A failed wallet unlock was always treated as a wrong guess: the lockout
counter was bumped and the back-off curve armed no matter why the RPC
failed. A busy or warming-up node, a transport timeout, or a wallet that
is not actually encrypted would all eat an attempt and could push a user
into a lockout without a single mistyped passphrase.
The failed call is now classified before it is acted on:
- Only the daemon's "passphrase incorrect" error counts as a wrong
guess and advances the lockout.
- A warming-up or unreachable node, a reply timeout, or a full queue is
reported as a transient busy-node condition with no attempt charged.
- A "wallet is not encrypted" reply refreshes the local encryption state
instead of penalising the user.
- Any unknown error surfaces its message without touching the counter.
The PIN path got the same treatment: when the vault decrypts correctly
but the unlock RPC then fails for a non-credential reason, the attempt
is no longer counted.
Tests cover the classification of each failure kind.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A rescan or key import holds the node's cs_main for the whole wallet
scan. On the shared clients it hit the 30 s curl timeout, reported a
failure that wasn't one, abandoned a daemon RPC slot and flipped the app
into "node busy".
- One long wallet RPC at a time (rescan, importprivkey, importaddress,
importwallet, z_importkey, z_importviewingkey, z_importwallet) runs on
its own ungated client with no client timeout (rpc/long_call_lane.h).
It can be aborted from any thread, and an abort is never lost, even
one that lands before the client opens.
- The GUI rescan, key import and sweep use it. The sweep's fund-moving
body is unchanged; only the client it calls differs. runtimeRescan()
returns bool, and a refused post-bootstrap reconcile stays armed.
- The console routes rescan and the import commands through the lane;
its input stays usable meanwhile, and a refusal is printed like any
other result. RPCClient gains callRaw(.., timeoutSec).
- Restart, wallet switch, delete-chain, bootstrap (now also from
Settings) and the other node-stopping flows are refused while it runs,
with a message saying a key import or rescan is still running; quit
asks for confirmation. The lane is aborted at quit.
- A second import or rescan is refused before the key is copied anywhere.
An import cut off after the request reached the node (a lost reply,
or a proxy's 502/504 while the node still imports) says the key may
already be in the wallet and to run Settings -> Rescan. Only the
node's own HTTP-layer refusals (401, 503, work queue full, unhandled
request) say that the key was not imported. A pure
classifyLongCallCutOff() makes that choice.
- New strings in all 8 languages; console results stay English.
Tests: the long-method list and the console's routing; one lane at a
time; an abort lands whether it comes before the client opens or during
the call; a call with no client timeout outlasts a 3 s scan, where a 1 s
gated client times out and marks the node busy; classifyLongCallCutOff()
for every failure kind with and without a sent request, and from raw
HTTP replies (502, 504, a plain 500 -> cut off; 401, 503, queue full,
unhandled -> refused).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a first run or after an upgrade, Windows release builds wrote the
bundled Sapling params, asmap, node and miner (about 88 MB) in
App::init, before the first frame: 0.5-3 s of frozen blank window, 5-30 s
on a slow disk or under antivirus. Zip, AppImage and .app builds copied
the bundled files into the daemon dir and hashed the 51.5 MB of params on
the UI thread at the first node start, a 0.3-1.5 s freeze in the wizard
or the connect loop.
A stat-only check at startup decides whether anything is missing, stale
or unverified; a normal launch starts no thread and shows nothing.
Otherwise one background job extracts (Windows) or copies (Linux, macOS)
the files, then verifies the params once:
- The first frame paints at once. If the job takes longer than 0.4 s, a
chip at the bottom shows "Preparing wallet files... N%", then
"Verifying wallet files...".
- A node start on the UI thread while the job runs is deferred and
replayed when it ends (never into a bootstrap download, a restart or a
live connection); worker threads wait, and give up on quit. After an
upgrade that ships a new miner, the node starts after the miner is
written instead of before. Pool-miner starts and the miner version
check wait too, so the old miner is never run or reported while it is
being replaced.
- Each file goes to "<name>.partial", is flushed and renamed into place
under one lock shared with the daemon start, the bundled-node
reinstall and the miner extraction, and the job stops between 4 MB
chunks at shutdown. An interrupted write used to leave a truncated
binary that was trusted forever; a leftover .partial is now removed.
Other behaviour changes:
- Linux and macOS full-node builds copy the bundled node files (about
77 MB) into the daemon dir at first launch, even if the wallet ends up
on an external node; before, this happened at the first embedded start.
- Lite no longer writes the 53 MB of params and asmap it never reads.
- A disk-full or permission failure that leaves the node files unusable
shows a warning; a miner blocked by antivirus alone does not.
- A corrupt or truncated param in a zip, AppImage or .app install is
replaced from the bundle and verified again instead of trusted forever.
