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A fee token registered without a `balanceSlot` takes the EVM-call path: the protocol resolves the payer's balance with `balanceOf` and moves the fee with an ERC20 `transfer`. morph-reth diverged from morph-geth on that path in ways that change `gasUsed`, receipts and state roots, so a follower rejects blocks a geth block producer accepts. Measured against the golden fixtures added in the next commit, main fails 8 of 12 case templates on both Emerald and Jade: - The fee `transfer()` frame's SSTORE refund was discarded, so a fee that clears the payer's balance slot earned the user no refund (the receipt `gasUsed` mismatch reported in #207). go-ethereum runs that call through `evm.Call` inside `buyAltTokenGas()` before `StateDB.Prepare`, which does not reset the refund counter, so the refund reaches `refundGas()`. The net counter is now carried on `MorphEvm` and recorded before the EIP-3529 cap, so it can also be cancelled by a negative refund from main execution. - Internal calls ran with a default transaction environment and their own storage, so `balanceOf`/`transfer` saw ORIGIN = 0x0 and an effective gas price of 0. A guard on either read the wrong value and the payer's balance resolved to zero, rejecting an affordable transaction. Internal frames now keep the outer transaction's ORIGIN and GASPRICE, run in the executing block's environment, and `balanceOf` executes as a genuine static frame under the same 200k gas allowance geth uses. - A successful transfer whose return value or balance delta failed a later business check was rolled back with its logs. go-ethereum keeps the state and logs and only reports the failure. The frame now owns its checkpoint: a VM revert still rolls back, a business failure does not, and a database failure stays fatal rather than becoming a verdict about the token. - Zero fees skipped neither `transfer(0)` nor the initial `balanceOf`; geth skips both transfer modes but still performs the balance query. Nonce and cache updates, and call-mode access-list/transient cleanup, still happen. `TokenFeeInfo::effective_fee_limit` replaces the two hand-rolled fee-limit clamps the execution and pool paths each carried, so they cannot drift. `MorphEvm::from_env` gives execution and pool queries one constructor. The receipt builder now reads registry metadata with `load_storage_only`, which never builds a temporary EVM to resolve a balance it does not use. The pool's single call site is adapted to the new `load_for_caller` signature while keeping its previous behaviour: admission still evaluates a call-mode `balanceOf` under the hardfork's defaults. Threading the real head environment through admission is txpool work and is deliberately not part of this change.
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🟠 Major · Pass the active head environment to pool fee-token queries. · crates/txpool/src/morph_tx_validation.rs:110-118
110-118: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the active head environment to pool fee-token queries. For a registered token with
balance_slot == None,load_for_callerexecutesbalanceOfin the suppliedMorphEvmEnv. Pool admission and maintenance passMorphBlockEnv::default(), while execution uses the active environment. AbalanceOfimplementation that reads block fields can therefore produce different balances and cause pool validation to accept or reject a transaction differently from execution. The token-fee API requires the execution environment; the pool comment documents a limitation, not a safe contract. Pass the head environment or restrict call-mode fee tokens to environment-independentbalanceOfimplementations.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Twelve cases across Emerald and Jade, with state roots, logs roots and transaction gas generated by morph-geth 5744b8f66. Every case registers its token with `balanceSlot = 0`, so all twelve exercise the EVM-call path: deduction clearing the payer's ERC20 balance slot, the one-unit balance control, main-frame revert and OOG, a main call that restores the cleared slot, negative-refund cancellation, ORIGIN and GASPRICE guards, static-call violations, a successful transfer whose refund returns false, a refund that reverts, and zero-fee storage warmth. Note that "balance slot" in these case names is the ERC20's own storage slot that the fee `transfer()` clears, not the registry's optional `balanceSlot` field; the storage-slot fee path is not covered by these fixtures. Replaying them against main (v1.3.0) fails 8 of the 12 templates on both forks. With the preceding commit all 24 outcomes pass.
