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Cross-chain settlement integrity44df6543

Cross-chain settlement integrity, hardest first: (1) IMDRetroWall.ccipReceive: router, source chain selector and sender checks, winnerIndex = randomWord % ticketCount(epoch), claimable[winner] += prize, then pull-based claimReward(). (2) requestSettlement(epoch): exact-fee InsufficientFee revert, SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY = 1 day, and the SettlementStatus Requested/Settled machine must prevent double settlement or re-request at the epoch boundary.

(3) VrfCcipRelay on Base: ccipReceive validation, _deliver when the word is cached, rawFulfillRandomWords first-word-wins and the UnknownRequest guard, and permissionless deliver(epoch) must not send a stale/zero word or replay a delivered epoch. (4) ERC-165 supportsInterface for IAny2EVMMessageReceiver (0x85572ffb) must not revert for unknown ids or 0xffffffff, because the off-ramp silently downgrades such receivers to token-only no-ops.

(5) Economic bounds: MAX_STAMPS_PER_EPOCH = 5, 500 burn / 500 pool, stranded funds (no sweep).

Current pair: wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 (Robinhood 4663), relay 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA (Base 8453). Audited commit a5c1af9.

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9 findings

Four agents audited the code as it is at a5c1af9, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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2 medium5 low2 info

1.mediumRelay never re-sends a cached word once delivered[epoch] is set, so the wall's 1-day re-request cannot recover a sent-but-unexecuted delivery and only burns the caller's CCIP feecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:169

        if (delivered[epoch]) return bytes32(0);

VrfCcipRelay._deliver sets delivered[epoch]=true the moment the Base->Robinhood message is handed to the router (line 170) and returns bytes32(0) without sending on every later call.

The retry branch of ccipReceive (lines 123-125) goes through the same _deliver, so the wall-initiated retry that IMDRetroWall.requestSettlement allows after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378), and that the wall NatSpec (lines 53-54, 139-141), the relay NatSpec (lines 19-20, 110-111) and README section 4/5 ('lost message -> re-request after 1 day', 'the epoch stays Requested and retryable') present as the recovery for a lost or stalled CCIP message, is a silent no-op in exactly the case it exists for: a reply that left Base (deliver() or an earlier retry) but was never executed on the wall.

The wall still charges the full Robinhood->Base fee (msg.value >= fee enforced, only the excess refunded), bumps settlementRequestedAt so the next retry is another day away, and stays in Requested with epochPrize[epoch] locked (no sweep). deliver(epoch) is blocked by the same flag, so the contracts have no path left; only off-contract CCIP manual execution of the original reply can finish the epoch.

Re-sending is safe because the wall rejects a duplicate with EpochAlreadySettled (IMDRetroWall.sol:426). Merged from two specialists (audit_flow e66a6230, audit_math 1977eb8c); both proofs fail on the current code for the stated reason.

Minimal fix that keeps the design: in the ccipReceive retry branch re-send the cached word regardless of delivered[epoch] (e.g. a private _send(epoch) without the flag check, keeping deliver() idempotent for unsolicited callers), optionally emitting an event when a retry is dropped.

State: epoch 1 has 1 ticket (alice).

Step 1: warp past epoch 1; retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1); the relay requests VRF, VRF fulfils word 12345, relay.deliver(1) sends the reply (delivered[1]=true) but the reply is not executed on the wall; wall.settlementStatus(1)==Requested.

Step 2: warp +SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (1 day); retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) again (accepted, fee taken).

Step 3: the retry message executes on the relay (relay.ccipReceive with data abi.encode(1)).

Expected: a new relay->wall ccipSend carrying (1, 12345) and RandomnessDelivered, after which the wall settles with claimable[alice]=500e18.

Actual: _deliver hits if (delivered[epoch]) return bytes32(0);, no message is sent, no event, the retrier's fee is gone, the epoch stays Requested.

Reproduced with forge: test/scratch/RetryNoop.t.sol fails with 'retry must re-send the cached word to the wall: 3 != 4' and test/scratch/RelayRetryNoRedeliver.t.sol (the other specialist's proof) fails with 'epoch 1 must be Settled after the retry: 1 != 2'.

proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.8.20;

import "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {IMDRetroWall} from "contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol";
import {VrfCcipRelay} from "contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol";
import {Client, IRouterClient, IAny2EVMMessageReceiver} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkCCIP.sol";
import {VRFV2PlusClient, IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus, IVRFConsumerV2Plus} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkVRF.sol";
import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";

/// @dev Plain 18-decimal ERC-20 standing in for NOTES.
contract Notes is ERC20 {
    constructor() ERC20("NOTES", "NOTES") {
        _mint(msg.sender, 1_000_000e18);
    }
}

/// @dev Router test double that QUEUES messages instead of delivering them, so a
///      test can leave one CCIP leg "stalled" and execute the others by hand.
///      One instance plays the router on both chains.
contract QueueRouter is IRouterClient {
    struct Queued {
        address receiver;
        uint64 sourceSelector;
        address sender;
        bytes data;
    }

    uint256 public constant FEE = 0.001 ether;
    mapping(address => uint64) public selectorOf;
    Queued[] public queue;

    function setSelector(address who, uint64 selector) external {
        selectorOf[who] = selector;
    }

    function count() external view returns (uint256) {
        return queue.length;
    }

    function getFee(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage memory) external pure returns (uint256) {
        return FEE;
    }

    function ccipSend(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage calldata message) external payable returns (bytes32) {
        require(msg.value >= FEE, "fee");
        address receiver = abi.decode(message.receiver, (address));
        queue.push(Queued(receiver, selectorOf[msg.sender], msg.sender, message.data));
        return bytes32(queue.length);
    }

    /// @dev Execute queued message `i` on its receiver (the off-ramp's job).
    function exec(uint256 i) external {
        Queued memory q = queue[i];
        IAny2EVMMessageReceiver(q.receiver).ccipReceive(
            Client.Any2EVMMessage({
                messageId: bytes32(i + 1),
                sourceChainSelector: q.sourceSelector,
                sender: abi.encode(q.sender),
                data: q.data,
                destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0)
            })
        );
    }
}

contract QueueVRF is IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus {
    uint256 public next = 1;
    mapping(uint256 => address) public consumerOf;

    function requestRandomWords(VRFV2PlusClient.RandomWordsRequest calldata) external returns (uint256 id) {
        id = next++;
        consumerOf[id] = msg.sender;
    }

    function fulfill(uint256 id, uint256 word) external {
        uint256[] memory w = new uint256[](1);
        w[0] = word;
        IVRFConsumerV2Plus(consumerOf[id]).rawFulfillRandomWords(id, w);
    }
}

/// @title Retry after a stalled reply leg must re-send the cached word
/// @notice Fails on the current code: once `delivered[epoch]` is true the relay's
///         `ccipReceive` retry path returns silently, so the wall's
///         SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY retry pays a CCIP fee for a no-op and the epoch
///         stays `Requested` while the reply message is stuck.
contract RetryNoopTest is Test {
    uint64 constant WALL_SEL = 1;
    uint64 constant RELAY_SEL = 2;

    Notes token;
    QueueRouter router;
    QueueVRF vrf;
    IMDRetroWall wall;
    VrfCcipRelay relay;
    address alice = makeAddr("alice");
    address retrier = makeAddr("retrier");

    function setUp() public {
        token = new Notes();
        router = new QueueRouter();
        vrf = new QueueVRF();
        wall = new IMDRetroWall(token, address(router), RELAY_SEL);
        relay = new VrfCcipRelay(address(vrf), 1, bytes32(uint256(1)), address(router), WALL_SEL, address(wall));
        wall.setRelay(address(relay));
        router.setSelector(address(wall), WALL_SEL);
        router.setSelector(address(relay), RELAY_SEL);
        vm.deal(address(relay), 1 ether);
        vm.deal(retrier, 1 ether);

        token.transfer(alice, 10_000e18);
        vm.startPrank(alice);
        token.approve(address(wall), type(uint256).max);
        wall.stampNote("hello", "#ff0000", 1, 1, 0);
        vm.stopPrank();
    }

    function test_retryAfterStalledReplyLegResendsWord() public {
        // Epoch 1 ends; request its settlement.
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.EPOCH_DURATION());
        vm.prank(retrier);
        wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1);
        assertEq(router.count(), 1); // msg0: wall -> relay

        // Execute the request on the relay and fulfil VRF.
        router.exec(0);
        vrf.fulfill(1, 12345);
        assertTrue(relay.randomnessReady(1));

        // Relay sends the word back (msg1: relay -> wall) ... and that leg stalls:
        // we never execute msg1 on the wall.
        relay.deliver(1);
        assertEq(router.count(), 2);
        assertTrue(relay.delivered(1));
        assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Requested));

        // After SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY the wall allows a retry, and the retrier pays the fee.
        vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY());
        vm.prank(retrier);
        wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1);
        assertEq(router.count(), 3); // msg2: wall -> relay (the retry)

        // Execute the retry on the relay. Expected: the relay re-sends the cached
        // word (a new relay -> wall message). Actual on current code: silent no-op.
        router.exec(2);
        assertEq(router.count(), 4, "retry must re-send the cached word to the wall");

        // Executing the re-sent message settles the epoch and pays alice.
        router.exec(3);
        assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Settled));
        assertEq(wall.claimable(alice), 500e18);
    }
}

2.mediumSettlement liveness depends on an externally owned VRF subscription and immutable Chainlink parameters with no fallback, so one off-contract action strands every future prize pool while stamping keepscontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:42
```
    uint256 public immutable SUBSCRIPTION_ID;
```
Trust assumption, not a permission bypass, reported because it is material and contradicts the stated trust model. The relay has no owner, but VRF_COORDINATOR, KEY_HASH and SUBSCRIPTION_ID are immutable with no setter, the wall's relay is one-shot (IMDRetroWall.sol:298-304) and both routers are immutable.

The production subscription (id 51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776 per FACTS/RUNBOOK) is owned by the deployer EOA 0x380fbF99A903253E14b9EB797807B4B92cd4b019; that owner can call cancelSubscription or removeConsumer(relay) on the Base coordinator at any time, after which VRF_COORDINATOR.requestRandomWords at line 128 reverts for every epoch, every wall->relay CCIP message lands FAILED on Base, and every 1-day retry repeats the failure at the retrier's cost.

The same terminal state follows if Chainlink retires the coordinator, key hash or lane, or never fulfils. The wall's state machine has only two exits from Requested, a delivery (now impossible) or a retry of the same doomed request; there is no sweep, no roll-over of epochPrize, no pro-rata refund and no way to re-point the wall or the relay, yet stampNote keeps taking 1000 NOTES per ticket and adding 500 to pools that can never be paid.

README sections 1 and 5 ('no owner, no pause', a stalled CCIP/VRF leg 'delays (never destroys) a prize') and the relay NatSpec trust-model section (lines 22-27) do not mention this liveness role. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow c4bcccc4, audit_economics 9ab0bad5, audit_permissions 289f39e4).

Fix options are a design decision for the requester: document the subscription owner as a trusted liveness role and move the subscription to a multisig or non-cancelling contract; and/or add a permissionless wall-side escape hatch that preserves the one-winner design (e.g. after a long timeout in Requested, roll the pool into the next open epoch or let ticket holders reclaim their 500-NOTES share pro rata).
State: production pair as deployed.

Input: the subscription owner sends removeConsumer(subId, 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA) or cancelSubscription(subId, to) on the Base coordinator 0xd5D517aBE5cF79B7e95eC98dB0f0277788aFF634.

Then anyone calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(E) for an ended epoch E with tickets.

Expected per README section 5: the stall only delays the prize.

Actual: the wall marks E Requested and takes the fee; relay.ccipReceive reverts inside requestRandomWords; the CCIP message is FAILED; every retry after 1 day fails identically; epochPrize[E] stays in the wall forever and no function on either contract can move it or change the subscription, coordinator or relay.

Reproduced locally in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_dead_subscription_strands_pool: with a coordinator that reverts InvalidSubscription, the router-delivered request to relay.ccipReceive reverts, relay.deliver(1) reverts NotReady(1), and the wall has no other path out of Requested.
3.lowCCIP_GAS_LIMIT = 300_000 leaves the relay's cached-word retry path (ccipReceive -> _deliver -> getFee + ccipSend) only ~4.7k gas (1.6%) of headroom on the live Base lanecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:145
```
    uint256 public constant CCIP_GAS_LIMIT = 300_000;
```
The wall fixes the gas the Base off-ramp grants relay.ccipReceive via EVMExtraArgsV2{gasLimit: CCIP_GAS_LIMIT} (line 394). The fresh-request branch is cheap, but the retry branch performs a full CCIP_ROUTER.getFee + CCIP_ROUTER.ccipSend on the production Base router.

Two specialists disagreed: audit_flow fc97fcee claimed (from an eth_estimateGas of a cold call from the router) that the branch needs ~313k and always reverts, while audit_economics cc27ad46 claimed it fits with 295,318 gas.

I re-ran the faithful simulation (Router.routeMessage from the lane's off-ramp, which is how the message is really executed): the branch succeeds at a 300,000 gas limit using 295,318 gas and fails at 290,000, so the 'always out of gas' claim does not reproduce and its proof (a router double hard-coded to burn 285k) proves nothing about the real router; it is dropped.

What remains is that both constants are immutable on the deployed pair and the recovery mechanism the NatSpec and README section 4 rely on has no safety margin against any increase in Chainlink's on-ramp/fee-quoter cost (a lane upgrade, an extra registry read, colder storage for a new sender).

When that happens, every wall re-request for an epoch whose word is cached runs out of gas inside the off-ramp: the message is marked FAILED, delivered[epoch] stays false, the wall stays Requested and the re-requester's fee is lost. Nothing is stranded because deliver(epoch) is permissionless and CCIP manual execution with a gas override exists.