- Reinstalling the bundled node holds off the connect loop and a deferred
start for its whole run (either could launch the old binary while the
new one was written), and is refused while another restart is running.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The balance, address scan, history and probe were throttled one by one at
10% each, which added up to 30-40% of dragonxd's cs_main with all of them
due. services::WalletScanGovernor runs one wallet scan at a time across
both RPC lanes and keeps one shared quiet clock at 15% of wall-clock (cut
when the node is behind). Waiters are served first in, first out, with a
head start for what the page shows and a starvation floor of max(30 s
visible / 900 s hidden, 15x the stream's cost). Explicit work (a dirty
set, the user's send, a first load) is never refused but is charged.
Routine scans run only when the tip, the mempool size (getmempoolinfo:
no cs_main) or a wallet-mutation epoch changed since their last good scan,
or a safety sweep is due. Pages that don't show the balance poll it at
most every max(10 min, 50x its cost) (2 min with client-side auto-shield);
coming back into view with an old value fetches it at once. The staleness
badge counts from the last poll that confirmed nothing changed, and hides
while the budget holds the balance within its guarantee.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Core poll ran z_gettotalbalance twice (minconf 0 and 1), each a whole-
wallet scan under dragonxd's cs_main. The spendable (minconf=1) call now
runs only after the display call succeeded, and only when something is
unconfirmed or pending or the exact total moved: about 95% of polls make
one scan instead of two. A forced post-send balance can no longer be lost
to a refused enqueue, and pending-send debits aren't re-applied each tick.
z_getoperationstatus is filtered to our opids with its real argument form
([[id,...]]; the old ["id"] was rejected), falling back to the unfiltered
call if a daemon refuses the filter. The Shield/Merge dialog's own polls
are filtered and session-guarded too, and finally reach Done; the dead
RPCClient wrappers are deleted.
The Merge/Consolidate scope scan becomes a tested state machine: one scan
at a time, failures latch behind a Retry button, only "node not ready"
retries by itself (10/30/60 s, at most 3), Lite never scans. Its 120 s
calls are maintenance calls: every main-thread disconnect aborts one in
flight first, so a lifecycle action no longer freezes the UI behind it.
An aborted merge that was already sent says it may still go through.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dragonxd serves RPC with 8 workers and a 16-deep queue. While a witness
rebuild holds cs_main, every request needing it waits, and a request the
client gave up on keeps its slot. The GUI kept polling and re-probing
until all 24 slots were its own abandoned requests (even stop was then
refused), treated the busy node as lost (tearing down the wallet state),
and retried connect at frame rate on some pages.
Busy gate (src/rpc/rpc_busy_gate.h), enforced in RPCClient::performCall
for the shared rpc_ / fast_rpc_:
- the first reply timeout or queue-full refusal marks the node busy;
from then on nothing needing cs_main is sent (calls fail at once with
the new RpcFailureKind::Deferred). stop, help and getrescaninfo are
lock-free in dragonxd and always go through
- one canary getinfo with no client timeout waits on its own client and
thread; its answer clears the gate and triggers an immediate refresh
(queue-full: retried after 2..30 s; no answer: back to normal handling)
- the timer dispatch skips Core/Tx/Addresses/Peers/chat/mining/opid and
connect attempts while busy
- the 3-strike teardown counts only failures that put the connection in
doubt, never busy ones; no balance scans follow a busy chain-info call
Reconnect storm: retries were armed with setTimer(Core, kCoreDefault - 1),
i.e. "4 s elapsed", which against Overview's 2 s interval meant every
frame. RefreshScheduler::deferFor() is an absolute hold, and
ConnectRetryBackoff picks the delay by failure kind (not listening
1/2/5 s, queue full 2..30 s, busy 30 s, else 4 s).
Measured against the fake daemon: abandoned requests during a rebuild
went from ~24 (every slot) to at most 2, with no teardown and recovery
when the rebuild ends; a saturated queue sees about one canary per
back-off step instead of ~190 requests/s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closing the wallet sent "stop" at most twice, gated on a getinfo probe
that needs the daemon's cs_main, then killed the node after 20 s (Windows)
or 30 s (POSIX) whether or not stop had arrived. A node busy with an
hour-long witness rebuild therefore never got stop, was killed mid-
rebuild, and replayed everything since its last flush on every start.
