Third phase of the code-hygiene remediation: remove provably-dead code.
Each in-file deletion was adversarially verified (a per-finding investigator
plus a skeptic that greps the tree to refute deletability); the sanity grep
confirms zero dangling references, and the tree builds and self-mines clean.
Removed wholesale:
- src/cc/dapps/ (9 files, ~6,939 lines): a git-tracked but never-built Komodo
DEX / z-migration tool (hushdex.c, zmigrate.c, cJSON.c, ...). Nothing in
Makefile.am/configure.ac references it.
In-file dead code:
- pow.cpp: the `#ifdef original_algo` oldRT_CST_RST function (the macro is
never defined in source or build flags) and two `if ( 0 )` debug blocks.
- walletdb.cpp: the "orphaned staking transaction" cleanup path (deadTxns) —
DragonX is RandomX PoW with no staking, so the guard is always false and the
block never runs; also drop the now-unused static/extern decls.
- cc/eval.h: the ProcessCC / Eval::ImportCoin / ImportPayout / DisputePayout
declarations that have no definition anywhere in the tree.
- rpc/crosschain.cpp: the crosschainproof stub RPC (returned {} unconditionally)
and its registrations in rpc/server.cpp, rpc/server.h, rpc/client.cpp.
- coins.cpp: the commented-out `//TODO: delete` Sprout PushAnchor template.
- wallet.cpp: the permanently-zero KMD `interest2` term in CreateTransaction.
- rpc/net.cpp: hush_longestchain's always-zero `n` var (num > (n>>1) => num>0)
and its `if ( 0 )` debug branch.
- hush_nSPV.h / hush_nSPV_fullnode.h: three `if ( 0 && ... )` dead debug branches.
- net.cpp, crypter.h, saplingconsolidation.cpp (dup set_error_code),
shieldcoinbase.cpp (`donation < 0` on a uint8_t), cclib.cpp (unused
FAUCET2SIZE): single-line dead-code fixes.
Deliberately NOT touched (verification refuted the audit's "dead on DragonX"
premise): the ~2,250-line HUSH3 checkpoint block, the miner notary/timelock
paths, and hush_gateway.h — all reachable at runtime via -ac_name / -ac_*
args (the inherited Komodo assetchain model), and hush_gateway's
hush_opretvalidate is called from ConnectBlock (consensus). Dropping those
requires a deliberate decision to remove HAC/HUSH3 mode, tracked separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second phase of the code-hygiene remediation, covering the items the
DragonX team introduced or the rebrand missed. No consensus behavior
changes; validated on a local self-mining node.
Log cruft:
- chainparams: route the startup ">>>>>>>>>>" banner and the port line
through LogPrintf/LogPrint("net") instead of fprintf(stderr).
- pow: drop the fprintf(stderr) hash-mismatch dump that duplicated the
LogPrintf copy verbatim.
- miner: gate the RandomXDatasetManager per-alloc/per-VM address dumps and
MemDiag /proc reads behind LogPrint("randomx"); keep a one-line
"allocated shared dataset (N GB)" summary at default verbosity.
Named constants (single source of truth in wallet.h):
- DEFAULT_AUTOSHIELD_FEE/INTERVAL, MIN_AUTOSHIELD_INTERVAL,
DEFAULT_AUTOSHIELD_MIN_UTXOS, AUTOSHIELD_MIN/MAX_FEE for the autoshield
option parsing and help text (were bare 10000/25/5 literals repeated
across init.cpp and wallet.h).
- AUTO_OP_TARGET_HEIGHT_OFFSET replaces the three copy-pasted
`blockHeight + 5` async-op scheduling offsets.
- AUTO_OP_EXPIRY_DELTA replaces the three per-file *_EXPIRY_DELTA=15
constants (sweep/consolidation/autoshield) with one shared value.
- Move DEFAULT_AUTOSHIELD_FEE out of the op header into wallet.h so it no
longer collides when both headers are included.
Error surfacing:
- init: report clamped/out-of-range -autoshieldinterval/-autoshieldfee via
InitWarning() (surfaces to GUI/log) instead of fprintf(stderr).