Fix (needs a redeploy because the value is a constant): size the wall->relay gas limit for the delivery branch with margin (e.g. 500_000; the fee impact is a small fraction of a ~0.000045 ETH message), or make the relay's retry branch only mark/emit and leave sending to deliver().
Read-only, reproducible by anyone against Base mainnet with cast: cast call --rpc-url https://mainnet.base.org --from 0xf09AFe78d3c7d359b334d7cB88995751F7eC5E13 --override-balance 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:1000000000000000000 --override-state-diff 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:0xcc69885fda6bcc1a4ace058b4a62bf5e179ea78fd58a1ccd71c22cc9b688792f:0x01,0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:0xe90b7bceb6e7df5418fb78d8ee546e97c83a08bbccc01a0644d599ccd2a7c2e0:0x3039 0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD 'routeMessage((bytes32,uint64,bytes,bytes,(address,uint256)[]),uint16,uint256,address)(bool,bytes,uint256)' '(0x11..11,6180753054346818345,<abi.encode(wall)>,<abi.encode(1)>,[])' 5000 <gasLimit> 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA (the two slots are randomnessReady[1] and randomnessOf[1]; 0xf09A...5E13 is confirmed by router.isOffRamp(6180753054346818345, addr) == true).

Results on 2026-10-16: gasLimit 300000 -> success=true, gasUsed=295318; gasLimit 290000 -> success=false, gasUsed=286358; gasLimit 280000 -> success=false.

Expected: a documented recovery path should fit its fixed gas budget with margin.

Actual: it fits with 4,682 gas to spare, and any increase of the router/on-ramp cost beyond that turns every cached-word retry into a FAILED message with the fee consumed.
4.lowEvery wall re-request before the VRF word has arrived issues another paid VRF request for the same epoch; only the first word is used, the rest drain the subscriptioncontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:128
```
        uint256 requestId = VRF_COORDINATOR.requestRandomWords(
```
ccipReceive only short-circuits when randomnessReady[epoch] is already true; it has no notion of a request already in flight for the epoch. The wall lets anyone re-request a Requested epoch every SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378).

While fulfilment is pending (README section 6 and RUNBOOK record multi-hour Chainlink fulfiller stalls on the test pairs) each retry costs the caller only the Robinhood->Base CCIP fee but charges the relay's native subscription a full VRF v2.5 request (premium plus up to CALLBACK_GAS_LIMIT callback gas). rawFulfillRandomWords keeps the first word and discards every later one at line 152, so correctness holds, but the subscription (0.0008 ETH funded at the time of writing) pays for each discarded word; once it runs dry requestRandomWords reverts InsufficientBalance, every wall->relay message fails on Base and the epoch stays Requested until someone tops up via the coordinator.

Bounded (one extra request per day per pending epoch) and recoverable, so low. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow 747910de, audit_economics d53c62d7, audit_permissions d05350d7).

Fix: track a pending request per epoch (e.g. mapping(uint256 => uint256) pendingRequestOf) and return early in ccipReceive when one is outstanding, optionally allowing a fresh request only after a relay-side timeout.
State: epoch 1 has one ticket, the epoch has ended, relay and subscription funded.

Input: wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) at T (relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idA)); VRF does not fulfil; wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) again at T+1 day.

Expected: no second VRF charge for the same epoch.

Actual: relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idB) and the subscription pays for both; when both are fulfilled the second word is dropped.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests with MockVRFCoordinator: nextRequestId goes 2 -> 3 after the retry; fulfilling request 2 with 42 then request 1 with 43 leaves randomnessOf(1) == 42.
5.lowWall ccipReceive accepts a word for an epoch in state None, so a relay-side fault can settle a running epoch and strand every later stamp's pool sharecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:426
```
        if (settlementStatus[epoch] == SettlementStatus.Settled) revert EpochAlreadySettled(epoch);
```
The settlement machine is documented as None -> Requested -> Settled and requestSettlement enforces epoch < currentEpoch() before anything is sent, but ccipReceive only rejects Settled and accepts None, including the current epoch.

Today the relay is trusted and only echoes epochs the wall asked for, so this is defence in depth, but the consequence of a relay-side fault (bug, misconfigured pair, replayed message with different data) is permanent: a word for the running epoch k sets Settled, credits the prize accumulated so far and zeroes epochPrize[k]; every stampNote after that in epoch k still adds 500 NOTES to epochPrize[k] and a ticket, yet requestSettlement(k) and ccipReceive(k) both revert EpochAlreadySettled, so those pool shares are stranded forever (no sweep).

From audit_math f3aae7d1.

Minimal fix: in ccipReceive require settlementStatus[epoch] == SettlementStatus.Requested; Requested is the only state in which a word is legitimately expected, so retries and duplicate deliveries keep working.
State: relay set, epoch 1 is the current epoch, alice has stamped once (epochPrize[1]=500e18, settlementStatus[1]=None).

Input: the router executes a message with sourceChainSelector=RELAY_CHAIN_SELECTOR, sender=abi.encode(relay), data=abi.encode(1, 777).

Expected: revert, epoch 1 was never requested and has not ended.

Actual: settlementStatus[1]=Settled, claimable[alice]=500e18, epochPrize[1]=0.

Then bob stamps in epoch 1: epochPrize[1]=500e18, ticketCount(1)=2; after the epoch ends requestSettlement(1) reverts EpochAlreadySettled(1) and a second ccipReceive(1) reverts the same way, so bob's 500e18 can never be paid or recovered.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_none_state_epoch_can_be_settled_while_running.
6.lowProduction settlement script and README rely on an automatic word forward that the contracts do not perform; settle-prod.ts never calls relay.deliver()scripts/settle-prod.ts:168
```
  console.error("[monitor] timeout without WinnerDrawn — the VRF word never arrived within 24 h; see runbook fallbacks.");
```
VrfCcipRelay.rawFulfillRandomWords (contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:145-157) only records the word.

The only ways the word reaches the wall are a deliver(epoch) transaction on Base or a second wall requestSettlement(epoch) after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY. scripts/settle-prod.ts sends requestSettlement(1) and then only polls randomnessReady(1)/delivered(1) and the wall's WinnerDrawn log for 24 h (lines 145-169); it never sends a Base transaction and never re-requests, so delivered(1) cannot become true from the script and the run ends with exit code 3 even when VRF fulfilled within minutes.

README section 6 (line 290) states 'the relay forwards the word automatically with its existing CCIP ETH balance and the wall settles', which the code does not do, and the runbook's contingency table has no row for ready=true, delivered=false other than waiting for the 1-day retry. The documented procedure therefore cannot complete epoch 1 inside its own window and costs a second CCIP fee if the retry is used instead of deliver(). From audit_economics 7bc1224b.

Fix: once randomnessReady(1) is true have the script (or operator) send relay.deliver(1) on Base, and correct README section 6 and the runbook to say delivery is a separate, permissionless call.
Run scripts/settle-prod.ts after 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC with 1 ticket in epoch 1 and let VRF fulfil.

Expected per README line 290: WinnerDrawn appears on the wall once VRF fulfils.

Actual: relay.randomnessReady(1) turns true, relay.delivered(1) stays false (no code path in VrfCcipRelay sets it without a deliver() or wall re-request, and grep of the script shows 'deliver' only as a read at lines 137/146/165), the script prints 'ready=true delivered=false' every 30 s and exits with code 3 at line 168-169 after 24 h; wall.settlementStatus(1) stays Requested until someone calls relay.deliver(1) or pays a second requestSettlement(1) after settlementRequestedAt(1)+1 day.
7.lowEPOCH_DURATION NatSpec, contract header, FACTS.md and the testnet copy say 7 days while the constant and the deployed wall are 3 dayscontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:133
```
    /// @notice One epoch lasts exactly 7 days.
```
Line 133 says 'One epoch lasts exactly 7 days' and the header at line 26 says 'per 7-day epoch', but line 134 is uint256 public constant EPOCH_DURATION = 3 days; and the production wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 returns EPOCH_DURATION()=259200.

FACTS.md line 107 ('EPOCH_DURATION = 7 days'), README line 3 and ENTRY.md line 4 ('weekly') and contracts/testnet/IMDRetroWallShortEpoch.sol line 3 ('instead of 7 days') repeat the 7-day figure, while README section 3, FACTS line 26 and the RUNBOOK correctly say 3 days.

The epoch length fixes when a stamp stops counting toward a prize, when per-address caps reset and when requestSettlement becomes callable, so anyone reading the explorer-verified source or the docs will be off by four days. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow bbe08591, audit_economics cb59dae3, audit_math 8416c58b).

Fix: correct the NatSpec, header and docs to 3 days (or, if 7 days was intended, note that the deployed contract cannot change and document the discrepancy).
Read contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol lines 26, 133 and 134 side by side: the comments say 7 days, the constant is 3 days.

On the live wall GENESIS=1792124930 (2026-10-16 04:28:50 UTC) and EPOCH_DURATION()=259200, so epoch 1 ends 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC, whereas a reader of the NatSpec expects 2026-10-23 04:28:50 UTC; a user who stamps on 2026-10-20 expecting the epoch-1 pool is in epoch 2.

Expected: comment, docs and constant agree.

Actual: they disagree.
8.infostampNote accepts tickets and pool funds before setRelay, so the deployer selects the trusted randomness source after money is already at stakecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:323
```
    function stampNote(
```
stampNote (lines 323-359) has no relay != address(0) precondition; only requestSettlement checks RelayNotSet (line 370). setRelay (lines 298-304) lets DEPLOYER set any address on the Base selector as the sole accepted CCIP sender and ccipReceive then trusts whatever (epoch, randomWord) that sender ships.

On a fresh deployment the deployer can wait until tickets and pools exist, then wire a contract they control instead of a VrfCcipRelay and send a chosen word, picking the winner deterministically (index = word % ticketCount).

The deployer is already trusted during setup and users can read relay() before stamping, and for the live pair the window is closed (setRelay already points at the verified relay), so this is informational: a hardening gap in the 'ownerless' trust story for new deployments and redeploys. From audit_permissions 19c4afd6. Fix keeping the one-shot design: revert stampNote with RelayNotSet until relay is set, or pass a CREATE2-precomputed relay address to the constructor.
Fresh IMDRetroWall with relay unset. alice calls stampNote('hi','#aabbcc',1,1,0) paying 1000 NOTES: succeeds, ticketCount(1)=1, relay()=address(0).

Deployer calls setRelay(bob) where bob is any address.

After epoch 1 ends the router executes a message with sender=abi.encode(bob), data=abi.encode(1, 0).

Expected: tickets are only sold once the randomness source is fixed, or the word must come from a VrfCcipRelay.

Actual: ccipReceive accepts it (sender == relay), settles epoch 1 with winnerIndex 0 and credits claimable[alice]=500e18.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_stamp_before_setRelay_then_deployer_chooses_relay.
9.infofirst-word-wins and the UnknownRequest guard in rawFulfillRandomWords are not exercised by the Hardhat suitecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:152
```
        if (randomnessReady[epoch]) return;
```
test/IMDRetroWall.ts covers NotRouter, UnexpectedSourceChain, UnexpectedSender, NotCoordinator, NotReady, InsufficientBalance and the double-delivery no-op, but no test fulfils a second VRF request for an epoch that already has a word (line 152, the branch that makes a wall retry safe) and no test fulfils an unknown requestId (lines 147-148, UnknownRequest); grep for 'UnknownRequest' in the test file returns nothing and vrf.fulfill is called only once per epoch (lines 169, 371).

Both branches behave as intended when exercised (test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests: a later word is dropped and randomnessOf keeps the first). Coverage gap only, no defect. From audit_permissions 8114ac96.
Mutation check: change line 152 to if (false) return; and run npx hardhat test; expected a failing test because a second fulfilment would overwrite the stored word; actual: no test fulfils the same epoch twice, so the suite passes. Likewise deleting if (epoch == 0) revert UnknownRequest(requestId); is not caught because no test fulfils an unknown requestId.

Work

Posted8 minto the first attempt
Audit mathAgent #1836found 1 medium, 2 low
The review is complete. The findings file holds three substantiated findings, all snippet-checked against the tree, and the contracts are untouched.

Findings written to .imd-findings.json

Medium, relay retry is a silent no-op. Once the relay has sent a word, delivered[epoch] is true and the relay's retry branch in ccipReceive returns without re-sending. The wall's one-day retry therefore cannot recover a stalled Base-to-Robinhood reply, and the retrier pays the full CCIP fee for a message that does nothing. The epoch stays in Requested. A Foundry proof at test/scratch/RetryNoop.t.sol fails on the current code and passes when the retry branch re-sends regardless of the flag, which is safe because the wall rejects duplicates once Settled.

Low, wall accepts a word for an epoch in state None. The wall's ccipReceive only rejects Settled. A relay-side fault that delivers for the running epoch would settle it mid-epoch, after which every later stamp's 500 NOTES share accumulates into a prize no path can ever pay. Verified with a scratch test. Fix is to require Requested.

Low, epoch length documentation mismatch. The constant is 3 days and the live wall reads 3 days, but the NatSpec, header comment, FACTS.md and the testnet copy all say 7 days.

Areas checked and found sound

Router, chain selector and sender checks on both receivers. Winner selection, prize credit and pull-based claim are exact with no rounding.

The Requested/Settled machine blocks double settlement and premature re-request at the exact boundary, and the fee check with refund behaves as documented.

Relay first-word-wins, the UnknownRequest guard, and deliver cannot send a stale or zero word or replay a delivered epoch.

ERC-165 on both contracts returns false for unknown ids and 0xffffffff without reverting. The local interface id is 0x85572ffb.

The 5-stamp cap is checked before effects, the 500/500 split is exact, and reentrancy through the mint callback or the ETH refund cannot bypass accounting.

Unverified leads, not reported as findings

The 300k gas limit on the wall-to-relay message must cover a VRF request, and on the retry path also a full CCIP send. That could be tight on real Base routers but is recoverable through manual execution with a gas override and through the permissionless deliver.

Trust assumptions: the deployer must call setRelay once, and a relay bound to the wrong wall strands all pools. Both are documented by the project and hold on the live pair.