…inalize The call-mode fee path commits its deduction by calling `evm.finalize()` mid-transaction, then re-marks every account and slot cold to reproduce the warmth go-ethereum's `StateDB.Prepare` would leave behind. Nothing explained why the whole journal is discarded there, or which part of that reset the correctness depends on. The load-bearing property is that the reset must not advance the transaction id. Warming a slot runs through `EvmStorageSlot::mark_warm_with_transaction_id`, which re-baselines the EIP-2200 `original_value` to the present value whenever the slot's id differs from the journal's. Had that fired on the slot the deduction just cleared, the main frame's SSTORE would be a create rather than a recreate and the `SubRefund` cancelling the deduction's `+4800` would be lost — measured on `main_restores_cleared_slot`, 23_291 gas becomes 38_391. It cannot fire here because ids stay equal across execution. revm advances the id only when a transaction finishes — `commit_tx()` from `execution_result`, or `discard_tx()` on the error path — both after the main frame; `ExecuteEvm::finalize` then resets it to ZERO before the next transaction. `finalize()` at this point is therefore idempotent for the id, while `commit_tx()` would leave the deduction-warmed slots holding 0 against a journal holding 1. Verified by substitution: swapping `commit_tx()` in fails `main_restores_cleared_slot` with a state root mismatch.
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The fee-token frames are top-level frames that run in the middle of a
transaction, so neither of revm's truncation points covers them:
`free_child_context` only releases a child frame's region, and
`LocalContext::clear` only runs once the whole transaction is done. The
frames therefore left their bytes on the context's shared buffer and the
main transaction frame started on top of them. Measured on a call-mode
MorphTx: the main frame entered with `MSIZE == 32`, and `MLOAD(0)`
returned 9_000_000, the payer's post-fee token balance left behind by the
internal `balanceOf`. go-ethereum allocates a fresh `Memory` for every
interpreter run (core/vm/interpreter.go), so both read zero there, and
both read zero here on the ETH-fee control. Any contract that reads
memory it never wrote, or branches on MSIZE, produced a different result
on morph-reth than on morph-geth.
Carve each fee frame's memory out above whatever the buffer already
holds, and release it on the way out, including on the error path.
The frames keep writing into the context's buffer rather than one of
their own: a nested call hands its callee a `CallInput::SharedBuffer`
range, and while a contract callee resolves that range against its own
frame memory, a precompile callee resolves it against the context's
buffer (`CallInput::as_bytes`). A private buffer would hand every
precompile called from a fee frame empty calldata —
`fee_token_frames_reach_a_precompile_through_memory` fails with
`InsufficientTokenBalance { available: 0 }` under that variant.
Gas is unaffected, since memory expansion is charged from the per-frame
`Gas` counter, and the leak did not cross transactions, since
`local_mut().clear()` runs at the end of each one. The 24 geth-derived
golden fixtures cannot see any of this: ten of their twelve templates
call a codeless EOA and the other two call bytecode that writes before it
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2348-2371: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReuse
fee_refund_run_fee_txinfee_refund_run_token_fee_tx.The two helpers duplicate the transaction fields, success assertion, and result tuple. The equality tests can therefore compare different transaction configurations if one helper drifts, while still producing equal tuples. The proposed reuse preserves
fee_refund_run_token_fee_tx's setup and call-mode sanity assertions.♻️ Proposed dedup
fn fee_refund_run_token_fee_tx(payer_token_balance: U256) -> (u64, u64, U256) { let mut evm = fee_refund_evm(payer_token_balance); let out = fee_refund_run_fee_tx(&mut evm); // Sanity: the fee was charged in call mode and equals exactly FEE_REFUND_TOKEN_FEE. let info = evm .cached_token_fee_info() .expect("token fee info is cached"); assert_eq!(info.balance_slot, None, "token must be registered in call mode"); assert_eq!(info.balance, payer_token_balance, "balanceOf must see the seeded balance"); assert_eq!( info.eth_to_token_amount(U256::from( FEE_REFUND_GAS_LIMIT as u128 * FEE_REFUND_GAS_PRICE )), U256::from(FEE_REFUND_TOKEN_FEE) ); out }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The comment justified setting the query's ORIGIN to the queried account by
claiming go-ethereum's pool does the same. It does not: `getBalanceFunc`
builds its EVM on an empty `vm.TxContext{}` (core/tx_pool.go:341), so its
ORIGIN is the zero address — and go-ethereum's own execution layer resolves
the same `balanceOf` with ORIGIN set to the sender, so its pool disagrees
with its own execution.