Rebrand / dead foreign-chain code (approved removals):
- server: drop the HUSH3 special-cases in stop() and HelpExampleCli; the
cli example now shows "dragonx-cli" instead of "hush-cli".
- getinfo (misc): remove the stale dPoW notarization block (notarized,
prevMoMheight, notarizedhash, notarizedtxid, notarizedtxid_height,
HUSHnotarized_height, notarized_confirms) — DragonX is a private chain
from genesis with no active dPoW. Also fixes the hardcoded "HUSH3" that
made getinfo query a foreign chain's notarization.
- delete the dead Komodo notary RPCs getera/getdragonjson/
getnotarysendmany/geterablockheights (getera returned 0;
getnotarysendmany was marked "this is broke") and their registrations.
- remove the dead ASSETCHAINS_EQUIHASH reporting branches in getinfo and
getmininginfo — DragonX is RandomX-only.
chainparams: document why the upstream Equihash params and the literal
Bitcoin genesis are retained under RandomX (do not "fix" them).
Deferred: the hdSeedOrigin int->string switch in z_autoshieldstatus
(no shared helper exists to reuse; low value).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Auto-shielding could silently decline to run with no way to ask why. The
destination it resolves was equally invisible: the only evidence was a LogPrintf
emitted once per round, so an operator wanting to know where their mined coinbase
was going had to grep debug.log.
z_autoshieldstatus reports the enable state, whether a round is in flight, the
next height, interval, fee, minimum utxos, and the resolved destination -- plus
the HD seed provenance in both numeric and readable form, whether the seed is
phrase-recoverable, and a disabled_reason explaining why it is off when it is.
That last field is the point. "autoshield": false on its own does not distinguish
an operator who passed -autoshield=0 from a wallet whose seed provenance is not
known-recoverable, and those need different responses.
Mirrors z_sweepstatus in shape and registration.
Verified on all three branches:
fresh wallet -> autoshield true, origin 1 "created on an empty wallet",
seed_recoverable true, disabled_reason ""
-autoshield=0 -> disabled_reason "disabled by -autoshield=0"
upgraded wallet -> autoshield false, origin 4 "predates provenance recording",
seed_recoverable false, disabled_reason "HD seed origin is
not known-recoverable; back the seed up and pass -autoshield=1"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Derive transparent (t-addr) keys from the HD seed and add BIP39 mnemonic seed
phrases that are byte-for-byte compatible with SilentDragonXLite, so the same
24 words recover the same shielded and transparent addresses in either wallet.
HD transparent keys:
- Derive t-keys from the seed at m/44'/coin'/0'/0/i (were random CKeys).
- CHDChain gains a version-gated transparent counter; existing wallets load
unchanged. GenerateNewKey routes through DeriveNewChildKey when enabled
(-hdtransparent, default on).
- Restore from a seed hex via -hdseed with gap-limit pre-derivation; birthday
pinned to genesis so the rescan is not clipped.
BIP39 seed phrases:
- Wire the vendored trezor BIP39 lib (src/crypto/bip39) into the build, fix its
BIP39_WORDS guard, and disable the insecure mnemonic cache.
- Match SDXLite exactly: English wordlist, empty passphrase, PBKDF2 64-byte
seed, coin type 141, ZIP-32 m/32'/141'/i' and BIP44 m/44'/141'/0'/0/i. Store
the 32-byte entropy and expand to the 64-byte seed on demand.
- Restore via -mnemonic, create via -usemnemonic, reveal via z_exportmnemonic.
Verified by gtests including a known-answer BIP39 seed vector and z/t address
derivation checks (src/gtest/test_hdtransparent.cpp, test_mnemonic_compat.cpp).
Docs in doc/hd-transparent-keys.md and doc/seed-phrase.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Any projects which want to use Hush code from now on will need to be licensed as
GPLv3 or we will send the lawyers: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/
Notably, Komodo (KMD) is licensed as GPLv2 and is no longer compatible to receive
code changes, without causing legal issues. MIT projects, such as Zcash, also cannot pull
in changes from the Hush Full Node without permission from The Hush Developers,
which may in some circumstances grant an MIT license on a case-by-case basis.
DanSandClaude Opus 4.8