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fix: guard against zero stakes and mutable default rng in VRF
Alicepoltora Sep 8, 2026
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fix: handle invalid address in consensus contract snapshot creation
Alicepoltora Sep 11, 2026
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions backend/consensus/base.py
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Expand Up @@ -337,8 +337,8 @@ def contract_snapshot_factory(
"""
try:
contract_address = to_checksum_address(contract_address)
except Exception:
pass
except (ValueError, TypeError):
return None

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Handle None from contract_snapshot_factory.

When TransactionContext enters the legacy hydration path and contract_snapshot_factory returns None for an invalid or absent transaction.to_address, the code dereferences fresh.balance outside the ContractNotFoundError handler. This raises AttributeError instead of producing a controlled transaction failure. Make the factory raise a domain error, or handle None at every caller. If None remains valid, update the factory and injected callable types to ContractSnapshot | None.

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In `@backend/consensus/base.py` at line 341, Update the legacy hydration path in
TransactionContext to handle a None result from contract_snapshot_factory before
dereferencing fresh.balance, converting it into the existing controlled
transaction failure rather than allowing AttributeError; alternatively make the
factory consistently raise the appropriate domain error and update all callers
and injected callable types accordingly.

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# Check if the transaction is a contract deployment and the contract address matches the transaction's to address
if (
transaction.type == TransactionType.DEPLOY_CONTRACT
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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion backend/consensus/vrf.py
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def get_validators_for_transaction(
nodes: list[dict],
num_validators: int | None = None,
rng=np.random.default_rng(seed=int(datetime.now().timestamp())),
rng: np.random.Generator | None = None,
) -> list[dict]:
"""
Returns subset of validators for a transaction.
The selelction and order is given by a random sampling based on the stake of the validators.
"""
if rng is None:
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed=int(datetime.now().timestamp()))
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Use the consensus VRF for validator selection.

get_validators_for_transaction seeds np.random.default_rng with a one-second timestamp. Calls in the same second reuse the seed and can return the same selection for identical inputs. This also bypasses the required verifiable VRF rotation. Use VRF output tied to the transaction or rotation context, and update tests/unit/test_vrf.py to assert that the default path invokes the VRF provider instead of only checking result lengths.

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  • backend/consensus/vrf.py#L15-L16 (this comment)
  • tests/unit/test_vrf.py#L83-L84
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In `@backend/consensus/vrf.py` around lines 15 - 16, Replace the timestamp-seeded
fallback in get_validators_for_transaction with consensus VRF output tied to the
transaction or rotation context, using the existing VRF provider and preserving
deterministic verifiability. Update tests/unit/test_vrf.py lines 83-84 to mock
or spy on the VRF provider and assert the default path invokes it, rather than
only validating selection lengths.

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if num_validators is None:
num_validators = DEFAULT_VALIDATORS_COUNT

num_validators = min(num_validators, len(nodes))

total_stake = sum(validator["stake"] for validator in nodes)
if total_stake == 0:
raise ValueError(
"Cannot select validators: all stakes are zero. "
"At least one validator must have a positive stake."
)
probabilities = [validator["stake"] / total_stake for validator in nodes]

selected_validators = rng.choice(
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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions tests/unit/test_vrf.py
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from backend.consensus.vrf import get_validators_for_transaction
from unittest.mock import Mock
import pytest


def list_of_dicts_to_set(list_of_dicts: list[dict]) -> set:
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rng.choice.assert_called_once()
assert validators == [{"stake": 3}, {"stake": 2}, {"stake": 1}]


def test_get_validators_zero_stake_raises():

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add return type annotations to the new test functions.

Add -> None to both test definitions. The repository requires type hints in all Python code.

Also applies to: 79-79

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In `@tests/unit/test_vrf.py` at line 72, Add a -> None return type annotation to
both new test functions, including test_get_validators_zero_stake_raises and the
test at the additionally referenced definition, while preserving their existing
behavior.

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"""When all stakes are zero, selection should raise ValueError."""
nodes = [{"stake": 0}, {"stake": 0}]
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="all stakes are zero"):
get_validators_for_transaction(nodes, 1)


def test_get_validators_rng_not_shared_between_calls():
"""Each call without an explicit rng should get a fresh generator."""
nodes = [{"stake": 1}, {"stake": 2}, {"stake": 3}]
# Call twice without passing rng — the default must be created fresh each time.
v1 = get_validators_for_transaction(nodes, 1)
v2 = get_validators_for_transaction(nodes, 1)
# Both should succeed (no shared mutable state corruption).
assert len(v1) == 1
assert len(v2) == 1