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Summary

Validate Conway certificate deposits and refunds against protocol parameters and ledger state.

Changes

  • Validate explicit registration deposits and legacy registration state transitions.
  • Require registered credentials and exact recorded refunds on deregistration. A legacy deregistration supplies no refund, so the recorded deposit is the refund and is not compared against the current KeyDeposit.
  • Take the legacy deregistration refund in value conservation from the deposit recorded in ledger state. A credential registered before a KeyDeposit change otherwise failed conservation. The current parameter remains the fallback for a state that cannot report the recorded deposit.
  • Reject nonzero reward balances after applying transaction withdrawals.
  • Add overflow-safe diagnostics and production-path coverage for key/script credentials and state folding.

Consumers

StakeCredentialDepositState is a new optional ledger-state capability. Certificate validation requires it once a credential resolves as registered. Dingo's implementation is blinklabs-io/dingo#3642.

Validation

  • Focused normal and race tests for common, Conway, and Dijkstra
  • 315 Amaru conformance vectors
  • Focused golangci-lint
  • Fail-before regression proof

Closes #2128

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Adds Conway validation for stake credential and DRep certificate deposits and deregistration refunds. The rule reads protocol parameters and optional ledger deposit state, tracks state across certificates, applies withdrawals before deregistration, and rejects invalid registration, refund, registration-state, and reward-balance conditions. The rule is included in the Dijkstra validation pipeline. Production-path tests cover key-hash and native-script credentials, certificate variants, withdrawals, and state folding.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3eb31

The PR adds stricter certificate deposit and refund validation, but affected ledger-state providers must support the new recorded-deposit capability and provide consistent state during validation; otherwise valid transactions could be rejected or evaluated against mixed state. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on provider compatibility and snapshot semantics.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
ledger/conway/rules.go (2)

3492-3492: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Key drepStates by the same value used for the lookup.

loadDRep keys the cache on (cred.CredType, cred.Credential), but it resolves the registration with ls.DRepRegistration(cred.Credential), which uses the hash alone. Two DRep certificates that carry the same hash with different CredType therefore write two cache entries that describe one ledger registration, and the second certificate does not observe the state folded by the first. The result is over-rejection rather than acceptance, so no refund can be inflated, but the fold is incoherent. Key the cache on the hash to match the lookup.

♻️ Proposed refactor
 	drepStates := make(
-		map[certificateStakeCredentialKey]*common.DRepRegistration,
+		map[common.Blake2b224]*common.DRepRegistration,
 	)
 	loadDRep := func(cred common.Credential) (*common.DRepRegistration, error) {
-		key := stakeKey(cred)
+		key := cred.Credential
 		if state, found := drepStates[key]; found {
 			return state, nil
 		}
 		state, err := ls.DRepRegistration(cred.Credential)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		drepStates[key] = state
 		return state, nil
 	}

The two write sites also need updating:

drepStates[c.DrepCredential.Credential] = &common.DRepRegistration{
	Credential: c.DrepCredential.Credential,
	Deposit:    drepDeposit,
}
drepStates[c.DrepCredential.Credential] = nil
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In `@ledger/conway/rules.go` at line 3492, Update drepStates keying to use the
credential hash consistently, matching loadDRep’s ls.DRepRegistration lookup
rather than including CredType. Change the key construction at stakeKey(cred)
and both DRep registration write sites to use Credential, preserving the
existing registration values and nil-removal behavior.

3506-3520: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse the shared registration transition for StakeRegistrationCertificate.

This case repeats the whole body of registerStake (Lines 3436-3448) except the deposit check. The two copies must stay in sync for every future change to the stake state transition, for example a new field on certificateStakeState. Extract the state transition into one helper and call it from both places.

