Four agents audited the code as it is at 4b14d13, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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• 1.mediumR1-A3-1 fix incomplete: a first buy of 59-133 wei (IMD fee 1 wei, payouts 0) consumes the first-buy exception, so the next real buy pays cashback, owner and prize shares as ERC-6909 claimssrc/PleaHook.sol:564

          if (buy && imdFee != 0) hasBought = true;

  FINDINGS.md R1-A3-1 (Medium) is marked fixed by setting hasBought only for a buy with a nonzero IMD fee, and THREAT-MODEL section 3 says a buy whose IMD fee rounds to zero does not consume the exception.

  But the exception exists to cover the payouts (cashback 0.5% + owner 0.75% + prize 0.25% of the basis), and those round to zero for larger buys than the fee does: the fee is basis*175/10000 (nonzero from 58 wei of basis) while the cashback needs 200 wei, the owner share 134 wei and the prize 400 wei.

  A first buy of 59..133 wei gross therefore has imdFee = 1 wei, out = 0, asClaims = false (any balance >= 0), sets hasBought = true and leaves the PoolManager holding about 100 wei of IMD. The next real buy (out = 1.5% of the fill > the PoolManager's balance, firstBuy false) takes the claims branch in _payFees: the trader's cashback is minted as an ERC-6909 IMD claim (no sIMD, no Stacker call), the launch owner's 0.75% and Seasons' 0.25% are minted as claims.

  This is the round-1 grief at a cost of about 100 wei plus gas; seed is permissionless from START, so the dust buy can be back-run into the same block, ahead of the owner's closing first buy that section 3 relies on. The regression test test/AuditRound1.t.sol test_aDustFirstBuyDoesNotConsumeTheFirstBuyException only tries a 1-wei buy (fee 0) and misses this.

  Invariants checked: 19 (the first buy may route payouts to pool liquidity; here the second buy pays claims instead), 22. Fix preserving the design: consume the exception only when a buy's payouts were actually funded, e.g. compute out first and set hasBought only when buy && out != 0 && !asClaims; or apply the PayoutsToPool redirect to any shortage while the PoolManager holds less than out. Merged from the audit_permissions specialist (reproduced).

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  Project fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol: IMD is currency0, Cabal alive, past the launch window, PoolManager holding 0 IMD).

  1. carol: router.buyExactIn(100, abi.encode(carol)): imdFee = 100*175/10175 = 1 wei, cashback/owner/prize = 0, hasBought = true, imd.balanceOf(pm) = 100 wei.

  2. bob: router.buyExactIn(100e18, abi.encode(bob)).

  Expected (R1-A3-1 fix, invariant 19): bob's 0.5% cashback stacked as sIMD, or the payouts routed to pool liquidity as the first fee-paying buy; no claims.

  Actual on this commit (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_dustFirstBuy100Wei): pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) = 491400491400491400, pm.balanceOf(OWNER, imd) = 737100737100737100, pm.balanceOf(seasons, imd) = 245700245700245700, simd.byProject(bob, hook) = 0.

  The assertion 'bob was paid ERC-6909 claims: 491400491400491400 != 0' fails.

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• 2.mediumAnyone can dilute another holder's buy-weighted hold time (and fact score) by buying PLEA with hookData naming themsrc/PleaHook.sol:538

              _updateBasis(trader, buy, imdBasis + imdFee, buy ? pleaAmt - pleaFee : pleaAmt + pleaFee);

  The trader is whatever address the swapper puts in hookData (_resolveTrader line 657-663: any non-excluded address is accepted, with no link to the payer). afterSwap then writes a buy into basisOf[trader], and _updateBasis (line 695) moves avgBuyTime toward block.timestamp weighted by the PLEA bought. CabalGate._factScoreAt (src/CabalGate.sol:263-268) reads basisOf(seller).avgBuyTime for the hold band (>=7d: 7, >=3d: 4, >=1d: 2).

  So a third party can, without the victim's consent, push a seller's buy-weighted age back under a band edge just before the victim submits (front-running submitSell, or pre-emptively, since basisOf is public).

  The PLEA needed is only held x margin/age: a holder 1 hour past 7 days loses the 3 hold points for a gift of about 0.6% of their position; the victim's need rises by up to 3 (invariant 3 says the fact score is computed from the trader's own record), so a plea scored at need is denied, losing the 0.5 IMD fee and starting the 4-hour cooldown (invariant 5).

  The gifted PLEA is gated and cannot be sold without a plea, and only improves the share band, which the attacker avoids by targeting sellers not near a 15%/30% edge. hookData is trusted for who earns cashback (harmless: the payer gives it away) but is also trusted to rewrite another account's scoring record. Not listed in THREAT-MODEL section 3 or FINDINGS.md.

  Invariants checked: 3, 22 (hold time kept per trader and reduced only by final sales: a stranger's buy reduces it). Fix preserving the design: award the hold band only on PLEA whose own age covers the plea amount (per-trader buckets or a FIFO of buys so later additions never age older PLEA down), or record basis only when the trader is the swapper's attested caller and treat other hookData buys as untracked gifts. Merged from the audit_permissions specialist (reproduced).

