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Basic explanation

What this does: Platform charges a storage fee when data is stored and gives part of it back (a "refund") when the data is deleted or shrinks. Gas sponsorship (#4826) lets a contract owner pay those fees for users of their app. Until now the refund always went to the document's owner, even when the contract owner had paid. With this change, the refund goes to whoever paid for the storage.

Value: A user could create a large document with the app paying, delete it, and keep the app's storage fee. Each sponsorship token the app handed out could be turned into withdrawable credits. That no longer works. Apps that sponsor storage also get their refunds back when sponsored documents are deleted.

Risks: Low to medium. It changes which identity is credited with refunds at protocol version 14, which is not on mainnet yet. Fees are unchanged: the estimate reads no owner, and an owner takes 32 bytes whoever it is. One part of the existing update path now reads the stored document before writing, with the same metered operations in the same order. The rules lean on GroveDB's flag merge, where each stored element has one owner, so the outcome depends on whether a write changes an element's size (described below).

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Storage refunds follow the owner recorded in each stored element's storage flags. Sponsored batches recorded the document's owner, so refunds of storage the sponsor paid for went to the document's owner.

What was done?

  • Sponsored writes name the sponsor. Once fee validation decides the sponsor pays, execute_event v1 sets the owner in the storage flags of the batch's document writes to the sponsor (record_gas_sponsor_as_storage_owner). Fee validation's estimate does not need it: it prices without reading state.

    Card type offers gasFeesPaidBy: ContractOwner. User U creates a card asking ContractOwner, so contract owner C pays. U then deletes it.
    Before: U pays the delete fee and is refunded the card's storage fee, which C paid.
    After:  U pays the delete fee and is refunded nothing; C is refunded the storage.
    
  • Unsponsored updates leave a sponsor-held document with the sponsor. GroveDB hands an element whose size an update changes to the owner the update names. Document update v1 (protocol version 14 only) now reads the stored document first. When its flags name the contract owner, someone else owns the document, and the type's token costs offer sponsorship (storage_held_by_gas_sponsor), the stored document it rewrites keeps naming the contract owner, a transfer included. New index entries the update adds still name whoever pays for them.

    Sponsored card held by C. U pays for a replace that grows the description, then deletes the card.
    Before: the grown card passes to U; U's delete refunds U the whole card.
    After:  the card stays C's; U's delete refunds C. If U's replace moved an indexed value,
            the new index entries U paid for are refunded to U.
    
  • Contested documents. Contested document insert v1 names whoever the document's flags name on the contest's end date entries, so a sponsored contender's entries refund the sponsor when a second contender moves the end date (they named the contender before).

  • Moderator restore is unchanged. A restore is paid for by the moderator who signs it, and the deletion already settled any sponsor (their storage was forfeited, or refunded to them), so the restore keeps naming the document's owner. Only its comment and the book changed.

  • Docs. The fees overview, token cost, deletion, moderator abilities and contract moderation chapters describe the rules. They also cover GroveDB's limits: a same-size write keeps the old owner, and so does a shrink in a later epoch of an element holding one epoch's bytes. A type with a ttl refunds nobody. They also restore the advice that a type offering sponsorship should bound its documents' size, since the sponsor still pays the storage fee up front.

Points for review

  • A sponsored write takes over the whole element. When a sponsored write grows an element the user paid for, it takes over that element and its refund. The same edit at the same size leaves the element with the user. A design that settles the old holder's refund and bills the payer for the whole new element would remove this, but it changes PV14 fees, so it is left out.
  • Legacy edge. A document the contract owner gave away by a same-size transfer still names them in its flags, and on a sponsoring type it is treated as sponsor-held from protocol version 14.