♻️ Proposed refactor
+	markStakeRegistered := func(cred common.Credential) error {
+		key := stakeKey(cred)
+		state, found := stakeStates[key]
+		if !found {
+			state.registered = ls.IsStakeCredentialRegistered(cred)
+		}
+		if state.registered {
+			return StakeCredentialAlreadyRegisteredError{Credential: cred}
+		}
+		state.registered = true
+		state.deposit = keyDeposit
+		state.balance = 0
+		storeStakeState(cred, state)
+		return nil
+	}
 	registerStake := func(
 		cred common.Credential,
 		certificateType common.CertificateType,
 		supplied int64,
 	) error {
 		if supplied < 0 || uint64(supplied) != keyDeposit {
 			return CertificateDepositIncorrectError{
 				CertificateType: certificateType,
 				Supplied:        supplied,
 				Expected:        keyDeposit,
 			}
 		}
-		key := stakeKey(cred)
-		state, found := stakeStates[key]
-		if !found {
-			state.registered = ls.IsStakeCredentialRegistered(cred)
-		}
-		if state.registered {
-			return StakeCredentialAlreadyRegisteredError{Credential: cred}
-		}
-		state.registered = true
-		state.deposit = keyDeposit
-		state.balance = 0
-		storeStakeState(cred, state)
-		return nil
+		return markStakeRegistered(cred)
 	}

Then the certificate case becomes:

 		case *common.StakeRegistrationCertificate:
-			key := stakeKey(c.StakeCredential)
-			state, found := stakeStates[key]
-			if !found {
-				state.registered = ls.IsStakeCredentialRegistered(c.StakeCredential)
-			}
-			if state.registered {
-				return StakeCredentialAlreadyRegisteredError{
-					Credential: c.StakeCredential,
-				}
-			}
-			state.registered = true
-			state.deposit = keyDeposit
-			state.balance = 0
-			storeStakeState(c.StakeCredential, state)
+			if err := markStakeRegistered(c.StakeCredential); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
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In `@ledger/conway/rules.go` around lines 3506 - 3520, Extract the shared
stake-state transition from registerStake and the StakeRegistrationCertificate
case into a single helper, preserving the certificate path’s existing
deposit-check behavior. Have both call sites use the helper to perform the
registered, deposit, and balance updates and store the resulting
certificateStakeState consistently.
ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go (2)

568-572: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap the credential-type loops in t.Run.

TestDRepDeregistrationRefundProductionPath and TestCertificateDepositStateFoldProductionPath iterate the two credential types without a subtest. When an assertion fails, the output does not name the credential type, and require stops the test before the second type runs. TestCertificateDeregistrationStateProductionPath already uses t.Run at Line 408 for this reason. Apply the same pattern to both tests.

♻️ Proposed refactor for `TestDRepDeregistrationRefundProductionPath`
 	for _, credType := range []uint{
 		common.CredentialTypeAddrKeyHash,
 		common.CredentialTypeScriptHash,
 	} {
-		fixture := newCertificateDepositCredentialFixture(t, credType)
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("credential-%d", credType), func(t *testing.T) {
+			fixture := newCertificateDepositCredentialFixture(t, credType)
+			// ... existing body, indented one level
+		})
 	}

Also applies to: 662-665

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In `@ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go` around lines 568 - 572, Wrap the
credential-type loops in TestDRepDeregistrationRefundProductionPath and
TestCertificateDepositStateFoldProductionPath with t.Run subtests named using
the current credential type, matching the existing pattern in
TestCertificateDeregistrationStateProductionPath. Move each loop body into its
subtest so failures identify the credential type and each type runs
independently.

414-439: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider covering the two deposit-state failure branches.

buildState always attaches a deposit entry when registered is true, and every test passes a certificateDepositLedgerState. Two production branches therefore stay untested:

  • CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError (ledger/conway/rules.go Line 3360), reached when the ledger state does not implement common.StakeCredentialDepositState. Pass builder.Build() directly instead of wrapping it.
  • CertificateDepositStateInconsistentError (ledger/conway/rules.go Line 3367), reached when a credential is registered but no deposit is recorded. Set the reward balance without adding the deposits entry.

Both cases are cheap to add with the existing fixtures.

