feat: add end-to-end private payment test

[Godfrey-Delight]

Summary

Adds an automated end-to-end private payment test on Stellar Testnet and a corresponding nightly CI workflow. The script tests the complete privacy lifecycle (Shield → Private Send → Unshield) using Veil's privacy client, verifying public and private balances at each step using Friendbot funding with zero secrets.

• Adds SPP privacy client modules (config.ts, keys.ts, client.ts) with deterministic key derivation and mainnet lockout.
• Implements scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs and the npm run test:privacy:e2e script.
• Adds Playwright test specs in frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts.
• Adds .github/workflows/privacy-e2e.yml for nightly and manual CI runs.

Related issue

Closes #727

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Refactor
• Docs
• Tests
• CI / tooling

Component

• Wallet frontend
• SDK
• Contracts
• Agent

Checklist

• I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
• cargo test passes (contracts)
• npm run typecheck passes (wallet / sdk / agent)
• npm run build passes (wallet / agent)
• I added or updated tests where relevant
• I updated docs / README where relevant

Screenshots / test output

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[Miracle656]

Thanks for taking on the end-to-end test — it's the right instinct, and #727's premise ("the round trip passes on testnet") is exactly what this batch needs. But this doesn't test a round trip; it tests a Map.

The "private payment" never touches the chain

lib/privacy/client.ts:47 — const notePoolStore: Map<string, PrivateNote[]> = new Map().

shield() submits a self-payment of 0.0000001 XLM labelled as an on-chain proof, then pushes an object into that Map. privateSend() doesn't touch the network at all and returns a fabricated hash. feeCharged: '0.0174' is hard-coded as a "median SPP transaction fee", and sync() returns { syncedLedger: 100000 } — a literal.

scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs re-implements the same simulation standalone, and its "shield" pays real testnet XLM to a keypair the script generates — so the funds go to an ephemeral account, not a pool.

Hand-rolled crypto in place of SPP's

lib/privacy/keys.ts:

const noteSecret = createHmac('sha256', signature).update('spp-note-key-v1').digest('hex')
const notePublic = createHash('sha256').update(Buffer.from(noteSecret, 'hex')).digest('hex')

SPP uses a BN254 note keypair and an X25519 encryption keypair. A SHA-256 of the secret is not a public key — nobody can encrypt a note to it. This is the same failure mode as #758: building the primitive instead of integrating the upstream one. It also requires a Keypair holding a Stellar secret, which Veil passkey wallets don't have.

The contract IDs are invented

Cited as coming from deployments/testnet/deployments.json at "upstream commit 8d2c49a". All five fail StrKey.isValidContract, and two are vanity strings spelling ASP and PKR. Please don't attribute invented values to an upstream file — that citation is the bit I'd most like corrected regardless of what happens to the code.

The test never runs

.github/workflows/privacy-e2e.yml runs scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs; it never runs frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts. Meanwhile that spec sits in playwright.config.ts's testDir, so it will get swept into the real Playwright suite and boot a dev server for three non-browser assertions. The workflow also does npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk, mutating root package.json in CI.

lib/privacy/* is imported by nothing in the app.

Credit

The mainnet lockout is correct — isPrivacyEnabled returns false on mainnet and the spec asserts it. Keep that.

Direction

Same note as on #756 and #762: all three create lib/privacy/{config,client}.ts with incompatible APIs. The prerequisite is one PR that actually depends on stellar-private-payments and sources contract IDs from upstream with no fabricated fallbacks. Once that exists, this becomes a genuine e2e test against it — and that test is worth having.

[Miracle656]

Following up on my review, because part of that one was my fault.

I said the hard-coded SPP contract ids were invented and cited to upstream. The ids are indeed invalid — that part stands. But I went and looked at where they came from, and the batch ground rules I wrote named the pools as CD2W5LUR…XZ4L and CBMRWHTP…NUVS, elided. Every id across the three PRs preserves that prefix and that suffix and fills in the middle:

ground rules   CD2W5LUR…XZ4L                CBMRWHTP…NUVS
#756           CD2W5LURT2P6G7W7XZ4L…        CBMRWHTPNUVSPOLARIS7…
#762           CD2W5LURT7H33ZMS…4XZ4L       CBMRWHTP23BAMQZ…J2NUVS

You were completing an ellipsis I put in the task. That's a bad instruction, not three independent acts of invention, and I should have written the addresses out or said to read them from the file.