In-place changes to shipped generations

None. execute_event v1, validate_fees_of_event v1, update_document_for_contract_operations v1 and add_contested_document_for_contract_operations v1 are selected only by protocol version 14, which is not live on mainnet. Item 11 of the v14 notes is extended.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • New tests in batch/tests/document/gas_sponsorship.rs check exact balances, the refund to each identity, and that credits are conserved:
    • a sponsored card's deletion refunds the contract owner;
    • the user's own growing replace keeps the card with the contract owner;
    • the index entries a user's own replace adds are refunded to the user;
    • a sponsored replace takes over a card the user paid for;
    • when the sponsor cannot pay and the user does, the user keeps the refund;
    • an unsponsored transfer of a sponsor-held card leaves the stored card the sponsor's;
    • on a type keeping history, a user's rewrite of a sponsored version in the same block keeps it the sponsor's.
    • on a type keeping history, a version the user writes in a later block is the user's (only a same-block rewrite of a stored version keeps the sponsor's name, checked with a metered existence read).
  • Mutation checks: disabling the sponsor recording, the sponsor-held rule, or the narrowing to the stored document each fails a matching test.
  • cargo test -p drive-abci --lib state_transitions::batch: 799 passed. Contested (64) and moderation (170) drive-abci tests pass. cargo test -p drive --lib drive::document: 266 passed.
  • cargo clippy -p drive -p drive-abci --lib --tests and cargo fmt --check are clean.
  • Not covered by tests: a sponsored contested create (no fixture combines a no-locking contested type with token-paid creation) and a shrink in a later epoch. The test harness stamps operations with the platform state's epoch, which stays at 0, so the later-epoch case cannot be reached there.

Breaking Changes

Consensus change at protocol version 14 (not yet on mainnet): refunds of storage a gas sponsor paid for go to the sponsor, unsponsored updates keep sponsor-held documents with the sponsor, and contested end date entries follow the document's flags.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Storage refunds for gas-sponsored documents now go to the contract owner who paid for the storage when documents are deleted or reduced.
    • Storage refund ownership is handled consistently during document updates, transfers, moderator actions, and contested-document changes. Refunds for storage paid by the document owner continue to go to that owner.
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    • Clarified storage ownership and refund rules for sponsored storage, updates, deletions, and moderator actions.

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Gas sponsorship (#4826) lets a contract owner pay the storage and
processing fees of token-paid document actions, but storage refunds
followed the storage flags, which named the document owner. A user
could delete or shrink a sponsored document and be refunded storage
the sponsor paid for.

- execute_event v1 names a paying sponsor as the owner in the storage
  flags of the batch's document writes
  (record_gas_sponsor_as_storage_owner).
- Contested document insert v1 names whoever the document's flags name
  on the contest's end date entries.
- Document update v1 keeps a stored document the sponsor holds with
  the sponsor when an update that is not sponsored rewrites it, a
  transfer included (storage_held_by_gas_sponsor). New index entries
  the update adds keep naming whoever pays for them.
- A moderator's restore on a type that offers sponsorship names the
  contract owner.
- Book and v14 note describe the rules, including GroveDB's flag merge
  limits and the sponsor's remaining storage cost.

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This change records gas-sponsor ownership in storage flags for eligible document operations. Document updates and contested-document entries use storage ownership when assigning refunds. Tests and documentation describe refund attribution. A Dashmate migration test derives its expected config format version from the migration list and package version.

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Sponsored Storage Ownership

Layer / File(s) Summary
Storage ownership helpers
packages/rs-drive/src/util/object_size_info/document_info.rs, packages/rs-drive/src/state_transition_action/batch/mod.rs
Document-info methods set owners on present storage flags. Batch helpers detect gas sponsorship and assign the sponsor as owner for eligible document operations.
Sponsored ownership in execution and document writes
packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/state_transition_processing/execute_event/v1/mod.rs, packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/state_transition_processing/validate_fees_of_event/v1/mod.rs, packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs, packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/insert_contested/add_contested_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs
Event execution records the selected sponsor as storage owner. Document updates and contested-document end-date entries use storage-flag ownership when writing or moving entries.
Refund rules and test coverage
packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/tests/document/*, packages/rs-drive/src/state_transition_action/action_convert_to_operations/contract/contract_user_moderation_transition.rs, book/src/contract-keywords/*, book/src/data-model/contract-moderation.md, book/src/fees/overview.md, packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/v14.rs
Tests cover storage and index-entry refunds across sponsored writes, deletions, replacements, and transfers. Documentation describes refund ownership for sponsored storage, moderator actions, and contested entries.

