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Informational 24 Bitcoin

Remove async payments cfg flag

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Valentine Wallace

68/100 · Adequate
Remove async payments cfg flag

We were previously cfg-gating all async payments code to not have a
half-working public API, but now that async receive is usable go ahead and
remove the gating. Paying as an async sender is not yet supported.
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit removes a compile-time feature flag called `async_payments` so that the new async-receive Lightning functionality is always included. It is a feature-enablement/refactoring change, not a patch for a known vulnerability. The code being exposed was already present but hidden behind the flag. There is no direct evidence in the commit of a security bug being fixed; rather, the change makes an experimental API public now that it is considered usable.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine feature-enablement commit. Reviewers should verify that the ungated async payment paths have adequate input validation and fuzz coverage now that they are compiled by default, but no immediate security response is indicated by the diff.

Security signals we found

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Feature flag removal exposes previously gated async payment code to all builds

02

No changes to cryptographic verification, HTLC release, or signature checks observed

03

Fuzz corpus updated to reflect new message traffic from async receive cache refresh

04

Commit message explicitly states API readiness, not a security fix

Risk score

Why this scored 24/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 3/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 2/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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