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Informational 17 Bitcoin

Add SpliceFailed event

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Jeffrey Czyz

51/100 · Thin
Add SpliceFailed event

Once a splice has been successfully initiated, but prior to signing any
negotiated funding transaction, it may fail. Add an event used to
indicate this and which UTXOs can be reused.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new notification event called SpliceFailed to the Lightning Dev Kit library. It tells users when a channel splice (a way to resize a Lightning channel) failed before any funding transaction was signed, and lists which bitcoin inputs and outputs can be reused. There is no direct security fix here; it is a user-facing bookkeeping improvement.

Recommended action

No immediate security action required. Treat as a normal feature/API addition. Review downstream event handlers to ensure SpliceFailed is handled so that contributed UTXOs are correctly recycled, which is the intended operational benefit.

Security signals we found

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No vulnerability pattern in diff (no cryptographic, authorization, or memory-safety change)

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Adds event notification for failed splice lifecycle state

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Includes persistence/replay semantics consistent with other events

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No vendor security framing in commit message or diff

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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