Dashmate Migration Test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Config format version expectation
packages/dashmate/test/unit/config/configFile/tenderdashImageMigration.spec.js
The test derives the expected config format version from the migrations and package version instead of using a fixed version string.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4314

An unsponsored update can assign newly funded history storage to the previous sponsor, allowing a subsequent same-block replacement to refund the wrong identity. Distinguish new history versions from replacements before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c4314

The change addresses sponsor-funded refund extraction and keeps sponsor selection tied to the validated payer. However, a newly created history version can inherit the original sponsor even when the user pays for it, allowing a subsequent shrink to credit the sponsor instead of that version’s payer. This is a bounded financial-ownership concern; failure recovery and some storage-transition behavior remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A self-paid history version created at a new block timestamp inherits the previous version’s sponsor ownership. If the document is subsequently shrunk at that timestamp, storage refunds can credit the contract owner for storage paid by the user. The new preservation rule does not distinguish an existing element from a newly allocated history element.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The retained concern affects refund attribution for user-owned, sponsor-held documents in history-keeping types that offer sponsorship. A contract owner can benefit from users’ self-paid new versions followed by same-timestamp shrinking. The evidenced path requires legitimate document updates; it does not demonstrate authority to debit arbitrary identities or rewrite unrelated contracts.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — For SA-5238-HISTORY-PAYER-ATTRIBUTION, begin with a sponsor-held current version, advance to a different block timestamp, and submit a self-paid replacement. The override names the sponsor on the newly allocated version. A smaller replacement at that same timestamp then frees storage attributed to the sponsor. The existing history test validates sponsor-directed shrink refunds, but only when creation and rewrites share a timestamp. The new-timestamp sequence was not executed during this review.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The production mutation takes its sponsor from settled fees rather than directly from request input. Sponsor identity is derived from contract-owner resolution; settlement checks balance and sponsorship strictness, with preferred sponsorship able to fall back to the signer. Execution uses that settled choice for payer charging and initial storage-owner mutation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The update code explicitly intends to preserve sponsor ownership on same-element rewrites, and tests cover transfers and same-block history shrinking. Ordinary deletion of history-keeping documents is prohibited. These are meaningful countercontrols, but neither history immutability nor existing-element ownership preservation prevents refunds from a newly created version rewritten within its block.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Distinguish replacement of an existing history timestamp key from allocation of a new key: preserve the existing element’s refund owner on replacement, but attribute a new version to its settled payer. Validate the invariant with a new-timestamp self-paid version followed by same-timestamp shrinking, alongside later-epoch and interrupted-transaction cases.
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… migration test

Since the 5.0.0-beta.1 bump the package version is newer than the newest
config migration (4.2.0), so a migrated config records the package
version. The test hard-coded 4.2.0; it now expects what
getConfigFormatVersion gives for this build.

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…V14)

A restore is not sponsored: the moderator who signs it pays for the
bytes, and a gas sponsor who held the deleted document's storage was
already settled by the deletion. Naming the contract owner could credit
them with a moderator's payment, so the restore keeps the existing
rule (the document owner), and the comments and book say why.

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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The PV14 sponsor ownership changes are correctly isolated, and ordinary sponsored, unsponsored, contested, and moderation paths generally follow the intended refund owner. However, history-keeping documents can rewrite the same timestamped history key within one block; the unconditional history exclusion then allows a user-funded rewrite to replace sponsor ownership, misdirecting later storage refunds. Additional direct coverage is also needed for contested end-date entries and transfers of sponsor-held documents.

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In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:362-368: Preserve sponsor ownership when a history version is rewritten
  `documents_keep_history()` does not guarantee that this write creates a new element. `add_document_to_primary_storage` keys each history version by `encode_date_timestamp(block_info.time_ms)` and inserts it at that key. Multiple updates to the same history-keeping document in one block therefore target the same version key. If the existing version is sponsor-owned and a later unsponsored update changes its size, this condition skips sponsor preservation and passes the current payer's flags to GroveDB. GroveDB's replacement flag merge can then move the refund owner away from the sponsor, even though the overwritten history version contains storage the sponsor paid for. Detect whether the history key already exists and preserve its stored sponsor ownership on replacement, while retaining the current payer for genuinely new history versions. Add a regression covering two same-block updates to a sponsored history-keeping document.
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:369-375: Avoid cloning the full document for a storage-owner override
  The sponsor-held branch clones `DocumentAndContractInfo` only to change the primary write's storage flags. In the normal `DocumentOwnedInfo` update, that clone recursively copies the document properties and their values; `DocumentAndSerialization` also copies the serialized byte vector. The temporary primary-storage view should borrow the document and serialization and clone only the storage flags, leaving the original info for index processing. This avoids payload-sized allocation and copying on sponsor-held updates.

