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Informational 19 Bitcoin

Add deferred bool to ChainMonitor

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Joost Jager

68/100 · Adequate
Add deferred bool to ChainMonitor

Add a `deferred` parameter to `ChainMonitor::new` and
`ChainMonitor::new_async_beta`. When set to true, the Watch trait
methods (watch_channel and update_channel) will unimplemented!() for
now. All existing callers pass false to preserve current behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new 'deferred' mode to ChainMonitor, a component that watches blockchain events for Lightning payment channels. When deferred=true, the watch methods currently panic with unimplemented!(). All existing callers pass false, so normal behavior is unchanged. This appears to be a partial feature implementation, not a security fix or vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. If reviewing downstream usage, ensure no production code passes `deferred: true` until the feature is fully implemented, since it will panic.

Security signals we found

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No security relevance claimed by vendor

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No vulnerability pattern in diff

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No memory safety, cryptographic, or authorization changes

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unimplemented!() is intentional panic for unfinished feature path, not reachable by existing callers

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All existing callers explicitly pass false

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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