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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Dash Core wallets have no typed way to derive and later recover a masternode
operator BLS key from a recovery phrase. Registration clients must therefore
create another secret backup or implement their own derivation and persistence.

This PR adds the wallet-only backend for deterministic operator keys. It is the
focused successor to the original larger #7594. The general mixing-only wallet
lock fix was merged independently in #7607. The only open prerequisite stacked
in this branch is #7609, which exposes complete active-chain operator-key
history.

BIP32 secret-state hardening remains fully separate in
dashpay/bls-signatures#127 and its draft Dash Core subtree import #7608; neither
is part of this PR. The independent random CBLSSecretKey::MakeNewKey() cleanse
is #7606. A
wallet-derived bls generatefromwallet RPC will be a separate consumer PR.

What was done?

  • Add one narrow operator-child derivation capability to legacy and descriptor
    script-key managers. Each manager validates and uses its own genuine BIP39
    mnemonic; no root seed crosses the key-manager boundary.
  • Support legacy and descriptor wallets that resolve to exactly one mnemonic
    source. Raw-HD-seed, mnemonic-less, blank, disable-private/watch-only,
    external-signer, and ambiguous multi-source wallets fail closed.
  • Centralize the DashSync-compatible m/9'/coin'/3'/3'/index path, canonical
    basic-scheme public keys, 500-leaf bounded walk, provisional reservations,
    exact recovery, and persistent public-key/index cache in
    MasternodeOperatorKeychain.
  • Return a bound RAII reservation instead of caller-controlled tokens or
    index/key tuples. Destruction wipes and releases a provisional key; callers
    cannot select an index or commit different key material.
  • Require complete active-chain history when reserving, and allow the bound key
    to be revalidated against a fresh history snapshot immediately before use.
  • Add crash-safe write-ahead sealing. Before a provider transaction can enter a
    mempool, sealForBroadcast(txid) transactionally stores its key binding and a
    mandatory wallet flag. Only a synchronously proven rejection can roll it back;
    ambiguous outcomes remain quarantined across destruction and restart.
  • Promote the sealed row to the committed recovery index only after submission.
    Commit reselects the current unlocked source and re-derives the bound child;
    database failures retain the sealed quarantine for retry.
  • Recover an exact sealed handle by (txid, public key) after restart, without
    republishing the secret.
  • Treat committed cache records as advisory and repair stale/corrupt mappings
    transactionally after re-derivation. Pending-broadcast records are strict:
    malformed, duplicate, or flag-inconsistent state fails wallet loading rather
    than risking key reuse.
  • Preserve operator index, pending binding, and its mandatory flag during wallet
    salvage and database-format migration.
  • Cleanse the new serialized child buffers, descriptor validation chain code,
    and interface-facing secret copies on normal and exceptional paths.

This feature commit does not contain the Evo history scanner, general
mixing-lock fix, random-key cleanse, any DashBLS subtree changes, RPC, Qt UI, or
the later masternode-entry accessor. Those live in their prerequisite or
consumer PRs above.

How Has This Been Tested?

Tested on macOS arm64 with the repository's depends toolchain.

  • Full wallet-enabled build.
  • Separate clean full --disable-wallet --without-gui --disable-bench build.
  • All 21 masternode_operator_tests cases.
  • Combined wallet_tests and masternode_operator_tests: 39 cases.
  • All 37 evo_dip3_activation_tests, including fail-closed IBD coverage from
    the stacked history prerequisite.
  • test/lint/all-lint.py and git diff --check.
  • Independent architecture, persistence, security, lifetime, and simplification
    review.

The operator tests cover both legacy and descriptor mnemonic sources for known
answers, mainnet/non-mainnet paths, non-empty BIP39 passphrases, encryption,
RAII release/reuse, exact recovery, restored-wallet history, fresh-history
revalidation, named-database reload, crash-safe pending recovery, and cache
repair. Source-independent fault tests cover database begin/write/commit/abort
failures, ambiguous quarantine, exact-rejection rollback, failed commit,
corrupt pending rows, BDB-to-SQLite migration, and interface lifetime.

