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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

A key handed to an application today is limited in scope at most (#4780 contract bounds, #4793 contract group bounds, both merged), never in amount or in time: it can spend the whole identity balance until a master-key update disables it.

This lets an AUTHENTICATION key carry a budget, an expiry, or both (protocol version 14). Once the budget is spent or the expiry is reached the key can no longer sign. Both combine freely with contract bounds: bounds say where a key may act, limits say how much and for how long.

What was done?

Wire format (rs-dpp)

  • IdentityPublicKey::V1 and IdentityPublicKeyInCreation::V1: the version 0 fields in the same order, followed by total_budget: Option<Credits> and expires_at: Option<TimestampMillis> (absolute block time in ms, same clock as disabled_at). total_budget is the fixed amount granted; what is left of it is a separate number Drive tracks (remaining_budget in the code), hence the name. In JSON: totalBudget, expiresAt. Both fields are in the signable bytes of the transition that registers the key.
  • Version 0 bytes are untouched. Keys without limits are still written as version 0 (identity_key_structure_version stays 0), so only identities that opt in carry the new format.
  • IdentityPublicKeyGettersV1 (total_budget, expires_at, is_expired_at, has_limits; None for a V0 key) and IdentityPublicKey::with_limits. The key hashing bodies moved into shared helpers so V1 does not duplicate the crypto (mechanical, no behaviour change).
  • Gate: a transition carrying a V1 key in creation is active from 14, through the same active_version_range_for_keys_in_creation that gates group-bound keys, so earlier versions refuse the transition while decoding, like a binary that predates the format. Following fix(platform)!: apply the review of contract group key bounds #4801, the predicates are helpers on IdentityPublicKeyInCreation next to first_bound_to_a_contract_group: first_in_version_1_format (the gate) and first_with_limits (shielded identity creation, in consensus and in the builder).

Rules at registration

  • validate_identity_public_keys_structure v1 (STATE_TRANSITION_METHOD_VERSIONS_V2): limits only on AUTHENTICATION keys below MASTER; a budget is not zero.
  • New common validate_identity_public_keys_limits, called from the four PV14 identity create/update state/v1 modules: the expiry is after the block time. A dead-on-arrival key would still burn its id and, for a unique key type, its public key hash (seconds instead of milliseconds is the usual cause).
  • IdentityCreateFromShieldedPool refuses a key that carries a budget or an expiry. That transition has no identity signature; its keys are bound into the frozen v0 Orchard sighash preimage field by field, and the limits are not in it. One ECDSA or BLS proof of possession signs every key's variant and limits, so the exposure is a transition whose keys are all hash based, where a relay could strip or alter them. Same decision as for group bounds in feat(platform)!: allow authentication keys bound to a contract group #4793: keep the preimage frozen, refuse in validate_shielded_proof v1 (unreleased, extended in place) before the preimage is built, and in the builder up front. A V1 key without limits is accepted, since it binds the same preimage bytes as its V0 equivalent; this keeps shielded creation working if V1 becomes the default format. What that leaves possible, in the all-hash-keys case only, is a relay re-encoding a limit-less key between the two equivalent versions (two stored bytes and a different transition hash). Tests pin both preimage equalities.

Drive

  • New identity subtree IdentityTreeKeyBudgets = 224, created with the first budgeted key: key id -> remaining credits as a fixed 8 byte value, so spending replaces it without changing what is stored.
  • insert_new_unique_key / insert_new_non_unique_key v1 write the full budget when the key is added (billed to whoever adds it). fetch_identity_key_remaining_budget, deduct_from_identity_key_budget (stops at zero).

Enforcement (rs-drive-abci), without touching any shipped v0 module

  • Identity signature validation v1 (unreleased, extended in place): for a budgeted signing key, reads what is left (billed as one extra key retrieval), refuses a spent key with PublicKeyBudgetExhaustedError, and records SigningKeyLimits in the execution context, which ExecutionEvent::Paid carries forward.
  • validate_fees_of_event v1 (runs in check tx and at execution; the first stage with the block time): refuses an expired key, and a spend the remaining budget does not cover.
  • execute_event v1: after the balance change, deducts removed_balance plus the fee the identity owes (net of its own refunds) from the key budget. Paid failures spend from the budget too. The deduction is applied outside of the fee, like the balance write.