In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/insert_contested/add_contested_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/insert_contested/add_contested_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:99-108: Add direct coverage for sponsored contested entries and sponsor-held transfers
  The new logic changes two refund-owner paths that are not exercised by the added tests. A sponsored contested creation must be followed by a contender that moves the no-locking contest end date, verifying that the removed end-date entry refunds the original sponsor and the replacement entry names the second contender's payer. A transfer of a sponsor-held document must also verify that the primary storage remains sponsor-owned after an unsponsored update. These cases directly cover the contested helper's storage-flag lookup and the transfer-inclusive update path rather than relying only on ordinary document create/replace/delete tests.

In `packages/rs-drive/src/state_transition_action/batch/mod.rs`:
- [NITPICK] packages/rs-drive/src/state_transition_action/batch/mod.rs:241: Restrict the sponsorship predicate to the drive crate
  `document_type_offers_gas_sponsorship` is declared `pub`, but the only caller is the update implementation inside `rs-drive`; unlike `record_gas_sponsor_as_storage_owner`, it is not used by `rs-drive-abci`. Making it `pub(crate)` expresses the actual boundary and avoids exposing a PV14-internal predicate as part of Drive's public API.

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…within its block (PV14)

A type keeping history stores each version under the block's time, so a
second update to a document in the same block rewrites the version the
first wrote, in place. Document update v1 skipped history types when
keeping a sponsor-held document with the sponsor, so a user's own
rewrite could take that version, and its refund. History versions are
never deleted, so naming the sponsor on every version of a sponsor-held
document moves no other refund.

The primary write now borrows the document with only its storage flags
replaced instead of cloning it, the sponsorship predicate is crate
private, and tests cover a same-block history rewrite and a transfer of
a sponsor-held card.

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The PV14 sponsorship changes correctly preserve sponsor ownership for existing storage elements, and the previously reported visibility, allocation, and same-block rewrite issues are fixed. One blocking refund-attribution defect remains: the new history logic assigns the predecessor's sponsor ownership to genuinely new history versions written at a later block timestamp.

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  • Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff intricately changes funds movement and PV14 consensus behavior across sponsored writes, updates, and contested documents, notably in execute_event/v1/mod.rs and update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs, by changing stored ownership flags that determine which identity receives storage refunds.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer, muse-spark-1.3-contributor — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
  • Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (antigravity below 15% reserve: weekly 13% left, 5h 100% left), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
  • Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — platform-versioning (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer
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In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:365-376: Use the current payer for newly appended history versions
  The sponsor-preservation check uses the storage flags from the element reached through the history tree's `[0]` current-version reference, but `add_document_to_primary_storage` writes the updated history element under `encode_date_timestamp(block_info.time_ms)`. When an unsponsored update occurs in a later block, that timestamp is a new key: the sponsor-held predecessor remains stored and the user pays for the new version in full. This branch nevertheless replaces the new version's flags with the sponsor's flags. History versions are not deleted, but a newly appended version can still be rewritten and shrunk within its block, producing a refund. That refund is then credited to the sponsor even though the user funded the new version. Preserve the stored sponsor only when the destination history timestamp already exists; retain the current payer's flags when writing a genuinely new history key. Add a regression using distinct creation and update block timestamps, followed by a same-block shrink of the newly appended version, and assert that the refund goes to the user.

