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zeekayandHanzo Dev 9c6d66ef6b eth,warp: gate EXPORT surfaces on the ⅔-stake Quasar tier, not the Nova accept tip (v1.36)
The two-tier consensus (v1.36) advances VM.Accept at a BARE MAJORITY (Nova), which is reorgable
and can fork under f=1 equivocation. The Ethereum `finalized`/`safe` tags and warp cross-chain
exports were still reading the accept tip — the "semantic collapse" the split exists to prevent.
Re-point every EXPORT surface onto the export-final (Quasar, ⅔-by-stake) frontier consensus
already exposes.

#1 CRITICAL — eth `finalized`/`safe` tags:
- eth.Ethereum gains a DURABLE, monotone lastQuasarHeight (SetLastQuasarHeight/LastQuasarHeight),
  pushed by consensus strictly AFTER accept. The plugin VM's SetLastQuasarFinalized persists it to
  acceptedBlockDB and reloads it on boot (readLastQuasarHeight), so the export surface never
  regresses on restart.
- api_backend HeaderByNumber/BlockByNumber resolve Finalized(-3)/Safe(-4) to GetBlockByNumber(
  LastQuasarHeight) BEFORE the IsAccepted() catch-all — NEVER a block above the Quasar height.
  `latest`/`pending` stay on the accept tip (correct — not finality tags).
- Test: TestFinalizedSafeResolveToQuasarNeverAboveIt proves finalized == the Quasar height,
  monotone, and never above the accepted tip.

#2 HIGH — warp cross-chain export double-spend:
- warp.verifyBlockMessage now requires the block be EXPORT-final (height ≤ BlockClient.
  LastQuasarHeight), so a validator signs a block hash only at Quasar finality, never on a
  reorgable Nova accept (two conflicting Nova forks could otherwise each aggregate a valid export).
- WarpQuorumNumeratorMinimum floored 33 → 67 (⅔): any warp message needs ≥⅔ stake to verify, so at
  most one of two conflicting exports can validate (two ⅔ sets intersect on >⅓ honest stake) —
  restoring the ⅔-accept safety the pre-split accept tier gave for free.

The consensus engine pushes the frontier via NetworkConfig.QuasarObserver; the node bridges it into
the VM (separate node commit). Nova-only chains (no export surface) are unaffected.

Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
2026-07-10 04:58:54 -07:00
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