Budget rule. Credits moved out of the identity (document purchase, prefunded voting balance), the storage fee, fees priced up front (contract registration) and the user fee increase must fit in what is left. Only the metered processing fee may take a key over its budget; the identity pays it in full and nothing is left of the budget. This is the identity balance rule (storage required, processing may leave a debt) applied to the key.

Errors: basic 10536 IdentityPublicKeyLimitsNotAllowedError, 10537 InvalidIdentityPublicKeyBudgetError, 10538 IdentityPublicKeyLimitsNotAllowedInShieldedIdentityCreationError; signature 20015 PublicKeyBudgetExhaustedError, 20016 PublicKeyExpiredError; state 40218 IdentityPublicKeyBudgetExceededError, 40219 IdentityPublicKeyAlreadyExpiredError. All appended after #4793's 10535 variant.

Docs: a new book chapter, book/src/data-model/key-limits.md ("Key Budgets and Expiry"), explains the design end to end with seven Mermaid diagrams (key lifecycle, wire layout, registration decision flow, the budget rule, where each check runs in the pipeline, how the limits are carried, storage layout); the book preview job renders it. Also docs/protocol/authentication-key-limits.md as the rules and error code reference, a section in the identity keys chapter, and the "what bounds do not do" section of the contract-bound keys doc.

Decisions worth a look

  • Absolute expires_at rather than a relative TTL: a duration would make the stored key differ from the signed one and thread block time through every InCreation -> IdentityPublicKey conversion. SDKs can offer TTL sugar.
  • The three refusals at signing time are unpaid, like an insufficient balance. An invalid transition signed by such a key is dropped (the existing "invalid and cannot pay" path), not charged through a key that may not spend.
  • Check tx Recheck skips signature validation, so limits are not re-checked there; the proposer drops the transition.
  • The remaining-budget read is billed with an existing fee constant; the deduction write is unbilled, like the balance write it accompanies.

Not included (follow-ups): a query for the remaining budget, SDK / wasm / Swift / Kotlin helpers for creating limited keys and choosing a usable key, wallet storage columns, changing the limits of an existing key.

Rebased onto v4.2-dev after #4793 merged, then merged v4.2-dev again for #4801; tests of theirs that destructured the single-variant key enum now use let ... else.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • rs-dpp: V1 round trip, V0 encoding byte-identical, JSON shape, expiry boundary, limits survive the InCreation conversions and are signed over, structure v1 rules, the PV13/PV14 decode gate, frozen error discriminants. Full suite: cargo test -p dpp --all-features --lib (4275 pass before the rebase; the targeted dpp, drive and drive-abci sets were rerun on top of feat(platform)!: allow authentication keys bound to a contract group #4793: 192, 57 and 416 pass).
  • rs-drive (drive::identity::key::budget): budget written on key add and on identity create, two budgeted keys in one batch, deduction stops at zero and never changes storage, estimated >= actual, PV13 untouched. cargo test -p drive --lib -- drive::identity:: (existing fee baselines unchanged).
  • rs-drive-abci batch/tests/key_limits.rs (through process_raw_state_transitions and check_tx): exact deduction, the rule pinned at storage fee - 1 (refused) and storage fee + 1 (accepted, processing overshoots, budget ends at 0, next transition refused), user fee increase counted up front, expiry boundary, both limits together, paid failures spend from the budget, invalid transition through an unusable key is not charged, mempool admission.
  • identity_update key_limits tests: registration success (stored V1 key, full remaining budget), already expired (paid), limits on TRANSFER / MASTER and zero budget (unpaid).
  • identity_create_from_shielded_pool/tests.rs and the builder tests in rs-dpp: a key with either limit is refused (10538 in consensus, a build error in the builder) before any proof work, a V1 key without limits is accepted; feat(platform)!: allow authentication keys bound to a contract group #4793's group-bound refusal still passes next to it.
  • cargo clippy -p dpp -p drive -p drive-abci -p platform-version --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo check --workspace --all-targets, cargo check -p drive --no-default-features --features verify, and the suites of the other touched crates (platform-wallet, wasm-drive-verify, wasm-dpp, strategy-tests, platform-version).
  • Not run locally: the full drive-abci suite and the JS / mobile jobs.