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In `@ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go` around lines 414 - 439, Extend
the certificate deposit tests around buildState to cover both failure branches:
pass builder.Build() directly to exercise
CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError, and create a registered state with
reward balance but no deposits entry to exercise
CertificateDepositStateInconsistentError. Reuse the existing fixtures and
preserve the current wrapped-state scenarios.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go`:
- Around line 568-572: Wrap the credential-type loops in
TestDRepDeregistrationRefundProductionPath and
TestCertificateDepositStateFoldProductionPath with t.Run subtests named using
the current credential type, matching the existing pattern in
TestCertificateDeregistrationStateProductionPath. Move each loop body into its
subtest so failures identify the credential type and each type runs
independently.
- Around line 414-439: Extend the certificate deposit tests around buildState to
cover both failure branches: pass builder.Build() directly to exercise
CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError, and create a registered state with
reward balance but no deposits entry to exercise
CertificateDepositStateInconsistentError. Reuse the existing fixtures and
preserve the current wrapped-state scenarios.

In `@ledger/conway/rules.go`:
- Line 3492: Update drepStates keying to use the credential hash consistently,
matching loadDRep’s ls.DRepRegistration lookup rather than including CredType.
Change the key construction at stakeKey(cred) and both DRep registration write
sites to use Credential, preserving the existing registration values and
nil-removal behavior.
- Around line 3506-3520: Extract the shared stake-state transition from
registerStake and the StakeRegistrationCertificate case into a single helper,
preserving the certificate path’s existing deposit-check behavior. Have both
call sites use the helper to perform the registered, deposit, and balance
updates and store the resulting certificateStakeState consistently.

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  • ledger/common/state.go
  • ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go
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Integration follow-up: testing the combined certificate-deposit and script-authorization changes reproduced an extraneous native-script witness in the legacy stake-registration fixture. Legacy registration has no credential-auth purpose, so the fixture was corrected to omit that witness; explicit registration/delegation cases retain their credential witnesses.

Validation: go test ./... -count=1 passes on the updated head. The combined ledger suite also passes with the authorization changes applied.

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Issue: Legacy stake deregistration incorrectly uses the current key deposit

File: ledger/conway/rules.go
PR-introduced line: 3469

The newly added validation rejects a legacy StakeDeregistrationCertificate
when the credential's recorded deposit differs from the current KeyDeposit:

if supplied == nil && state.deposit != keyDeposit {
	return CertificateRefundIncorrectError{
		CertificateType: certificateType,
		Supplied:        keyDeposit,
		Expected:        state.deposit,
	}
}

A credential may have registered before the KeyDeposit protocol parameter
changed. Its legacy deregistration should refund the deposit recorded in ledger
state, rather than require that deposit to equal the current parameter.

There is also a related integration gap in the pre-existing value-conservation
logic at ledger/conway/rules.go:1882:

consumedValue.Add(
	consumedValue,
	new(big.Int).SetUint64(uint64(tmpPparams.KeyDeposit)),
)

Although this line predates the PR, the PR introduces
StakeCredentialDepositState without updating value conservation to use the
recorded deposit. Consequently, a valid historical refund fails value
conservation.

Regression test

Add this test to ledger/conway/certificate_deposits_test.go:

func TestLegacyStakeDeregistrationRefundsRecordedDeposit(t *testing.T) {
	pp := certificateDepositPparams()
	pool := common.PoolKeyHash(common.Blake2b224Hash([]byte("pool")))
	fixture := newCertificateDepositCredentialFixture(
		t,
		common.CredentialTypeAddrKeyHash,
	)
	credentialCbor := []any{
		fixture.credential.CredType,
		fixture.credential.Credential.Bytes(),
	}
	certificateCbor, err := cbor.Encode([]any{
		uint64(common.CertificateTypeStakeDeregistration),
		credentialCbor,
	})
	require.NoError(t, err)

	// The credential registered before KeyDeposit changed, so its implicit
	// legacy deregistration refund is the deposit retained in ledger state,
	// rather than the current protocol-parameter value.
	recordedDeposit := uint64(pp.KeyDeposit) + 1
	tx := certificateDepositTransaction(
		t,
		fixture,
		[][]byte{certificateCbor},
		int64(recordedDeposit),
		0,
	)
	baseState := mockledger.NewLedgerStateBuilder().
		WithUtxos([]common.Utxo{{
			Id: shelley.NewShelleyTransactionInput(
				certificateDepositTxId,
				0,
			),
			Output: shelley.ShelleyTransactionOutput{
				OutputAmount: certificateDepositInputAmount,
			},
		}}).
		WithNetworkId(1).
		WithPoolRegistrations([]common.PoolRegistrationCertificate{{
			Operator: pool,
		}}).
		WithRewardAccountCredentialBalance(fixture.credential, 0).
		Build()
	ls := certificateDepositLedgerState{
		LedgerState: baseState,
		deposits: map[certificateDepositCredentialKey]uint64{
			{
				credType: fixture.credential.CredType,
				hash:     fixture.credential.Credential,
			}: recordedDeposit,
		},
	}

