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mempool: add p2a specific policy

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Olaoluwa Osuntokun

78/100 · Adequate
mempool: add p2a specific policy

P2A is standard if the witness and the sigscript is empty. We make a
smol refactor to be able to write a unit test for the input
standardness.
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new mempool policy rule for a special Bitcoin output type called Pay-to-Anchor (P2A). It ensures that transactions spending P2A outputs are only accepted into the memory pool if they have empty signature and witness data. It also adds tests confirming the dust threshold for these outputs. There is no direct evidence in the commit that this fixes an active security vulnerability; it appears to be a policy implementation aligning btcd with expected Bitcoin network behavior.

Recommended action

Review as a normal policy/standardness change. No immediate security response appears necessary based solely on this commit. If P2A support is being deployed, ensure full consensus and mempool policy alignment with Bitcoin Core/BIP 433 is verified through broader release notes or upstream documentation.

Security signals we found

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New mempool policy rule restricting how P2A outputs may be spent

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Rejects non-standard P2A spends with non-empty signature script or witness

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Refactoring to improve testability of input standardness checks

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Addition of unit tests for P2A dust and spend standardness

Risk score

Why this scored 32/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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