Setting ORIGIN to the account is still the right call, for the opposite
reason to the one recorded: admission exists to predict what the builder
will be able to include, so it follows this client's execution layer rather
than the other client's pool. Say that, and record the one input the query
still cannot match — GASPRICE, which stays at the `TxEnv` default of zero
because the effective price depends on the next block's base fee.
Every registered fee token on mainnet now has its `balanceSlot` cleared, so the fee is moved by real `balanceOf` and `transfer` calls into the token contract. The e2e genesis registered `balanceSlot = 2` instead, which put all 128 integration tests on the direct-storage path: the mode that is scheduled to be disabled by a hardfork, and the one production does not use. The node-level behaviour of the mode production does run — receipts, log ordering, pool admission, the replay RPCs — had no integration coverage at all, while the 24 statetest golden fixtures cover only its state effects. Give the test token the ERC20 runtime the gas-regression test already carried inline, and clear the registry's `balanceSlot`. The runtime keeps `balanceOf` at slot 1, so `test_token_balance_slot` still derives the same slot independently and remains a test oracle rather than a second copy of the code under test. Both gas regressions hold unchanged at 48_128 and 50_428: the fee frames run on their own 200k budget, and the deduction books no SSTORE refund while the payer keeps a balance. What does change is the receipt, which now carries the fee deduction and the fee reimbursement around the transaction's own transfer. Assert that ordering — deduction, main, refund — since it is what go-ethereum produces and what indexers read.
Six items a review of this branch turned up, each verified against revm 42 and go-ethereum before being acted on. `reimburse_caller_token_fee`'s slot branch reaches `sload`/`sstore` on the token directly, which panic rather than error when the account is absent from `journal.state` (`sload_assume_account_present` -> `ColdLoadSkipped` -> `unwrap_db_error`). It relied on the deduction having loaded it, but the deduction skips both transfer modes for a zero fee. The two cannot disagree today — `eth_to_token_amount` rounds up, so a zero token fee means a zero ETH fee, which returns before the transfer — but that proof lives in another function. Load it where it is needed instead; today the load is a no-op. `evm_call` has the same shape of hidden dependency: its `CallValue::Transfer` frame runs `Journal::transfer_loaded`, whose zero-value path is `self.state.get_mut(&to).unwrap()`. An ordinary CALL is safe because the opcode's `load_acc_and_calc_gas` loaded the account; an internal call has no opcode, so `internal_call_code` is the only load. Its doc comment described itself purely as a warmth-preserving code read. Say what it is also for. `MorphBlockExecutor::hardfork` became write-only when `get_morph_tx_fields` stopped taking a hardfork, leaving a doc comment claiming it is "reused in `commit_transaction`". Removing it leaves `spec` dead as well — it existed only to compute it. Drop both, and the constructor argument with them. Two comments claimed things that are not true of the pinned revm or of the code they describe. `load_token_fee_info` blamed a "30M gas limit" on the previous path, which went through `system_call_one` and so already capped at go-ethereum's 200k; the divergence was the environment and the sender. And `ExecutionResult::Revert` does carry a `logs` field in revm 42 — the fee logs need their side channel because the mid-transaction `finalize()` clears the journal's logs, not because the variant cannot hold them. The pool restated the fee-limit clamp by hand under a "Match REVM semantics" comment, although `TokenFeeInfo::effective_fee_limit` was added to be the one copy. Use it. Finally, `transfer_erc20_with_evm`'s affordability check built its error message with `ok_or`, rendering two U256s and allocating a String on every successful call-mode fee transfer; `ok_or_else` defers it.
The twelve golden cases all target either a codeless EOA or bytecode that writes before it reads, and all twelve register the token in EVM-call mode. Two consensus-relevant behaviours were therefore invisible to them. `main_reads_uninitialized_memory` commits MSIZE and MLOAD(0) to storage from the transaction's own frame, before writing either. go-ethereum allocates a fresh `Memory` for every interpreter run, so both read zero and neither SSTORE changes state; a client whose fee frames leave their bytes on the transaction's shared memory writes two non-zero slots and misses the root. Verified to have teeth: reverting the fee frames to a checkpoint-zero `SharedMemory` fails it with a state root mismatch. `slot_deduct_keep` and `slot_deduct_clear` are the first coverage of the registry's direct-slot path, which has to keep working for replaying blocks produced before every mainnet token moved to the call path. `slot_deduct_clear` is byte-for-byte the transaction `deduct_clear` runs and costs 21_000 against its 16_800: clearing the payer's balance through a real `transfer` books a `+4800` SSTORE refund that reaches the transaction, while `SetState` books nothing. That 4_200 is the only way the two modes bill differently, and it is now pinned from both sides. Roots and logs hashes come from morph-geth 4012f174b, which reproduces all twelve existing cases unchanged.
