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Based on https://git.rust-bitcoin.org/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pulls/4819.

This adds BOLT12 receive support over LSPS2 JIT channels using a node-local OffersMessageHandler and OffersMessageFlow. Offers retain ordinary blinded message paths and never contain an intercept SCID, allowing them to outlive individual PaymentLeases.

Single-use PaymentLeases are persisted through DataStore, while a bounded LRU persists fixed-amount and variable LeaseCacheTargets. Leases are restored and prefilled at startup, replenished after consumption, and periodically pruned when stale or close to expiry. Cache misses negotiate on demand with serialized requests, retries, and multi-LSP failover. BOLT11 uses the same cache.

Every BOLT12 offer is eligible for JIT fallback when LSPS2 is configured. We first try ordinary payment paths and omit the JIT path entirely when existing inbound liquidity is sufficient. Otherwise, we consume or negotiate a lease and include a JIT path constrained to the full payment amount. Fixed invoices advertise MPP, variable invoices disable it, and PaymentMetadata retains the fee policy needed to validate the LSP skim.

Potential follow-ups:

  • Currently we by-default include JIT paths whenever an LSPS2-enabled LSP is configured. Likewise, we're automatically auto-renegotiating leases. We should consider whether/how (read: best API) to give users more control here.

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Comment thread src/payment/bolt12/offers.rs Outdated
Ok(InvreqResponseInstructions::SendStaticInvoice { .. }) | Err(()) => return None,
};

let allow_mpp = invoice_request.amount().is_some();

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Shouldn't this always be true for the first (non-LSP) attempt here?

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Ah, yes, it seems for the first build_invoice call we'll want always true. Will add a fixup.

Comment thread src/payment/bolt12/offers.rs Outdated
Some(pending_request) => pending_request,
None => {
return Some((
OffersMessage::InvoiceError(InvoiceError::from_string(

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Should we not consider duplicatively returning an existing LSPS2 cached negotiation here? In cases where the LSP over-allocated liquidity and we have enough for a second payment, or where we're getting DoS'd and most of the invreqs will not result in a payment, returning something might actually get us the payment.

FWIW if we do this it might be worth considering a marginally different router design, which might be cleaner - rather than deciding on which lease to use and then adding it to the metadata and using that metadata to tell the router what to inject, give the router a reference to the LSPS2 lease store and have it simply ask for the latest (potentially-unused) lease for a payment, then inject the metadata it wants.

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Hmm, in my mind both of these fall in the category 'further optimizations', i.e., I'd lean towards taking a new look at them in a follow-up rather than trying to land all of it in this initial implementation.

In particular I had considered doing something along the line of what you describe in the second paragraph to avoid transferring all of the parameters via the payment metadata, but for simplicity's sake (though nothing is really simple here) for now opted to keep it in the metadata for now as that makes it at least easier to reason about compared to introducing yet-another side channel that could race if we're not super careful.

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That's fine with me, I only raised it because it would likely imply a refactor of the router, so if we want to do that refactor ideally we should do it now rather than rewriting the code later. The feature itself would be nice but could be a followup.

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Comment thread src/liquidity/client/lsps2/mod.rs Outdated

let (negotiated_lease, min_total_fee_msat, cheapest_lsp) =
self.negotiate_fixed_lease(amount_msat, connection_manager).await?;
let lease = self.consume_lease(&negotiated_lease.id).await?;

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Won't this re-fetch through valid() and reject the lease we just bought if its validity is under 24h? Likewise in acquire_variable_lease.

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Done in cf21770

Comment thread src/liquidity/client/lsps2/mod.rs Outdated
lease,
move |lease| async move { lease_store.remove(&lease.id).await },
|lease| {
self.lease_state.lock().expect("lock").remove(&lease.id);

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Can't two concurrent requests both select the same lease? Both callers would get the same single-use intercept SCID.

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Hmm, good catch. It seems this is a regression as originally we had a slightly different design there that would have made this impossible. Will fix.

Comment thread src/liquidity/client/lsps2/router.rs Outdated
Comment thread src/event.rs
Comment on lines +374 to +402
let _pending_request = pending_request;
let response =
lsps2_client.prepare_invoice_response(jit_request, connection_manager).await;
let (message, instructions) = match response {
Ok(JitInvoiceResponse { payment_metadata: jit_metadata, allow_mpp }) => {
debug_assert_eq!(allow_mpp, jit_request.allow_mpp());
let mut merged_metadata = payment_metadata.unwrap_or_default();
merged_metadata.extend(jit_metadata);
match build_invoice(
flow.as_ref(),
channel_manager.as_ref(),
keys_manager.as_ref(),
router.as_ref(),
secp_ctx.as_ref(),
&invoice_request,
Some(merged_metadata),
allow_mpp,
payment_info.as_ref(),
) {
Ok((invoice, context)) => (
OffersMessage::Invoice(invoice),
responder.respond_with_reply_path(context),
),
Err(error) => (
OffersMessage::InvoiceError(error.into_invoice_error()),
responder.respond(),
),
}
},

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A payer may send many invoice requests (for robustness) but only pay one. Won't this cause us to acquire too many leases / is a DoS vector?

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Well, discussed this quite a bit with Matt before. Yes, it's not ideal, but we'll have to make sure to not reuse leases/intercept SCIDs as otherwise subsequent payments will not trigger channel opens. This is unfortunately a limitation of the bLIP-52/LSPS2 spec that we can't really work around. One follow-up we could consider is to add rate-limiting and more user control, e.g., via an event-based flow in LDK Node (also see the TODO mentioned in OP).