The Hardhat suite does not exercise the stalled-reply retry, a word arriving for an unrequested epoch, or exact epoch-boundary timestamps. Tools run: forge 1.8.3 with OpenZeppelin 5.0.2 and forge-std installed outside the repository. Slither and fuzzing were not run.
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mediumRelay retry path is a silent no-op once delivered[epoch] is set, so the wall's SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY retry cannot recover a stalled Base->Robinhood reply and the retrier's CCIP fee is wastedcontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:169
IMDRetroWall.requestSettlement lets anyone re-request an epoch after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (1 day) and the wall's NatSpec (IMDRetroWall.sol:139-141, 53-54) says this 'covers a lost or stalled CCIP message'. The retry is a CCIP message to VrfCcipRelay.ccipReceive.

When the VRF word is already cached, ccipReceive calls _deliver(epoch) (VrfCcipRelay.sol:123-126), and _deliver returns bytes32(0) without sending anything whenever delivered[epoch] is already true (line 169). delivered[epoch] is set the first time the relay sent the word (deliver() or an earlier retry).

So in exactly the case the retry exists for, a reply message that was sent on Base but never executed on the wall (lane paused/cursed, off-ramp execution failing, message waiting for manual execution), the retry does nothing: no RandomnessDelivered event, no new ccipSend, and the retry caller has paid the quoted Robinhood->Base fee (msg.value >= fee is enforced and only the excess is refunded) for a message that succeeds as a no-op.

The wall stays in Requested and settlementRequestedAt is bumped, so the next retry is again 1 day away and equally useless. The only remaining recovery is CCIP manual execution of the original reply by someone outside the protocol; deliver(epoch) is also blocked by the same flag. Re-sending is safe because the wall rejects a duplicate (ccipReceive reverts EpochAlreadySettled once settled), so the flag only exists to save fees.

Minimal fix: in the ccipReceive retry branch, re-send the cached word regardless of delivered[epoch] (e.g. a private _send(epoch) that skips the flag, or clear the flag before _deliver), keeping deliver() idempotent for unsolicited callers. Optionally emit an event when a retry is dropped so the no-op is observable.
State: epoch 1 has 1 ticket (alice).

Step 1: warp past epoch 1, retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) -> relay.ccipReceive -> VRF request -> VRF fulfils word 12345 -> relay.deliver(1) sends the reply (delivered[1] = true) but the reply is not executed on the wall (stalled leg); wall.settlementStatus(1) == Requested.

Step 2: warp +1 day, retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) again (allowed, fee paid, status stays Requested).

Step 3: the retry message is executed on the relay: relay.ccipReceive(epoch=1).

Expected: relay re-sends (1, 12345) to the wall (a new ccipSend, RandomnessDelivered emitted) so the wall can settle.

Actual: _deliver hits if (delivered[epoch]) return bytes32(0);, nothing is sent, the retrier's fee is gone and the epoch remains Requested.

Proof test test/scratch/RetryNoop.t.sol fails on the current code with 'retry must re-send the cached word to the wall: 3 != 4' and passes when the retry branch re-sends.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.20; import "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IMDRetroWall} from "contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol"; import {VrfCcipRelay} from "contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol"; import {Client, IRouterClient, IAny2EVMMessageReceiver} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkCCIP.sol"; import {VRFV2PlusClient, IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus, IVRFConsumerV2Plus} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkVRF.sol"; import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; /// @dev Plain 18-decimal ERC-20 standing in for NOTES. contract Notes is ERC20 { constructor() ERC20("NOTES", "NOTES") { _mint(msg.sender, 1_000_000e18); } } /// @dev Router test double that QUEUES messages instead of delivering them, so a /// test can leave one CCIP leg "stalled" and execute the others by hand. /// One instance plays the router on both chains. contract QueueRouter is IRouterClient { struct Queued { address receiver; uint64 sourceSelector; address sender; bytes data; } uint256 public constant FEE = 0.001 ether; mapping(address => uint64) public selectorOf; Queued[] public queue; function setSelector(address who, uint64 selector) external { selectorOf[who] = selector; } function count() external view returns (uint256) { return queue.length; } function getFee(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage memory) external pure returns (uint256) { return FEE; } function ccipSend(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage calldata message) external payable returns (bytes32) { require(msg.value >= FEE, "fee"); address receiver = abi.decode(message.receiver, (address)); queue.push(Queued(receiver, selectorOf[msg.sender], msg.sender, message.data)); return bytes32(queue.length); } /// @dev Execute queued message `i` on its receiver (the off-ramp's job). function exec(uint256 i) external { Queued memory q = queue[i]; IAny2EVMMessageReceiver(q.receiver).ccipReceive( Client.Any2EVMMessage({ messageId: bytes32(i + 1), sourceChainSelector: q.sourceSelector, sender: abi.encode(q.sender), data: q.data, destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0) }) ); } } contract QueueVRF is IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus { uint256 public next = 1; mapping(uint256 => address) public consumerOf; function requestRandomWords(VRFV2PlusClient.RandomWordsRequest calldata) external returns (uint256 id) { id = next++; consumerOf[id] = msg.sender; } function fulfill(uint256 id, uint256 word) external { uint256[] memory w = new uint256[](1); w[0] = word; IVRFConsumerV2Plus(consumerOf[id]).rawFulfillRandomWords(id, w); } } /// @title Retry after a stalled reply leg must re-send the cached word /// @notice Fails on the current code: once `delivered[epoch]` is true the relay's /// `ccipReceive` retry path returns silently, so the wall's /// SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY retry pays a CCIP fee for a no-op and the epoch /// stays `Requested` while the reply message is stuck. contract RetryNoopTest is Test { uint64 constant WALL_SEL = 1; uint64 constant RELAY_SEL = 2; Notes token; QueueRouter router; QueueVRF vrf; IMDRetroWall wall; VrfCcipRelay relay; address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address retrier = makeAddr("retrier"); function setUp() public { token = new Notes(); router = new QueueRouter(); vrf = new QueueVRF(); wall = new IMDRetroWall(token, address(router), RELAY_SEL); relay = new VrfCcipRelay(address(vrf), 1, bytes32(uint256(1)), address(router), WALL_SEL, address(wall)); wall.setRelay(address(relay)); router.setSelector(address(wall), WALL_SEL); router.setSelector(address(relay), RELAY_SEL); vm.deal(address(relay), 1 ether); vm.deal(retrier, 1 ether); token.transfer(alice, 10_000e18); vm.startPrank(alice); token.approve(address(wall), type(uint256).max); wall.stampNote("hello", "#ff0000", 1, 1, 0); vm.stopPrank(); } function test_retryAfterStalledReplyLegResendsWord() public { // Epoch 1 ends; request its settlement. vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.EPOCH_DURATION()); vm.prank(retrier); wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1); assertEq(router.count(), 1); // msg0: wall -> relay // Execute the request on the relay and fulfil VRF. router.exec(0); vrf.fulfill(1, 12345); assertTrue(relay.randomnessReady(1)); // Relay sends the word back (msg1: relay -> wall) ... and that leg stalls: // we never execute msg1 on the wall. relay.deliver(1); assertEq(router.count(), 2); assertTrue(relay.delivered(1)); assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Requested)); // After SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY the wall allows a retry, and the retrier pays the fee. vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY()); vm.prank(retrier); wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1); assertEq(router.count(), 3); // msg2: wall -> relay (the retry) // Execute the retry on the relay. Expected: the relay re-sends the cached // word (a new relay -> wall message). Actual on current code: silent no-op. router.exec(2); assertEq(router.count(), 4, "retry must re-send the cached word to the wall"); // Executing the re-sent message settles the epoch and pays alice. router.exec(3); assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Settled)); assertEq(wall.claimable(alice), 500e18); } }
lowccipReceive accepts a word for an epoch in state None (never requested), so a relay-side fault could settle a running epoch and strand every later stamp's pool sharecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:426
The settlement state machine is documented as None -> Requested -> Settled, and requestSettlement enforces epoch < currentEpoch() before anything is sent. ccipReceive, however, only rejects Settled; it accepts None.

The relay is trusted today and only ever echoes an epoch the wall asked for, so this is defence-in-depth rather than an exploit, but the consequence of a relay-side fault (bug, misconfigured pair, or a lane-level incident that replays a message with different data) is permanent: if a word arrives for the current epoch k while it is still running, the wall sets Settled, credits the prize accumulated so far, and zeroes epochPrize[k].

Every stampNote after that in epoch k still does epochPrize[k] += 500e18 and pushes a ticket, but requestSettlement(k) reverts EpochAlreadySettled and ccipReceive(k) reverts too, so those 500 NOTES per stamp are stranded forever (no sweep). The same gap means an epoch with tickets could be settled by a message that was never paid for by a requester.

Minimal fix: in ccipReceive require settlementStatus[epoch] == SettlementStatus.Requested (revert otherwise); this preserves the retry and duplicate-delivery behaviour because Requested is the only state in which a word is legitimately expected.
State: wall with relay set, epoch 2 is the current epoch, alice has stamped once in epoch 2 (epochPrize[2] = 500e18, settlementStatus[2] = None).

Input: the router executes a message with sourceChainSelector = RELAY_CHAIN_SELECTOR, sender = abi.encode(relay), data = abi.encode(2, 777).

Expected: revert, because epoch 2 was never requested (and has not ended).

Actual: settlementStatus[2] = Settled, claimable[alice] = 500e18, epochPrize[2] = 0.

Then bob stamps in epoch 2: epochPrize[2] = 500e18 again, ticketCount(2) = 2, but requestSettlement(2) after the epoch ends reverts EpochAlreadySettled(2) and no path can ever pay or recover that 500e18.
lowEPOCH_DURATION is 3 days but the contract NatSpec, FACTS.md and the testnet copy all state 7 dayscontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:133
The constant on line 134 is uint256 public constant EPOCH_DURATION = 3 days; and the live wall (0x9550E4F8...3EE3) reads back 3 days, but the NatSpec directly above it, the contract header comment (line 26, 'per 7-day epoch'), FACTS.md section 4 ('Epoch 7 hari ... EPOCH_DURATION = 7 days') and contracts/testnet/IMDRetroWallShortEpoch.sol line 2 ('instead of 7 days') all describe a 7-day epoch.

Because the epoch length fixes when stamps stop counting toward a prize and when requestSettlement becomes callable, anyone sizing their stamps or scheduling settlement from the documentation will be off by 4 days.

Fix: align the comments and docs with the deployed value (3 days) or, if 7 days was the intended economics, note that the deployed contract cannot be changed and document the discrepancy.
Read contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol lines 133-134: comment says 7 days, constant is 3 days.

On the live wall, GENESIS = 1792124930 (2026-10-16 04:28:50 UTC); EPOCH_DURATION() returns 259200, so epoch 1 ends 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC, whereas a reader of the NatSpec/FACTS expects 2026-10-23 04:28:50 UTC.

A user who stamps on 2026-10-20 expecting to enter the 'epoch 1' pool is in fact in epoch 2.
Audit permissionsAgent #1735found 1 medium, 2 low, 2 info
The review is complete. The findings file is at the repository root with five entries, and no contract or configuration file was modified.

Outcome. The cross-chain settlement core is sound. I found no integrity defect: no path lets a wrong caller, wrong lane, wrong sender, stale word, zero word, or replayed epoch settle or pay twice. The real issues are liveness and trust gaps that strand prize pools.

What I verified, in depth, with a scratch Foundry suite (test/scratch/, run in a mirrored workspace in /tmp since the repo has no Foundry config and I was not permitted to add one):

ccipReceive on the wall rejects non-router callers, the wrong selector and the wrong sender, and the Settled check blocks a second delivery. The relay's ccipReceive, rawFulfillRandomWords and deliver guards all revert as intended, first-word-wins holds, and delivered blocks replay.

requestSettlement enforces fee, the 1-day retry, and rejects epoch 0, the current epoch and settled epochs. At exactly the epoch boundary, stamps go to the new epoch and the old one becomes requestable, so no overlap.

ERC-165 returns true for 0x85572ffb and false, without reverting, for 0xffffffff and random ids on both contracts.

Conservation holds: the wall's only outflow is claimReward, bounded by claimable, which is only ever credited from epochPrize.

Findings written (severity, location):

Medium. No terminal fallback when settlement can never complete. The relay's subscription id is immutable, the wall's relay is one-shot, and there is no sweep or roll-over. The subscription owner EOA can cancel it or remove the consumer, and an unfulfilled VRF request (already observed on test pairs) has the same effect. Pools stay stranded while stamping keeps collecting. VrfCcipRelay.sol:42.

Low. stampNote works before setRelay, so on a fresh deployment the deployer picks the trusted word source after tickets and pool exist. Closed on the production pair, open for redeploys. IMDRetroWall.sol:323.

Low. Each daily retry fires a new paid VRF request while one is still pending, draining the native subscription. Scratch test shows six paid requests for one epoch. VrfCcipRelay.sol:123.

Info. The per-address stamp cap gives no sybil bound. Documented by the code already.

Info. The Hardhat suite does not exercise duplicate fulfilment or UnknownRequest. Both behave correctly in my scratch tests.

Not substantiated, left out. Whether the relay's cached-word retry path (getFee plus ccipSend inside the wall's 300k CCIP gas limit) fits on the real Base router could not be checked without a fork. If it runs out of gas the permissionless deliver(epoch) recovers it, so the impact would be a wasted retry fee. No proof files were attached since nothing reached high or critical.
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mediumNo terminal fallback for an epoch whose settlement can never complete: prize pools are stranded forever while stamping keeps collectingcontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:42
Settlement liveness rests on three things none of which the wall can replace: the relay's VRF SUBSCRIPTION_ID is immutable (VrfCcipRelay.sol:42, used at :128-139), the wall's relay is one-shot (IMDRetroWall.sol:298-304) and both routers are immutable. The VRF subscription is owned by the deployer EOA (RUNBOOK_PROD_SETTLEMENT.md: 'owner = wallet kita', consumer = relay).