`receipt.rs` caches the fee `Transfer` events outside the journal because go-ethereum's `StateDB.logs` is not part of the state snapshot/revert mechanism: when the main frame reverts, the deduction's log must still be in the receipt. Nothing asserted that. Every reverting golden case used a token that emits no logs, so its expected `logs` hash is the empty hash and a client that dropped `pre_fee_logs` on the floor would produce the same value. The property decides the receipt's logs and therefore the block's receipts root. `morph_tx_v0_token_fee_still_charged_on_revert` already reverts the main frame against the real ERC20 test token and already runs through `MorphBlockExecutor` and the production receipt builder. Assert the two fee transfers it must carry, in go-ethereum's order, and that the deduction moved a non-zero fee. Verified to have teeth: not extending `pre_fee_logs` in `build_receipt` fails it. One comment described the code wrongly and is corrected: - The call-mode deduction comment said re-marking accounts and slots cold "reproduces the warmth `Prepare` would have left behind". It does not, and must not: the coinbase and access list are re-warmed later by upstream `pre_execution::load_accounts`, which runs after this deduction because the deduction happens in `validate()`. Say so, and say what breaks if a future change reorders those phases. `load_token_fee_info`'s claim that the old path "capped at `SYSTEM_CALL_GAS_LIMIT`, which is go-ethereum's 200k" reads wrong, because revm's `SYSTEM_CALL_GAS_LIMIT` is 30_000_000. It is right, though: this crate defines its own 200_000 in `exec.rs` and sets it in the `SystemCallEvm` impl, shadowing revm's. Name that shadowing, since the bare constant reads as a mistake and invites exactly the wrong "fix". `expectException` stays presence-only, which reads like an oversight. It is deliberate: go-ethereum's own statetest harness returns early on `len(ExpectException) > 0` under a standing "TODO check error string", so matching the text here would make this runner stricter than the client the fixtures come from. A comment now records that.
Four cleanups from a review of this branch. None of them changes execution. `transfer_erc20_with_slot` needs the token account in `journal.state`, because the journal's `sload`/`sstore` panic rather than error when it is absent, and both callers loaded it themselves with a comment apiece saying why. The helper now loads and touches the token ahead of its checkpoint. That is exactly what the deduction did before. The refund's extra touch is a no-op: a refund only runs after a non-zero deduction, which already touched the token in the same transaction. The slot-path golden fixtures pass unchanged, and the unit test that exercises the helper no longer pre-loads the token. `reimburse_caller_token_fee` built its missing-cache error with `ok_or`, allocating the message on every token refund. It now uses `ok_or_else`. `TokenRegistryEntry`, its `load` and its `load_for_caller` had become `pub` and re-exported with no user outside this crate, and `load_for_caller` hands back a `TokenFeeInfo` without going through `ensure_usable`. They are `pub(crate)` again. The pool keeps using `TokenFeeInfo::load_for_caller`. The handler and token-fee tests each carried an identical database that fails storage reads of one token. A single copy now lives in the token-fee test module, which is `pub(crate)` so the handler tests can use it.
The receipt builder said fee logs are cached apart from the journal because revm's `ExecutionResult::Revert` carries no logs. In revm 42 it does. The real reason is that the call-mode deduction runs a mid-transaction `finalize()` that clears the journal's logs, so the handler moves them out first, and it drains the refund's logs the same way. `result` then holds only the main frame's logs, which a revert has already discarded. The same wrong claim was corrected in `handler.rs` earlier on this branch; this is the copy that was left behind.
