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Drop required `Box`ing of `lightning` trait `Future`s

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Authored by Matt Corallo

73/100 · Adequate
Drop required `Box`ing of `lightning` trait `Future`s

Now that our MSRV is 1.75, we can return `impl Trait` from trait
methods. Here we use this to clean up `lightning` crate trait
methods, dropping the `Pin<Box<dyn ...>>`/`AsyncResult` we had to
use to have trait methods return a concrete type.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine code cleanup in the Lightning Dev Kit Rust library. It takes advantage of a newer Rust language feature (available since Rust 1.75) to remove unnecessary 'Box' heap allocations around futures returned from certain trait methods. There is no indication this change fixes a security bug or introduces a vulnerability; it is a refactoring to simplify the code and reduce allocations.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal API/performance refactoring. Downstream users implementing these traits will need to update their code to return impl Future instead of AsyncResult, but this is a compile-time breaking change, not a security issue.

Security signals we found

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Why this scored 18/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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