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Stack 3/3. Base: feat/conf-token-proofless-revoke (#854), which sits on feat/conf-token-auditor-escrow (#853). Review and merge in order.

What

Adds ConfidentialClawback: an opt-in, freeze-gated seizure of a confidential account's claim, plus a forced revoke that pulls escrowed allowances into the seize's reach.

Mechanism

The circuit proves knowledge of the openings of C_spend (CB1) and C_receive (CB2), and that the seize is bounded by what they hold: α ≤ v_s + v_r (CB3). The witness is producible by the auditor or the owner, not by the admin — the compliance authority decides whether, the witness-holder how much and where to. Three unconstrained public inputs (addr_f, acct_f, dest_f) bind the proof to one contract, one account, and one settlement destination.

Post-verification: C_spend ← C_spend + C_receive − α·G, C_receive ← O — no fresh randomness, so the seized account stays spendable. Settlement is None (pool left over-collateralized; issuer SAC clawback follows) or Some(d) (exact SEP-41 transfer).

Known gaps

  • The Rust mock verifier does not bind public inputs, so replay (INV-28) and destination redirect (INV-31) are covered by the Noir tests only.
  • The freeze precondition is only meaningful when the deployment's Hooks impl gates on it; trait bounds cannot force that. Documented as a deployment obligation (COMPLIANCE.md §5.6).

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cargo test -p stellar-tokens 727 passed · nargo test 155 passed (clawback 10) · fmt / clippy clean · constraints.baseline matches

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added opt-in confidential clawback support for seizing balances with proof-based verification.
    • Added optional settlement destinations and forced spender revocation for frozen accounts.
    • Added validation for amounts, destinations, commitments, and account state.
    • Added clawback events and recovery support for wallets, auditors, and indexers.
    • Added a dedicated circuit and verification support for clawback operations.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded compliance, wallet, auditor, recovery, and interface documentation for clawback behavior and replay handling.

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The change adds an opt-in confidential clawback interface, a proof-verifying Noir circuit, commitment settlement, forced spender revocation, verification-key registration, tests, and recovery documentation.

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Confidential clawback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Clawback circuit and verification wiring
packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/*, packages/tokens/src/confidential/verifier/*, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md
Adds the circuit_clawback package, its 8-input circuit contract, commitment and range checks, fixtures, ACIR baseline, verification key, and CircuitType::Clawback = 6.
Compliance operations and commitment settlement
packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/*, packages/tokens/src/confidential/storage.rs, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/COMPLIANCE.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/mod.rs
Adds ConfidentialClawback, clawback errors and events, proof verification, commitment replacement, optional underlying-token settlement, and forced spender revocation for frozen accounts.
Recovery and event folding
packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/INDEXER.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/OVERVIEW.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/SDK.md
Updates wallet, auditor, indexer, and SDK rules to clear receiving commitments, reduce spendable balances, fold clawbacks, and select merge-or-clawback replay anchors.
Guides and explanatory updates
packages/tokens/src/confidential/CLAUDE.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/CLAUDE.md, packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/lib/src/tests.nr, packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/set_spender/src/tests.nr, packages/tokens/src/confidential/test.rs
Updates specification-reference inventories, circuit counts, replay-window coverage, and explanatory comments.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 69209

This PR adds confidential clawback and forced revoke behavior, but a deployment can currently mark an account frozen while leaving transfers and withdrawals ungated, and conflicting wallet blinding rules can produce inconsistent account state. Merge should wait for the enforcement/documentation issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TokenHost
  participant ConfidentialClawback
  participant ComplianceStorage
  participant ClawbackCircuit
  participant UnderlyingToken
  TokenHost->>ConfidentialClawback: authorize clawback
  ConfidentialClawback->>ComplianceStorage: decode proof and destination
  ComplianceStorage->>ClawbackCircuit: verify public inputs and openings
  ClawbackCircuit-->>ComplianceStorage: return proof result
  ComplianceStorage->>UnderlyingToken: transfer optional settlement
  ComplianceStorage-->>TokenHost: persist commitments and emit event
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I’m a rabbit with proofs in my pack
Watching balances fold after clawback
Commitments reset, checks hold tight
Keys and tests keep the path right
Frozen accounts revoke with care
Six circuits now hop through the air

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Adds the opt-in `ConfidentialClawback` trait (`clawback`, `force_revoke_spender`), the clawback Noir circuit with `CircuitType::Clawback = 6`, and its specification in COMPLIANCE.md §5 written against the `r_a`-escrow auditor model.
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Actionable comments posted: 3

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packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/test.rs (1)

893-904: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a Clawback event assertion.

This PR adds the Clawback event and emit_clawback. No test asserts either one. Assert the typed event value here so a future change to the topic or field order is caught.

