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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

Sending from the Shielded balance failed or short-changed the user, in two related ways:

  1. Broadcast rejected. A shielded spend was planned against the 16-action consensus cap (max_shielded_transition_actions), but the 20 KiB max_state_transition_size binds first — the Halo 2 proof grows ~2,681 bytes per action, so a 7-action bundle is ~21,699 B. A wallet fragmented across 7+ notes built its proof and only then failed with:

    shielded transfer failed: Shielded broadcast failed: Dapi client error: ... "State Transition exceeds maximum size of 20480 bytes"

  2. Max left funds behind. On the shielded → shielded route, Max reserved a full-size bundle's fee via a flat numActions: 16 estimate instead of pricing the notes that actually enter the bundle. The unspent difference came back as a change note, so "Max" visibly did not send the balance.

The 6-action bound is the one Rust already pins as MAX_ACTIONS_PER_BATCH in rs-platform-wallet/src/wallet/shielded/seed_pool.rs, measured by platform's seed_pool_batch_fits_max_state_transition_size test (2 actions → 8,294 B, 6 → 19,018 B, 7 → 21,699 B, rejected).

What was done?

  • Added ShieldedActionBudget.maxActionsPerTransition (6) as the single source for the bound, replacing five hardcoded 16s across the sweep planner and the fee estimates.
  • Moved the shielded → shielded Max onto the note-aware sweepAvailability planner, alongside the withdraw and unshield routes, so the fee comes from the notes that will actually be spent and any genuine remainder is reported rather than stranded.
  • Added shieldedSpendCeilingCredits so a typed amount is checked against what the notes can fund in one transition. Previously only Max was capped; a typed amount above it passed the amount screen, built its proof, and failed at broadcast.
  • performShieldedTransfer now takes sweepAll and re-prices the plan before signing, matching performWithdraw / performUnshield. It was the only shielded route without that guard, so a note spent or discovered between Max and confirm would submit a stale amount.
  • Reworded the two shielded Max notices, which named the withdraw route ("requires another Shielded withdrawal", "not ready to withdraw") while also being shown for transfers and unshields.

The ceiling is unknown while the note set is reconciling; the check then falls back to the balance envelope rather than blocking every send. That window is documented at the property.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Clean dashpay build: xcodebuild -workspace DashWallet.xcworkspace -scheme dashpay -sdk iphonesimulator ARCHS=arm64 buildBUILD SUCCEEDED.
  • Added testShieldedSweepStopsAtTheActionBudget; the two existing ShieldedSweepPlanner tests were re-checked against the new default and are unaffected. The unit-test target is broken repo-wide (pre-existing), so these are compile-verified but not executed.
  • Not yet smoke-tested on testnet. The three flows to exercise on a wallet with 7+ notes: Max sends the largest-6 total and shows the remainder notice; a typed amount above that ceiling blocks Continue with the explanation; a second Max after the first settles sends the rest.

Breaking Changes

None. Two localized strings were reworded and one was added, so those keys need a Transifex pass.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved Shielded Max transfers by accurately calculating spendable balances and single-transaction limits.
    • Added safeguards to recheck full-balance transfers before confirmation, preventing stale or changed amounts from being submitted.
    • Updated transfer messages to clarify unavailable balances, notes still confirming, fragmented funds, transaction-size limits, and amounts that cannot fit in one transaction.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved fee estimates and validation for shielded transfers.
    • Prevented shielded sweep plans from exceeding supported action limits.

A shielded spend was planned against the 16-action consensus cap
(max_shielded_transition_actions), but the 20 KiB max_state_transition_size
binds first: the Halo 2 proof grows ~2,681 bytes per action, so a 7-action
bundle is ~21,699 B and DAPI rejects it with "State Transition exceeds
maximum size of 20480 bytes". Introduce ShieldedActionBudget (6 actions,
the bound Rust already pins as MAX_ACTIONS_PER_BATCH) and plan and price
every shielded route against it.

