asset Unlock and coinbase payload versions, define version 2 transaction identity and block commitments, document InstantSend and spending rules, and add a Python txid calculation utility. ChangesAsset Unlock Version 2
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Version 2 Asset Unlocks add stable transaction IDs and synthetic-outpoint InstantSend locking, but contradictory eligibility guidance and incomplete light-client instance verification rules could lead to incompatible implementations or acceptance of an unverified signed instance. Resolve both specification gaps before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AssetUnlock
participant Masternodes
participant Mempool
participant Coinbase
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AssetUnlock->>Masternodes: request version 2 InstantSend signatures
Masternodes->>Mempool: validate and lock the synthetic outpoint
Mempool->>Coinbase: include the Asset Unlock instance hash
Coinbase->>LightClient: provide the block commitment
LightClient->>LightClient: verify the stable txid and merkle proof
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Restore original emphasis style and table formatting on untouched lines; keep only wording changes required by the v2 amendment.
Instead of a separate withdrawal transaction identifier with outputs tracked under it, the txid of a version 2 Asset Unlock transaction is itself computed with the signHeight, quorumHash and quorumSig fields zeroed, so every re-signed instance of one withdrawal is the same transaction and spends reference it like any other. The hash of the full serialization becomes the instance hash, used for relay (new MSG_ASSET_UNLOCK inventory type) and for a new coinbase commitment: CbTx version 4 (DIP-4) commits to the instance hashes the block merkle root no longer covers, with mismatches treated as block mutation.
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In `@dip-0027.md`:
- Line 166: Update the Asset Unlock transaction expiration wording so the “48 or
more” statement and its parenthetical use the same boundary operator, clearly
defining validity at exactly signHeight + 48.
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| Since Asset Unlock transactions do not have inputs, they are not eligible for InstantSend. Once mined into a block and subsequently ChainLocked, they are final and identical to all other outputs. A withdrawal should be considered complete when the corresponding Asset Unlock transaction is finalized on the Core chain. | ||
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| Asset Unlock transactions might not be mined for multiple reasons. For example, the quorum who signed a transaction expired, Core fees were too low, or the withdrawal limit was reached. To handle this situation, Asset Unlock transactions have an expiration period based on the quorum lifetime. Transactions are considered invalid if not signed by one of the active quorums or the most recently replaced quorum. In this case, the issuer can retry the withdrawal. To ensure that expired transactions are not included in the Core chain, Asset Lock transactions are refused once the block height exceeds _signHeight_ by 48 or more (i.e., height > _signHeight_ + 48). | ||
| The outputs of a version 1 Asset Unlock transaction should not be spent until the transaction is mined, since the spend becomes invalid if the withdrawal is re-signed. The outputs of a version 2 Asset Unlock transaction may be spent before the transaction is mined, and these spends are eligible for InstantSend. Masternodes must only sign an InstantSend lock for such a spend after observing a validly signed instance of the withdrawal. At that point the withdrawal is irreversible on Platform, and Platform will re-sign the withdrawal until it is mined. Because the txid is stable across re-signs, both the spend and its InstantSend lock remain valid when the withdrawal is re-signed. Confirmation of such a spend depends on an instance of the withdrawal eventually being mined. |
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due to 24h limit for total amount of withdrawal some asset-unlock txes can stuck in mempool for very long time. But its spending eligible for IS and that's a bit strange.
Especially because expired asset-unlock transactions are removed from mempool at some point until platform will re-issue them with new signature and the same txid -> it means that there will be always some non-zero time when instant-send-locked transaction will be orphaned but Instant-Send protected.
Not sure how to tackle it correctly to make reliable and safe.
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Thanks, this concern drove a redesign of the section, now pushed.
The DIP no longer lets spends of an unlocked withdrawal be InstantSend-locked. Instead the version 2 Asset Unlock itself is locked, using its withdrawal index as a synthetic input ({request id, 0}), and masternodes sign that lock only when the unlock can be mined in the next block: a valid recent-quorum signature inside the height window, no other instance of the index in the mempool, and the sum of all withdrawals pending in the mempool within the credit pool limit. A withdrawal stuck on the daily limit is therefore never locked, and nothing downstream of it is either.
Once locked, the attestation is the same one every islock makes: this will be mined and nothing in consensus prevents it. Platform re-signs expired withdrawals until they are mined and has no refund path, so the only way a locked withdrawal fails to settle is a Platform bug that stops re-signing a withdrawal which was minable when it was locked. Expired version 2 instances are retained in the mempool awaiting the refresh rather than evicted, so the lock and its children survive the re-sign window, and because the txid is stable the refresh leaves both intact.
Implementation and tests: dashpay/dash#7639.
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Replace the rule that let spends of an unmined version 2 Asset Unlock be InstantSend-locked after observing a valid instance with a lock on the Asset Unlock itself. The lock pins the synthetic outpoint {signing request id of the index, 0}, so every instance of one withdrawal maps to the same outpoint and any other claimant of the index conflicts through the ordinary InstantSend rules. Masternodes sign it only when the unlock is minable in the next block: valid recent-quorum signature inside the height window, no other instance of the index in the mempool, and all pending withdrawals within the credit pool limit. Spends of a locked withdrawal are ordinary InstantSend transactions.