The coordinator owner-only calls cancelSubscription(subId, to) or removeConsumer(subId, relay) make every requestRandomWords from the relay revert (InvalidSubscription / InvalidConsumer). The same end state is reached if Chainlink never fulfils a request (the stall already observed on test pairs r2/r4) or if the lane is retired.

In all of these cases the wall's state machine has only two transitions out of Requested: a CCIP delivery (impossible) or a retry after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY that re-sends the same doomed message (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378). There is no sweep, no roll-over of epochPrize into a later epoch, no pro-rata refund and no way to point the wall at a new relay, yet stampNote keeps accepting 1000 NOTES per ticket and adding 500 to pools that can never be paid.

ENTRY.md advertises the pair as having 'no owner' and the relay as 'ownerless'; the subscription owner is in fact a trusted liveness role.

Fix options (design decision for the requester): (a) document the subscription owner as a trusted role and transfer subscription ownership to a multisig or burn it to a contract that cannot cancel; (b) add a permissionless fallback on the wall, e.g. if settlementStatus[epoch] == Requested for more than N days, allow the pool to roll into the next open epoch or allow ticket holders to withdraw their 500-NOTES share pro rata; (c) let the relay be re-pointed to a new subscription by a permissionless path (e.g. anyone can set a new subId if the current one reverts).

Any of these must keep the one-winner / pull-claim design.
State: production relay 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA with SUBSCRIPTION_ID 51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776 owned by 0x380fbF99A903253E14b9EB797807B4B92cd4b019.

Input: the owner sends cancelSubscription(subId, owner) to the Base coordinator 0xd5D517aBE5cF79B7e95eC98dB0f0277788aFF634.

Then anyone calls wall.requestSettlement(2){value: fee} after epoch 2 ends with ticketCount(2) = 3 and epochPrize(2) = 1500e18.

Expected: the pool is eventually paid to one winner or becomes recoverable.

Actual: the wall stores settlementStatus[2] = Requested, the CCIP message executes on Base, relay.ccipReceive reverts in VRF_COORDINATOR.requestRandomWords (InvalidSubscription), the message is marked FAILED, every retry after 1 day repeats this at the caller's cost, epochPrize[2] stays 1500e18 forever, claimable is never credited, and stampNote keeps adding 500e18 per ticket to further unpayable epochs.

Scratch test test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_dead_subscription_strands_pool_forever reproduces this with a coordinator that reverts: after the failed request the wall holds 1000e18 NOTES, epochPrize(1) = 500e18, settlementStatus(1) = None and the only outflow (claimReward) reverts NothingToClaim.
lowstampNote accepts tickets and pool funds before setRelay, so the deployer selects the trusted randomness source after money is already at stakecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:323
stampNote (IMDRetroWall.sol:323-359) has no relay != address(0) precondition; only requestSettlement checks it (:370). setRelay (:298-304) lets DEPLOYER set any address on the Base selector as the sole accepted CCIP sender, and ccipReceive (:417-443) then trusts whatever (epoch, randomWord) that sender ships.

On a fresh deployment the deployer can wait until tickets and pools exist, then wire a contract they control instead of a VrfCcipRelay and send a chosen word, deterministically selecting the winner (index = word % ticketCount).

For the live production pair this window is closed (setRelay tx 0x3b7bb3b4...2828b928 points at the verified relay), so the impact today is limited to new deployments (test walls, redeploys), but it is a genuine permission gap in the trust model that ENTRY.md describes as 'ownerless'.

Fix while keeping the one-shot design: revert stampNote with RelayNotSet until relay is set, or pass the relay address to the constructor using a CREATE2-precomputed relay address so the pairing is fixed before the first ticket.
Fresh deployment of IMDRetroWall with relay unset.

Alice calls stampNote("hi","#aabbcc",1,1,0) paying 1000 NOTES; epochPrize(1) = 500e18, ticketCount(1) = 1.

Deployer calls setRelay(bob) where bob is any EOA/contract on Base.

After epoch 1 ends, a CCIP message from bob with data abi.encode(1, 0) executes ccipReceive.

Expected: tickets should only be sold once the randomness source is fixed, or the word must come from a VrfCcipRelay.

Actual: ccipReceive accepts the message (sender == relay), settles epoch 1 with winnerIndex 0 and credits 500e18 to tickets[0]. test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_stamp_before_setRelay_then_deployer_chooses_relay reproduces this: stamp succeeds with relay unset, setRelay(bob) succeeds, and a router-delivered message from bob credits claimable(alice) = 500e18.
lowEvery settlement retry fires a new paid VRF request while the previous one is still pending, draining the native subscriptioncontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:123
ccipReceive on the relay (VrfCcipRelay.sol:113-142) only short-circuits when the word has already arrived (randomnessReady[epoch]); it has no notion of 'request already in flight'. The wall allows anyone to re-request a Requested epoch every SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (1 day, IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378).

Each such retry costs the caller the Robinhood->Base CCIP fee (~0.000045 ETH per the runbook) but costs the relay's VRF subscription a full VRF v2.5 native-payment request (callback gas 200k x gas price + premium), which is an order of magnitude more.

With the production subscription holding 0.0008 ETH and VRF fulfilment already observed to stall for hours, a griefer (or an impatient honest user) re-requesting daily turns one stuck epoch into several paid requests; once the subscription is empty, requestRandomWords reverts InsufficientBalance and every subsequent wall message fails until someone tops up. First-word-wins (:152) keeps the result correct, so this is cost/liveness, not integrity.

Fix: track a pending request per epoch (e.g. mapping(uint256 => uint256) pendingRequestOf) and in ccipReceive return early (or only re-request after a relay-side timeout) when a request is in flight; alternatively let the wall's retry only re-send once the relay reports the word (not expressible cross-chain, so the relay-side guard is the practical fix).
State: epoch 1 has 1 ticket, epoch ended, relay funded, subscription funded.

Input: requestSettlement(1){value: fee} at T, then again at T+1d, T+2d, T+3d, T+4d, T+5d while VRF has not fulfilled.

Expected: at most one VRF request per epoch until a word arrives.

Actual: six requestRandomWords calls are made and paid by the subscription for the same epoch; test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests shows vrf.nextRequestId() going from 2 to 7, with the first fulfilled word (42, requestId 3) winning and the later one (43) dropped.
infoMAX_STAMPS_PER_EPOCH is a per-address cap and gives no ticket-concentration bound; sybil cost is linearcontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:341
The cap is keyed on stampsInEpoch[epoch][msg.sender] (IMDRetroWall.sol:340-341). A buyer who wants N > 5 tickets uses ceil(N/5) addresses (or a contract that implements onERC721Received and forwards from fresh clones).

Since the prize pool is exactly 500 NOTES per ticket and each ticket costs 1000 NOTES (500 burned), buying tickets is always a losing trade in expectation versus the pool, so there is no profitable attack on the lottery itself; the only effect is that the 'max 5 tickets per address' statement in ENTRY.md/README is not a security property. The contract's own NatSpec already documents this (:48-50). Reported as a documented trust/economic limit, not a defect.

If a per-epoch concentration bound is actually wanted, a global per-epoch ticket cap or a note-content/NFT-ownership-based limit would be needed; otherwise the docs should drop the implication that the cap limits sybils.
Input: five EOAs A1..A5 each call stampNote five times in epoch 1 (25 x 1000 NOTES).

Expected per the README framing: a single actor holds at most 5 tickets.

Actual: the actor holds 25 of the epoch's tickets; with one other honest ticket, winnerIndex = word % 26 gives the actor a 25/26 chance of the 13,000-NOTES pool (having spent 25,000 NOTES, 12,500 of which were burned).
infofirst-word-wins and UnknownRequest in rawFulfillRandomWords are untested by the Hardhat suitecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:152
test/IMDRetroWall.ts covers NotRouter/UnexpectedSourceChain/UnexpectedSender on both contracts, NotCoordinator, NotReady and InsufficientBalance (lines 462-520), but no test fulfils a second VRF request for an epoch that already has a word (VrfCcipRelay.sol:151-152, the branch that makes a wall retry safe) and no test fulfils an unknown requestId (:147-148, UnknownRequest). Both branches are the ones the task singles out for cross-chain settlement integrity.

I exercised them in a scratch Foundry suite (test/scratch/Guards.t.sol: test_relay_guards and test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests) and they behave as intended: an unknown id reverts UnknownRequest(99); with two requests for epoch 1, fulfilling requestId 3 with 42 then requestId 1 with 43 leaves randomnessOf(1) == 42 and the wall is paid exactly once. No defect; coverage gap only.
Change if (randomnessReady[epoch]) return; to if (false) return; and run npx hardhat test: expected a test to fail because a second fulfilment would overwrite the stored word; actual no test fulfils the same epoch twice, so the suite cannot detect it. Likewise deleting if (epoch == 0) revert UnknownRequest(requestId); is not caught because no test fulfils an unknown requestId.
Audit flowAgent #1042found 2 medium, 1 low, 2 info
The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds five substantiated findings, two of them with Foundry proofs that fail on the current code and pass with a minimal fix. No repository files were changed.

Assigned area, in the order the task listed

Wall ccipReceive: router, selector and sender checks are correct, the winner index, claimable credit and pull-based claimReward are sound, and a second delivery for a settled epoch reverts. Clean.

requestSettlement: the fee check, refund, and the None/Requested/Settled machine prevent double settlement and re-requests at the epoch boundary. Clean on its own, but the retry it exposes is broken on the relay side (below).

Relay: validation, first-word-wins, the UnknownRequest guard and permissionless deliver are correct. The retry path is where the defects are.

ERC-165: both contracts return true for 0x85572ffb and false, without reverting, for unknown ids and 0xffffffff. Clean.

Economics: 500/500 split, the per-address cap and the no-sweep stranding behave as documented.

Findings written

Medium, with proof. Once delivered[epoch] is set, the relay never re-sends the word. The wall's documented 1-day re-request reaches the relay, hits the cached-word branch, and silently returns zero. The epoch stays Requested with its pool locked, and the caller's CCIP fee is spent. Proof: test/scratch/RelayRetryNoRedeliver.t.sol.

Medium, with proof. The wall's CCIP_GAS_LIMIT of 300k is too small for the relay's retry path on live Base. Read-only RPC calls against the deployed relay show the cached-word path needs about 313k gas at entry and reverts with 300k, while the fresh VRF path needs about 97k. The Hardhat suite misses this because its mock router is nearly free. Proof: test/scratch/RelayRetryGasLimit.t.sol, calibrated to those measurements.

Low. Every re-request before the VRF word arrives issues another paid VRF request for the same epoch. Only the first word is used, so a fulfiller stall plus retries drains the subscription.

Info. The NatSpec and FACTS say 7-day epochs while the constant and the live wall are 3 days.

Info, trust assumption. Settlement liveness depends on the deployer-owned VRF subscription and immutable Chainlink parameters. Cancelling the subscription or a Chainlink retirement strands every future prize pool with no fallback.

Not verified: no end-to-end live settlement has happened on mainnet yet, so the production return leg was assessed from code plus gas simulation, not from an observed delivery.
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mediumRelay never re-sends a word once `delivered[epoch]` is set, so the wall's documented 1-day re-request cannot recover a sent-but-unexecuted delivery and only burns the caller's CCIP feecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:169
VrfCcipRelay._deliver sets delivered[epoch]=true the moment the Base->Robinhood CCIP message is handed to the router, and every later call (permissionless deliver() and, critically, the retry branch in ccipReceive at lines 123-125) returns bytes32(0) without sending.

The wall's only recovery mechanism for a stalled return leg is requestSettlement(epoch) after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378), which the README (section 4/5: 'lost message -> re-request after 1 day', 'the epoch stays Requested and retryable') and the contract NatSpec ('a settlement can be retried after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY') present as covering a lost or stalled message.

On the current code the retry reaches the relay, hits randomnessReady==true -> _deliver -> delivered==true -> no-op. The wall stays in SettlementStatus.Requested with epochPrize[epoch] locked (no sweep), and each retry costs the caller the full wall->relay CCIP fee plus gas for nothing. Only off-contract CCIP manual execution of the original delivery message can finish the epoch; the contracts themselves have no path.

Fix (preserves design): in ccipReceive, when randomnessReady[epoch] is true, always send (e.g. split _deliver into an idempotent public deliver() and an unconditional _send used by the wall-initiated retry). A duplicate that eventually arrives after the first one is harmless: the wall's ccipReceive reverts EpochAlreadySettled (IMDRetroWall.sol:426), so the epoch cannot be paid twice.
State: epoch 1 has 1 ticket; carol calls requestSettlement(1){value: fee} at T; relay requests VRF and receives word W (randomnessReady[1]=true); someone calls relay.deliver(1) -> ccipSend succeeds, delivered[1]=true, but the Base->Robinhood message is not executed on the wall (stalled lane / execution failure).

Input: at T+1 day carol calls wall.requestSettlement(1){value: fee} again.

Expected (per README and NatSpec): the relay re-sends (1, W) and the wall ends in settlementStatus(1)=Settled with claimable[winner]=500e18.

Actual: relay.ccipReceive -> _deliver returns bytes32(0); no RandomnessDelivered event; wall.settlementStatus(1) stays 1 (Requested); carol's fee is gone.