Delivery (src/daemon/stop_delivery.h, RPCClient::open/trySendStop):
- stop goes over a dedicated client with no probe, so it never waits on
rpc_'s lock or a cs_main-bound getinfo
- every attempt is classified, and StopDeliveryPolicy decides the next:
Accepted / 503 = delivered; Queued (reply timeout) is resent at most
every 30 s; QueueFull / not listening are retried every 1.5 s; a
refusal after we were heard means the node is shutting down; a 401 on
our own node tries the next credential source
- POSIX: a group SIGTERM goes out as soon as an attempt fails, which
bypasses the HTTP queue entirely
Waiting (DaemonController::executeDaemonStop, pure, virtual-clock
tested):
- never kills on its own. Quitting waits as long as the node needs; the
shutdown screen offers "Close wallet — leave node running" after 3 s,
and "Kill node (unsafe)" (confirmed) only once stop was delivered and
the node showed no CPU/I-O progress for ~10 min outside a rebuild
- other callers (restart, rescan, reinstall, switch, ...) wait up to
120 s, let go once the app starts quitting, and keep watching a node
that is still running; wallet switch refuses to go ahead then
- EmbeddedDaemon gains stop-session primitives (beginStop,
pollOwnedProcess, signalGracefulStop, forceKillOwnedProcess,
ownedResourceUsage over the Linux process group / Windows handle,
endStop) and only one stop session runs at a time
- the Force Quit button and its stall heuristic are gone; "Leave
running" aborts a pending stop attempt and closes at once
Verified against the fake daemon with the real GUI: closing mid-rebuild
now delivers stop (or SIGTERM 2 ms after a queue-full refusal) and the
node exits cleanly after its rebuild, where it was SIGKILLed before. The
shutdown screen, its "Leave running" button and the idle Kill offer
(after ~11 min) were checked by screenshot. New strings are English-
only for now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every caller guessed what went wrong from what(): "Timeout" meant busy,
"401" meant auth, and warmup was code -28 or one of six substrings. A
non-JSON HTTP 500 lost its body, so "Work queue depth exceeded" read as a
bare "HTTP 500", and libcurl reports connect- and reply-phase timeouts
with the same code.
New header-only src/rpc/rpc_failure.h:
- RpcFailureKind (NotListening, ConnectTimeout, ReplyTimeout, QueueFull,
ShuttingDown, Unhandled, Auth, Warmup, AppError, Aborted, Other) and a
pure classifyRpcFailure(curl code, request-sent, HTTP status, JSON-RPC
code, plain-text body)
- formatHttpError keeps a short, printable plain-text body
- RpcError (moved here) stays "the daemon answered with a JSON-RPC
error". The new RpcTransportError means "no JSON-RPC answer": curl
failures and HTTP-layer refusals (401, 503, queue full, unhandled).
Keeping them separate matters: callers catch RpcError to mean "the
daemon said no" (chat identity's no-mnemonic fallback, seed export),
so a timeout must not be one. They now treat a queue-full 500 as
transient rather than as "no".
RPCClient:
- performCall tells the two timeouts apart with CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE
(0 = never reached the daemon; reset on every transfer, checked on
libcurl 7.81), and callRaw now shares performCall and the HTTP-failure
path.
- connect() decides warmup by the -28 code only, so a plain-text body
saying "Loading" can't pass for warmup, and records
getLastConnectFailureKind().
- "Connection failed" names the kind and is logged once, then every
100th repeat (one incident logged it 60k times).
- secret-bearing calls never echo a response body.
tryConnect's "401"/"Timeout" checks now use the kind, and
CoreRefreshResult carries blockchainErrKind/balanceErrKind for the busy
handling to come.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the wallet's stale hardcoded -addnode list (node. + node1-4.dragonx.is — a drifted
subset with a bogus bare 'node.') with the daemon's authoritative vSeeds: seed.dragonx.is (a
round-robin A record over the live seed set, so it self-updates without a wallet release) plus
node1/node5 as static fallbacks. Applied in both seeding sites: the launch args
(embedded_daemon.cpp) and the generated DRAGONX.conf (connection.cpp).
Kept (not deleted) — pre-1.3.0 daemons had broken peer discovery and rely on these -addnode
entries to find peers at all; plain hostname resolution works on every daemon version.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Security audit remediation (15 confirmed findings from the codebase audit):
- H-02: scrub+delete the decrypt-flow plaintext key export on ALL exit paths
(RAII guard) and purge stale obsidiandecryptexport* files at startup.
- M-01/L-03/L-04/L-05/L-07: sodium_memzero the Set-PIN and encrypt-PIN worker
passphrase/PIN copies, the RPC Basic-auth string (auth_), the exported/imported
key buffers (App::wipeSecrets, called from ~App and before main's _Exit), and
the first-run wizard "Skip" buffers.
- M-03/M-04/M-05/L-06: return locked COPIES from XmrigManager/EmbeddedDaemon
getters (dedicated error_mutex_; DaemonController::lastError now by value),
route xmrig last_error_ writes through a locked setter, and wrap
shutdown_status_/wizard_stop_status_ in a locking GuardedStatus
(wizard_stopping_external_ -> std::atomic).
- M-02: persist after a console send/shield/import in the lite backend.
