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consensus/engine/chain/quorum_function_test.go
zeekayandHanzo Dev 82ab92a70f cert: give the export rung a distinct-signer floor, so two thirds means two thirds of the parties
The Quasar rung read only stake. Two thirds of the stake is one signature
wherever two thirds of the stake is one validator, so a whale holding a
supermajority could mint an export-grade certificate alone — and export-grade
finality is what a bridge, a settlement and a cross-chain message admit on. A
certificate one key can produce is not a claim that a Byzantine supermajority
agreed, however much weight stands behind the key.

VerifyWeighted now demands config.TwoThirdsCount(n) = floor(2n/3)+1 DISTINCT
signers of a Quasar certificate as well as the stake. Two independent
predicates, neither sufficient alone, the same shape Nova has one rung up.

TwoThirdsCount is the count that value has always been, given its own name and
one home. It is derived from TwoThirdsStakeFloor over unit weights rather than
restated, so the count and the stake predicate cannot drift. It replaces three
spellings of the same closed form that had grown apart in reach if not yet in
value: config.EqualStakeSupermajorityThreshold (the alpha sizer), the private
chain.quasarQuorum (the attestor's assembly trigger), and the clause that was
missing from the verifier entirely.

Stake is read first and the count second. Both must hold, so the order names
only which clause a refusal reports: on an equal-stake set the two are one bar
in two units and bind together, and the count clause binds ALONE only where the
weights are lopsided — so reaching it means the stake was there and the signers
were not. Every verdict the R3 corpus froze is unchanged.

Liveness. Nothing that exports today stops exporting. QuasarAttestor, the only
producer of export certificates, already assembled at exactly floor(2n/3)+1
attestations, and FeasibleParams already sized alpha — the floor
HandleIncomingCert applies to a gossiped Quasar cert — to the same number.
Producer, gossip door and verifier now read one function, so the verifier's new
clause refuses nothing the engine can build and exactly what it never could.
quasar_count_floor_test.go holds all three to that.

The tests that moved were the ones written on three seats, where floor(2n/3)+1
is three and no two-signer certificate can isolate the stake half any more.
They ask the same question on four.

Rust: the same clause in Cert::verify_quasar_supermajority, the same name.
1.22.4 -> 1.22.5 — this changes what the crate accepts.

Also, at the already-admitted door: the zero-weight refusal is justified by
agreement with Register, not by the phantom-signer argument alone. A seat whose
key does not decode can never sign and is refused anyway, because the weight is
read before the key is — and deferring it would make admission depend on which
keys a node's crypto build can parse.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-09-01 17:39:39 -07:00

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// Copyright (C) 2019-2026, Lux Industries, Inc. All rights reserved.
// See the file LICENSE for licensing terms.
package chain
import (
"testing"
"github.com/luxfi/consensus/config"
)
// TestNovaQuorum_Table pins the Nova-tier thresholds at n∈{1..5} — the "scale
// smoothly from 1" contract for β-ignition / local-execution acceptance.
func TestNovaQuorum_Table(t *testing.T) {
want := map[int][3]int{ // n → {NovaQuorum, CrashTolerance, NovaBeta}
1: {1, 0, 1}, // lone node self-ignites; no fault tolerance
2: {2, 0, 2}, // both must agree; any drop pauses Nova
3: {2, 1, 2}, // majority 2 → tolerate 1 crash
4: {3, 1, 2}, // majority 3 → tolerate 1 crash
5: {3, 2, 2}, // majority 3 → tolerate 2 crashes (the deploy)
}
for n, w := range want {
if got := NovaQuorum(n); got != w[0] {
t.Errorf("n=%d NovaQuorum=%d want %d", n, got, w[0])
}
if got := CrashTolerance(n); got != w[1] {
t.Errorf("n=%d CrashTolerance=%d want %d", n, got, w[1])
}
if got := NovaBeta(n); got != w[2] {
t.Errorf("n=%d NovaBeta=%d want %d", n, got, w[2])
}
}
}
// TestNovaQuorum_MajorityOverlap_CrashSafe: two Nova majorities always intersect
// (2·NovaQuorum(n) > n), so — with no equivocation — no two conflicting blocks can
// both ignite to Nova. Holds for every n.
func TestNovaQuorum_MajorityOverlap_CrashSafe(t *testing.T) {
for n := 1; n <= 1000; n++ {
if 2*NovaQuorum(n) <= n {
t.Fatalf("n=%d: majority overlap broken (2·%d ≤ %d) — Nova is not crash-safe",
n, NovaQuorum(n), n)
}
}
}
// TestNova_Below_Quasar proves the two rungs are DISTINCT authorization tiers and are
// never collapsed: Nova (local, majority) never requires MORE than Quasar (export,
// ⅔-stake), and sits STRICTLY below it wherever majority < ⅔ (n=3, n=5, and generally).
// The Quasar threshold is read from its ONE definition (config), never re-expressed.
func TestNova_Below_Quasar(t *testing.T) {
strictlySeparatedAt := map[int]bool{3: true, 5: true} // deploy cases we assert are strict
for n := 1; n <= 1000; n++ {
quasar := config.TwoThirdsCount(n) // ⌊2n/3⌋+1, the single ⅔ definition
nova := NovaQuorum(n)
if nova > quasar {
t.Fatalf("n=%d: Nova majority %d exceeds Quasar ⅔ %d — tiers collapsed", n, nova, quasar)
}
if strictlySeparatedAt[n] && nova >= quasar {
t.Fatalf("n=%d: Nova %d not strictly below Quasar %d — no distinct local vs export boundary",
n, nova, quasar)
}
}
// The deploy case, spelled out: n=5 tolerates 2 crashes at Nova (3-of-5) but the
// exportable Quasar cert still needs 4-of-5 — the whole reason to keep them apart.
if NovaQuorum(5) != 3 || config.TwoThirdsCount(5) != 4 {
t.Fatalf("n=5 deploy: Nova=%d Quasar=%d want 3 and 4", NovaQuorum(5), config.TwoThirdsCount(5))
}
}
// TestFinalityLadder: the ladder is strictly ordered and the authorization boundaries
// are exactly Nova (local) / Quasar (export) / Horizon (irreversible) — Photon and Wave
// authorize nothing. This is the anti-semantic-collapse contract as code.
func TestFinalityLadder(t *testing.T) {
if !(Photon < Wave && Wave < Nova && Nova < Quasar && Quasar < Horizon) {
t.Fatal("finality ladder is not strictly ordered Photon<Wave<Nova<Quasar<Horizon")
}
for _, f := range []Finality{Photon, Wave} {
if f.AuthorizesLocalExecution() || f.AuthorizesExport() || f.AuthorizesIrreversibleSettlement() {
t.Fatalf("%s must authorize nothing (pre-ignition)", f)
}
}
if !Nova.AuthorizesLocalExecution() || Nova.AuthorizesExport() {
t.Fatal("Nova must authorize LOCAL execution only — never export")
}
if !Quasar.AuthorizesExport() || Quasar.AuthorizesIrreversibleSettlement() {
t.Fatal("Quasar must authorize export — but not irreversible settlement")
}
if !Horizon.AuthorizesIrreversibleSettlement() {
t.Fatal("Horizon must authorize irreversible settlement")
}
// Names are the lowercase ontology verbatim (RPC/metrics contract).
for f, name := range map[Finality]string{Photon: "photon", Wave: "wave", Nova: "nova", Quasar: "quasar", Horizon: "horizon"} {
if f.String() != name {
t.Errorf("%d.String()=%q want %q", f, f.String(), name)
}
}
}