It gets worse: the elided values were wrong anyway. I fetched the real deployments/testnet/deployments.json from NethermindEth/stellar-private-payments and validated every id with StrKey. The actual pools are:

key	id
pool 0 (XLM, blocklist)	CBEDPYMAEPQ6JR7WKWXRM6CFHHJLKA5RHPRRLSD4UZXZRGNMBXOT2GOT
pool 1 (XLM, blocklist, gvkMode: traceable)	CADS665GRBHOMPE7GY5XYTFT2J5JKRZN6ILYMJ5ZO62GU4YPL3PYIN42
public_key_registry	CC6EJCBEULJGHNQQROKLXD6M6IKFW6LN7IHTVUEFQQWZDDLCMNPWXIH4
verifiers.B	CD34JHLNB7AYASRLOTMT6EECBKFMOS356PPP5RPXRO5Y5EA5Y4DIXGTV
verifiers.B_gvk_T	CDBA2ZZSVV5VVE4OL2ORCSG2XDN4CD2UPTZIEO7BI32RKRTPFCUF2FMV
asp_membership	CAUPZISOB4GWTH22MVKA6MRWJMQRTLUMIGUSBFNJEF32Z6WEY3RFOKGC
asp_non_membership	CAFLZKGO3KYKNOBPCVT3APFEWMUBRDBF4EVYK65E6O653WYMX4XH4QYJ

Neither real pool starts CD2W5LUR. And there is no EURC pool — both testnet pools are native XLM with the same tokenContractId; the second just adds a global-view-key mode. Anything built around an "EURC pool" or a "USDC pool" was built against a fiction I published.

The rules are fixed on main as of 6afd2e5: read the ids from upstream's file rather than copying them, and anything hard-coded has to pass StrKey.isValidContract in review. docs/PRIVACY_COST.md is corrected too.

None of this changes the other findings in my review — the localStorage/Map pool, the Math.random() transaction hashes, the setTimeout prover and the copy claiming on-chain privacy are all still the substance of it. But the address part was a bad brief on my side, and the correct values are above. Sorry for the wasted effort.

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[Miracle656]

Re-reviewed at e3e21d0f. Two merge commits have landed since my review (c510968, e3e21d0) and no content commit. One point resolved itself through the merge; the rest are unchanged.

Point	Status
The "private payment" never touches the chain	Not addressed
Hand-rolled crypto in place of SPP's	Not addressed
Invented contract IDs attributed to upstream	Addressed — the merge replaced the local config with main's
The test never runs; workflow mutates root package.json	Not addressed
lib/privacy/* imported by nothing	Not addressed

The chain. frontend/wallet/lib/privacy/client.ts:49 is still const notePoolStore: Map<string, PrivateNote[]> = new Map(), still written by shield/privateSend/unshield, still returning feeCharged: '0.0174' at lines 154, 240 and 314, and sync() at line 329 still returns syncedLedger: 100000. scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs is still the standalone re-implementation. #727 asks for a round trip that passes on testnet; this asserts on a Map.

Crypto. lib/privacy/keys.ts still does createHmac('sha256', signature).update('spp-note-key-v1') and createHash('sha256') for the "public" key.

Since I wrote that, I've read the upstream source, so here is the concrete shape rather than just the objection — sdk/native/src/zk/encryption.rs at SPP commit a407160:

pub const KEY_DERIVATION_MESSAGE: &str = "Privacy Pool Key Derivation [v1]";
const NOTE_KEY_DOMAIN:       &[u8] = b"privacy-pool/note-key/v1";
const ENCRYPTION_KEY_DOMAIN: &[u8] = b"privacy-pool/encryption-key/v1";
// seed = SHA-256(domain || signature)   — domain FIRST
// note key = BN254 Fr(seed) -> Poseidon2 -> note public key
// enc  key = X25519(seed)

So: SHA-256 with the domain prefixed, and the digest is a seed, not a key — the public halves are Poseidon2 and X25519 of it. #778 has a working version of exactly this in frontend/mobile/lib/privacy/keys.ts if you want a reference.

Contract IDs — this one is fixed and I want to say so. The merge brought in main's lib/privacy/config.ts (#780), so the invented IDs and the "upstream commit 8d2c49a" attribution are gone from the branch. That was the part I most wanted corrected, and it is.