Proof: test/scratch/RelayRetryNoRedeliver.t.sol fails on the current code with 'epoch 1 must be Settled after the retry: 1 != 2' and passes when ccipReceive re-sends the cached word.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.20; import "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IMDRetroWall} from "contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol"; import {VrfCcipRelay} from "contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol"; import {MockVRFCoordinator} from "contracts/mocks/MockVRFCoordinator.sol"; import {Client, IRouterClient, IAny2EVMMessageReceiver} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkCCIP.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; /// @dev Minimal 18-decimal ERC-20 for the wall's payment token. contract TestToken { string public name = "NOTES"; string public symbol = "NOTES"; uint8 public constant decimals = 18; mapping(address => uint256) public balanceOf; mapping(address => mapping(address => uint256)) public allowance; function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { balanceOf[to] += amount; } function approve(address spender, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { allowance[msg.sender][spender] = amount; return true; } function transfer(address to, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { balanceOf[msg.sender] -= amount; balanceOf[to] += amount; return true; } function transferFrom(address from, address to, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { allowance[from][msg.sender] -= amount; balanceOf[from] -= amount; balanceOf[to] += amount; return true; } } /// @dev Synchronous CCIP router double. `dropToWall(n)` makes the next n /// messages addressed to `wallAddr` accepted (fee taken, messageId /// returned) but never executed on the destination: the CCIP equivalent /// of a message that is sent but not (yet) executed on the other chain. contract DroppingRouter is IRouterClient { uint256 public fee = 0.001 ether; uint256 public nonce; uint256 public dropsLeft; address public wallAddr; mapping(address => uint64) public selectorOf; function setSelector(address who, uint64 selector) external { selectorOf[who] = selector; } function dropToWall(address wall, uint256 n) external { wallAddr = wall; dropsLeft = n; } function getFee(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage memory) external view returns (uint256) { return fee; } function ccipSend(uint64 destSelector, Client.EVM2AnyMessage calldata message) external payable returns (bytes32 messageId) { require(msg.value >= fee, "fee"); address receiver = abi.decode(message.receiver, (address)); require(selectorOf[receiver] == destSelector, "no lane"); messageId = keccak256(abi.encode(++nonce, msg.sender, destSelector)); if (receiver == wallAddr && dropsLeft > 0) { dropsLeft--; return messageId; // sent, never executed on the destination } Client.Any2EVMMessage memory m = Client.Any2EVMMessage({ messageId: messageId, sourceChainSelector: selectorOf[msg.sender], sender: abi.encode(msg.sender), data: message.data, destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0) }); IAny2EVMMessageReceiver(receiver).ccipReceive(m); } } contract RelayRetryNoRedeliverTest is Test { uint64 constant ROBINHOOD_SEL = 6180753054346818345; uint64 constant BASE_SEL = 15971525489660198786; uint256 constant WORD = 0xC0FFEE; TestToken token; DroppingRouter router; MockVRFCoordinator vrf; IMDRetroWall wall; VrfCcipRelay relay; address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address carol = makeAddr("carol"); function setUp() public { token = new TestToken(); router = new DroppingRouter(); vrf = new MockVRFCoordinator(); wall = new IMDRetroWall(IERC20(address(token)), address(router), BASE_SEL); relay = new VrfCcipRelay(address(vrf), 1, bytes32(uint256(1)), address(router), ROBINHOOD_SEL, address(wall)); wall.setRelay(address(relay)); router.setSelector(address(wall), ROBINHOOD_SEL); router.setSelector(address(relay), BASE_SEL); vm.deal(address(relay), 1 ether); vm.deal(carol, 1 ether); token.mint(alice, 1000e18); vm.startPrank(alice); token.approve(address(wall), 1000e18); wall.stampNote("hello", "#ff0000", 1, 1, 0); vm.stopPrank(); } /// Scenario: the relay's first delivery of epoch 1's word is sent but never /// executed on the wall chain. After SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY the wall /// re-requests (README: "lost message -> re-request after 1 day"). Expected: /// the relay, which already holds the word, re-sends it and the wall /// settles. Actual: `delivered[1]` is already true, so `_deliver` returns /// bytes32(0), nothing is sent, the re-requester's CCIP fee is spent, and the /// epoch stays Requested with its 500-token pool locked in the wall. function test_wallRetryAfterSentButUnexecutedDeliveryRedeliversTheWord() public { vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.EPOCH_DURATION()); // epoch 1 ended uint256 fee = router.fee(); vm.prank(carol); wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1); assertEq(uint256(wall.settlementStatus(1)), 1, "Requested"); vrf.fulfill(1, WORD); assertTrue(relay.randomnessReady(1)); // First delivery leaves Base but is never executed on the wall chain. router.dropToWall(address(wall), 1); bytes32 firstId = relay.deliver(1); assertTrue(firstId != bytes32(0), "first delivery was sent"); assertTrue(relay.delivered(1)); assertEq(uint256(wall.settlementStatus(1)), 1, "still Requested: word never arrived"); // Wall-side retry after the documented delay. vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY()); vm.prank(carol); wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1); // Expected: the retry made the relay re-send the cached word and the // epoch is settled with the whole pool credited to the only ticket. assertEq(uint256(wall.settlementStatus(1)), 2, "epoch 1 must be Settled after the retry"); assertEq(wall.claimable(alice), 500e18, "pool credited to the winner"); } }
mediumCCIP_GAS_LIMIT = 300_000 is below what the relay's retry path (ccipReceive -> _deliver -> getFee + ccipSend) needs on live Base (~313k), so a wall re-request after a cached word always runs out of gascontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:145
The wall attaches EVMExtraArgsV2{gasLimit: CCIP_GAS_LIMIT} to its wall->relay message (line 393-395); the CCIP off-ramp executes VrfCcipRelay.ccipReceive with exactly that gas.

The relay's fresh-request path (VRF requestRandomWords) is cheap, but its retry path (randomnessReady==true -> _deliver -> CCIP_ROUTER.getFee + CCIP_ROUTER.ccipSend on the production Base router 0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD) was measured on live Base against the deployed relay 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA: eth_estimateGas with randomnessReady[1] overridden to true returns 337,035 for the full tx (~313k at function entry after the 21k intrinsic + 356-byte calldata), and eth_call with a 325,000 tx gas limit (~301k at entry) reverts, while the fresh-request path needs only 97,019.

So on the production lane the in-ccipReceive retry documented at VrfCcipRelay.sol:110-111 and README section 4 ('delivers a word that already arrived when the wall retries') cannot succeed: the message is marked FAILED on Base, the re-requester's fee is spent, and recovery depends on off-contract CCIP manual execution with a higher gas limit or on someone calling the permissionless deliver(epoch).

The Hardhat suite does not catch this because MockCCIPRouter's ccipSend costs almost nothing.

Fix: raise the wall's outbound gas limit (e.g. 500_000; needs a wall redeploy since it is a constant in an immutable contract) and/or keep the relay's ccipReceive retry path cheap (record a resend request and let deliver() send). This is independent of the delivered-flag finding: even with that fixed, the retry still runs out of gas at 300k.
Live, read-only, reproducible by anyone against Base mainnet: ROUTER=0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD RELAY=0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA; calldata = ccipReceive((bytes32 0x11..11, uint64 6180753054346818345, bytes abi.encode(0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3), bytes abi.encode(uint256 1), [])); state override {RELAY: {stateDiff: {keccak256(abi.encode(uint256(1), uint256(1))) = 0x..01}}} (slot of randomnessReady[1]).

(1) eth_estimateGas{from: ROUTER, to: RELAY, data} with the override -> 0x5248b = 337,035.

(2) eth_call with the same params plus gas: 0x4f588 (325,000) -> 'execution reverted'; with gas: 0x5248b -> success.

(3) eth_estimateGas without the override (fresh VRF request path) -> 0x17afb = 97,019.

Expected: the relay's retry path fits in the 300,000 gas the wall's CCIP message grants.

Actual: it needs ~313k and reverts at 300k, so every wall-side re-request for an epoch whose word is already cached fails on the relay.

Proof: test/scratch/RelayRetryGasLimit.t.sol uses a router double calibrated to those live numbers (285k burned in ccipSend) and executes the relay's retry path with exactly wall.CCIP_GAS_LIMIT() gas; it fails on the current code with 'relay retry path must fit in the wall's CCIP_GAS_LIMIT' and passes with CCIP_GAS_LIMIT raised to 500_000 (or with a relay retry path that does not call ccipSend inline).
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.20; import "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IMDRetroWall} from "contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol"; import {VrfCcipRelay} from "contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol"; import {MockVRFCoordinator} from "contracts/mocks/MockVRFCoordinator.sol"; import {Client, IRouterClient, IAny2EVMMessageReceiver} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkCCIP.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; /// @dev Minimal 18-decimal ERC-20 for the wall's payment token. contract TestToken { string public name = "NOTES"; string public symbol = "NOTES"; uint8 public constant decimals = 18; mapping(address => uint256) public balanceOf; mapping(address => mapping(address => uint256)) public allowance; function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { balanceOf[to] += amount; } function approve(address spender, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { allowance[msg.sender][spender] = amount; return true; } function transfer(address to, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { balanceOf[msg.sender] -= amount; balanceOf[to] += amount; return true; } function transferFrom(address from, address to, uint256 amount) external returns (bool) { allowance[from][msg.sender] -= amount; balanceOf[from] -= amount; balanceOf[to] += amount; return true; } } /// @dev CCIP router double whose `ccipSend` costs what the production Base /// router costs. Calibration (read-only JSON-RPC against Base mainnet, /// relay 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA, router /// 0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD, randomnessReady[1] overridden /// to true): eth_estimateGas for the relay's `ccipReceive` retry path = /// 337,035 for the transaction, i.e. ~313k at function entry; eth_call with /// a 325,000 tx limit (~301k at entry) reverts. The relay's own work in /// that path is ~30k, so the router's getFee+ccipSend account for ~283k. /// This double burns 285,000 gas in `ccipSend` to reproduce that cost. contract LiveCostRouter is IRouterClient { uint256 public constant SEND_COST = 285_000; uint256 public fee = 0.001 ether; uint256 public nonce; mapping(address => uint64) public selectorOf; function setSelector(address who, uint64 selector) external { selectorOf[who] = selector; } function getFee(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage memory) external view returns (uint256) { return fee; } function ccipSend(uint64 destSelector, Client.EVM2AnyMessage calldata message) external payable returns (bytes32 messageId) { uint256 start = gasleft(); require(msg.value >= fee, "fee"); address receiver = abi.decode(message.receiver, (address)); require(selectorOf[receiver] == destSelector, "no lane"); messageId = keccak256(abi.encode(++nonce, msg.sender, destSelector)); // Burn what the production router spends on fee quoting, nonce/sequence // bookkeeping, fee-token handling and the CCIPMessageSent event. while (start - gasleft() < SEND_COST) {} // Deliver synchronously (cheap, outside the measured budget of the sender). Client.Any2EVMMessage memory m = Client.Any2EVMMessage({ messageId: messageId, sourceChainSelector: selectorOf[msg.sender], sender: abi.encode(msg.sender), data: message.data, destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0) }); IAny2EVMMessageReceiver(receiver).ccipReceive(m); } } contract RelayRetryGasLimitTest is Test { uint64 constant ROBINHOOD_SEL = 6180753054346818345; uint64 constant BASE_SEL = 15971525489660198786; uint256 constant WORD = 0xC0FFEE; TestToken token; LiveCostRouter router; MockVRFCoordinator vrf; IMDRetroWall wall; VrfCcipRelay relay; address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address carol = makeAddr("carol"); function setUp() public { token = new TestToken(); router = new LiveCostRouter(); vrf = new MockVRFCoordinator(); wall = new IMDRetroWall(IERC20(address(token)), address(router), BASE_SEL); relay = new VrfCcipRelay(address(vrf), 1, bytes32(uint256(1)), address(router), ROBINHOOD_SEL, address(wall)); wall.setRelay(address(relay)); router.setSelector(address(wall), ROBINHOOD_SEL); router.setSelector(address(relay), BASE_SEL); vm.deal(address(relay), 1 ether); vm.deal(carol, 1 ether); token.mint(alice, 1000e18); vm.startPrank(alice); token.approve(address(wall), 1000e18); wall.stampNote("hello", "#ff0000", 1, 1, 0); vm.stopPrank(); } /// The wall attaches CCIP_GAS_LIMIT to its wall->relay message and the CCIP /// off-ramp executes relay.ccipReceive with exactly that much gas. When the /// word is already cached, ccipReceive takes the retry path (_deliver -> /// getFee + ccipSend). Expected: that path fits in the wall's limit, so the /// documented "retry delivers the cached word" works. Actual: it runs out of /// gas (the production router alone costs ~283k of the 300k). function test_relayRetryPathFitsInWallCcipGasLimit() public { vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.EPOCH_DURATION()); // epoch 1 ended // First request: the relay asks VRF (cheap path) and the word arrives, // but nobody calls deliver(). The wall stays Requested. vm.prank(carol); wall.requestSettlement{value: router.fee()}(1); vrf.fulfill(1, WORD); assertTrue(relay.randomnessReady(1)); assertEq(uint256(wall.settlementStatus(1)), 1, "Requested"); // The wall's retry message, executed on the relay with exactly the gas // the wall granted it. Client.Any2EVMMessage memory retry = Client.Any2EVMMessage({ messageId: bytes32(uint256(2)), sourceChainSelector: ROBINHOOD_SEL, sender: abi.encode(address(wall)), data: abi.encode(uint256(1)), destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0) }); uint256 grantedGas = wall.CCIP_GAS_LIMIT(); vm.prank(address(router)); (bool ok, ) = address(relay).call{gas: grantedGas}( abi.encodeCall(IAny2EVMMessageReceiver.ccipReceive, (retry)) ); assertTrue(ok, "relay retry path must fit in the wall's CCIP_GAS_LIMIT"); assertTrue(relay.delivered(1), "word was sent back to the wall"); assertEq(uint256(wall.settlementStatus(1)), 2, "epoch 1 settled by the retry"); assertEq(wall.claimable(alice), 500e18, "pool credited to the winner"); } }
lowEvery wall re-request before the VRF word has arrived issues a new paid VRF request for the same epoch; only the first word is used, the rest drain the subscriptioncontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:128
ccipReceive has no notion of 'request pending for this epoch'. If randomnessReady[epoch] is false it unconditionally calls requestRandomWords, even when an earlier request for the same epoch is still waiting for fulfillment (the FACTS/README record a multi-hour Chainlink fulfiller stall on the test pairs).

Each wall retry after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY therefore adds another paid VRF request (native payment from SUBSCRIPTION_ID, 0.0008 ETH funded at the time of writing); rawFulfillRandomWords discards every word after the first (line 152) but the subscription is charged for all of them.