Breaking Changes

Wallets containing a sealed operator-key transaction carry a mandatory wallet
flag. Older software must refuse to open such a wallet because it would not know
that the derivation index is quarantined. Normal wallets and existing RPCs are
unchanged.

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This change adds mnemonic-backed masternode operator BLS key support. Wallets discover BIP39 seeds, derive keys through the DashSync-compatible path, reserve and release indexes, commit public-key mappings, and recover keys by public key. The wallet database stores public-key and derivation-index mappings. Legacy and descriptor wallets expose seed APIs. Node and wallet interfaces expose the new operations. Tests cover derivation, persistence, recovery, restrictions, conflicts, and invalid data.

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Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 312c8

This change adds persistent operator-key recovery metadata and bounded synchronous key scans. Merge readiness is reduced because database reload behavior is not directly tested, and worst-case recovery or reservation may temporarily block the calling wallet operation until these risks are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Registration
  participant WalletInterface
  participant CWallet
  participant WalletDatabase
  Registration->>WalletInterface: reserve operator key
  WalletInterface->>CWallet: derive and reserve key
  WalletInterface-->>Registration: key and reservation ID
  Registration->>WalletInterface: commit public key and index
  WalletInterface->>CWallet: commit operator key
  CWallet->>WalletDatabase: store public key and index
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Possibly related PRs

  • dashpay/dash#7473: Adds related BLS operator-key normalization and cross-scheme handling.

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src/wallet/wallet.cpp (1)

3866-3885: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider caching the walk result to avoid repeated 500-leaf BLS derivation.

WalkMasternodeOperatorSecrets derives every leaf up to MASTERNODE_OPERATOR_KEY_LIMIT (500). Each iteration performs a BLS child derivation plus GetPublicKey(), which is a group scalar multiplication. ReserveMasternodeOperatorKey pays this cost on every reservation, and GetMasternodeOperatorKey pays the full 500-leaf cost on every miss and on every record mismatch. The call runs on the caller's thread, so a GUI or RPC thread blocks for the duration.

Consider caching an index-to-public-key map for the current seed, built once per unlocked session, and reuse it for both reservation selection and recovery lookup. The secret can still be derived on demand for the single matching index.

Also applies to: 3992-4019, 4114-4130

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In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp` around lines 3866 - 3885, Cache the derived masternode
operator index-to-public-key map for the current seed during the unlocked
session, building it once by walking the recoverable range through
WalkMasternodeOperatorSecrets. Update ReserveMasternodeOperatorKey and
GetMasternodeOperatorKey to reuse this cache for selection and recovery
matching, deriving the secret only for the single selected or matched index
while preserving existing invalidation behavior when the seed/session changes.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/wallet/test/masternode_operator_tests.cpp`:
- Around line 110-124: Update MasternodeOperatorTestingSetup teardown to call
gArgs.ForceRemoveArg("keypool") so the fixture’s forced keypool setting is
removed after tests and cannot leak into later tests.

In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp`:
- Around line 3903-3925: Update CWallet::GetBIP39Seed and the newly added
ScriptPubKeyMan implementations to call memory_cleanse only when the output
SecureVector is non-empty, then clear it as before. Preserve the existing seed
lookup and return behavior.
- Around line 3833-3850: Update ChainCode cleanup and the derivation flow in
DeriveMasternodeOperatorAccount and DeriveMasternodeOperatorLeaf so chain-code
state is cleansed when temporary ExtendedPrivateKey objects are destroyed. Add
secure cleanup for ChainCode’s bn_t storage and explicitly cleanse the IRight
and hmacKey stack buffers after use, while preserving the existing derivation
behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/wallet/wallet.cpp`:
- Around line 3866-3885: Cache the derived masternode operator
index-to-public-key map for the current seed during the unlocked session,
building it once by walking the recoverable range through
WalkMasternodeOperatorSecrets. Update ReserveMasternodeOperatorKey and
GetMasternodeOperatorKey to reuse this cache for selection and recovery
matching, deriving the secret only for the single selected or matched index
while preserving existing invalidation behavior when the seed/session changes.
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492-499: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test the actual wallet database reload path.

reloaded uses a new mock database. The test reads records from m_wallet and manually calls LoadMasternodeOperatorIndex. It does not execute the changed WalletBatch::LoadWallet path.