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The sponsor-held check reads the current history version through the
`[0]` reference, but an update writes its version under the block's
time. Only a second update in the same block rewrites a stored version;
a version written in a later block is a new element the signer pays for
in full. Document update v1 now keeps naming the sponsor on a history
version only when this block's version key already exists (a metered
existence read, made only for sponsor-held documents of history types),
and a test covers a later-block version shrunk in its own block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The PV14 storage-refund ownership changes correctly preserve sponsor ownership for existing history versions, use the current payer for newly appended versions, and avoid the prior document clone. However, the new stateful history-key existence read is executed during real updates but is bypassed by the fee-estimation path, leaving estimated processing costs below actual execution costs for affected updates.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: platform-versioning); reviewer 6: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 7: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: security-auditor); reviewer 8: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 9: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 10: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: platform-versioning); reviewer 11: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 12: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: security-auditor); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The large, intricate diff changes consensus-critical funds movement and storage-owner accounting across protocol-version-14 document writes, updates, contested inserts, and refunds.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer, muse-spark-1.3-contributor — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
  • Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (antigravity below 15% reserve: weekly 13% left, 5h 100% left), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
  • Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
  • Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — platform-versioning (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — platform-versioning (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer
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In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:365-383: Account for the new history-key existence read in fee estimation
  When a stored document is sponsor-held and keeps history, execution now calls `grove_has_raw` to determine whether the current block's history key already exists. `grove_has_raw` performs a stateful read and appends a `CalculatedCostOperation`. The estimation branch returns earlier at lines 220-234 through `estimate_document_change_as_insert_operations_v1`, so it never performs or prices this new read. A fee validation pass can therefore admit a transition using an estimate lower than the actual execution cost, violating the estimated-greater-than-or-equal-to-actual invariant and potentially underfunding the payer. Add a conservative stateless cost for this lookup to the history-update estimate, or restructure estimation and execution so both paths account for the same operation.
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:365-383: Skip the preservation lookup when incoming flags already name the sponsor
  For a sponsored update, fee execution has already changed the incoming storage flags to the contract owner. If the previous history version is also sponsor-held, this code still performs the metered `grove_has_raw` lookup even though both outcomes write sponsor-owned flags. Short-circuit the lookup when the incoming `storage_flags` already name `contract.owner_id()`, while retaining it for unsponsored writes that actually need to preserve the prior sponsor. This removes an unnecessary state read and its processing cost from sponsored history updates.

QuantumExplorer and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 19:21
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Document update v1 probes whether a sponsor-held document's history
already holds this block's version. The probe was metered in execution
only, while the fee estimate prices an update as an insert and never
saw it. Both now charge it at its average-case (stateless) cost: the
estimate for every update of a history type that offers sponsorship,
execution when it probes, which reads state without metering it again.
An update whose flags already name the sponsor (a sponsored one) skips
the check and the probe altogether.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Conflicts:
#	packages/dashmate/test/unit/config/configFile/tenderdashImageMigration.spec.js

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The complete diff at the exact head keeps the ownership changes behind PV14-selected implementations, and six prior implementation findings are fixed. One blocking refund-ownership gap remains in the persistent current-version pointer of summable history documents; two new regression tests also need more discriminating assertions, while contested sponsorship coverage remains intentionally deferred. Review was static only: the supplied head-matched CI snapshot reports successful Rust workspace tests, with PR Hygiene pending.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: platform-versioning); reviewer 6: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 7: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: security-auditor); reviewer 8: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 9: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: architecture-layering); reviewer 10: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: platform-versioning); reviewer 11: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: rust-quality); reviewer 12: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: security-auditor); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

  • Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff intricately changes funds movement and PV14 consensus behavior across sponsored batch execution, storage-flag ownership, contested-document entries, and update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs, determining which identity receives storage refunds after updates and deletions.
  • Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer, muse-spark-1.3-contributor — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
  • Phase 1 model: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — not quota-gated; passed over gemini-3.8-flash-high (antigravity below 15% reserve: weekly 84% left, 5h 5% left), glm-5.3-flash (not used above high effort; tier asks max)
  • Single stage: Phase 1 and Phase 2 reviewed this head side by side, with no blocker gate between them (triage tier)
  • Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
  • Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
  • Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — platform-versioning (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — architecture-layering (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — platform-versioning (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — rust-quality (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — security-auditor (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase2-reviewer
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In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [BLOCKING] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:476-479: Preserve the history pointer's sponsor independently of the new version
  The timestamp-key check correctly distinguishes new version rows from existing ones, but the selected flags also reach an element that is always rewritten: the persistent `[0]` current-version pointer. `add_document_to_primary_storage_0` writes that pointer with the supplied flags when contract-level `config.canBeDeleted` is true. For a history-keeping, summable document type, it is a `ReferenceWithSumItem`; the pinned GroveDB dependency serializes its sum with variable width and inserts the reference using its actual serialized size, rather than a fixed specialized storage cost. Consequently, an unsponsored append can resize an existing sponsor-owned pointer while supplying the user's flags, allowing the `UseTheirs` merge to change its refund owner. Later pointer shrinkage can then refund sponsor-funded storage to that user. Preserve a sponsor-held pointer's owner independently of the timestamped version row, while retaining the current payer for genuinely new rows. Add a focused regression for summable history documents with contract-level deletion enabled, and account for any additional ownership reads in estimation and execution.

