SIMD-0232: Custom Commission Collector Account

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+simd: '0232'
+title: Custom Commission Collector Account
+authors: Justin Starry (Anza)
+category: Standard
+type: Core
+status: Review
+created: 2025-01-24
+feature: (fill in with feature tracking issues once accepted)
+---
+
+## Summary
+
+Allow validators to specify custom commission collector accounts where block
+revenue and inflation rewards commissions will be deposited.
+
+## Motivation
+
+Validator commission collector accounts must currently be the same as their
+identity hot wallet account. This means that program derived addresses are
+unable to be used for block revenue collection adding friction to validators
+wishing to distribute their revenue in custom ways. By allowing validators to
+specify a separate custom commission collector account, they can use onchain
+programs to customize how their block revenue is distributed.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+This proposal depends on the following previously accepted proposals:
+
+- **[SIMD-0180]: Use Vote Account Address To Key Leader Schedule**
+
+    Necessary for designating a specific vote account for a given leader slot
+
+- **[SIMD-0185]: Vote Account v4**
+
+    Adds necessary block revenue and inflation rewards commission collector
+    address fields to the vote account state
+
+[SIMD-0180]: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/180
+[SIMD-0185]: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/185
+
+## Alternatives Considered
+
+NA
+
+## New Terminology
+
+- Block Revenue Commission Collector: The account used to collect commissioned
+block revenue for validators. Previously collected by default into the validator
+identity account.
+
+- Inflation Rewards Commission Collector: The account used to collect
+commissioned inflation rewards for validators. Previously collected by default
+into the vote account.
+
+## Detailed Design
+
+### Runtime
+
+#### Block Revenue Commission Collection
+
+When collecting block fee revenue after processing all transactions in a block,
+the runtime must look up the validator's specified block revenue collector
+address. After adoption of [SIMD-0180] and [SIMD-0185], a given block's fee
+commission collector address can be looked up via the designated vote account
+for the leader schedule slot that the block was produced in. Note that by
+default, the commission rate for block fee revenue is 100% and support for other
+rates will be added in [SIMD-0123].
+
+In order to eliminate the overhead of tracking the latest commission collector
+address of each vote account, the commission collector address should be fetched
+from the state of the vote account at the beginning of the previous epoch. This
+is the same vote account state used to build the leader schedule for the current
+epoch.
+
+The designated commission collector must either be equal to the vote account's
+address OR satisfy ALL of the following constraints:
+
+1. Must be a system program owned account
+2. Must be rent-exempt after depositing block revenue commission
+3. Must not be a reserved account (note that currently the only system program
+owned reserved accounts are the native loader and the sysvar owner id).
+
+If any of these constraints are violated, the fees collected for that block will
+be burned.
+
+Note that it's technically allowed to set the collector account to the
+incinerator address. Incinerator funds are burned after block revenue collection
+at the end of the block.
+
+[SIMD-0123]: https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents/pull/123
+
+#### Inflation Rewards Commission Collection
+
+For a given epoch `E`, the earned inflation rewards for each vote account are
+calculated at the beginning of the next epoch `E + 1`. This proposal doesn't
+change the commission calculation but it does define new rules for how the
+calculated commission rewards are collected into an account. Rather than
+collecting the inflation rewards commission into the vote accounts by default,
+the protocol must fetch the inflation rewards commission collector address from
+the vote account state at the beginning of epoch `E + 1`. This is the same
+vote account state used to get the commission rate and latest vote credits
+for inflation rewards calculation.
+
+The designated commission collector must either be equal to the vote account's
+address OR satisfy ALL of the following constraints:
+
+1. Must be a system program owned account
+2. Must be rent-exempt after depositing inflation rewards commission
+3. Must not be a reserved account (note that currently the only system program
+owned reserved accounts are the native loader and the sysvar owner id).
+
+If any of these constraints are violated, the inflation rewards commission
+collected for that epoch will be burned.
+
+Note that it's technically allowed to set the collector account to the
+incinerator address. Incinerator funds are burned at the end of the rewards
+distribution block.
+
+### Vote Program
+
+```rust
+pub enum VoteInstruction {
+    /// # Account references
+    ///   0. `[WRITE]` Vote account to be updated with the new collector public key
+    ///   1. `[WRITE]` New collector account
+    ///   2. `[SIGNER]` Withdraw authority
+    UpdateCommissionCollector { // 16u32
+        kind: CommissionKind,
+    },
+}
+
+#[repr(u8)]
+pub enum CommissionKind {
+    InflationRewards = 0,
+    BlockRevenue = 1,
+}
+```
+
+#### `UpdateCommissionCollector`
+
+A new instruction for setting collector accounts will be added to the vote
+program with the enum discriminant value of `16u32` little endian encoded in the
+first 4 bytes.
+
+Perform the following checks:
+
+- If the number of account inputs is less than 2, return
+`InstructionError::NotEnoughAccountKeys`
+- If the vote account (index `0`) fails to deserialize, return
+`InstructionError::InvalidAccountData`
+- If the vote account's authorized withdrawer is not an account input for the
+instruction or is not a signer, return
+`InstructionError::MissingRequiredSignature`
+- If the new collector account (index `1`) is not the same as the vote account
+and not system program owned, return `InstructionError::InvalidAccountOwner` 
+- If the new collector account is not rent-exempt, return
+`InstructionError::InsufficientFunds`
+- If the new collector account is not writable, return
+`InstructionError::InvalidArgument`. Note that this check is performed to ensure
+that the new collector account is not a reserved account.
+
+Update the corresponding field for the specified commission kind:
+
+- `CommissionKind::InflationRewards`: update the `inflation_rewards_collector` field
+- `CommissionKind::BlockRevenue`: update the `block_revenue_collector` field
+
+## Impact
+
+Validator identity and fee collector accounts no longer need to be the same
+account. This opens up the ability to use PDA accounts for block revenue
+collection.
+
+Inflation reward commissions no longer need to be collected into a validator's
+vote account. This validators more flexibility over managing inflation reward
+income.
+
+## Security Considerations
+
+NA
+
+## Drawbacks *(Optional)*
+
+NA
+
+## Backwards Compatibility *(Optional)*
+
+This change will require the use of a new feature gate which will enable
+collecting block fees and inflation rewards into custom commission collector
+addresses if specified by a validator.