A stalled fulfillment plus a couple of retries can empty the subscription so that later requestRandomWords calls revert with the coordinator's InsufficientBalance, which makes the wall->relay CCIP message fail on Base and leaves the epoch Requested until someone tops up and manually executes.

Fix: track a pending request per epoch (e.g. mapping epoch => requestId) and skip requestRandomWords when one is outstanding, or at least emit/expose the pending id so operators can tell the difference.
State: epoch 1 has tickets; relay subscription funded with 0.0008 ETH.

Input: requestSettlement(1) at T (relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idA)); Chainlink has not fulfilled idA by T+1 day; requestSettlement(1) again at T+1 day.

Expected: no second VRF charge for the same epoch.

Actual: relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idB), the subscription is charged for idB as well; when idA is fulfilled, randomnessReady[1]=true; when idB is fulfilled it is silently dropped (line 152) although it was paid for.

With MockVRFCoordinator this shows as nextRequestId advancing by 2 for one epoch.
infoNatSpec and internal docs state a 7-day epoch while EPOCH_DURATION is 3 days (the value deployed at 0x9550E4F8...3EE3)contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:134
Line 133 says 'One epoch lasts exactly 7 days' and line 26 of the contract header says 'per 7-day epoch', but the constant is 3 days and the live wall returns EPOCH_DURATION()=259200. FACTS.md section 4 ('EPOCH_DURATION = 7 days'), README line 3 ('weekly') and ENTRY.md ('weekly prize pool') repeat the 7-day figure while README section 3 and the RUNBOOK correctly say 3 days. The testnet copy (contracts/testnet/IMDRetroWallShortEpoch.sol:170) also says 'instead of 7 days'.

Anyone auditing the explorer-verified source will read a spec that contradicts the deployed behaviour.

Fix: correct the NatSpec/header to 3 days (or change the constant if 7 days was the intended production value, which would require a redeploy).
Read contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:133-134 (comment says 7 days, constant is 3 days) and call EPOCH_DURATION() on the production wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 (Robinhood 4663): returns 259200 (3 days), not 604800.

Expected: code comment, FACTS.md section 4, README/ENTRY 'weekly' wording and the constant agree.

Actual: they disagree.
infoTrust assumption: settlement liveness depends on an externally owned VRF subscription and immutable Chainlink parameters with no fallback path, so a single off-contract action strands every future pricontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:42
The relay has no owner, but settlement is not ownerless: VRF subscription 51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776 is owned by the deployer EOA 0x380fbF99A903253E14b9EB797807B4B92cd4b019 (FACTS section 1b). The coordinator, key hash and subscription id are immutable and there is no alternative settlement path on the wall (no fallback randomness, no deadline-based refund, no sweep).

Consequences: (a) if the subscription owner calls cancelSubscription or removeConsumer(relay) on coordinator 0xd5D517aBE5cF79B7e95eC98dB0f0277788aFF634, or (b) if Chainlink retires that coordinator/key hash or the CCIP lane, every future requestRandomWords reverts, every wall->relay message fails, and all epochPrize balances from then on are permanently locked in the wall (500 NOTES per stamp) while stamping keeps collecting them.

This is a documented-style trust assumption rather than a permission bypass, but it is not stated in the contract's trust-model section (lines 36-45) or README section 5, which say only that the relay 'has no owner and no pause'.

Fix: document it; optionally add a wall-side escape hatch that preserves the economics (e.g. after a long timeout with no WinnerDrawn, let ticket holders reclaim their pooled share pro rata, or allow a second relay to be configured by a timelocked process).
State: production pair as deployed.

Input: the subscription owner sends cancelSubscription(51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776, to) on the Base VRF coordinator.

Then any requestSettlement(E) on the wall (E >= 2 with tickets) marks the epoch Requested and the CCIP message to the relay fails on Base because requestRandomWords reverts (invalid subscription); 1-day retries fail the same way forever.

Expected: a documented way for the epoch's 500-NOTES-per-stamp pool to be settled or returned.

Actual: epochPrize[E] stays in the wall indefinitely and no function can move it.
Audit economicsAgent #1050found 4 low, 1 info
The review is complete. The findings file at the repository root holds five substantiated findings, all anchored to lines that validate against the tree. No file outside that one was changed and the scratch tests were removed.

Outcome: no critical or high defect in the cross-chain settlement path. The parts the task asked to check hardest hold up against the code and against live state:

ccipReceive on the wall checks router, lane selector and decoded sender before touching state, picks tickets[word % length], and credits a pull-based claimable. A Foundry evidence suite I ran locally confirmed the Requested/Settled machine blocks double settlement, re-request after settlement, and a forged second delivery, and a 256-run fuzz held the conservation law (wall token balance equals unsettled pools plus totalClaimable) across two epochs including the exact epoch-boundary second.

The relay's first-word-wins, UnknownRequest guard, NotReady and delivered replay guard behave as documented. deliver(epoch) cannot send a zero or stale word because the word is written together with the ready flag for that epoch only.

ERC-165 on both live contracts returns true for 0x85572ffb and 0x01ffc9a7 and false for 0xffffffff without reverting, read back from Robinhood and Base.

The economic constants match the docs: 1000 fee, 500 burn, 500 pool, cap of 5 per address per epoch.

Findings written (all low or info):

Gas headroom on the relay's inline retry delivery. Simulated through the real Base router from the lane's off-ramp, the cached-word branch succeeds using 295,318 of the 300,000 gas the wall fixes immutably, a 1.6% margin. Both constants are immutable, so any growth in the Chainlink fee path turns every re-request into a failed message and a lost fee. Nothing is stranded because deliver() is permissionless.

Production script never delivers. The relay stores a VRF word but never forwards it, and settle-prod.ts only polls for 24 hours, so the documented epoch-1 procedure ends in a timeout unless someone calls deliver(1) on Base by hand. The README's claim that the relay forwards automatically is wrong.

NatSpec says 7-day epochs; the constant and the live wall are 3 days.

Trust assumption not documented: the VRF subscription is owned by one EOA that can remove the relay as consumer or cancel the subscription, after which no settlement can ever complete and all future pools are stranded, because the subscription id and coordinator are immutable.

Info: a re-request before VRF fulfils creates a second paid VRF request whose word is discarded.

One correction worth knowing: my first standalone gas measurement suggested the retry path overran the budget. The faithful simulation disproved that, so the finding was downgraded to the headroom note before being reported.
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lowRelay's inline delivery retry runs with only ~1.6% gas headroom under the wall's fixed CCIP_GAS_LIMIT on the live Base lanecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:123
VrfCcipRelay.ccipReceive is executed by the Base off-ramp with exactly the gas the wall fixed in EVMExtraArgsV2 (IMDRetroWall.CCIP_GAS_LIMIT = 300_000, contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:145,394; an immutable constant on the deployed wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3). On the cached-word branch the handler performs a full CCIP_ROUTER.getFee + CCIP_ROUTER.ccipSend back to Robinhood.

Faithful read-only simulation at Base block 52672125 (cast call Router 0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD 'routeMessage(...)' --from the Robinhood-lane off-ramp 0xf09AFe78d3c7d359b334d7cB88995751F7eC5E13 with state overrides randomnessReady[1]=true, randomnessOf[1]=12345 and 1 ETH relay balance) returns success=true with gasUsed=295,318 for a 300,000 receiver gas limit: the path currently fits, with 4,682 gas (1.6%) of headroom.

The same branch measured as a standalone eth_call from the router (cold router) needs about 308k and fails at a 330,000 eth_call limit, which shows how close the budget is. The VRF-request branch uses 72,904 and is safe.

Because both constants are immutable on the deployed pair, any increase in the fee-quoter/on-ramp path (a CCIP lane upgrade, an extra price-feed or token-admin-registry read, a colder storage layout for a new sender) turns every wall re-request that should deliver a cached word into an out-of-gas revert inside the off-ramp: the CCIP message is recorded FAILED, delivered[epoch] stays false, the wall stays Requested and the re-request fee (quoted 45,108,291,718,149 wei on Robinhood) is lost.

Nothing is stranded, because deliver(epoch) is permissionless and CCIP manual execution with a gas override exists, but the mechanism the NatSpec (lines 19-20, 110-111) and README section 4 ('lost message -> re-request after 1 day') present as the recovery path has no safety margin.

Fix (requires a redeploy of the pair since the values are constants): size the wall->relay gas limit for the delivery branch with margin (e.g. 500_000, fee impact is a few percent of a ~0.000045 ETH message), or make the cached-word branch only emit/mark and leave sending to deliver(), documenting that delivery is a separate permissionless call.
State: wall has requested epoch E, relay has randomnessReady[E]=true and delivered[E]=false, 1 day has passed.

Input: anyone calls wall.requestSettlement(E) again with the quoted fee.

Current measured behaviour: Base off-ramp executes relay.ccipReceive with gasLimit 300,000 and the branch succeeds using 295,318 (simulation above).

Failing state: the same input when the Base fee path costs more than 4,682 additional gas (verifiable by re-running the routeMessage simulation after any CCIP router/on-ramp/fee-quoter change) -> _deliver reverts out of gas, routeMessage returns success=false, the message is marked FAILED, relay.delivered(E) stays false, wall.settlementStatus(E) stays 1 and the caller's fee is consumed.

Expected: a retry that the contracts and docs rely on should have a gas margin that does not depend on third-party gas costs staying within 1.6% of today's.
lowProduction settlement runbook and script rely on an automatic word forward that the contracts do not perform; settle-prod.ts never calls relay.deliver()scripts/settle-prod.ts:168
VrfCcipRelay.rawFulfillRandomWords (contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:145-157) only records the word; the only ways the word reaches the wall are a deliver(epoch) transaction on Base or a second wall requestSettlement(epoch) after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (1 day), whose relay-side ccipReceive then sends the cached word. scripts/settle-prod.ts sends requestSettlement(1) and then only polls randomnessReady(1)/delivered(1)/WinnerDrawn for 24 h; it never sends a Base transaction and never re-requests, so delivered(1) cannot become true from the script within the monitoring window, and the run ends with exit code 3 even when VRF fulfilled within minutes.

README section 6 states 'the relay forwards the word automatically with its existing CCIP ETH balance and the wall settles', which the code does not do, and the runbook's contingency table has no row for 'ready=true, delivered=false' other than waiting for the 1-day retry. The documented production procedure therefore cannot complete epoch 1 inside its own 24 h window and costs a second CCIP fee if the retry is used instead of deliver().

Fix: after randomnessReady(1) becomes true, have the script (or the operator) send relay.deliver(1) on Base, and correct README section 6 / the runbook to say delivery is a manual, permissionless call.
Run scripts/settle-prod.ts after 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC with 1 ticket in epoch 1 and let VRF fulfil.

Expected per README section 6: WinnerDrawn appears on the wall once VRF fulfils.

Actual: relay.randomnessReady(1) turns true, relay.delivered(1) stays false (no code path sets it without a deliver() or re-request transaction, and the script sends neither), the script prints 'ready=true delivered=false' every 30 s and exits with code 3 after 24 h; wall.settlementStatus(1) remains 1 until someone calls relay.deliver(1) or pays a second requestSettlement(1) after settlementRequestedAt(1)+1 day.
lowEPOCH_DURATION NatSpec says 7 days while the constant is 3 days (production wall is 3 days)contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:133
The contract-level NatSpec (line 26, 'per 7-day epoch') and the constant's own NatSpec (line 133) both say 7 days, but the compiled and deployed constant is 3 days (live wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 returns EPOCH_DURATION() = 259200 and currentEpoch() = 1 with GENESIS 1792124930). ENTRY.md line 4 and README line 3 still call the prize 'weekly'.

Integrators and the verifier reading the published source get the wrong epoch length, the wrong settlement window and the wrong rate at which per-address stamp caps reset.

Fix: change the two NatSpec lines (and the 'weekly' wording) to 3 days, or restore 7 days if that was the intended production value; the testnet copy's header comment ('instead of 7 days') should match too.
Input: read contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol lines 26 and 133 next to the deployed value.

Expected: NatSpec equals the constant.

Actual: NatSpec '7 days' vs EPOCH_DURATION = 3 days; cast call 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 'EPOCH_DURATION()(uint256)' --rpc-url https://rpc.mainnet.chain.robinhood.com returns 259200, and cast call ...

'timeUntilEpochEnd()' counts down to 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC, not 2026-10-23.
lowUndocumented trust assumption: the VRF subscription owner (a single EOA) can permanently disable all settlements because SUBSCRIPTION_ID and VRF_COORDINATOR are immutablecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:42
The wall and relay are ownerless after setRelay, and README sections 1 and 5 state there is 'no owner, no pause' and that a stalled leg only 'delays (never destroys) a prize'.

The VRF leg, however, depends on a Chainlink subscription that is owned by the deployer EOA 0x380fbF99A903253E14b9EB797807B4B92cd4b019 (live getSubscription on coordinator 0xd5D517aBE5cF79B7e95eC98dB0f0277788aFF634 for sub 51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776: owner = that EOA, consumers = [relay]). The subscription owner can call removeConsumer(subId, relay) or cancelSubscription(subId, to) at any time.

After that, VRF_COORDINATOR.requestRandomWords in ccipReceive (line 128) reverts (InvalidConsumer / InvalidSubscription), every wall->relay CCIP message lands FAILED, and because SUBSCRIPTION_ID, VRF_COORDINATOR and KEY_HASH are immutable with no setter, no one (including the deployer) can repair the relay; every epoch with tickets stays Requested forever and its prize pool (500 NOTES per stamp) is stranded on the wall, which has no sweep.

Nothing unprivileged amplifies this, so it is reported as a trust assumption, not an exploit: the 'ownerless' claim should be qualified in the README/NatSpec, and the subscription should be moved to a contract or multisig that cannot unilaterally cancel (or a documented recovery such as the relay being able to request on a replacement subscription) before the system holds material pools.
State: live pair as deployed.

Action by the subscription owner EOA: coordinator.removeConsumer(51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776, 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA).

Then anyone calls wall.requestSettlement(E) for an ended epoch with tickets.

Expected per README section 5: the stall only delays the prize.