Persist the records in a reusable test database, reopen the wallet, and assert recovery and invalid-record handling after LoadWallet. This must cover deserialization at src/wallet/walletdb.cpp lines 802-807 and application at lines 992-996.

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In `@src/wallet/test/masternode_operator_tests.cpp` around lines 492 - 499, Update
the test around ReadOperatorIndexRecords and LoadMasternodeOperatorIndex to
persist operator-index records in a reusable wallet database, close and reopen
the wallet through the normal LoadWallet path, and assert both successful
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The operator-key derivation and lifecycle implementation is generally careful, but mnemonic-only restoration can reuse an operator key that was previously rotated or revoked because reservation consults only current deterministic-masternode state and wallet-local records. The PR also omits its new Dash-specific files from the non-backported manifest and leaves sensitive BLS chain-code intermediates uncleansed during its new production derivation flow.
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- [BLOCKING] src/wallet/wallet.cpp:4001-4008: Mnemonic restoration can reuse a revoked operator key
  A mnemonic-only restoration has no entries in `m_mn_operator_indexes`, so reservation excludes a derived key only when the caller supplies it in `in_use`. The node API added by this PR exposes operator keys from the current deterministic masternode list, but a ProUpRegTx rotation replaces the old key and a ProUpRevTx clears it through `ResetOperatorFields()`. The previously used key therefore disappears from both available sources, allowing index 0 to be reserved again and potentially reusing the exact secret that was revoked after compromise. Reservation needs a recoverable record of historical operator-key usage, such as scanning relevant ProRegTx/ProUpRegTx history or another used-index marker that survives mnemonic-only restoration.
- [SUGGESTION] src/wallet/wallet.cpp:3833-3849: Cleanse intermediate BLS chain-code state
  The new wallet derivation path repeatedly invokes `bls::ExtendedPrivateKey::PrivateChild()` using mnemonic-derived state. Although `PrivateKey` storage and the serialized leaf secret are cleansed, `ChainCode` has no destructor and its `bn_t` contents remain on the stack after each temporary is destroyed. `PrivateChild()` also leaves the `IRight` and `hmacKey` arrays uncleansed. This PR newly makes that code a production path for wallet-derived operator credentials, so the BLS chain-code object and local derivation buffers need secure cleanup as part of this change.

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- [SUGGESTION] test/util/data/non-backported.txt:84: Track the new Dash-specific source files
  The PR adds three Dash-specific files, but none is listed in `non-backported.txt`. This manifest supplies the file set used by the Dash cppcheck and clang-format-diff workflows, so the omissions silently exclude the new public interface, wallet header, and unit test from those dedicated checks. `src/hash_x11.h` is already present and should remain followed by the three new paths.

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I think the structure here should be improved before this is merged.

The wallet should expose a narrowly scoped capability to derive a masternode operator key, rather than adding generic APIs that return the wallet's raw BIP39 seed. In particular, ScriptPubKeyMan::GetBIP39Seed() and CWallet::GetBIP39Seed() broaden access to the wallet root secret and do not match the normal key-manager boundary: the component owning/decrypting seed material should perform derivation internally and return only the requested derived child.

The planned scope should include both mnemonic-backed descriptor wallets and mnemonic-backed legacy wallets. Legacy support is a modest addition when implemented behind the same narrow derivation capability: the legacy manager owns one CHDChain, can require a stored mnemonic, regenerate its BIP39 seed internally, verify that it matches the chain's stored seed/ID, derive the requested operator child, and cleanse all intermediates. Legacy wallets created from a raw -hdseed/sethdseed, as well as wallets without a mnemonic recovery source, should remain unsupported.