- L-01: require the confirm click for z_shieldcoinbase/z_mergetoaddress.
- L-02: quote/escape each Windows daemon argv per the MSDN CommandLineToArgvW rules.
- L-08: pin json/tomlplusplus/libwebp FetchContent to immutable commit SHAs.
- I-01: extract updater archives from the already-verified in-memory buffer
(no disk re-read TOCTOU).
Feature: warn once (full-node) when the active wallet loads empty while a sibling
wallet file in the datadir holds keys. A funded salvage wallet.<ts>.bak routes to
the recovery/Restore flow; a funded sibling .dat routes to the wallet manager.
Per-wallet-file dismissal; gated on synced + address-list-loaded to avoid false
positives on warm reconnect / spent-down wallets.
UX fixes:
- send: show the TOTAL balance (with a spendable "available" note) in the source
dropdown and keep pending-change addresses visible.
- chat: insert emoji at the cursor position; restrict new-chat recipients to
shielded (z) addresses.
- console: optional auto-focus of the command input on tab open (off by default).
- shutdown: when "stop external daemon" is on, keep the shutdown screen up until
the external node actually exits, showing live status.
Adversarially reviewed; verified across full-node, lite, and Windows builds; tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
F8 (security). Two related fixes to how the wallet decides whether an RPC target is
safe to send Basic-auth credentials to:
- isLocalHost() was matching any host that merely *starts* "127." via
rfind("127.",0)==0, so "127.evil.com" (and "127.0.0.1.attacker", "127.300.0.1",
"1270.0.0.1") were misclassified as loopback and treated as local. It now uses a
strict isExactIPv4Loopback() parser: exactly four 0-255 dot-separated octets with
the first == 127. localhost / ::1 / [::1] handling is unchanged.
- A remote rpchost over plain HTTP (no rpctls=1) previously only produced a
dismissible warning and then sent rpcuser:rpcpassword in cleartext, where a
local-network MITM could capture them. tryConnect() now REFUSES that connection
(clear status line + one-time notification, no creds sent) unless the user opts in
explicitly with rpcallowplaintext=1 in DRAGONX.conf (new
ConnectionConfig::allow_plaintext_remote, parsed in parseConfFile; policy in the
new allowsPlaintextRemote()). Local/embedded daemons and rpctls=1 remotes are
unaffected.
BREAKING: a wallet configured for remote plaintext RPC will stop connecting until
rpcallowplaintext=1 (or rpctls=1) is added to DRAGONX.conf. Must be called out in the
release notes. The Settings-toggle UI is deferred (the conf-key opt-in is the recovery
path; see docs/daemon-startup-hardening.md).
Adds testIsLocalHost and testAllowsPlaintextRemote to test_phase4.cpp; one i18n key
(English) added to i18n.cpp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three verified daemon-startup edge-case fixes centered on the config/params
filesystem path:
- F7: new non-throwing Platform::ensureDirectory(dir, outError) with one
consistent "Cannot create <dir>: <reason>. Check permissions / free space."
message. Replaces the unchecked/throwing create_directories sites at main.cpp
(pre-init: log + Windows MessageBox + return 1), connection.cpp's
autoDetectConfig (was the *throwing* overload -- could raise an uncaught
filesystem_error through its callers; now sets the new
ConnectionConfig::dir_error), and both app.cpp daemon-dir sites (surface via
daemon_status_ + return false). The primary connect path (app_network.cpp)
checks dir_error and shows it instead of mislabelling it "waiting for config".
embedded_resources.cpp already checked its error_code, so it is left as-is.
- F6: verifySaplingParams() now hash-verifies each param against its pinned
canonical SHA-256 (source of truth: scripts/build-lite-backend-artifact.sh)
instead of only checking existence, so a truncated / corrupt-but-present param
is rejected up front rather than failing later on a shielded operation. A
<params_dir>/.sapling_verified marker keyed on size:mtime avoids re-hashing
~48MB on every startup. Logic extracted to the injectable, unit-testable
verifySaplingParamsIn(dir, digests); reuses util::sha256Hex (no new hash impl).
- F5: startEmbeddedDaemon() now checks extractEmbeddedResources()'s return and
the previously-dropped copy_file error_code in the daemon-binary fallback loop,
aborting with a clear status (sb_daemon_extract_failed / sb_daemon_files_failed)
instead of failing opaquely at spawn. An absent source file stays non-fatal.
Adds testPlatformEnsureDirectory and testVerifySaplingParams to test_phase4.cpp.
i18n keys added to i18n.cpp (English source of truth); the res/lang/*.json
back-fill via add_missing_translations.py is deferred to a single run at the end
of the batch. Progress tracked in docs/daemon-startup-hardening.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dev-branch audit (docs/_archive/security-audit-dev-2026-07-22.md) re-found the
master issues (absent on dev) plus new ones in dev-only code. Applied here;
full-node build + test suite green; the subtle fixes were adversarially re-verified.