Breaking Changes

Consensus-breaking, gated to protocol version 14: a new public key format, new validation rules, a new identity subtree, and new consensus errors. Nothing changes for protocol versions up to 13.

Clients that do not know the version 1 key cannot decode an identity that holds one. Only identities that register a limited key are affected.

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Walkthrough

Protocol version 14 adds optional budgets and expiry times to limited AUTHENTICATION keys. The change adds versioned key models, validation, Drive storage, signing and fee enforcement, consensus errors, protocol configuration, serialization, tests, and documentation.

Changes

Authentication key limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Versioned key contracts and errors
packages/rs-dpp/src/identity/..., packages/rs-dpp/src/errors/...
Adds V1 key representations with optional budget and expires_at fields, accessors, conversions, shared hashing helpers, and new consensus errors and codes.
State-transition validation
packages/rs-dpp/src/state_transition/..., packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/...
Limits V1 keys to non-MASTER AUTHENTICATION keys, rejects zero budgets and already-expired keys, and gates limited-key transitions to protocol version 14.
Budget storage and accounting
packages/rs-drive/src/drive/identity/key/...
Adds the IdentityTreeKeyBudgets subtree and versioned operations to insert, fetch, estimate, and deduct remaining key budgets.
Signing and execution enforcement
packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/...
Carries signing-key limits through execution context and paid events, rejects expired or unaffordable transitions, and deducts eligible spending from the remaining budget.
Protocol integration and external surfaces
packages/rs-platform-version/src/version/..., packages/wasm-*/*, docs/protocol/*, book/src/sdk/*
Activates the feature in protocol version 14, updates method-version tables, exposes new errors to WASM, serializes V1 limits, and documents the behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant StateTransition
  participant IdentitySignatureValidation
  participant Drive
  participant FeeValidation
  participant EventExecution
  StateTransition->>IdentitySignatureValidation: Validate V1 signing key
  IdentitySignatureValidation->>Drive: Fetch remaining key budget
  Drive-->>IdentitySignatureValidation: Return budget
  IdentitySignatureValidation->>FeeValidation: Store SigningKeyLimits in execution context
  FeeValidation->>FeeValidation: Check expiry and required budget
  FeeValidation->>EventExecution: Return validated fee result
  EventExecution->>Drive: Deduct spent credits from key budget
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In
`@packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/platform_events/state_transition_processing/execute_event/v1/mod.rs`:
- Around line 177-180: Update the event execution flow around
record_added_balance_outputs so added_to_balance_outputs is recorded only after
a paid IdentityCreditTransferToAddresses event is successfully executed. Ensure
fee-rejected expired or over-budget events do not record recipient outputs,
while preserving output recording for successfully paid events.

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`@packages/rs-drive-abci/src/execution/validation/state_transition/state_transitions/batch/tests/key_limits.rs`:
- Around line 345-346: Update the remaining-budget assertion in the key-limits
test to unwrap the value returned by setup.remaining_budget(&tx) before
comparing it with dash_to_credits!(0.5), so the test requires the budget entry
to exist.
- Around line 379-383: Update the assertion for expired-key processing in the
key-limit tests to require the specific PUBLIC_KEY_EXPIRED result, matching the
other expiry tests. Remove the InternalError alternative so internal execution
failures cannot satisfy the test.

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`@packages/rs-drive/src/drive/identity/key/budget/add_estimation_costs_for_key_budgets/v0/mod.rs`:
- Around line 14-24: Update the AllItems estimate in the
estimated_costs_only_with_layer_info entry to use 5 as the encoded KeyID size
instead of 1, while preserving KEY_BUDGET_SIZE and the surrounding
EstimatedLayerInformation configuration.

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`@packages/rs-drive/src/drive/identity/key/budget/deduct_from_identity_key_budget/v0/mod.rs`:
- Around line 22-24: Update the deduction flow around
fetch_identity_key_remaining_budget_operations to preserve and return the
read_operations vector alongside the replacement deduction operation. Use the
same operation vector for the budget read and replacement so fee calculation
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QuantumExplorer and others added 2 commits September 17, 2026 20:44
An AUTHENTICATION key below the MASTER level may carry a budget, an expiry,
or both, from protocol version 14. Once the budget is spent or the expiry is
reached the key can no longer sign.