The same 16-action assumption also made Max on shielded -> shielded reserve
a full-size bundle's fee and hand the unspent difference back as a change
note, so that route now plans against the real note set through
sweepAvailability, like the withdraw and unshield routes already did.

performShieldedTransfer was also the only shielded route that took no
sweepAll flag and never re-priced the plan before signing, so a note spent
or discovered between Max and confirm would submit a stale amount.
Both notices named the withdraw route: the remainder said "requires another
Shielded withdrawal" and the unavailable case said "not ready to withdraw".
They are shown for shielded -> shielded transfers and shielded -> Platform
unshields as well, where neither word applies. Say what the constraint
actually is — notes that do not fit in one transaction.
Capping the Max plan at the action budget only closed one of the two ways
to pick an amount. A typed amount was still validated against
shieldedBalance minus a flat reserve, which knows nothing about how many
notes funding it would take — so any amount above the Max figure passed the
screen, built its proof, and only then failed to broadcast with "State
Transition exceeds maximum size of 20480 bytes".

Carry the note-aware ceiling (the same number Max produces) as
shieldedSpendCeilingCredits and check typed amounts against it, so the
screen says what the real limit is instead of failing after the proof.

The ceiling is unknown while the note set is reconciling; the check then
falls back to the balance envelope rather than blocking every send.
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The PR centralizes the six-action shielded transition limit, calculates note-based spending ceilings, updates Shielded Max messaging, and revalidates full-balance shielded sweeps before submission.

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Shielded transfer budgeting and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Centralized action budget and planning
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/ShieldedTransferCoordinator.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/InternalTransferViewModel.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/Pay/SendViewModel.swift, DashWalletTests/SwiftDashSDKCoreLifecycleTests.swift
Shielded fee estimates and sweep planning use ShieldedActionBudget.maxActionsPerTransition. The regression test verifies the action cap and payout calculation.
Note-based spending ceiling
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/Pay/SendViewModel.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/InternalTransferViewModel.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/ShieldedTransferCoordinator.swift
The send flow refreshes a note-based spending ceiling, validates it, gates Continue, and updates shielded spending messages for unavailable, pending, and remaining balances.
Validated full-balance sweep execution
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/ShieldedTransferCoordinator.swift, DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/Pay/SendScreen.swift
Full-balance sweeps pass a flag to the coordinator. The coordinator revalidates the current plan and submits the validated amount.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c2ecd

Some valid shielded transfers may be incorrectly blocked when fewer than six notes are needed, preventing users from sending funds. Merge should wait until the note-aware ceiling is used for this check or the risk is explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: llbartekll, quantumexplorer, jeanpierreroma

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  participant SendScreen
  participant ShieldedTransferCoordinator
  participant ShieldedSweepPlanner
  participant ShieldedTransferFFI
  SendScreen->>ShieldedTransferCoordinator: Submit amount with sweepAll
  ShieldedTransferCoordinator->>ShieldedSweepPlanner: Revalidate current notes
  ShieldedSweepPlanner-->>ShieldedTransferCoordinator: Return validated amount or changed state
  ShieldedTransferCoordinator->>ShieldedTransferFFI: Submit validated amount
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- Around line 1109-1118: Use route-neutral pending-sweep messaging instead of
withdrawal-specific wording. In
DashWallet/Sources/UI/Payments/InternalTransfer/ShieldedTransferCoordinator.swift:1109-1118,
update CoordinatorError.shieldedSweepWaiting; in
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One blocker: the note-aware typed-amount ceiling is applied only in SendViewModel. InternalTransferViewModel.canContinue still checks Shielded → Transparent/Platform amounts only against the total balance minus the fee reserve, while performWithdraw/performUnshield skip sweepAvailability when sweepAll is false. With 7+ small notes, a typed amount above the largest-six-note capacity can therefore still reach proof generation and reproduce the 20 KiB DAPI rejection this PR is meant to prevent. Please apply the same note-aware ceiling to Internal Transfer (with the validation message), or enforce it in the coordinator before authorization/signing.

The remainder and unavailable notices were reworded, but the three
"still confirming" strings still said "Withdraw again once it settles".
They are raised for shielded -> shielded transfers and shielded -> Platform
unshields too, where withdrawing is not the action to repeat.
The note-aware ceiling was applied only in SendViewModel. Internal Transfer
validated shielded -> Transparent/Platform amounts against the total balance
minus the fee reserve alone, and performWithdraw/performUnshield consulted
the note set only when sweeping. A typed amount above the largest-six-note
capacity therefore still reached proof generation from that screen and
reproduced the 20 KiB DAPI rejection.