Actual: relay.ccipReceive reverts in requestRandomWords, the CCIP message is FAILED, every re-request after 1 day fails the same way, wall.settlementStatus(E) stays 1 and epochPrize(E) can never be credited to claimable; there is no function on either contract to change the subscription, coordinator or relay.
infoA re-request before VRF fulfils creates a second paid VRF request for the same epoch; the duplicate word is discarded but the subscription pays for bothcontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:128
ccipReceive only short-circuits when randomnessReady[epoch] is already true.

If the wall re-requests an epoch after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY while the first VRF request is still pending (the fulfiller stall documented in README section 6 lasted hours), the relay makes another requestRandomWords on the same subscription. rawFulfillRandomWords keeps the first word and silently drops the second (lines 152), but the coordinator charges the subscription the premium plus callback gas for each fulfilment.

Any address can trigger this once per day per pending epoch for the price of the Robinhood->Base CCIP fee (quoted 45,108,291,718,149 wei), draining the 0.0008 ETH native subscription balance faster than planned and, if it runs dry, leaving every pending request unfulfilled until someone tops up. Bounded and cheap to recover (fundSubscriptionWithNative is permissionless), so informational.

Fix: track a pending request per epoch (e.g. mapping epoch -> requestId) and return early when one is outstanding, or accept and document the cost.
State: epoch E requested, relay emitted RandomnessRequested(E, r1), VRF not yet fulfilled.

Input: after settlementRequestedAt(E)+1 day anyone calls wall.requestSettlement(E) with the quoted fee.

Expected: no new VRF request while r1 is pending.

Actual: relay emits RandomnessRequested(E, r2); both r1 and r2 are later fulfilled and charged to the subscription; the word from r2 is ignored by the 'if (randomnessReady[epoch]) return;' branch.
Audit judgeAgent #1457found 2 medium, 5 low, 2 info
Review complete. The judged findings are in .imd-findings.json (9 findings, 1 proof), and no repository file outside test/scratch/ was changed.

Kept, merged and reproduced

Medium: relay retry is a no-op once delivered[epoch] is set. Two specialists reported this and both proofs fail on the current code. I attached the queue-router proof; it fails here and passes against a fixed copy of the relay I built under test/scratch/. The wall's documented 1-day re-request burns the caller's fee and cannot recover a sent-but-unexecuted reply.

Medium: settlement liveness hangs on an externally owned VRF subscription with no fallback. Three specialists at three severities. Kept as a trust-assumption finding, because it contradicts the "no owner, delays never destroys" claims and permanently strands every future pool while stamping continues. Reproduced locally with a reverting coordinator.

Low: CCIP gas limit headroom. The two specialists contradicted each other. I re-ran the faithful simulation through the live Base router from the lane's off-ramp. The retry path succeeds at 300k using 295,318 gas and fails at 290k. The "always reverts" medium claim and its calibrated-router proof were dropped. The 1.6% margin finding stands.

Low: duplicate paid VRF requests on retry before fulfilment (three reports merged, reproduced with the mock coordinator).

Low: wall accepts a word for a None-state epoch (reproduced: a running epoch settles and later stamps' shares become unrecoverable).

Low: settle-prod.ts never calls deliver() while the README says the relay forwards automatically.

Low: 7-day NatSpec versus 3-day constant (three reports merged, verified in source and docs).

Info: stamping before setRelay and info: untested first-word-wins / UnknownRequest branches.

Dropped

The sybil note on MAX_STAMPS_PER_EPOCH. It is accurate but already documented in the contract NatSpec and README, and the specialist itself marked it as not a defect.

Verified clean for the task's checklist

ERC-165 on both contracts returns false for unknown ids and 0xffffffff without reverting, the exact-fee and retry-delay boundaries behave as specified, and double settlement is blocked in both directions. The live relay balance of 0.0005 ETH covers the current 0.0000654 ETH return fee for roughly seven deliveries.
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mediumRelay never re-sends a cached word once delivered[epoch] is set, so the wall's 1-day re-request cannot recover a sent-but-unexecuted delivery and only burns the caller's CCIP feecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:169
VrfCcipRelay._deliver sets delivered[epoch]=true the moment the Base->Robinhood message is handed to the router (line 170) and returns bytes32(0) without sending on every later call.

The retry branch of ccipReceive (lines 123-125) goes through the same _deliver, so the wall-initiated retry that IMDRetroWall.requestSettlement allows after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378), and that the wall NatSpec (lines 53-54, 139-141), the relay NatSpec (lines 19-20, 110-111) and README section 4/5 ('lost message -> re-request after 1 day', 'the epoch stays Requested and retryable') present as the recovery for a lost or stalled CCIP message, is a silent no-op in exactly the case it exists for: a reply that left Base (deliver() or an earlier retry) but was never executed on the wall.

The wall still charges the full Robinhood->Base fee (msg.value >= fee enforced, only the excess refunded), bumps settlementRequestedAt so the next retry is another day away, and stays in Requested with epochPrize[epoch] locked (no sweep). deliver(epoch) is blocked by the same flag, so the contracts have no path left; only off-contract CCIP manual execution of the original reply can finish the epoch.

Re-sending is safe because the wall rejects a duplicate with EpochAlreadySettled (IMDRetroWall.sol:426). Merged from two specialists (audit_flow e66a6230, audit_math 1977eb8c); both proofs fail on the current code for the stated reason.

Minimal fix that keeps the design: in the ccipReceive retry branch re-send the cached word regardless of delivered[epoch] (e.g. a private _send(epoch) without the flag check, keeping deliver() idempotent for unsolicited callers), optionally emitting an event when a retry is dropped.
State: epoch 1 has 1 ticket (alice).

Step 1: warp past epoch 1; retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1); the relay requests VRF, VRF fulfils word 12345, relay.deliver(1) sends the reply (delivered[1]=true) but the reply is not executed on the wall; wall.settlementStatus(1)==Requested.

Step 2: warp +SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (1 day); retrier calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) again (accepted, fee taken).

Step 3: the retry message executes on the relay (relay.ccipReceive with data abi.encode(1)).

Expected: a new relay->wall ccipSend carrying (1, 12345) and RandomnessDelivered, after which the wall settles with claimable[alice]=500e18.

Actual: _deliver hits if (delivered[epoch]) return bytes32(0);, no message is sent, no event, the retrier's fee is gone, the epoch stays Requested.

Reproduced with forge: test/scratch/RetryNoop.t.sol fails with 'retry must re-send the cached word to the wall: 3 != 4' and test/scratch/RelayRetryNoRedeliver.t.sol (the other specialist's proof) fails with 'epoch 1 must be Settled after the retry: 1 != 2'.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.20; import "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IMDRetroWall} from "contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol"; import {VrfCcipRelay} from "contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol"; import {Client, IRouterClient, IAny2EVMMessageReceiver} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkCCIP.sol"; import {VRFV2PlusClient, IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus, IVRFConsumerV2Plus} from "contracts/interfaces/ChainlinkVRF.sol"; import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; /// @dev Plain 18-decimal ERC-20 standing in for NOTES. contract Notes is ERC20 { constructor() ERC20("NOTES", "NOTES") { _mint(msg.sender, 1_000_000e18); } } /// @dev Router test double that QUEUES messages instead of delivering them, so a /// test can leave one CCIP leg "stalled" and execute the others by hand. /// One instance plays the router on both chains. contract QueueRouter is IRouterClient { struct Queued { address receiver; uint64 sourceSelector; address sender; bytes data; } uint256 public constant FEE = 0.001 ether; mapping(address => uint64) public selectorOf; Queued[] public queue; function setSelector(address who, uint64 selector) external { selectorOf[who] = selector; } function count() external view returns (uint256) { return queue.length; } function getFee(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage memory) external pure returns (uint256) { return FEE; } function ccipSend(uint64, Client.EVM2AnyMessage calldata message) external payable returns (bytes32) { require(msg.value >= FEE, "fee"); address receiver = abi.decode(message.receiver, (address)); queue.push(Queued(receiver, selectorOf[msg.sender], msg.sender, message.data)); return bytes32(queue.length); } /// @dev Execute queued message `i` on its receiver (the off-ramp's job). function exec(uint256 i) external { Queued memory q = queue[i]; IAny2EVMMessageReceiver(q.receiver).ccipReceive( Client.Any2EVMMessage({ messageId: bytes32(i + 1), sourceChainSelector: q.sourceSelector, sender: abi.encode(q.sender), data: q.data, destTokenAmounts: new Client.EVMTokenAmount[](0) }) ); } } contract QueueVRF is IVRFCoordinatorV2Plus { uint256 public next = 1; mapping(uint256 => address) public consumerOf; function requestRandomWords(VRFV2PlusClient.RandomWordsRequest calldata) external returns (uint256 id) { id = next++; consumerOf[id] = msg.sender; } function fulfill(uint256 id, uint256 word) external { uint256[] memory w = new uint256[](1); w[0] = word; IVRFConsumerV2Plus(consumerOf[id]).rawFulfillRandomWords(id, w); } } /// @title Retry after a stalled reply leg must re-send the cached word /// @notice Fails on the current code: once `delivered[epoch]` is true the relay's /// `ccipReceive` retry path returns silently, so the wall's /// SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY retry pays a CCIP fee for a no-op and the epoch /// stays `Requested` while the reply message is stuck. contract RetryNoopTest is Test { uint64 constant WALL_SEL = 1; uint64 constant RELAY_SEL = 2; Notes token; QueueRouter router; QueueVRF vrf; IMDRetroWall wall; VrfCcipRelay relay; address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address retrier = makeAddr("retrier"); function setUp() public { token = new Notes(); router = new QueueRouter(); vrf = new QueueVRF(); wall = new IMDRetroWall(token, address(router), RELAY_SEL); relay = new VrfCcipRelay(address(vrf), 1, bytes32(uint256(1)), address(router), WALL_SEL, address(wall)); wall.setRelay(address(relay)); router.setSelector(address(wall), WALL_SEL); router.setSelector(address(relay), RELAY_SEL); vm.deal(address(relay), 1 ether); vm.deal(retrier, 1 ether); token.transfer(alice, 10_000e18); vm.startPrank(alice); token.approve(address(wall), type(uint256).max); wall.stampNote("hello", "#ff0000", 1, 1, 0); vm.stopPrank(); } function test_retryAfterStalledReplyLegResendsWord() public { // Epoch 1 ends; request its settlement. vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.EPOCH_DURATION()); vm.prank(retrier); wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1); assertEq(router.count(), 1); // msg0: wall -> relay // Execute the request on the relay and fulfil VRF. router.exec(0); vrf.fulfill(1, 12345); assertTrue(relay.randomnessReady(1)); // Relay sends the word back (msg1: relay -> wall) ... and that leg stalls: // we never execute msg1 on the wall. relay.deliver(1); assertEq(router.count(), 2); assertTrue(relay.delivered(1)); assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Requested)); // After SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY the wall allows a retry, and the retrier pays the fee. vm.warp(block.timestamp + wall.SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY()); vm.prank(retrier); wall.requestSettlement{value: router.FEE()}(1); assertEq(router.count(), 3); // msg2: wall -> relay (the retry) // Execute the retry on the relay. Expected: the relay re-sends the cached // word (a new relay -> wall message). Actual on current code: silent no-op. router.exec(2); assertEq(router.count(), 4, "retry must re-send the cached word to the wall"); // Executing the re-sent message settles the epoch and pays alice. router.exec(3); assertEq(uint8(wall.settlementStatus(1)), uint8(IMDRetroWall.SettlementStatus.Settled)); assertEq(wall.claimable(alice), 500e18); } }
mediumSettlement liveness depends on an externally owned VRF subscription and immutable Chainlink parameters with no fallback, so one off-contract action strands every future prize pool while stamping keepscontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:42
Trust assumption, not a permission bypass, reported because it is material and contradicts the stated trust model. The relay has no owner, but VRF_COORDINATOR, KEY_HASH and SUBSCRIPTION_ID are immutable with no setter, the wall's relay is one-shot (IMDRetroWall.sol:298-304) and both routers are immutable.

The production subscription (id 51441836222580451052993458818119349024779142164800689033215217746100047214776 per FACTS/RUNBOOK) is owned by the deployer EOA 0x380fbF99A903253E14b9EB797807B4B92cd4b019; that owner can call cancelSubscription or removeConsumer(relay) on the Base coordinator at any time, after which VRF_COORDINATOR.requestRandomWords at line 128 reverts for every epoch, every wall->relay CCIP message lands FAILED on Base, and every 1-day retry repeats the failure at the retrier's cost.

The same terminal state follows if Chainlink retires the coordinator, key hash or lane, or never fulfils. The wall's state machine has only two exits from Requested, a delivery (now impossible) or a retry of the same doomed request; there is no sweep, no roll-over of epochPrize, no pro-rata refund and no way to re-point the wall or the relay, yet stampNote keeps taking 1000 NOTES per ticket and adding 500 to pools that can never be paid.

README sections 1 and 5 ('no owner, no pause', a stalled CCIP/VRF leg 'delays (never destroys) a prize') and the relay NatSpec trust-model section (lines 22-27) do not mention this liveness role. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow c4bcccc4, audit_economics 9ab0bad5, audit_permissions 289f39e4).

Fix options are a design decision for the requester: document the subscription owner as a trusted liveness role and move the subscription to a multisig or non-cancelling contract; and/or add a permissionless wall-side escape hatch that preserves the one-winner design (e.g. after a long timeout in Requested, roll the pool into the next open epoch or let ticket holders reclaim their 500-NOTES share pro rata).
State: production pair as deployed.

Input: the subscription owner sends removeConsumer(subId, 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA) or cancelSubscription(subId, to) on the Base coordinator 0xd5D517aBE5cF79B7e95eC98dB0f0277788aFF634.

Then anyone calls wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(E) for an ended epoch E with tickets.

Expected per README section 5: the stall only delays the prize.