Ported from the master remediation (adapted to dev's code):
- bootstrap: reject zip-slip / path-traversal archive members (isSafeArchivePath)
before writing (S2-1). (dev already fail-closes on a missing checksum.)
- xmrig updater: fail closed when a signature is required but no key is pinned (F1-1).
- http_download.httpGetString: 16 MiB hard cap + MAXFILESIZE on the shared
metadata/price fetch (F1-2 / caps the updater + exchange paths at one site).
- rpc_client: explicit SSL_VERIFYPEER/VERIFYHOST (F4-1) and a 256 MiB response
cap in WriteCallback (F4-3).
- lite_connection_service: reject remote http:// lite servers, loopback only (L1-1).
Loopback is matched by a strict dotted-decimal 127.0.0.0/8 check (not a
startsWith("127.") prefix, which would wrongly accept 127.0.0.1.evil.com), with
userinfo/fragment stripping.
- lite controller: propagate encrypt/decrypt save() failure instead of reporting
success (F7-1).
- xmrig_manager: chmod(0600) the pool config before writing secrets (F5-2).
- app: clear the copied secret from the OS clipboard on shutdown (F3b-1).
- export_transactions: neutralize CSV/spreadsheet formula injection (F13-1).
- build pipeline: build-from-source lite backend + remove the self-attested
CMake signature gate (F15-1); pinned+verified appimagetool (F15-3/4);
verified Sapling params in setup.sh (F15-6); build.sh exits 0 on success.
(F14-1 empty-quoted-arg and F8-2 NUL-termination were already fixed on dev.)
Dev-only findings:
- rpc_client.callRaw: scrub the raw buffer + parsed tree (templated scrubJsonSecrets
for ordered_json) so console dumpprivkey/z_exportkey keys don't linger in freed
heap (N1-1).
- seed_wallet_creator: wipe the exported mnemonic on the failure path so a discarded
failed result never carries a live seed (W1-2).
- export_all_keys: write the plaintext key dump 0600 + atomically via
writeFileAtomically (U1-2).
- chat_database: restrict chat_messages.sqlite and its WAL/SHM sidecars to owner-only (C3-1).
Not done (need a decision, documented in the report):
- Chat header metadata (cid/z/p) rides outside the AEAD (C1/C2) — binding it is a
wire-protocol change requiring SilentDragonXLite interop review.
- Bootstrap lacks an offline-rooted signature (S2-2 residual) — needs signing infra.
- Console scrollback retains console-typed key-export output in plaintext (N1-1
residual) — inherent to an echoing console; would need output redaction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two verified medium leaks in the B7 scrub chain:
- parseRpcResult parses the body into a local `response` tree and returns a COPY
of response["result"] (operator[] yields an lvalue ref, so the by-value return
copy-constructs). The local tree — holding its own heap copy of the secret — was
then freed without zeroing, so callSecret/callSecretString still left one
un-scrubbed copy. Add scrubJsonSecrets() (recursive string zero) and a
scrubSource flag; the secret paths opt in, wiping the tree before it frees. The
secret export chain is now fully covered: raw body → parse tree → result copy →
caller-owned string.
- key_export_dialog cleared s_key with plain std::string::clear() on the Close
button, the scrim/Esc dismiss path, and the QR cache (s_qr_cached) — leaving the
displayed private/spending key in freed heap on the ordinary close paths. Route
all three through wallet::secureWipeLiteSecret (zero-then-clear), matching
show()/hide().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four confirmed findings from the review pass:
SECURITY — B7 was incomplete:
- The single-key Export dialog (key_export_dialog) still used plain call() for
z_exportkey/dumpprivkey/z_exportviewingkey — a live spending-key leak on the
most common per-address export path, missed by the B7 commit.
- callSecret() zeros the raw body but the parsed json holds its OWN heap copy of
the secret; several callers did .get<string>() on a temporary json and freed
that copy un-wiped.
Fix: add RPCClient::callSecretString() — returns the bare-string result with
BOTH the raw body AND the json node zeroed, so callers can't forget. Route
key_export_dialog (×2), exportPrivateKey, and export_all_keys (×2) through it;
scrub the z_exportmnemonic json node in seed_wallet_creator (object result);
also wipe the transient key copies, the displayed s_key on reset, and the
aggregated export-all `keys` buffer.
CHAT:
- Jump-to-latest pill: SetCursorScreenPos moved the parent cursor and never
restored it, so the composer footer rendered ~8px too high while scrolled up.
Save + restore the cursor around the pill.