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     // The freeze survives the seizure.
     h.e.as_contract(&h.host, || assert!(is_frozen(&h.e, &alice)));
+
+    let events = h.e.events().all();
+    let (_, _, event_data) = events.last().unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(
+        event_data,
+        Clawback { account: alice.clone(), amount: 40, destination: None }
+            .to_xdr(&h.e, &h.host)
+    );
 }

Assert events by comparing typed #[contractevent] values serialized with .to_xdr(&e, &address). As per coding guidelines.

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In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/test.rs` around lines 893 - 904,
Add a typed Clawback event assertion to this seizure test, comparing the emitted
event’s contract-event value serialized with to_xdr(&e, &address) against the
expected clawed-back asset, source, destination, and amount fields. Place it
alongside the existing post-seizure assertions so topic and field ordering are
validated.

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In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md`:
- Line 496: Add a Clawback row to the authoritative event table, documenting its
payload fields account, amount, and optional destination, and align the
description with the required wallet and auditor processing behavior. Use the
existing event-schema table conventions and avoid changing unrelated
documentation.
- Line 439: Update the Hooks documentation to state that frozen-account
enforcement depends on wiring a ComplianceHooks-equivalent implementation, since
NoHooks permits ungated withdrawals and transfers; also note that on_register
intentionally does not perform the freeze check.

In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN.md`:
- Line 366: Resolve the conflicting blinding-accumulator rules between the
DESIGN specification and SDK documentation: make the unreduced exact-integer
accumulation of W_spend.r normative through Merge, RevokeSpender, and Clawback,
then update the SDK guidance and its unspendable-blinding condition to match the
proof-construction reduction and encoding behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/test.rs`:
- Around line 893-904: Add a typed Clawback event assertion to this seizure
test, comparing the emitted event’s contract-event value serialized with
to_xdr(&e, &address) against the expected clawed-back asset, source,
destination, and amount fields. Place it alongside the existing post-seizure
assertions so topic and field ordering are validated.
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  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/CLAUDE.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/CLAUDE.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/Nargo.toml
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/clawback/Nargo.toml
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/clawback/src/main.nr
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  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/lib/src/tests.nr
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/scripts/extract_vks.sh
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/set_spender/src/tests.nr
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/circuits/vks/clawback.vk.json
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/mod.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/storage.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/compliance/test.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/COMPLIANCE.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/INDEXER.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/OVERVIEW.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/SDK.md
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/mod.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/storage.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/test.rs
  • packages/tokens/src/confidential/verifier/mod.rs
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Comment thread packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md
Comment thread packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN_cont.md
Comment thread packages/tokens/src/confidential/docs/DESIGN.md Outdated
DESIGN.md and SDK.md disagreed on whether W_spend.r is reduced per fold;
SDK.md §4.6, §10.1 and §10.7 now own the rule, requiring exact-integer
accumulation with a single mod-q reduction at the curve boundary and testing
encodability on the reduction rather than the accumulator. DESIGN.md §5.2
keeps only the cross-reference, and DESIGN_cont.md §10.4 gains clawback in
its fold list.
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Comment on lines 95 to +109
@@ -102,6 +106,7 @@ pub enum CircuitType {
Transfer = 2,
SpenderTransfer = 3,
SetSpender = 4,
Clawback = 6,

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we are still before stable release. If the reason for skipping discriminant 5 is solely due to not introducing breaking changes, I'd argue against this, and refactor this enum

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We are pre-release and this specific modules is pre-production, but I'm aware of couple implementations already and didn't want to introduce confusion.
Nevertheless, given this circuit is from an extension, would it make sense then to set it to 10, for example, such that it's distinctive from the core ones?

Comment on lines +183 to +196
/// **The freeze precondition is only meaningful when the deployment's `Hooks`
/// impl gates on it, and this trait's bounds do not force that.**
/// `ConfidentialClawback: ConfidentialCompliance` obliges the deployment to
/// implement `freeze` / `unfreeze`, but it places no constraint on
/// `<Self as ConfidentialToken>::Hooks`. A contract that wires
/// [`NoHooks`](crate::confidential::NoHooks) alongside this impl block gets a
/// `freeze` that writes the flag and an `is_frozen` that returns `true`, so
/// the precondition passes — while every token operation stays ungated and
/// the target spends its balance out before the seizure lands. The admin's
/// only signal is an `InvalidProof` once the commitment has moved.
///
/// Wiring [`ComplianceHooks`], or a custom [`Hooks`] impl that gates the token
/// positions (`on_withdraw`, `on_transfer`, etc) , is a **deployment
/// obligation** of this trait.

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this file is probably the most important one. Having the comment language simplified a bit in terms of:

  • removing gates on this kind of idioms/phrases
  • removing the indirect pronouns such as this/that

would be a good idea

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This comment was aimed at this specific part, but I'd suggest to apply it throughout the whole file instead, because this file is an entry point

/// Reduces `account`'s confidential claim by `amount` and settles the
/// corresponding underlying according to `destination`.
///
/// With `None`, no underlying is transferred: the pool is left

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None for what, destination? The reader shouldn't have to look at the arguments and guess for this

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