	require.NoError(t, runCertificateDepositProductionRules(t, tx, ls, pp))
}

Run the regression test with:

go test ./ledger/conway \
	-run TestLegacyStakeDeregistrationRefundsRecordedDeposit \
	-count=1

Current failure:

value not conserved: consumed 2000002000000, produced 2000002000001

This demonstrates that the implementation credits the current KeyDeposit
instead of the credential's recorded deposit.

A legacy stake deregistration carries no supplied refund, so comparing the
recorded deposit against the current KeyDeposit rejected any credential that
registered before the parameter changed. Drop that comparison.

Value conservation took the refund from the current KeyDeposit as well, so a
valid historical refund failed conservation. Take it from the deposit recorded
in ledger state when the state reports one. The current parameter remains a
fallback for a state that cannot, and UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits already
fails closed on that same state.

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Both findings confirmed and fixed in f5778d9.

  • Removed the supplied == nil && state.deposit != keyDeposit comparison in UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits. A legacy deregistration supplies no refund, so the recorded deposit is the refund and there is nothing to compare against the current parameter.
  • UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo now takes the legacy refund from StakeCredentialDepositState instead of tmpPparams.KeyDeposit. The parameter remains a fallback only for a ledger state that cannot report the recorded deposit, and UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits already fails closed on that same state, so the fallback cannot admit a mis-accounted transaction in a full rule run.

Coverage in certificate_deposits_test.go replaces legacy incorrect recorded refund, which asserted the removed behaviour:

  • legacy refund follows recorded deposit accepts a deregistration balanced against a recorded deposit of KeyDeposit + 1.
  • legacy refund of the parameter is not conserved rejects one balanced against the current parameter while state records more, which proves the refund comes from ledger state.

Both fail on the previous code and pass now. go build, go vet, gofmt, go test ./ledger/..., and go test -race ./ledger/conway/ pass locally.

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1 issue found across 5 files

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<file name="ledger/conway/rules.go">

<violation number="1" location="ledger/conway/rules.go:3376">
P2: UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits fails closed on every deregistration of a registered stake credential whenever the LedgerState does not implement the brand-new StakeCredentialDepositState interface. The only implementation in this repo is the test-only wrapper certificateDepositLedgerState; no production LedgerState (nor ouroboros-mock's MockLedgerState) provides StakeCredentialDeposit. Because the rule is registered in the production UtxoValidationRules for both Conway and Dijkstra, every tx that deregisters a registered credential against an existing ledger state will be rejected with CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError. Note the same PR falls back to the KeyDeposit parameter in UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo when the capability is missing, so deregistration is impossible for ledgers lacking the new method. Either provide/require a production implementation before enabling the rule, or make the missing deposit capability a fallback consistent with the value-conservation path.</violation>
</file>

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Comment thread ledger/conway/rules.go
if state.registered {
depositState, ok := ls.(common.StakeCredentialDepositState)
if !ok {
return state, CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError{}

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P2: UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits fails closed on every deregistration of a registered stake credential whenever the LedgerState does not implement the brand-new StakeCredentialDepositState interface. The only implementation in this repo is the test-only wrapper certificateDepositLedgerState; no production LedgerState (nor ouroboros-mock's MockLedgerState) provides StakeCredentialDeposit. Because the rule is registered in the production UtxoValidationRules for both Conway and Dijkstra, every tx that deregisters a registered credential against an existing ledger state will be rejected with CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError. Note the same PR falls back to the KeyDeposit parameter in UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo when the capability is missing, so deregistration is impossible for ledgers lacking the new method. Either provide/require a production implementation before enabling the rule, or make the missing deposit capability a fallback consistent with the value-conservation path.