- New-message toast: gating on a chatUnreadCount() watermark delta could be
swallowed when an outgoing echo (wall-clock) pushed the seen-watermark past a
later reply's block time. ingest() now reports the cids it appended; the toast
fires when any is a non-muted conversation — skew-proof, still mute-aware.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The secret exports (z_exportmnemonic / z_exportkey / dumpprivkey) already scrub
the parsed value at the call site, but the raw HTTP response string those RPCs
build — the curl write buffer, which holds the same secret in the clear — was
freed without zeroing. That's the "fuller fix belongs in the RPC layer" the
identity-fetch comment flagged.
Add RPCClient::callSecret(), a call() variant that sodium_memzeros the raw
response body after parsing (on success and on throw). NRVO makes the returned
string the very buffer curl wrote into, so one wipe covers it. Route every
secret-bearing export through it: chat identity (mnemonic + z_exportkey
fallback), Settings seed-phrase + single-key export, Export-all-keys, and the
migrate-to-seed isolated-node mnemonic export. Purely additive — the parsed
result is byte-identical, so no behavior change (safe for the fund-critical
migrate path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six behavior-preserving consolidations from the audit:
- RPCClient::call() overloads share a private performCall() (payload dump +
curl_easy_perform + http code) and a static parseRpcResult() (error->RpcError
extraction). The timeout overload restores the prior timeout in both the
success and catch paths, exactly as before.
- The six UnifiedCallback methods delegate to one splitUnified() that builds
the (Callback, ErrorCallback) pair once (null-check preserved).
- One liteTrimCopy() in lite_connection_service replaces 5 file-local
trim-copy helpers across the lite slice.
- lite_wallet_controller's inline height JSON parse now routes through the
tested parseLiteHeightResponse().
- theme_effects.cpp: unpackRGB()/scaledAlpha() replace 14 RGB-unpack + 5
alpha-scale copy-paste blocks.
- settings.cpp load() uses loadScalar()/loadClamped() helpers for ~44 scalar
fields. Besides removing boilerplate this HARDENS loading: ~44 fields that
previously only checked contains() now also verify the JSON type, so a
malformed value in settings.json falls back to the default instead of
throwing/misreading. Custom cases (enum parses, legacy migrations, arrays)
stay inline; save() is unchanged.
Full-node + Lite build clean; ctest 1/1; hygiene clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified by running the app against a live node and watching a real rescan. Three
issues that only surfaced at runtime:
- Wrong RPC name: this daemon (hush/komodo) exposes the runtime rescan as
"rescan <height>", not bitcoin's "rescanblockchain". runtimeRescan() and
RPCClient::rescanBlockchain() used the bitcoin name and failed with "Method not
found" on every node. Corrected to "rescan".
- Witness/rescan progress never surfaced during a rescan: the daemon-output parser
that drives it was gated behind rpcConnected, but a heavy rescan holds cs_main so
getinfo times out and the RPC reads disconnected — silencing the parser exactly
when it's needed. The parser reads the daemon's stdout pipe (no RPC), so it now
runs whenever the daemon process is alive. It also now parses INLINE on the main
thread instead of via fast_worker_, so it can't be starved when the worker is
blocked on a getrescaninfo call (which waits on cs_main during a witness rebuild).
- Witness rebuild has TWO sub-phases with different scales — the initial-witness
pass ("Setting Initial Sapling Witness for tx <hash>, <i> of <N>") and the cache
walk ("Building Witnesses for block <h> <frac> complete, <n> remaining"). Tracking
them with one monotonic value pinned the bar at the initial pass's ~100% through
the whole cache walk. They're now tracked as distinct phases (witness_phase) with
their own monotonic progress and labels ("Setting witnesses" vs "Rebuilding
witnesses"), so neither resets/bounces and the long phase shows real movement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- rpc_client::callRaw: a daemon error object is no longer assumed to carry a string
"message" — a malformed error now yields a clean "RPC error: <dump>" instead of throwing
a json type-exception from .get<std::string>().
- sendTransaction (full-node): add a single-flight guard so a rapid double-click can't issue
two z_sendmany before the first returns its opid. The lite path already guarded this; the
send form guards it in the UI, but the controller entry point now does too.
(#9 from the audit was mostly false positives on verification — all popen sites already
null-check and the xmrig download FILE* path has no throwing calls. The payment-URI
checksum idea was dropped: the send flow already checksum-validates the recipient before
broadcasting, and tightening the parser would reject the placeholder addresses the existing
test relies on; added a comment noting this is format-only by design.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- rpc_client: wipe the plaintext "user:password" temporary with sodium_memzero after
base64-encoding it into the auth header (std::string doesn't zero its buffer on
destruction).
- connection: the auto-generated DRAGONX.conf holds rpcuser/rpcpassword in plaintext but
was written with the default umask (often world-readable 0644). Restrict it to owner
read/write after creation so another local user can't read the credentials.