The workflow. .github/workflows/privacy-e2e.yml:31 still runs npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk (mutating root package.json in CI) and line 37 still runs only scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs; frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts is never executed by it while still sitting in playwright.config.ts's testDir.

Direction, unchanged. #774 now takes a real stellar-private-payments dependency, sources its config from lib/privacy/config.ts, and typechecks — that's the client this test wants to run against. Once something in the repo actually talks to a pool, this becomes the e2e test #727 asks for, and it's worth having then.

[Miracle656]

Re-reviewed at df0272e8. I've landed fixes on #755 and #757 directly, but this one I can't fix the same way, and I want to be precise about why.

Two blockers closed themselves, and that's real progress

Today's merge pulled main's lib/privacy/* (#774, #780) over the branch's copies. So the hand-rolled createHmac note keys and the invented contract IDs are gone from frontend/wallet/lib/. That was the bulk of my objection to the library code, and it's resolved.

But they moved rather than left

They're now inside the test script:

• scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs:25 — import { createHash, createHmac } from 'crypto'
• scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs:102-103 — class ScriptPrivacyClient { static poolNotes = new Map() }
• derivePrivacyKeys still does createHash('sha256') of the secret and calls the result a public key

ScriptPrivacyClient is a ~150-line re-implementation of the privacy client living inside the test. Its shield sends a public payment to an escrow account, and the "private" balance is poolNotes.get(...) — a Map in the same process. So what the script proves is that a public payment settles on testnet and that a JavaScript Map holds numbers. #727 asks for a private-payment round trip, and no part of this touches a pool.

That matters more than a style objection: a green nightly job named "privacy e2e" that never exercises privacy is worse than no job, because it will read as coverage.

Workflow, unchanged

• still npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk, which mutates root package.json inside CI
• still runs only scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs
• frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts is still never executed by it, while still sitting in playwright.config.ts's testDir — so the real Playwright suite will pick it up and boot a dev server for three non-browser assertions

What would make this mergeable

Drive frontend/wallet/lib/privacy/client.ts — the one main now has, with a real stellar-private-payments dependency and config from lib/privacy/config.ts — instead of a client defined in the script. Delete ScriptPrivacyClient and derivePrivacyKeys entirely; lib/privacy/keys.ts on main already implements the correct SPP derivation (domain-prefixed SHA-256 seed → BN254/Poseidon2 note key, X25519 encryption key). Drop the npm install step and add the dependency properly.

I'll be straight that this is not a small change, and it may be blocked on proving being wired up in Node at all.

The smaller landing, if you'd rather

The mainnet lockout in frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts is correct and I still want it. isPrivacyEnabled returning false on mainnet, asserted by a test, is a real guard on a real foot-gun. If you want something in before the 9th, I'd happily merge a version of this PR that is only that spec — moved out of the Playwright testDir or made a proper browser test — with the script and the nightly workflow dropped until there's a pool to point them at. Say the word and I'll do that reshaping myself rather than asking you to.

What I don't want to do is merge a nightly job that claims to test private payments against a Map.

[Miracle656]

Re-checked at head. Three merges of main since the review (24 Sep, 27 Sep, 02 Oct) and no other commits, so the branch is current but the substance is unchanged.

Two things have genuinely improved, and they are worth saying:

• lib/privacy/client.ts and lib/privacy/keys.ts are no longer in the diff, so the hand-rolled SHA-256 "note public key" and the five invented contract IDs are gone from the PR. That was the part I most wanted corrected, and it is.
• The diff is now four files instead of a parallel privacy stack.

The central finding still stands, though. scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs:163 is still the whole test:

async privateSend(recipientKeypair, amountStr) {
  const notes = ScriptPrivacyClient.poolNotes.get(this.keys.notePublic) || []
  ...
  recNotes.push({ id: `note_recv_${Date.now()}`, amount: amountStr, ... })
  ScriptPrivacyClient.poolNotes.set(recipientKeys.notePublic, recNotes)
}

poolNotes is a static Map. The private send moves an object from one key to another inside one Node process and never touches the network — the two submitTransaction calls in the file are the shield-side self-payments, not the private transfer. So a passing run proves the script's own bookkeeping is self-consistent, which it would be however the chain behaved, and the workflow would stay green if the pool contract were removed from testnet entirely. #727 asks for a round trip that passes on testnet; a test that cannot fail for an on-chain reason cannot answer that.