A cleaner split would be:

  • The mnemonic-backed descriptor and legacy key managers each implement a narrowly scoped operator-key derivation capability. They own/decrypt their mnemonic material, validate its relationship to the stored wallet root, and return only the requested derived operator child. They should never return the mnemonic-derived root seed.
  • Descriptor managers may expose a non-secret source identifier so CWallet can verify that mnemonic-bearing descriptor managers share the same source. Legacy wallets have a single CHDChain and do not need cross-manager seed aggregation.
  • A MasternodeOperatorKeychain owns the DashSync path, bounded recovery walk, committed index records, and in-memory reservation state.
  • CWallet handles wallet flags and locking, locates the eligible derivation source for the wallet type, and delegates.
  • interfaces::Wallet exposes only typed reserve/recover operations.

The reservation API should also follow the existing ReserveDestination pattern. Instead of exposing a raw reservation_id and requiring the caller to echo the token, index, and public key back into separate release/commit calls, return a move-only RAII reservation object. Its destructor releases and wipes an uncommitted reservation, while Commit() uses the key and index already bound to the reservation. This prevents forgotten releases and mismatched token/index/public-key combinations.

Concretely, I am requesting that this PR be reworked to:

  1. Support both descriptor and legacy wallets when they have a genuine mnemonic-backed recovery source.
  2. Return NOT_SUPPORTED for raw-HD-seed legacy wallets, mnemonic-less imported wallets, non-HD/blank wallets, watch-only wallets, and external-signer wallets.
  3. Remove the generic BIP39 seed getters and base BIP39SeedStatus API.
  4. Derive BLS children inside the mnemonic-owning component and return only the derived operator secret.
  5. Isolate operator path/scanning/index state in an operator-keychain component instead of adding the full implementation directly to CWallet.
  6. Replace raw reservation tokens with an RAII reservation handle modeled on ReserveDestination.
  7. Securely cleanse all BLS extended-private-key, chain-code, and child-derivation intermediates.
  8. Address historical operator-key use during mnemonic restoration; the current deterministic masternode list alone cannot prevent reuse of keys that were rotated or revoked.
  9. Parameterize the shared operator-keychain tests across descriptor and legacy mnemonic-backed sources, with targeted legacy cases for encrypted lock/unlock, raw-seed rejection, mnemonic/seed mismatch, and restore/reload behavior.

A larger wallet-wide mnemonic-store refactor may be worthwhile eventually because descriptor wallets currently duplicate mnemonic material across managers, but that should be separate from this feature. This PR should avoid exposing that existing storage detail through a new general raw-seed API.


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The requested architectural rework is implemented. The RPC/root-secret approach is gone; this is now a narrow SPKM derivation capability plus an operator-specific keychain and move-only RAII ownership handle. Mapping to the nine requested items:

  1. Descriptor and legacy mnemonic sources: DescriptorScriptPubKeyMan and LegacyScriptPubKeyMan both implement the same narrow child-derivation capability. Descriptor wallets require one shared mnemonic source identifier across their managers. Legacy wallets require a genuine stored mnemonic.
  2. Unsupported wallet types: Raw-HD legacy seeds, mnemonic-less descriptor/imported/non-HD/blank wallets, disable-private/watch-only wallets, external-signer wallets, and ambiguous multi-source wallets return NOT_SUPPORTED.
  3. No generic root-secret API: GetBIP39Seed and BIP39SeedStatus have been removed from ScriptPubKeyMan, CWallet, and interfaces::Wallet. No raw mnemonic-derived root seed crosses the key-manager boundary.
  4. Derivation stays with the mnemonic owner: Each eligible SPKM decrypts/validates its mnemonic internally and returns only the requested BLS child. Legacy regeneration must match the stored CHDChain seed; descriptor regeneration must match the manager’s non-secret master identifier.
  5. Dedicated keychain: MasternodeOperatorKeychain owns m/9'/coin'/3'/3'/index, the 500-leaf bounded walk, committed index records/repair, and provisional reservation state. CWallet is limited to wallet flags, locking, source selection, and delegation.
  6. RAII reservation: interfaces::Wallet returns a std::unique_ptr-backed reservation. It binds key/index/commit/release internally; destruction wipes and releases an uncommitted key, successful commit disarms it, failed commit remains reserved for safe retry, and conflict revalidation wipes/releases and permanently poisons commit. There are no public reservation tokens or caller-supplied index/public-key commit tuples.
  7. Secret cleansing: ChainCode and PrivateKey now wipe RELIC storage on replacement/destruction. ExtendedPrivateKey seed/child derivation uses exception-safe secure buffers for chain code, HMAC input/output/key, and scalar intermediates in AUTO and DYNAMIC allocation modes. Wallet serialization buffers and descriptor chain-code temporaries are cleansed as well.
  8. Historical-use protection: EVO scans all active-chain ProRegTx and ProUpRegTx payloads from DIP3 activation, preserving every assigned key across rotations and revocations, including multiple updates in one block. Reservation requires complete current-tip history and fails closed for missing/pruned/corrupt data, IBD/reindex/import/snapshot, stale/header-ahead state, shutdown, and tip races. Exact-tip results are cached, extensions are incremental, and reorgs rebuild from the active fork. Reservations can be revalidated against fresh history immediately before provider-transaction use.
  9. Shared and targeted tests: The wallet suite runs the common derivation/path/RAII/recovery/restore/passphrase/encryption/history/revalidation/reload/cache-repair scenarios against both legacy and descriptor sources. Targeted cases cover raw legacy seed rejection, mnemonic/seed mismatch, no-mnemonic and restricted wallets, failed commit lifecycle, interface publication locking, actual named-database LoadWallet reopen, and persistence repair. EVO tests cover same-block rotations, rotate-then-revoke, missing data, header-ahead/stale/import/reindex states, cache extension, context reset, and reorg behavior.

Validation on pushed head 29e0a5f65232:

  • full make -j13
  • test_dash --run_test=masternode_operator_tests: 12 cases passed
  • test_dash --run_test=evo_dip3_activation_tests/operator_key_history_is_complete_and_fail_closed: passed
  • walletdb_tests, wallet_crypto_tests, and wallet_tests: passed
  • Dash BLS suite: 1,418 assertions across 17 cases passed
  • changed BLS translation units: warning-free in RELIC AUTO, DYNAMIC, and DYNAMIC+CHECK builds
  • complete no-wallet configure/build plus dashd -version: passed
  • full test/lint/all-lint.py, clang-format diff, and git diff --check: passed

I also benchmarked the historical scan against an isolated APFS clone of the current mainnet block store. The cold scan processed 1,493,070 blocks / 57,165,469 transactions / 18,673 unique operator keys in 88.294 seconds, with approximately 104.3 MiB additional RSS. An exact-tip cached call took 3.803 ms. This makes the first complete-history request visibly non-trivial, while same-tip retries are fast; the stacked UI work will run it off the GUI thread and expose progress/retry state.

The stacked typed provider-transaction PR will obtain fresh node history and call reservation.revalidate(...) immediately before submission, then call commit() only after successful transaction submission.


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Final validation — Codex/Sol only (Phase 2 disabled)

The exact head resolves all three prior findings: active-chain history now preserves rotated and revoked operator keys, BLS derivation intermediates are securely cleansed, and the new Dash-specific files are included in the non-backported manifest. The remaining CodeRabbit fixture-cleanup comment is also fixed at the current head, so no in-scope findings remain.
Source: reviewer backend model gpt-5.6-sol; final verifier backend model gpt-5.6-sol. openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol is orchestration-only and not reviewer evidence.

Validated zero-blocker Codex/Sol precheck evidence was promoted to final because Phase 2 (Sonnet/Opus) is temporarily disabled. This is Codex/Sol-only final validation, not Codex + Sonnet/Opus coverage.