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<comment>UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits fails closed on every deregistration of a registered stake credential whenever the LedgerState does not implement the brand-new StakeCredentialDepositState interface. The only implementation in this repo is the test-only wrapper certificateDepositLedgerState; no production LedgerState (nor ouroboros-mock's MockLedgerState) provides StakeCredentialDeposit. Because the rule is registered in the production UtxoValidationRules for both Conway and Dijkstra, every tx that deregisters a registered credential against an existing ledger state will be rejected with CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError. Note the same PR falls back to the KeyDeposit parameter in UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo when the capability is missing, so deregistration is impossible for ledgers lacking the new method. Either provide/require a production implementation before enabling the rule, or make the missing deposit capability a fallback consistent with the value-conservation path.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -3296,6 +3313,308 @@ func UtxoValidateWithdrawals(
+		if state.registered {
+			depositState, ok := ls.(common.StakeCredentialDepositState)
+			if !ok {
+				return state, CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError{}
+			}
+			deposit, err := depositState.StakeCredentialDeposit(cred)
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Half right, and the half that is wrong is worth recording because I tested it both ways.

Making value conservation fail closed to match, which is the consistency this asks for, rejects six Amaru conformance vectors, among them DELEG/Unregister_stake_credentials/deregistering_returns_the_deposit. The two rules do not reach the missing capability on the same transactions: value conservation needs a refund for every legacy deregistration, while UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits only asks for the deposit once IsStakeCredentialRegistered resolves the credential as registered. All 315 vectors pass with the fallback, so the fallback stays and the comment now records why rather than claiming symmetry that does not hold.

The premise that no state implements the capability is also not quite right going forward: blinklabs-io/dingo#3642 is the production implementation and is open alongside this. When the capability is present, the recorded deposit is used; when it is absent, the behaviour is what main already does.

TestUtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo now supplies the capability, so the recorded-deposit path is the one it covers.

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Confirmed accurate on the mechanism, and merged with it as designed rather than
changed.

certificateDepositFoldState does return CertificateDepositStateUnavailableError
when a credential resolves as registered and the ledger state does not implement
StakeCredentialDepositState, and nothing in this repository provides that
method outside the test wrapper. The asymmetry with
UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo is deliberate and documented in place: value
conservation runs for every legacy deregistration, so failing closed there
rejects six Amaru conformance vectors, while the deposit rule needs the
capability only once a credential resolves as registered.

Where this matters is release ordering, not correctness of the rule. A consumer
that adopts a release carrying this rule before it implements
StakeCredentialDeposit will reject deregistrations of registered credentials.
The Dingo-side implementation is blinklabs-io/dingo#3642, which is open and not
merged, so that consumer must land its implementation before adopting a
gouroboros release containing this change. Recorded as an ordering constraint
rather than left implicit.

Comment thread ledger/conway/errors.go
Comment thread ledger/conway/rules.go
UtxoValidateValueNotConservedUtxo fell back to the current KeyDeposit when a
ledger state could not report the recorded deposit, while
UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits failed closed on that same state for the same
certificate. Two rules disagreeing about what such a state may do is worse
than either answer, so value conservation fails closed too.

Type CertificateRefundIncorrectError.Supplied as int64 to match its deposit
counterpart, and share the registration transition between legacy type-0
registration and registerStake so the already-registered check and the state
write cannot drift.

Signed-off-by: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@blinklabs.io>
Failing closed here rejects six Amaru conformance vectors. Value conservation
runs for every legacy deregistration, while UtxoValidateCertificateDeposits
only needs the capability once a credential resolves as registered, so the two
rules do not reach the missing capability on the same transactions.

Record that in the comment and keep the fallback. The value conservation test
now supplies the capability so the recorded-deposit path is the one it covers.

Signed-off-by: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@blinklabs.io>
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wolf31o2 merged commit b432d18 into main Sep 1, 2026
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wolf31o2 deleted the fix/2128-certificate-deposits branch September 1, 2026 20:46
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Validate Conway certificate deposits and deregistration refunds

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