}
}

fn build_invoice(

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Ideally, LDK provides some abstraction so we don't need to repeat much of this logic.

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Yeah, possibly, but at least for v0.3 that ship has sailed I'm afraid.

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I had Claude review this and it came up with quite a few issues. I already left comments for ones that I was able to verify. But there some others here: https://gist.github.com/jkczyz/3324c2914601a2728605a49294f25bc9. Failing tests in this branch: https://github.com/jkczyz/ldk-node/tree/claude/pr-999-edge-cases-725f70

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I had Claude review this and it came up with quite a few issues. I already left comments for ones that I was able to verify. But there some others here: https://gist.github.com/jkczyz/3324c2914601a2728605a49294f25bc9. Failing tests in this branch: https://github.com/jkczyz/ldk-node/tree/claude/pr-999-edge-cases-725f70

Still have to go through the list fully. Some seem valid, some bogus.

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I had Claude review this and it came up with quite a few issues. I already left comments for ones that I was able to verify. But there some others here: https://gist.github.com/jkczyz/3324c2914601a2728605a49294f25bc9. Failing tests in this branch: https://github.com/jkczyz/ldk-node/tree/claude/pr-999-edge-cases-725f70

Still have to go through the list fully. Some seem valid, some bogus.

Addressed most of the points now. @jkczyz please let me know what you think.

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Rebased to address minor conflicts.

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Make room for a dedicated offers message handler without mixing
networking concerns into the public BOLT12 payment API.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Persist a bounded LRU of fixed and variable payment requirements so
restarts can pre-negotiate useful leases without making offer
recognition depend on per-offer state. Prune expired targets to bound
durable storage.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Register bounded fixed and variable lease targets when ordinary offers
may need just-in-time liquidity. Cache state remains advisory so offers
stay valid and cold invoice requests can negotiate on demand.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Move shared payment metadata out of the BOLT11 module.

This lets other protocols reuse it without a BOLT11 dependency.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Keep LSPS2 path construction in LDK Node and fall back to exact-
amount JIT paths only when ordinary blinded paths are unavailable.
This avoids unnecessary channel opens and unsafe MPP splits.

Decode node-local single-use lease metadata directly in the router so
the internal wrapper needs no pluggable metadata abstraction.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Exercise aggregate MPP capacity and the per-channel non-MPP
check so ordinary fallback behavior remains explicit.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Install a node-local handler while preserving ChannelManager behavior.
This creates an isolated integration point for asynchronous JIT replies.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Feed every supported chain source into the node-local offers flow so
invoice expiry and blinded-path CLTV limits use the current tip.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Install the node-local LSPS2-aware router during node construction so
BOLT12 responses can append negotiated JIT paths.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Verify and answer ordinary invoice requests with the node-owned offers
flow while retaining ChannelManager handling for all other messages.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Answer verified JIT invoice requests after asynchronously acquiring a
single-use LSPS2 lease. Send the result through the onion messenger so
negotiation does not depend on the ChannelManager event queue.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Limit concurrently pending JIT invoice requests so an onion-message
storm cannot create an unbounded number of lease negotiations. Hold a
permit while requests wait for an offer lock or an LSP response.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Keep built-in service parameters usable beyond the client cache safety
margin so freshly negotiated leases are not rejected due to timing.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Read fee limits from BOLT12 payment context metadata and reject
unsupported withholding. Record accepted fees on inbound offer payments.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Inbound refunds can be rejected before settlement just like inbound
offer payments, so updating their terminal status must not assert.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Describe the amount received after an LSP fee and record the new
payment-kind field in the pending release notes.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Make same-amount and variable callers wait for one in-flight LSPS2
request, then recheck the shared cache before negotiating.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Keep one usable lease ready after fixed or variable receive flows
consume cached parameters. Foreground callers share the refill lock
and reuse its result when it completes.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
A cached lease must not suppress refill after its LSP is removed
from the configured set.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
After startup discovery, refill persisted fixed-amount and variable
lease cache targets. Reuse valid leases and renegotiate only missing
or stale entries so receiving can resume promptly after restart.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Try the next eligible provider when a selected LSP rejects or times
out, and retry bounded whole rounds for transient failures. Preserve
immediate errors for fee limits and unavailable liquidity sources.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Use resolved BOLT12 amounts to reject variable leases outside the
payment range or total fee policy. Keep BOLT11 selection amountless
until payment, while recording the exact BOLT12 fee limit.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Treat the one-day margin as a cache policy while allowing freshly
negotiated leases to cover only the invoice being built. Keep on-demand
leases caller-owned and persist only leases intended for reuse.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Callers need to know that long invoice expiries require an LSP offer
whose validity covers the requested lifetime.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Cover fixed and variable BOLT12 offers through a real LSPS2 service.
Verify node-ID offer addressing, fee withholding, fresh JIT channels,
and the variable-amount single-path behavior.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Extend the order-independent fee-selection scenario through a real
BOLT12 payment. Also prove that BOLT11 consumption and BOLT12 response
handling share the same replenished lease pool.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Keep the limited-fee multi-LSP case running through the BOLT12
invoice-request path before returning.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Rebuild the receiver from its persisted store and pay the same
long-lived offer again. Verify the pending offer survives and the exact
cached lease is consumed before its replacement is negotiated.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
Pin the direct lease serialization format and ensure fixed-amount and
variable-amount caches remain isolated. These focused checks complement
the end-to-end BOLT11 and BOLT12 coverage.

Co-Authored-By: HAL 9000
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