Slot mode is being retired on mainnet, but blocks that already ran it must keep replaying identically, and only two synthetic golden cases exercised the registry's direct-slot path. The new case replays transaction 0x9ebfdac9040d7c2a8739ffdaae8baf5e7aa22fdb48585f80592de4b4cf39ed44 from block 26836567: a V0 MorphTx paying its fee in token 1 through the direct slot, sent by an EIP-7702-delegated account holding no ETH, whose call transfers that same token. One transaction covers the deduction, the main frame writing the payer's already-debited balance slot, and the slot-mode refund. go-ethereum's state-test runner only signs with `secretKey` and fixes the chain id to 1, so the sender moves to the harness account, carrying its nonce, delegation code and re-keyed token balance, and the fee vault's balance is re-keyed to the harness vault. The prestate tracer reports zero for the balance slots the fee logic reads straight from state, so those, the registry entry and the L1 gas price oracle slots are taken from the parent block. That is exact here because the transaction is alone in its block. Roots come from morph-geth 4012f174b, which passes the fixture, as does this runner. The gas used equals the on-chain receipt's 51_257, and the logs root equals the on-chain logs with the sender topic substituted. Verified to have teeth: swapping the slot-mode refund's direction fails it with a state root mismatch.
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A fee token registered without a
balanceSlot(L2TokenRegistry token ids 2 and 6, both USDC) takes the EVM-call path: the protocol resolves the payer's balance withbalanceOfand moves the fee with an ERC20transfer. morph-reth diverges from morph-geth on that path in four ways that changegasUsed, receipts and state roots, so a morph-reth follower rejects blocks a geth block producer accepts.Mainnet
jade_fork_time = 1775628000(2026-04-08), so post-Jade state-root validation is strictly enforced.This is live, not hypothetical: reading the mainnet registry at
0x5300000000000000000000000000000000000021shows token id 2 (0xe34c9181…) and id 6 (0xcfb1186f…, USDC) withbalanceSlot = 0— call mode — while id 1 is still on the storage-slot path (0x34).Measured divergence
Replaying twelve geth-derived golden cases (state/logs roots and gas from morph-geth
5744b8f66) against unmodifiedmain(v1.3.0) fails 8 of the 12 templates on both Emerald and Jade — 16 of 24 outcomes:mainfailurededuct_clear,main_restores_cleared_slot,main_revert,main_oogstate root mismatchorigin_guard,gasprice_guardrefund_false_keeps_transfer,zero_feelogs root mismatchThose twelve all register their token with
balanceSlot = 0, so every one exercises the EVM-call path. Three cases added later (main_reads_uninitialized_memory,slot_deduct_keep,slot_deduct_clear) extend the fixture to fifteen; the twoslot_deduct_*ones are the first coverage of the registry's direct-slot path, and theslot_deduct_clear/deduct_clearpair bill 21_000 against 16_800 for the same transaction — the SSTORE refund a realtransferbooks andSetStatedoes not. ("Balance slot" in the case names below is the ERC20's own storage slot that the feetransfer()clears, not the registry field.)The trigger is constructible: the fee transfer must consume the payer's entire token balance, and the required amount is a function of caller-chosen
gas_limit/gas_price. USDC fee transactions can hit it on mainnet today.Changes
Refund accounting. The fee
transfer()frame's SSTORE refund was discarded, so a fee that clears the payer's balance slot earned the user no refund. go-ethereum runs that call throughevm.CallinsidebuyAltTokenGas()beforeStateDB.Prepare, which does not reset the refund counter, so the refund survives intorefundGas(). The net counter is now carried onMorphEvm::pre_fee_refundand recorded before the EIP-3529 cap, so a negative refund from main execution can still cancel it.Internal call environment. Internal frames now retain the outer transaction's ORIGIN and effective GASPRICE, run in the executing block's environment, and
balanceOfexecutes as a genuine static frame. Previously they ran with a default transaction environment and their own storage. The 200k gas allowance is unchanged — this crate's ownSYSTEM_CALL_GAS_LIMITalready matched go-ethereum'smaxGas, shadowing revm's 30M default at theSystemCallEvmimpl — andEVM_CALL_GAS_LIMITcarries the same number forward.Failure semantics. A successful transfer whose return value or balance delta failed a later business check used to be rolled back with its logs; go-ethereum keeps the state and logs and only reports the failure. Frames now own their checkpoint — a VM revert still rolls back, a business failure does not, and a database failure stays fatal instead of being turned into a verdict about the token.