Also state the zeroed span of the version 2 txid as byte offsets and make the expiry boundary wording consistent (valid while height < signHeight + 48).
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In `@dip-0027.md`:
- Line 159: Update the InstantSend eligibility statement near the no-input
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explicitly preserving the version 2 synthetic-outpoint exception described
earlier. Keep the surrounding transaction behavior unchanged.
- Line 139: Update the light-client verification rule for version 2 Asset Unlock
transactions to validate the serialized mined instance against the block’s
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| When an Asset Unlock transaction is not mined before it expires, Platform re-signs the withdrawal and broadcasts a replacement transaction. The replacement differs from the original only in the `signHeight`, `quorumHash`, and `quorumSig` fields; the index, fee, and outputs are unchanged. Under version 1 hashing each replacement has a new transaction hash, so any transaction spending an output of an unmined withdrawal becomes invalid when the withdrawal is re-signed. | ||
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| To resolve this, the transaction hash (txid) of a version 2 Asset Unlock transaction is computed over the transaction serialized with the `signHeight`, `quorumHash`, and `quorumSig` fields set to zeros (payload bytes 13 through 144 inclusive, the trailing 132 bytes of the 145-byte payload), hashed as described in [DIP-2](./dip-0002.md#serialization-hashing-and-signing). Every re-signed instance of one withdrawal is therefore the same transaction: all instances share one txid, the transaction's outputs are tracked in the UTXO set and referenced by spending inputs under that txid as for any other transaction, and a transaction spending an output of an unmined version 2 Asset Unlock transaction remains valid regardless of which instance is eventually mined. Only one instance of a withdrawal can ever be mined since the index must be unique. |
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Require light clients to verify the mined instance.
DIP-4 commits the block to the full instance hash, but the light-client rule only requires verification of the stable txid. Require light clients to verify merkleRootAssetUnlocks before accepting the serialized transaction from a merkle proof.
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In `@dip-0027.md` at line 139, Update the light-client verification rule for
version 2 Asset Unlock transactions to validate the serialized mined instance
against the block’s merkleRootAssetUnlocks before accepting it from a merkle
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| A version 2 Asset Unlock transaction may be locked with InstantSend ([DIP-10](./dip-0010.md)) before it is mined. Since the transaction has no inputs, the lock pins a single synthetic outpoint derived from the withdrawal: |
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Scope the no-InstantSend rule to version 1.
The new rule at Line 159 permits a version 2 Asset Unlock to receive an InstantSend lock through a synthetic outpoint. However, Line 182 still says that Asset Unlock transactions are not eligible for InstantSend because they have no inputs. These statements give implementers conflicting behavior. Update Line 182 to describe the version 1 rule and the version 2 exception.
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- Since Asset Unlock transactions do not have inputs, they are not eligible for InstantSend.
+ Version 1 Asset Unlock transactions do not have inputs and are not eligible for InstantSend. Version 2 Asset Unlock transactions use the synthetic outpoint defined above for their InstantSend lock.🧰 Tools
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Amends DIP-0027 (plus the DIP-2 registry and DIP-4) to introduce version 2 Asset Unlock transactions, activating with the v24 hard fork. Goal: make unmined Platform withdrawals InstantSend-lockable and their spends valid across Platform's re-signs, so Platform→Core transfers become rapidly respendable.
Design ("segwit-for-unlocks"): a version 2 Asset Unlock is serialized identically to version 1, but its transaction hash is computed with the
signHeight,quorumHash, andquorumSigfields zeroed — exactly the fields Platform changes when it re-signs an expired withdrawal. Every re-signed instance of one withdrawal is therefore the same transaction with one txid: outputs are tracked and spent under it like any other transaction (no parallel identifier, no special spending rules for wallets), and children plus their InstantSend locks survive expiry and re-signing. Signature validity rules are unchanged from version 1, and the signed message hash still commits tosignHeightandquorumHash.Supporting changes:
merkleRootAssetUnlockscommits to the instance hashes (full-serialization hashes) of the block's version 2 Asset Unlocks, restoring the commitment the block merkle root no longer provides; mismatches are treated as block mutation.MSG_ASSET_UNLOCKinventory type, since a txid-based announcement can never propagate a re-sign; nodes keep the instance with the highersignHeightand retain expired instances awaiting a replacement.{signing request id of the index, 0}as its single input, so every instance of a withdrawal maps to one outpoint and any other claimant of the index conflicts through the ordinary rules. Masternodes sign only when the unlock is minable in the next block: valid recent-quorum signature inside the height window, no other instance of the index in the mempool, and all pending withdrawals within the credit pool limit. Spends of a locked withdrawal are ordinary InstantSend transactions. This replaces the earlier text that let spends of an unlocked withdrawal be locked after observing a valid instance.dip-0027/dip-0027-txid-calc.py); vectors are pinned byte-for-byte against the Dash Core implementation's unit tests.Implementation: dashpay/dash#7639.
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