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Problem

Insight stops at Dash Core's V24 hard fork. From the activation block on, every coinbase carries a CbTx v4 payload, which @dashevo/dashcore-lib 0.22 rejects (Failed to parse payload: raw payload is bigger than expected):

• The explorer process dies. At the first post-activation coinbase, the ZMQ transaction handler logs the parse error and then dereferences the missing transaction (Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'outputs') in transformInvTransaction). That is an uncaught exception, and it stops the process.
• The block list fails. /blocks parses every listed block's coinbase, so it fails as well.

I reproduced both with the new functional test against stock dashcore-node 7.0.5 + insight-api 4.0.8 and Dash Core 24.0.0. Testnet crossed V24 at block 1,578,000. Mainnet signalling starts today (2026-11-09), and the earliest activation is in late November.

Fix

• Library bump: @dashevo/dashcore-lib goes to ^0.26.1, which reads CbTx v4 and the other V24 payloads. The package version goes to 4.0.9.
• Unparseable data is no longer fatal:
  • The ZMQ transaction and lock handlers skip a transaction they can't parse.
  • /blocks leaves poolInfo empty when it can't parse a coinbase.
  • /block/:hash reads only the previous block's header. It used to fetch and parse the whole previous block, and its error path called handleErrors with no response object, which also threw.
• Companion PR: fix: keep Insight working after the V24 hard fork (CbTx v4 coinbases) dashcore-node#109 makes the same library bump in dashcore-node. It also fixes the ZMQ txid for version 2 asset unlocks and a tip update that could roll back to an earlier block.

Tests

• Functional test (test/functional/v24-activation.js, npm run test:functional):
  • Setup: runs Dash Core 24.0.0 on regtest with txindex, addressindex, spentindex and timestampindex, and activates V24 by miner signalling at height 480. Blocks 432-479 carry CbTx v3 and blocks from 480 carry CbTx v4.
  • Stack: serves the API through a dashcore-node checkout, exactly as the Docker image does.
  • Blocks: /block, /blocks, /block-index, /rawblock, /block-headers and /txs?block=.
  • Transactions: /tx for the CbTx v3 and v4 coinbases, and a post-activation spend of a pre-activation output (spent fields).
  • Addresses: /addr history, balances and unconfirmed amounts, /addr/utxo and /addrs/txs.
  • Everything else: /rawtx against Core's bytes, websocket transaction events, /status and /sync, and the other Core-backed endpoints.
• CI: a new functional job downloads dashd 24.0.0 (sha256-checked) and checks out dashcore-node at the fix: keep Insight API working after the V24 hard fork (CbTx v4 coinbases) #109 head.
• Unit tests: cover block summaries for testnet blocks 1,577,999 (CbTx v3) and 1,578,000 (CbTx v4), plus the parse-failure paths.
• Workflows: moved off the retired ubuntu-20.04 runners to Node 20, and the release jobs now use action versions that still run.

Proof

• Before: the functional test crashes the process on stock dashcore-node 7.0.5 + insight-api 4.0.8. The new unit tests fail on master.
• After: the functional test passes 14/14 on six consecutive runs (Node 20, Dash Core 24.0.0). Unit tests: 76 passing.

Not changed

• /utils/estimatefee still returns Method not found. Core removed estimatefee long ago, so it fails the same way on today's v22 mainnet explorer.

Merge order

Merge dashcore-node#109 first, then repin DASHCORE_NODE_REF in the workflow to its merge commit.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of malformed block and transaction data to prevent processing errors from continuing into updates and notifications.
  • Block summaries can still be returned when coinbase details cannot be parsed; malformed block headers and previous-block lookup failures are reported as errors.
  • Improved reliability around block reward lookups when fetching the previous block fails.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for block and transaction behavior, including Dash V24 activation scenarios and API responses.

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The changes update block parsing and transaction event handling, add unit and functional tests for V24 activation, and revise the test and release workflows.

Changes: V24 Compatibility and Test Pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Block parsing and reward lookup lib/blocks.js, package.json, test/data/testnet-v24-activation-blocks.json, test/blocks.js	Block summary parsing returns header or transaction-count errors. Coinbase parse errors produce a summary with empty poolInfo. Previous block lookup uses the header, and reward lookup returns on error. Tests and fixtures cover these cases and both activation-boundary coinbase versions.
Transaction event parse errors lib/index.js, test/index.js	Transaction event handlers return after logging buffer parse errors. Tests assert that unparseable buffers do not emit subscription events.
V24 functional test and CI job test/functional/v24-activation.js, package.json, .github/workflows/test_and_release.yml	The functional suite checks Insight API responses across V24 activation. Separate package scripts run unit and functional tests, and CI installs Dash Core and runs the functional suite.
Release workflow updates .github/workflows/test_and_release.yml, package.json	The NPM release job waits for functional tests. Release actions and runner versions are updated, and the package version changes to 4.0.9.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 2e059

The change keeps the API working with V24 coinbase payloads. The remaining concerns are limited to the new functional test, which may be flaky or give poor diagnostics when setup fails. They are low risk and can be fixed alongside or after the merge.

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.github/workflows/test_and_release.yml: 1

48-54: Trivial · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Disable credential persistence on the checkouts in the functional job.

Both actions/checkout@v4 steps leave the GITHUB_TOKEN in .git/config. The next step runs npm ci --prefix dashcore-node. That step executes install scripts from a different repository, so those scripts can read the persisted token. The workflow also has no permissions: block, so the token uses the repository default scope.

Set persist-credentials: false on both checkouts. Add a top-level permissions: contents: read. None of the jobs need broader token scopes. The release jobs use NPM_TOKEN, DOCKERHUB_*, and the release payload.

Proposed fix

       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false

       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           repository: dashpay/dashcore-node
           ref: ${{ env.DASHCORE_NODE_REF }}
           path: dashcore-node
+          persist-credentials: false

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Review comments at @test/functional/v24-activation.js:
- Around line 271-275: Update the before hook that performs test setup so setup
failures set failed to true and are rethrown; preserve the existing setup
behavior. This ensures the after hook can print dashd’s debug.log when setup
fails.
- Line 268: At the end of the `before` setup, after `waitForInsightTip`, add a
bounded poll that waits until `invTxids` contains every transaction ID expected
by the websocket test, including `txMempool` and the block transactions. If the
IDs are still missing when the bound expires, fail setup with a clear indication
of which events did not arrive.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/test_and_release.yml:
- Around line 48-54: In the functional job, set persist-credentials to false on
both actions/checkout@v4 steps, including the checkout of dashpay/dashcore-node.
Add a top-level permissions block granting contents: read only, preserving the
workflow’s existing job behavior and avoiding broader token scopes.

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