- app: copying a seed phrase / private key to the clipboard now arms an auto-clear —
App::copySecretToClipboard() copies the secret and, after 45s, wipes the clipboard IF it
still holds that secret (compared via a stored hash, never the plaintext). Wired into the
lite first-run wizard's seed Copy and the Settings export-secret Copy, with a
"clipboard auto-clears in 45s" notice. pumpSecretClipboardClear() runs each frame.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The connection probe (getinfo) used a 30s request timeout, so when something on
the local RPC port accepts TCP but never answers — a daemon still loading the
block index, or a wedged/foreign occupant — every attempt blocked the full 30s
before the wallet could retry or update its status. That is the "stuck, timing
out every 30s" behaviour users hit.
A healthy local daemon answers getinfo in milliseconds, and a warming one
returns -28 just as fast, so a long hang on localhost only ever means trouble.
Probe localhost with an 8s timeout (remote/TLS keeps the 30s budget). The
per-call override restores the persistent 30s afterwards, so normal RPC calls
that legitimately take longer are unaffected — only the probe fails faster, so
the wallet retries promptly and reflects "initializing" / recovery within
seconds of the daemon becoming ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
stop()-ing a worker that is mid curl_easy_perform joined on the UI thread, so a
slow/hung transfer froze the UI until the request timeout. Add RPCClient::
requestAbort() (a thread-safe atomic read by a curl progress callback that aborts
the transfer), and call it before stopping the workers on disconnect
(onDisconnected) and shutdown (beginShutdown + the synchronous fallback). The
flag is cleared on each connect() so a fresh connection never starts aborted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The connection state machine never tore down on a lost connection: refresh-loop
RPC errors were swallowed, rpc_->isConnected() stayed true after a daemon
crash/restart/socket drop, and the UI showed stale balances with no reconnect.
Several operations also ran synchronous curl straight from ImGui handlers.
- Add handleLostConnection(): after N consecutive cycles where BOTH core RPCs
fail (warmup excluded, so no reconnect loop), disconnect so update()'s
reconnect branch re-enters tryConnect().
- Move banPeer/unbanPeer/clearBans and key export/import onto the worker thread
(import requests a rescan that could freeze the UI for the curl timeout).
- Run the block-info dialog's two chained RPCs on the worker thread (+ guard the
getblockhash result type).
- Detect daemon warmup via the JSON-RPC -28 code (new RpcError carrying the code;
message text preserved so 401/warmup string-matching is unaffected), and widen
CONNECTTIMEOUT to 10s for remote/TLS hosts (2s localhost).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add an encrypted SQLite transaction history cache with cached tip metadata and
per-address shielded scan progress so startup and full refreshes avoid
re-scanning every z-address while still invalidating on wallet/address/rescan
changes.
Improve wallet history loading by paging transparent transactions, preserving
cached shielded and sent rows, keeping recent/unconfirmed activity visible, and
classifying mining-address receives. Show z_sendmany opid sends immediately in
History and Overview, pin pending rows through refreshes, and apply optimistic
address/balance debits until opids resolve.
Add timestamped RPC console tracing by source/method without logging params or
results, reduce redundant refresh/RPC calls, and cache Explorer recent block
summaries in SQLite.
Expand focused tests for transaction cache encryption, scan-progress
persistence/invalidation, history preservation, operation-status parsing,
pending send visibility, and Explorer/RPC refresh behavior.
Instead of blocking the entire UI with "Activating best chain..." until
the daemon finishes warmup, treat warmup responses as a successful
connection. The wallet now:
- Sets connected=true + warming_up=true when daemon returns RPC -28
- Shows warmup status with block progress in the loading overlay
- Polls getinfo every few seconds to detect warmup completion
- Allows Console, Peers, Settings tabs during warmup
- Shows orange status indicator with warmup message in status bar
- Skips balance/tx/address refresh until warmup completes
- Triggers full data refresh once daemon is ready
Also: fix curl handle/header leak on reconnect, fill in empty
externalDetected error branch, bump version to v1.2.0 in build scripts.
