A CUSF ("Core Untouched Soft Fork") enforcer: a sidecar daemon that watches an
unmodified Bitcoin Core node and enforces the BIP360+ ruleset
out-of-band — hence the +: it does more than plain BIP360. P2MR and the
covenant opcodes look anyone-can-spend to a stock node, so the enforcer adds the
missing consensus rules: it validates every relevant spend and calls
invalidateblock on any block containing an invalid one, and keeps invalid
spends out of the block templates it serves to miners. No patched Bitcoin Core
is required.
The enforced ruleset:
- BIP 360 Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR, SegWit v2) outputs and their post-quantum signature spends (four schemes, below).
- BIP360+ opcodes given fail-closed meaning inside standard Taproot v1
script-path leaves (they are
OP_SUCCESSxto stock Core): OP_CAT (BIP347), OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP119), and OP_VAULT / OP_VAULT_RECOVER (BIP345) — the last with full Schnorr trigger authorization and BIP112/65 timelocks, so private-key ownership is the sole withdrawal authority.
Four spend schemes are validated inside P2MR tapscript leaves:
| Scheme | Signature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| secp256k1 Schnorr (BIP340) | 64 B | baseline, not post-quantum |
| ML-DSA-44 (CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FIPS 204) | 2420 B | lattice |
| SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s (SPHINCS+, FIPS 205) | 7856 B | hash-based |
| hybrid EC + SLH (overload) | 64 + 7856 B | Schnorr and SLH-DSA in one leaf |
Validation lives in lib/validator/pqc/, and the wallet's spend construction in
lib/validator/pqc/signer.rs. See docs/CUSF-BIP360.md
for the activation height, the signature-length "overload" model, and the module
layout.
-
Bitcoin Core (v29+), with the ZMQ
pubsequencenotifier and the REST interface (-rest) enabled;-txindexis required when running with a wallet. -
Rustc & Cargo, version 1.88.0 or higher. Installing via Rustup is recommended.
The enforcer supports running against the 3 latest major versions of Bitcoin
Core. getnetworkinfo is queried at startup and refuses to run against an
unsupported Bitcoin Core version. The supported set lives in
lib/version.rs; see --help for the override flags.
Building/running:
# Compiles the project
$ cargo build
# See available options
$ cargo run -- --help
# Starts the Connect RPC server at localhost:50001
# Adjust these parameters to match your local Bitcoin
# Core instance
$ cargo run -- \
--node-rpc-addr=localhost:38332 \
--node-rpc-user=user \
--node-rpc-pass=password \
--node-zmq-addr-sequence=tcp://0.0.0.0:29000
# You should now be able to fetch data from the server!
$ curl -H 'application/json' \
http://localhost:50051/cusf.validator.v1.ValidatorService/GetChainInfo
{
"network": "NETWORK_SIGNET"
}The CUSF enforcer exposes multiple Connect (gRPC)
services. These can be interacted with using either plain curl or a
Connect/gRPC client of your choice, for example
buf curl or
grpcurl.
Some examples of interacting with the enforcer using curl, assuming you expose
the server at the default address localhost:50051:
# Define an alias for ease of use
$ alias enforcer_curl='curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json"'
# List all the available RPCs
$ buf_curl --list-methods http://localhost:50051
cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetBlockHeaderInfo
cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetChainInfo
cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetChainTip
cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetSidechains
cusf.mainchain.v1.WalletService/CreateNewAddress
cusf.mainchain.v1.WalletService/CreateSidechainProposal
... list continues
# Fetching data with a RPC that takes no input data
$ enforcer_curl http://localhost:50051/cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetChainInfo
{
"network": "NETWORK_SIGNET"
}
# Fetching data with a RPC that takes input data
$ request='{"block_hash": {"hex": "000002a78fc54150bb2d4cdb0fb19bcf744f2877faf90a172972fca5daf5fe92"}}'
$ enforcer_curl -d "$request" http://localhost:50051/cusf.mainchain.v1.ValidatorService/GetBlockHeaderInfo
{
"headerInfo": {
"blockHash": {
"hex": "000002a78fc54150bb2d4cdb0fb19bcf744f2877faf90a172972fca5daf5fe92"
},
"prevBlockHash": {
"hex": "000002501d569e62a56ea175896d4348dd9cfef1d700e5b06250486df07c9225"
},
"height": 34998,
"work": {
"hex": "14d4490000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}
}
}By default, the enforcer runs against our custom signet. If you instead want to
run against a local regtest, you need to also run a local regtest Electrum
server. There are multiple implementations of Electrum servers, an easy-to-use
one is mempool/electrs.
For complete instructions on how to do this, consult the official docs.
A quickstart (that might not work, in case you're missing some dependencies):
$ git clone https://github.com/mempool/electrs
$ cd electrs
$ cargo run --bin electrs --release -- \
--network regtest \
--cookie=user:password \
--jsonrpc-importThe application uses the tracing crate for logging. Logging is configured
through setting the --log-level argument. Some examples:
# Prints ALL debug logs
$ cargo run ... --log-level DEBUGLogs can also be configured via env vars, which take precedence over CLI args.
# Prints logs at the "info" level and above, plus our logs the "debug" level and above
$ RUST_LOG=info,bip360p_enforcer_lib=debug cargo run ...The proto definitions live in the upstream
LayerTwo-Labs/cusf_sidechain_proto
repo. We pin a specific commit in buf.gen.yaml and check the
generated Rust code into lib/proto/generated/.
Generation is performed by the remote
buf.build/anthropics/buffa (message
types) and
buf.build/anthropics/connect-rust
(Connect RPC service stubs) plugins.
To regenerate (after bumping the ref: in buf.gen.yaml):
$ just generateRust code is formatted with rustfmt. You need to ensure you have a nightly version of Rust installed on your system. To format the project files from the command line:
$ just fmt # preferred: nightly rustfmt + prettier (npx/bunx) + buf if present
$ just fmt-check # nightly rustfmt --check (no stable “unstable option” spam)rustfmt.toml uses nightly-only options (group_imports,
imports_granularity). Always use cargo +nightly fmt (as just fmt /
just fmt-check do), not stable cargo fmt, if you want a clean check.
Markdown/YAML: just fmt runs Prettier via bunx or npx when available.
buf format is optional (skipped with a note if buf is not on PATH).
Rust code is linted with Clippy.
$ just clippy # format check + workspace clippy
# or directly:
$ cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings$ just test-unit # all workspace unit tests
$ just test-pqc # P2MR / PQC validation tests onlyIntegration tests can be run using
$ just setup-core # download stock Bitcoin Core, write integrationtests.env
$ just it-all # run the full trial suite against stock bitcoind
$ just it <trial_name> # run one trialRequires integrationtests.env (see just setup-core / just setup /
just setup-p2mr).
# Generate a flamegraph for Rust code. This does NOT
# measure syscalls/IO wait
# https://github.com/flamegraph-rs/flamegraph
$ cargo install flamegraph
$ cargo flamegraph -- --data-dir ./datadir \
--node-rpc-addr=localhost:38332 \
--node-rpc-user=user \
--node-rpc-pass=password \
--enable-mempool --exit-after-sync 100000
# macOS only
$ just trace-macos