The limits live on a new version 1 public key (and public key in creation),
which is the version 0 key followed by `budget` and `expires_at`. Version 0
bytes are untouched and keys without limits are still written as version 0.
A transition carrying a version 1 key in creation is active from 14.

What is left of a budget is kept in a new per-identity key budgets subtree,
written when the key is added. Identity signature validation v1 refuses a
spent key and records the limits of the signing key; fee validation v1
refuses an expired key and a spend the remaining budget does not cover;
event execution v1 deducts what the transition took from the identity.

Budget rule: credits moved out of the identity, the storage fee, fees priced
up front and the user fee increase must fit in what is left. Only the metered
processing fee may take a key over its budget, after which nothing is left.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ielded pool

IdentityCreateFromShieldedPool has no identity signature. Its keys are bound
into the Orchard sighash preimage field by field, in a layout that predates
the version 1 key, so a budget or an expiry would not be covered: on a key
type without a proof of possession a relay could strip or alter the limits.

Follow the decision taken for contract group bounds: keep the v0 preimage
frozen and refuse the key instead. `validate_shielded_proof` v1 (unreleased)
refuses a version 1 key before the preimage is built, with the new basic
error 10538, and the transition builder refuses it up front. Such a key is
added with an identity update once the identity exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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QuantumExplorer and others added 3 commits September 17, 2026 21:12
Explains how limited authentication keys work end to end: the version 1
key and why it is a new key version, the registration rules and the
shielded pool exception, the budget rule with a worked example, where each
check runs in the validation pipeline and why expiry waits for fee
validation, how the limits travel from signature validation to execution,
the key budgets subtree, and the versioning touchpoints.

Seven Mermaid diagrams: key lifecycle, wire layout, registration decision
flow, the budget rule, the pipeline stages, a sequence of how the limits
are carried, and the storage layout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The key holds the fixed amount the identity granted; what is left of it is
a different number that Drive tracks. A bare `budget` on a key fetched from
the network reads as what is left, which is wrong as soon as anything has
been spent. `total_budget` (`totalBudget` in JSON) pairs with the
`remaining_budget` the Drive side already uses. The binary encoding is
unchanged; the accessor is `total_budget()` on both the key and the key in
creation.

The book chapter also loses its "Why a New Key Version" section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tity creation

Identity creation from the shielded pool refused every version 1 key. What
the frozen sighash preimage cannot bind is a budget or an expiry, not the
key format: a version 1 key without limits binds the same preimage bytes as
the version 0 key with the same fields. Refuse only a key that carries a
limit, in `validate_shielded_proof` v1 and in the transition builder, so
shielded identity creation keeps working if version 1 becomes the default
key format.

A limit still cannot be stripped, added or altered, since a key with one is
never accepted there. What stays possible, and only when every key of the
transition is hash based (one proof of possession signs every key's variant
and limits), is a relay re-encoding a limit-less key between the two
equivalent versions.

Tests pin both sides in consensus and in the builder, and that the preimage
of a limit-less version 1 key equals that of its version 0 equivalent.

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QuantumExplorer and others added 3 commits September 17, 2026 22:11
Brings in the review of contract group key bounds (#4801), which moved the
"key bound to a contract group" predicate into one helper on
IdentityPublicKeyInCreation, shared by the protocol version gate, shielded
proof validation and the transition builder.

The two conflicts were where this branch had extended that inline predicate.
Resolved by following the same shape: `first_in_version_1_format` (the gate:
a binary from before cannot decode the format, limits or not) and
`first_with_limits` (shielded identity creation and its builder) sit next to
`first_bound_to_a_contract_group`, and all three call sites use them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…pter

The merge of v4.2-dev moved the protocol version gate onto helpers on
IdentityPublicKeyInCreation; the chapter quoted the old inline predicate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- execute_event v1 records address outputs only for an event that was
  executed, not for one fee validation refused.
- The key budgets layer is estimated with the widest varint key id (5 bytes)
  instead of the narrowest, so large key ids are never under-estimated.
- The deduction returns the cost of reading the remaining budget with the
  replace, in one operation vector, like the balance change it follows.
- Tests: the remaining budget is unwrapped before it is compared (`None` is
  less than any `Some`), and the unpayable invalid transition must be the
  internal error carrying the original failure, not any internal error.

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