- Replace hardcoded IP addnodes with node.dragonx.is, node1–4.dragonx.is
in both daemon launch params and auto-generated DRAGONX.conf
- Add max_connections setting (persisted, default 0 = daemon default);
passed as -maxconnections= flag to dragonxd on startup
- Show blocks/sec in status bar during sync with exponential smoothing
(e.g. "Syncing 45.2% (12340 left, 85 blk/s)")
- Create .github/copilot-instructions.md with project coding standards,
architecture overview, threading model, and key rules for AI sessions
- Add module description comments to app.cpp, rpc_client.cpp, rpc_worker.cpp,
embedded_daemon.cpp, xmrig_manager.cpp, console_tab.cpp, settings.cpp
- Add ASCII connection state diagram to app_network.cpp
- Remove /.github/ from .gitignore so instructions file is tracked
Mine-when-idle:
- Auto-start/stop mining based on system idle time detection
- Platform::getSystemIdleSeconds() via XScreenSaver (Linux) / GetLastInputInfo (Win)
- Settings: mine_when_idle toggle + configurable delay (30s–10m)
- Settings page UI with checkbox and delay combo
Console tab:
- Shell-like argument parsing with quote and JSON bracket support
- Pass JSON objects/arrays directly as RPC params
- Fix selection indices when lines are evicted from buffer
Connection & status bar:
- Reduce RPC connect timeout to 1s for localhost fast-fail
- Fast retry timer on daemon startup and external daemon detection
- Show pool mining hashrate in status bar; sidebar badge reflects pool state
UI polish:
- Add logo to About card in settings; expose logo dimensions on App
- Header title offset-y support; adjust content-area margins
- Fix banned peers row cursor position (rawRowPosB.x)
Branding:
- Update copyright to "DragonX Developers" in RC and About section
- Replace logo/icon assets with updated versions
Misc:
- setup.sh: checkout dragonx branch before pulling
- Remove stale prebuilt-binaries/xmrig/.gitkeep
Diagnostics & logging:
- add verbose logging system (VERBOSE_LOGF) with toggle in Settings
- forward app-level log messages to Console tab for in-UI visibility
- add detailed connection attempt logging (attempt #, daemon state,
config paths, auth failures, port owner identification)
- detect HTTP 401 auth failures and show actionable error messages
- identify port owner process (PID + name) on both Linux and Windows
- demote noisy acrylic/shader traces from DEBUG_LOGF to VERBOSE_LOGF
- persist verbose_logging preference in settings.json
- link iphlpapi on Windows for GetExtendedTcpTable
Security & encryption:
- update local encryption state immediately after encryptwallet RPC
so Settings reflects the change before daemon restarts
- show notifications for encrypt success/failure and PIN skip
- use dedicated RPC client for z_importwallet during decrypt flow
to avoid blocking main rpc_ curl_mutex (which starved peer/tx refresh)
- force full state refresh (addresses, transactions, peers) after
successful wallet import
Network tab:
- redesign peers refresh button as glass-panel with icon + label,
matching the mining button style
- add spinning arc animation while peer data is loading
(peer_refresh_in_progress_ atomic flag set/cleared in refreshPeerInfo)
- prevent double-click spam during refresh
- add refresh-button size to ui.toml
Other:
- use fast_rpc_ for rescan polling to avoid blocking on main rpc_
- enable DRAGONX_DEBUG in all build configs (was debug-only)
- setup.sh: pull latest xmrig-hac when repo already exists
RPC client:
- Add call() overload with per-call timeout parameter
- z_exportwallet uses 300s, z_importwallet uses 1200s timeout
Decrypt wallet (app_security.cpp, app.cpp):
- Show per-step and overall elapsed timers during decrypt flow
- Reduce dialog to 5 steps; close before key import begins
- Run z_importwallet on detached background thread
- Add pulsing "Importing keys..." status bar indicator
- Report success/failure via notifications instead of dialog
RPC caching (app_network.cpp, app.h):
- Cache z_viewtransaction results in viewtx_cache_ across refresh cycles
- Skip RPC calls for already-cached txids (biggest perf win)
- Build confirmed_tx_cache_ for deeply-confirmed transactions
- Clear all caches on disconnect
- Remove unused refreshTransactions() dead code
Peers (app_network.cpp, peers_tab.cpp):
- Route refreshPeerInfo() through fast_worker_ to avoid head-of-line blocking
- Replace footer "Refresh Peers" button with ICON_MD_REFRESH in toggle header
- Refresh button triggers both peer list and full blockchain data refresh
Mining (mining_tab.cpp):
- Allow pool mining toggle when blockchain is not synced
- Pool mining only needs xmrig, not local daemon sync
- Fix z_importwallet to use full path instead of filename only
- Add rescanBlockchain() method that restarts daemon with -rescan flag
- Track rescan progress via daemon output parsing and getrescaninfo RPC
- Display rescan progress in status bar with animated indicator when starting
- Improve dark theme card contrast: lighter surface-variant, tinted borders, stronger rim-light
Full-node GUI wallet for DragonX cryptocurrency.
Built with Dear ImGui, SDL3, and OpenGL3/DX11.
Features:
- Send/receive shielded and transparent transactions
- Autoshield with merged transaction display
- Built-in CPU mining (xmrig)
- Peer management and network monitoring
- Wallet encryption with PIN lock
- QR code generation for receive addresses
- Transaction history with pagination
- Console for direct RPC commands
- Cross-platform (Linux, Windows)
DanSandClaude Opus 4.8