Zero fees. geth skips both transfer modes for a zero fee but still performs the balance query. Nonce/cache updates and call-mode access-list/transient cleanup still occur.
Shared fee-frame memory. Each fee frame carves its own region off the context's shared memory buffer and releases it on exit, so the main transaction frame still starts on zeroed memory the way go-ethereum's per-run
NewMemory()guarantees. Without it, bytes a fee frame left behind are visible to the main frame'sMSIZE/MLOAD, which is consensus-visible. Pinned bymain_reads_uninitialized_memory.Deduplication.
TokenFeeInfo::effective_fee_limitreplaces the two hand-rolled fee-limit clamps that execution and pool each carried.MorphEvm::from_envgives execution and pool queries one constructor. The receipt builder reads registry metadata withload_storage_only, which never builds a temporary EVM to resolve a balance it does not use.MorphBlockExecutor'sspecandhardforkfields were write-only onceget_morph_tx_fieldsstopped taking a hardfork, so both are gone along with the constructor argument.Scope
main.load_for_callersignature. Two things change relative to the oldsystem_call_onepath, both toward execution parity: the caller is the payer rather thanSYSTEM_ADDRESS, and a failedbalanceOfis reported as a query failure instead of silently resolving to a zero balance. The block environment stays at the hardfork's defaults, which is what admission used before. Threading the real head environment through admission is txpool work (PR fix(txpool): align fee maintenance and token-call execution #200) and is deliberately not here.pre_fee_refund; whichever lands first, the other should drop that hunk. Solving that conflict by keeping bothrecord_refundcalls would count the refund twice and movegasUsedthe wrong way, so this is worth doing deliberately rather than by rote.slot_deduct_*statetest cases and intransfer_erc20_with_slot's unit tests, but not at the node level —TestNodeBuilderhas no genesis-storage override, so the block executor's slot branch (receipt construction, cumulativegas_used,load_storage_only) is no longer covered end-to-end. Worth a follow-up.transfer(), so it books no+4800for the balance it clears; a main frame that restores that slot then records-4800with nothing to cancel it, andset_final_refundcasts the negative counter tou64and takes the fullgas_used / 5. This is not an alignment gap with a reachable target, though: go-ethereum enters the same state only by panicking inSubRefund(the recreate-slot branch ofgas_table.goagainst a zero counter,core/state/statedb.go:241), which means a geth block producer cannot include such a transaction at all — so there is no geth value to align to and no block to follow. Clamping would only stop morph-reth emitting a meaningless refund. Tracked separately from this change.Validation
cargo nextest run --workspace: 899 passed.cargo nextest run -p morph-node --features test-utils -E 'binary(it)': 128 passed.5744b8f66; the three later ones from4012f174b, which differs only incore/tx_pool.go's transaction-size limit and reproduces the original twelve unchanged. go-ethereum's ownevm statetestreplays the same fixture to the same state and logs roots on both revisions, so the expectations are not generated by the client they are meant to check. Gas constants are transaction totals; geth's statetest tool subtracts intrinsic gas.deduct_clear,main_revert,main_oog,main_restores_cleared_slot) withstate root mismatchon both forks, so the fixture does exercise the fix.morph_tx_v0_token_fee_still_charged_on_revertnow also asserts the receipt's logs: the deduction'sTransferand the reimbursement's must both be present, in that order, even though the main frame reverted. That property is the only reason fee logs are cached outside the journal and it feeds the receipts root; before this it was asserted by nothing on either the fixture or the e2e side, because every reverting golden case used a token that emits no logs.expectExceptionis checked for presence, not text — matching go-ethereum's own statetest harness, which returns early onlen(ExpectException) > 0under a standing "TODO check error string". The strings stay in the JSON as documentation.cargo fmt --all -- --check,cargo clippy --all --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean.Why this is the prerequisite for the token migration
The plan to move every mainnet fee token to the call path removes the slot-mode divergence class, but it also makes this path universal: today only ids 2 and 6 take it, afterwards all six do. Unmodified v1.3.0 rejects blocks containing such transactions, so this needs to ship and reach nodes before the registry entries are flipped.