In `packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/tests/document/gas_sponsorship.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/tests/document/gas_sponsorship.rs:1439-1445: Assert the history probe is charged, not only that execution stays below the estimate
  Both assertions are upper-bound checks, so they still pass if execution stops charging the preservation probe. The stateful lookup deliberately accumulates its measured cost into a discarded temporary vector; the preceding `add_history_version_probe_cost` call is its only retained charge. Removing that call would lower the actual processing fee without violating either inequality. Keep this integration test and add a focused cost-operation assertion or controlled fee comparison that verifies the explicit probe charge appears exactly once in estimation and in an unsponsored sponsor-held history rewrite, and is absent from the sponsored execution fast path.
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/tests/document/gas_sponsorship.rs:1337-1341: Make the transfer regression change the primary element's size
  The primary-owner assertion does not distinguish the new preservation rule from GroveDB's existing same-size behavior. This fixture already fills the required transfer timestamps, which serialize at fixed width; owner IDs are fixed-width, revisions 1 and 2 have equal encoded width, and the card has no stored price for the transfer to remove. The primary element therefore remains the same size and retains its sponsor-owned flags even if sponsor preservation is bypassed specifically for transfers. The index-refund assertions exercise a separate path. Add a transfer of a card with a stored `$price`, which the transfer transformer removes, and assert both the primary size change and retained sponsor ownership.

Comment on lines 476 to +479
self.add_document_to_primary_storage(
&document_and_contract_info,
sponsor_held_primary_storage
.as_ref()
.unwrap_or(&document_and_contract_info),

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🔴 Blocking: Preserve the history pointer's sponsor independently of the new version

The timestamp-key check correctly distinguishes new version rows from existing ones, but the selected flags also reach an element that is always rewritten: the persistent [0] current-version pointer. add_document_to_primary_storage_0 writes that pointer with the supplied flags when contract-level config.canBeDeleted is true. For a history-keeping, summable document type, it is a ReferenceWithSumItem; the pinned GroveDB dependency serializes its sum with variable width and inserts the reference using its actual serialized size, rather than a fixed specialized storage cost. Consequently, an unsponsored append can resize an existing sponsor-owned pointer while supplying the user's flags, allowing the UseTheirs merge to change its refund owner. Later pointer shrinkage can then refund sponsor-funded storage to that user. Preserve a sponsor-held pointer's owner independently of the timestamped version row, while retaining the current payer for genuinely new rows. Add a focused regression for summable history documents with contract-level deletion enabled, and account for any additional ownership reads in estimation and execution.

source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: security-auditor)

Comment on lines +1439 to +1445
assert!(
estimated_fees.processing_fee >= fee_result.processing_fee,
"estimated {} below the {} the rewrite cost",
estimated_fees.processing_fee,
fee_result.processing_fee
);
assert!(estimated_fees.total_base_fee() >= fee_result.total_base_fee());

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🟡 Suggestion: Assert the history probe is charged, not only that execution stays below the estimate

Both assertions are upper-bound checks, so they still pass if execution stops charging the preservation probe. The stateful lookup deliberately accumulates its measured cost into a discarded temporary vector; the preceding add_history_version_probe_cost call is its only retained charge. Removing that call would lower the actual processing fee without violating either inequality. Keep this integration test and add a focused cost-operation assertion or controlled fee comparison that verifies the explicit probe charge appears exactly once in estimation and in an unsponsored sponsor-held history rewrite, and is absent from the sponsored execution fast path.

source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: rust-quality)

Comment on lines +1337 to +1341
assert_eq!(
setup.stored_card_storage_owner(),
Some(setup.contract_owner.id()),
"the stored card stays the contract owner's"
);

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🟡 Suggestion: Make the transfer regression change the primary element's size

The primary-owner assertion does not distinguish the new preservation rule from GroveDB's existing same-size behavior. This fixture already fills the required transfer timestamps, which serialize at fixed width; owner IDs are fixed-width, revisions 1 and 2 have equal encoded width, and the card has no stored price for the transfer to remove. The primary element therefore remains the same size and retains its sponsor-owned flags even if sponsor preservation is bypassed specifically for transfers. The index-refund assertions exercise a separate path. Add a transfer of a card with a stored $price, which the transfer transformer removes, and assert both the primary size change and retained sponsor ownership.

source: gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: rust-quality)

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