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  • Secondary pass: disabled (temporary_phase2_sonnet_disable)

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Add DashSync-compatible BLS derivation and exact recovery for legacy and descriptor mnemonic wallets. Reserve keys against complete active-chain history and persist a crash-safe transaction binding before broadcast so restored wallets cannot reuse an operator key whose submission outcome is unresolved.
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9c3f4ff fix(bls): cleanse generated secret candidate (pasta)

Pull request description:

  ## Issue being fixed or feature implemented

  `CBLSSecretKey::MakeNewKey()` retains the accepted 32-byte random candidate in
  its stack buffer after constructing the secret key. The candidate is private
  key material and should not remain recoverable from the stack longer than
  necessary.

  This is an existing issue in random BLS generation, including the `bls
  generate` RPC. It is intentionally split from #7594 because the
  wallet-derived operator-key path does not call `MakeNewKey()`.

  ## What was done?

  Cleanse the candidate buffer immediately after the key-generation retry loop,
  before publishing the resulting key as valid.

  ## How Has This Been Tested?

  - `make -C src -j6 test/test_dash`
  - `src/test/test_dash --run_test=bls_tests` (20 cases passed)
  - `test/lint/lint-includes.py`
  - `test/lint/lint-whitespace.py`
  - `git clang-format --diff upstream/develop -- src/bls/bls.cpp`
  - `git diff --check`

  Tested on macOS 15/Apple Silicon using the repository depends toolchain.

  ## Breaking Changes

  None.

  ## Checklist:

  - [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
  - [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  - [ ] I have added or updated relevant unit/integration/functional/e2e tests
  - [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  - [ ] I have assigned this pull request to a milestone

  This pull request was created by Codex.

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Preliminary review — Codex only

The mnemonic-derived operator-key API is carefully bounded and includes strong active-chain history and crash-safe pending-record handling. One blocking cache-integrity issue remains: a committed wallet-derived key can be issued again when its persisted public-key row contains a stale derivation index, before the original transaction reaches active-chain history.
Source: reviewer backend model gpt-5.6-sol; final verifier backend model gpt-5.6-sol. openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol is orchestration-only and not reviewer evidence.

Validated blockers were found in the Codex precheck. Opus is deferred until a fresh Codex revalidation clears the blocker gate.

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  • Sonnet: not run (deferred by blocker gate)

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In `src/wallet/masternode_operator.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/wallet/masternode_operator.cpp:205-207: Do not reissue a committed key whose cached index is stale
  A successful submission promotes its pending record into `m_indexes`, which is the only local evidence that the key was used until the transaction enters the active chain. On restart, a syntactically valid stale row such as derived `key0 -> 1` passes `LoadIndex()`. Reservation then derives key 0 at its real index 0, but this exact public-key-and-index comparison does not recognize the row as committed, so it returns the same secret again. The cache-repair test at lines 1084-1088 demonstrates this behavior by reserving `first_key` again after loading its stale mapping. Active-chain history cannot protect the interval where the first transaction is only in a mempool or has been relayed. Once derivation proves that a cached public key belongs to this wallet, that public key must remain consumed regardless of its recorded index, and its mapping should be repaired transactionally before another key is issued.

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const bool committed{std::any_of(m_indexes.begin(), m_indexes.end(), [&](const auto& entry) {
return entry.first == public_key && entry.second == index;
})};

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🔴 Blocking: Do not reissue a committed key whose cached index is stale

A successful submission promotes its pending record into m_indexes, which is the only local evidence that the key was used until the transaction enters the active chain. On restart, a syntactically valid stale row such as derived key0 -> 1 passes LoadIndex(). Reservation then derives key 0 at its real index 0, but this exact public-key-and-index comparison does not recognize the row as committed, so it returns the same secret again. The cache-repair test at lines 1084-1088 demonstrates this behavior by reserving first_key again after loading its stale mapping. Active-chain history cannot protect the interval where the first transaction is only in a mempool or has been relayed. Once derivation proves that a cached public key belongs to this wallet, that public key must remain consumed regardless of its recorded index, and its mapping should be repaired transactionally before another key is issued.

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