Enforce it in both places:

- ShieldedTransferCoordinator gains spendCeilingCredits(feeKind:) and fails
  closed on every non-sweep withdraw, unshield and transfer before
  authorization and proof generation, so the guard also covers callers that
  never ran a UI check.
- InternalTransferViewModel carries the same ceiling as the Send screen, so
  the limit is stated on the amount screen instead of surfacing as a failure
  after the proof.

SendViewModel now reads the ceiling from the coordinator rather than
computing its own copy.
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Thanks — confirmed both halves of that and fixed them in c2ecd18.

You were right that InternalTransferViewModel.canContinue checked shielded → Transparent/Platform amounts against shieldedBalance - reserve only, and that performWithdraw / performUnshield consulted the note set exclusively when sweepAll was true. From that screen a typed amount above the largest-six-note capacity still reached proof generation.

I took both remedies rather than one, since they cover different things:

Coordinator (the backstop). New ShieldedTransferCoordinator.spendCeilingCredits(feeKind:), applied via rejectIfAboveSpendCeiling in the non-sweep branch of performWithdraw, performUnshield and performShieldedTransfer — before authorize() and before proof generation, so it also covers callers that never ran a UI check. Raised as a new CoordinatorError.shieldedAmountExceedsBundle(ceiling) stating the real maximum.

Internal Transfer (the message). Same shieldedSpendCeilingCredits the Send screen carries, feeding both the validation message and canContinue, so the limit is stated on the amount screen rather than after the proof.

SendViewModel now reads the ceiling from the coordinator instead of computing its own copy.

One limitation worth stating plainly: while the note set is reconciling the ceiling is nil, and a non-sweep amount then falls back to the balance envelope in both the UI and the coordinator. Failing closed there would block every send during the post-spend indexing window; the trade-off is documented at both properties. Happy to invert it if you would rather block.

Verified with a clean dashpay build (ARCHS=arm64) — BUILD SUCCEEDED. Still not testnet-smoked; the flows to exercise are listed in the PR description.

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- Around line 742-753: Update the insufficient-balance validation around
TransferSpendAmountPolicy.insufficientBalanceMessage and
shieldedSpendCeilingCredits to use the note-aware shieldedSpendCeilingCredits as
the authoritative spend bound when available, rather than applying the
six-action feeReserveCredits check first; fall back to feeReserveCredits only
when the ceiling is unavailable, while preserving the existing ceiling message
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Both amount screens applied the flat reserve first and the note-aware
ceiling second. The reserve always prices a full-size bundle, so it
rejected amounts a one- or two-note spend can afford: with a single
1000-credit note, fee(2)=100 and fee(6)=500, the ceiling is 900 but the
reserve check capped the amount at 500, reporting insufficient funds for a
spendable 700.

Use the ceiling as the authoritative bound whenever it is known, and keep
the flat reserve only for the window where the note set is reconciling.

An amount above the balance itself still reports insufficient funds rather
than note fragmentation — the ceiling is always <= balance, so checking the
ceiling alone would blame fragmentation for a plain shortfall.
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Good catch — confirmed and fixed in d36cf91.

The ordering was wrong: the flat reserve always prices a full-size bundle, so it rejected amounts a smaller spend can afford. With a single 1000-credit note, fee(2)=100 and fee(6)=500, the ceiling is 900 while the reserve check capped the amount at 500 — a spendable 700 was reported as insufficient funds. The ceiling is now the authoritative bound whenever it is known, and the flat reserve only covers the window where the note set is reconciling.

One deliberate difference from the proposed diff: since the ceiling is always <= balance, checking it alone means an amount above the balance also produces the fragmentation message, which misattributes a plain shortfall. So the order is now:

  • above the balance → insufficient funds, reporting the ceiling as the real maximum
  • above the ceiling but within the balance → the note-fragmentation message
  • otherwise → valid

I applied the same change to SendViewModel, which had the identical ordering — it was outside this review's commit range, but the two screens would otherwise disagree on which amounts are valid.

Clean dashpay build (ARCHS=arm64) — BUILD SUCCEEDED.

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