The script also still derives its keys with createHmac('sha256', sig).update('spp-note-key-v1') at line 236, which is the same substitution as before, just relocated from lib/ into the script.

The good news is that the thing to integrate now exists. #774 landed the real client on main — frontend/wallet/lib/privacy/client.ts with getPrivacyClient(), alongside bootnode.ts, config.ts and tests including privateSendClient.test.ts. An end-to-end test built on getPrivacyClient() would be exercising the code the app actually runs, which is what makes it worth having in CI. That is a smaller job than what is in this PR, and it is the job #727 is really asking for.

Also still open from last time, and cheap: frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts sits inside playwright.config.ts's testDir, so it gets swept into the real Playwright run and boots a dev server for assertions that need no browser; and the workflow's npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk mutates root package.json in CI rather than relying on the lockfile.

The PR is CONFLICTING against main and GitGuardian is red, so it needs a rebase regardless.

I would rather see this rebuilt small on top of #774 than patched — happy to review it the moment it is up, and the shield half of your script is a reasonable starting point for the on-chain end of it.

[Miracle656]

Head is still 4e62c5dc, a fourth merge of main with no other commits. Rather than repeat the review, here is something that happened yesterday which settles it.

Upstream redeployed every SPP contract, and this test did not notice

Nethermind merged Fix/smt depth (#664) on 5 October and redeployed testnet. Every address moved — both pools, both ASP contracts, both verifiers, the registry, the deployer and the admin. The change was to the sparse Merkle tree depth, so every note in the old pools was invalidated. Veil's scheduled drift check went red at 16:58, and every privacy screen in the wallet was pointing at contracts that no longer existed until I re-pinned the config this morning (24badc74).

scripts/privacy-e2e.mjs would have passed, green, throughout all of it.

I checked why, and it is not a near miss — the script contains no SPP contract address at all. Grepping it for a C… contract id returns nothing. It cannot reference a pool because it never talks to one:

static poolNotes = new Map()
...
const recNotes = ScriptPrivacyClient.poolNotes.get(recipientKeys.notePublic) || []
recNotes.push({ id: `note_recv_${Date.now()}`, amount: amountStr, ... })
ScriptPrivacyClient.poolNotes.set(recipientKeys.notePublic, recNotes)

A private send is an object moving between two keys of an in-process Map. So a test whose job is to prove private payments work on testnet was unaffected by the pools being replaced and every note being invalidated. That is the exact failure the test exists to catch, and it is the one event it is structurally incapable of seeing.

What to build instead

main has what this needs now, and more of it than when I last wrote:

• getPrivacyClient() in frontend/wallet/lib/privacy/client.ts — sync(), privateBalance(), shield(), privateSend(), unshield(), each returning a real transaction hash.
• lib/privacy/config.ts, re-pinned this morning and verified against upstream by lib/privacy/__tests__/drift.live.test.ts.
• app/privacy/unshield merged in #762, so all three flows now exist in the app.

An end-to-end test that drives getPrivacyClient() through shield → private send → unshield, against the configured testnet pool, with a funded key, is both smaller than what is here and the thing #727 actually asks for. The shield half of your script — the part that does submit real transactions — is a reasonable starting point for it.

Two things make this genuinely harder than it looks, and are worth planning for rather than discovering: the prover needs the ~12 MB circuit downloaded on first use, and note discovery needs the bootnode, because RPC keeps only 7 days of events. Neither is a reason not to do it; both are reasons the CI job needs thinking about.

So my suggestion is a run that is manual or scheduled, not per-PR: it needs a funded testnet account and a live bootnode, and a flaky external dependency failing every PR is how a test gets deleted. The drift workflow is a good template — scheduled, and loud when it goes red.

Still open, and cheap

• frontend/wallet/e2e/privacy.spec.ts sits inside playwright.config.ts's testDir, so it is swept into the real Playwright run and boots a dev server for assertions that need no browser.
• The workflow's npm install @stellar/stellar-sdk mutates root package.json in CI instead of using the lockfile.

I would rather see this rebuilt small on top of the real client than patched, and I will review it the day it is up. If it would help, say so and I will open the skeleton — the config, the funded-account check and the three calls — and leave the assertions to you.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01USgemLt4Rnz4SGB1Srf3GB