Actual: the wall marks E Requested and takes the fee; relay.ccipReceive reverts inside requestRandomWords; the CCIP message is FAILED; every retry after 1 day fails identically; epochPrize[E] stays in the wall forever and no function on either contract can move it or change the subscription, coordinator or relay.

Reproduced locally in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_dead_subscription_strands_pool: with a coordinator that reverts InvalidSubscription, the router-delivered request to relay.ccipReceive reverts, relay.deliver(1) reverts NotReady(1), and the wall has no other path out of Requested.
lowCCIP_GAS_LIMIT = 300_000 leaves the relay's cached-word retry path (ccipReceive -> _deliver -> getFee + ccipSend) only ~4.7k gas (1.6%) of headroom on the live Base lanecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:145
The wall fixes the gas the Base off-ramp grants relay.ccipReceive via EVMExtraArgsV2{gasLimit: CCIP_GAS_LIMIT} (line 394). The fresh-request branch is cheap, but the retry branch performs a full CCIP_ROUTER.getFee + CCIP_ROUTER.ccipSend on the production Base router.

Two specialists disagreed: audit_flow fc97fcee claimed (from an eth_estimateGas of a cold call from the router) that the branch needs ~313k and always reverts, while audit_economics cc27ad46 claimed it fits with 295,318 gas.

I re-ran the faithful simulation (Router.routeMessage from the lane's off-ramp, which is how the message is really executed): the branch succeeds at a 300,000 gas limit using 295,318 gas and fails at 290,000, so the 'always out of gas' claim does not reproduce and its proof (a router double hard-coded to burn 285k) proves nothing about the real router; it is dropped.

What remains is that both constants are immutable on the deployed pair and the recovery mechanism the NatSpec and README section 4 rely on has no safety margin against any increase in Chainlink's on-ramp/fee-quoter cost (a lane upgrade, an extra registry read, colder storage for a new sender).

When that happens, every wall re-request for an epoch whose word is cached runs out of gas inside the off-ramp: the message is marked FAILED, delivered[epoch] stays false, the wall stays Requested and the re-requester's fee is lost. Nothing is stranded because deliver(epoch) is permissionless and CCIP manual execution with a gas override exists.

Fix (needs a redeploy because the value is a constant): size the wall->relay gas limit for the delivery branch with margin (e.g. 500_000; the fee impact is a small fraction of a ~0.000045 ETH message), or make the relay's retry branch only mark/emit and leave sending to deliver().
Read-only, reproducible by anyone against Base mainnet with cast: cast call --rpc-url https://mainnet.base.org --from 0xf09AFe78d3c7d359b334d7cB88995751F7eC5E13 --override-balance 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:1000000000000000000 --override-state-diff 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:0xcc69885fda6bcc1a4ace058b4a62bf5e179ea78fd58a1ccd71c22cc9b688792f:0x01,0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA:0xe90b7bceb6e7df5418fb78d8ee546e97c83a08bbccc01a0644d599ccd2a7c2e0:0x3039 0x881e3A65B4d4a04dD529061dd0071cf975F58bCD 'routeMessage((bytes32,uint64,bytes,bytes,(address,uint256)[]),uint16,uint256,address)(bool,bytes,uint256)' '(0x11..11,6180753054346818345,<abi.encode(wall)>,<abi.encode(1)>,[])' 5000 <gasLimit> 0x887bbed753938087Ce61Ca768a358848177E6eaA (the two slots are randomnessReady[1] and randomnessOf[1]; 0xf09A...5E13 is confirmed by router.isOffRamp(6180753054346818345, addr) == true).

Results on 2026-10-16: gasLimit 300000 -> success=true, gasUsed=295318; gasLimit 290000 -> success=false, gasUsed=286358; gasLimit 280000 -> success=false.

Expected: a documented recovery path should fit its fixed gas budget with margin.

Actual: it fits with 4,682 gas to spare, and any increase of the router/on-ramp cost beyond that turns every cached-word retry into a FAILED message with the fee consumed.
lowEvery wall re-request before the VRF word has arrived issues another paid VRF request for the same epoch; only the first word is used, the rest drain the subscriptioncontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:128
ccipReceive only short-circuits when randomnessReady[epoch] is already true; it has no notion of a request already in flight for the epoch. The wall lets anyone re-request a Requested epoch every SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY (IMDRetroWall.sol:375-378).

While fulfilment is pending (README section 6 and RUNBOOK record multi-hour Chainlink fulfiller stalls on the test pairs) each retry costs the caller only the Robinhood->Base CCIP fee but charges the relay's native subscription a full VRF v2.5 request (premium plus up to CALLBACK_GAS_LIMIT callback gas). rawFulfillRandomWords keeps the first word and discards every later one at line 152, so correctness holds, but the subscription (0.0008 ETH funded at the time of writing) pays for each discarded word; once it runs dry requestRandomWords reverts InsufficientBalance, every wall->relay message fails on Base and the epoch stays Requested until someone tops up via the coordinator.

Bounded (one extra request per day per pending epoch) and recoverable, so low. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow 747910de, audit_economics d53c62d7, audit_permissions d05350d7).

Fix: track a pending request per epoch (e.g. mapping(uint256 => uint256) pendingRequestOf) and return early in ccipReceive when one is outstanding, optionally allowing a fresh request only after a relay-side timeout.
State: epoch 1 has one ticket, the epoch has ended, relay and subscription funded.

Input: wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) at T (relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idA)); VRF does not fulfil; wall.requestSettlement{value: fee}(1) again at T+1 day.

Expected: no second VRF charge for the same epoch.

Actual: relay emits RandomnessRequested(1, idB) and the subscription pays for both; when both are fulfilled the second word is dropped.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests with MockVRFCoordinator: nextRequestId goes 2 -> 3 after the retry; fulfilling request 2 with 42 then request 1 with 43 leaves randomnessOf(1) == 42.
lowWall ccipReceive accepts a word for an epoch in state None, so a relay-side fault can settle a running epoch and strand every later stamp's pool sharecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:426
The settlement machine is documented as None -> Requested -> Settled and requestSettlement enforces epoch < currentEpoch() before anything is sent, but ccipReceive only rejects Settled and accepts None, including the current epoch.

Today the relay is trusted and only echoes epochs the wall asked for, so this is defence in depth, but the consequence of a relay-side fault (bug, misconfigured pair, replayed message with different data) is permanent: a word for the running epoch k sets Settled, credits the prize accumulated so far and zeroes epochPrize[k]; every stampNote after that in epoch k still adds 500 NOTES to epochPrize[k] and a ticket, yet requestSettlement(k) and ccipReceive(k) both revert EpochAlreadySettled, so those pool shares are stranded forever (no sweep).

From audit_math f3aae7d1.

Minimal fix: in ccipReceive require settlementStatus[epoch] == SettlementStatus.Requested; Requested is the only state in which a word is legitimately expected, so retries and duplicate deliveries keep working.
State: relay set, epoch 1 is the current epoch, alice has stamped once (epochPrize[1]=500e18, settlementStatus[1]=None).

Input: the router executes a message with sourceChainSelector=RELAY_CHAIN_SELECTOR, sender=abi.encode(relay), data=abi.encode(1, 777).

Expected: revert, epoch 1 was never requested and has not ended.

Actual: settlementStatus[1]=Settled, claimable[alice]=500e18, epochPrize[1]=0.

Then bob stamps in epoch 1: epochPrize[1]=500e18, ticketCount(1)=2; after the epoch ends requestSettlement(1) reverts EpochAlreadySettled(1) and a second ccipReceive(1) reverts the same way, so bob's 500e18 can never be paid or recovered.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_none_state_epoch_can_be_settled_while_running.
lowProduction settlement script and README rely on an automatic word forward that the contracts do not perform; settle-prod.ts never calls relay.deliver()scripts/settle-prod.ts:168
VrfCcipRelay.rawFulfillRandomWords (contracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:145-157) only records the word.

The only ways the word reaches the wall are a deliver(epoch) transaction on Base or a second wall requestSettlement(epoch) after SETTLEMENT_RETRY_DELAY. scripts/settle-prod.ts sends requestSettlement(1) and then only polls randomnessReady(1)/delivered(1) and the wall's WinnerDrawn log for 24 h (lines 145-169); it never sends a Base transaction and never re-requests, so delivered(1) cannot become true from the script and the run ends with exit code 3 even when VRF fulfilled within minutes.

README section 6 (line 290) states 'the relay forwards the word automatically with its existing CCIP ETH balance and the wall settles', which the code does not do, and the runbook's contingency table has no row for ready=true, delivered=false other than waiting for the 1-day retry. The documented procedure therefore cannot complete epoch 1 inside its own window and costs a second CCIP fee if the retry is used instead of deliver(). From audit_economics 7bc1224b.

Fix: once randomnessReady(1) is true have the script (or operator) send relay.deliver(1) on Base, and correct README section 6 and the runbook to say delivery is a separate, permissionless call.
Run scripts/settle-prod.ts after 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC with 1 ticket in epoch 1 and let VRF fulfil.

Expected per README line 290: WinnerDrawn appears on the wall once VRF fulfils.

Actual: relay.randomnessReady(1) turns true, relay.delivered(1) stays false (no code path in VrfCcipRelay sets it without a deliver() or wall re-request, and grep of the script shows 'deliver' only as a read at lines 137/146/165), the script prints 'ready=true delivered=false' every 30 s and exits with code 3 at line 168-169 after 24 h; wall.settlementStatus(1) stays Requested until someone calls relay.deliver(1) or pays a second requestSettlement(1) after settlementRequestedAt(1)+1 day.
lowEPOCH_DURATION NatSpec, contract header, FACTS.md and the testnet copy say 7 days while the constant and the deployed wall are 3 dayscontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:133
Line 133 says 'One epoch lasts exactly 7 days' and the header at line 26 says 'per 7-day epoch', but line 134 is uint256 public constant EPOCH_DURATION = 3 days; and the production wall 0x9550E4F888d1C084CB1C8E74677Da54109723EE3 returns EPOCH_DURATION()=259200.

FACTS.md line 107 ('EPOCH_DURATION = 7 days'), README line 3 and ENTRY.md line 4 ('weekly') and contracts/testnet/IMDRetroWallShortEpoch.sol line 3 ('instead of 7 days') repeat the 7-day figure, while README section 3, FACTS line 26 and the RUNBOOK correctly say 3 days.

The epoch length fixes when a stamp stops counting toward a prize, when per-address caps reset and when requestSettlement becomes callable, so anyone reading the explorer-verified source or the docs will be off by four days. Merged from three specialists (audit_flow bbe08591, audit_economics cb59dae3, audit_math 8416c58b).

Fix: correct the NatSpec, header and docs to 3 days (or, if 7 days was intended, note that the deployed contract cannot change and document the discrepancy).
Read contracts/IMDRetroWall.sol lines 26, 133 and 134 side by side: the comments say 7 days, the constant is 3 days.

On the live wall GENESIS=1792124930 (2026-10-16 04:28:50 UTC) and EPOCH_DURATION()=259200, so epoch 1 ends 2026-10-19 04:28:50 UTC, whereas a reader of the NatSpec expects 2026-10-23 04:28:50 UTC; a user who stamps on 2026-10-20 expecting the epoch-1 pool is in epoch 2.

Expected: comment, docs and constant agree.

Actual: they disagree.
infostampNote accepts tickets and pool funds before setRelay, so the deployer selects the trusted randomness source after money is already at stakecontracts/IMDRetroWall.sol:323
stampNote (lines 323-359) has no relay != address(0) precondition; only requestSettlement checks RelayNotSet (line 370). setRelay (lines 298-304) lets DEPLOYER set any address on the Base selector as the sole accepted CCIP sender and ccipReceive then trusts whatever (epoch, randomWord) that sender ships.

On a fresh deployment the deployer can wait until tickets and pools exist, then wire a contract they control instead of a VrfCcipRelay and send a chosen word, picking the winner deterministically (index = word % ticketCount).

The deployer is already trusted during setup and users can read relay() before stamping, and for the live pair the window is closed (setRelay already points at the verified relay), so this is informational: a hardening gap in the 'ownerless' trust story for new deployments and redeploys. From audit_permissions 19c4afd6. Fix keeping the one-shot design: revert stampNote with RelayNotSet until relay is set, or pass a CREATE2-precomputed relay address to the constructor.
Fresh IMDRetroWall with relay unset. alice calls stampNote('hi','#aabbcc',1,1,0) paying 1000 NOTES: succeeds, ticketCount(1)=1, relay()=address(0).

Deployer calls setRelay(bob) where bob is any address.

After epoch 1 ends the router executes a message with sender=abi.encode(bob), data=abi.encode(1, 0).

Expected: tickets are only sold once the randomness source is fixed, or the word must come from a VrfCcipRelay.

Actual: ccipReceive accepts it (sender == relay), settles epoch 1 with winnerIndex 0 and credits claimable[alice]=500e18.

Reproduced in test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_stamp_before_setRelay_then_deployer_chooses_relay.
infofirst-word-wins and the UnknownRequest guard in rawFulfillRandomWords are not exercised by the Hardhat suitecontracts/VrfCcipRelay.sol:152
test/IMDRetroWall.ts covers NotRouter, UnexpectedSourceChain, UnexpectedSender, NotCoordinator, NotReady, InsufficientBalance and the double-delivery no-op, but no test fulfils a second VRF request for an epoch that already has a word (line 152, the branch that makes a wall retry safe) and no test fulfils an unknown requestId (lines 147-148, UnknownRequest); grep for 'UnknownRequest' in the test file returns nothing and vrf.fulfill is called only once per epoch (lines 169, 371).

Both branches behave as intended when exercised (test/scratch/Guards.t.sol::test_retry_spawns_additional_vrf_requests: a later word is dropped and randomnessOf keeps the first). Coverage gap only, no defect. From audit_permissions 8114ac96.
Mutation check: change line 152 to if (false) return; and run npx hardhat test; expected a failing test because a second fulfilment would overwrite the stored word; actual: no test fulfils the same epoch twice, so the suite passes. Likewise deleting if (epoch == 0) revert UnknownRequest(requestId); is not caught because no test fulfils an unknown requestId.
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