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  Project fixture (Cabal alive, after the launch window). alice buys 100 IMD of PLEA; carol buys 10 IMD and keeps the Cabal alive for a week (holdAWeek) plus 7 hours with two small trades fixing the hourly checkpoints. alice's buy-weighted age is 175 h and gate.factScore(alice, balance/10) = 36 (hold band 7). bob calls router.buyExactIn(6e18, abi.encode(alice)): the buy succeeds, the PLEA goes to alice, basisOf(alice).avgBuyTime moves to an age of 165 h.

  Expected: a stranger's purchase does not change alice's scoring record (score 36).

  Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_holdDilution): gate.factScore(alice, same amount) = 33 (hold band 4), so alice's need rises from 35 to 38; the assertion 'a stranger's buy changed alice's fact score: 33 != 36' fails.

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• 3.mediumZero-fill swaps in the liquidity-free region drag refTick to a drained tick, so rebalance parks the whole wall reserve tens of thousands of ticks below the market once a buy restores spotsrc/PleaHook.sol:965

          curBlockTick = currentTick();

  _observeTick (lines 956-966) records the post-swap tick as curBlockTick unconditionally and, on the first swap of each new block, walks refTick toward it by up to MAX_REF_STEP (200) ticks. Unlike _updateWallGuard (line 1002), it does not check that the pool has active liquidity at that tick. _rebalance then uses refTick as the wall's edge (line 846 / 853: the safest of spot and refTick) and its drained test (lines 829-831) only compares spot with refTick.

  After the Cabal's death a seller can drain the market band's IMD to a limit deep in the liquidity-free region (free trading, partial fills allowed, as in the R1-A3-3 test), where every later swap is a zero-fill: a 1-wei exact-input buy with sqrtPriceLimitX96 one unit toward the market moves the price inside the empty region, fills nothing, pays no fee (1*175/10175 = 0) and costs nothing but gas (the swapper's delta is 0), yet runs afterSwap and _observeTick.

  One such swap per block walks refTick 200 ticks per block to the drained tick (60,000 ticks in 300 blocks, about an hour on mainnet).

  Once a buy brings spot back into the market band (liquidity != 0, drained false), rebalance() deploys the entire reserve as a wall whose near edge is alignUp(refTick + 1): in the reproduction 60,209 ticks below the market (a PLEA bid at about 0.25% of the market price) instead of against the band as the README (Wall placement guard) and the R1-A3-3 fix promise. The guard does not help: it only floors the placement on the high-price side, and a lower bid is always safe for it.

  The reserve never leaves the pool (no fund loss) but the buy wall, the only bid support after the death, is useless until refTick walks back (200 ticks per block with a swap, i.e. as many blocks as the attacker spent), and a corrective rebalance is refused (RebalanceNotNeeded) until a further 1 IMD of pool fees or fundWall accrues, since the deployment spent the reserve. The attacker can repeat the drag at any time for gas only.

  Invariant 21 checked: the wall is placed only below the guard price still holds literally, but the agreed behaviour that a drained, untraded tick never sets the wall's placement (README; FINDINGS R1-A3-3) is broken through refTick instead of spot.

  Fix: have _observeTick ignore ticks with no active liquidity, as _updateWallGuard does (only assign curBlockTick when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) != 0), or clamp the edge in _rebalance to spot when refTick lies on the drained side of the market band. Merged from the audit_flow specialist (reproduced).

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  Project fixture, after the Cabal's death (skip DEADMAN + 1; PLEA is token1 by default).

  1. alice buys 100e18 IMD worth of PLEA, receives 50M PLEA from the distributor, and sells 50M PLEA through the plain router with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(market.tickUpper + 60000): the market band's IMD is drained, getLiquidity() == 0, spot = -180720, refTick = -120721.

  2. In each of 310 consecutive blocks bob calls router.buyExactInLimit(1, abi.encode(bob), currentSqrtPriceX96 - 1): each swap fills 0 and costs bob 0 IMD (measured: 0 wei spent over the 310 swaps); liquidity stays 0; hook.refTick() ends at -180720, the drained tick.

  3. Next block bob buys 50e18 IMD: spot returns to -120511 inside the market band (liquidity > 0).

  4. alice calls fundWall(10e18); keeper calls rebalance().

  Expected: the wall's near edge within a few hundred ticks of spot (test/AuditRound1.t.sol asserts this for the undragged case).

  Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_refTickDrag): wall = (-887220, -180720, liquidity 104592815340425039044945), wallImd = 12456990000000000000 (the whole reserve), retainedImd = 12457002457002 wei, gap between the wall's upper tick and spot = 60209; pendingRebalance() is then false.

  The assertion 'the wall followed the dragged refTick: 60209 >= 1000' fails.

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• 4.mediumA price-limited partial fill with no resolvable trader keeps the whole reserved fee: the swapper pays the IMD fee on the requested amount, not on the fillsrc/PleaHook.sol:507

              else _keep(specifiedIsImd, specFee - specDue);

  beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (line 456) and afterSwap settles it against the realised fill (lines 503-508).

  When the fill is partial (a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot) the unearned part specFee - specDue is refunded to the trader, but when the hook resolved no trader (empty hookData and a sender without msgSender(): an aggregator executor, a Safe or any contract wallet that unlocks the PoolManager itself, which is allowed once the Cabal is dead) the surplus is kept: _keep mints it to the hook as pool-share claims (IMD) or burns it (PLEA).

  The swapper's net cost is fill + fee-on-requested-amount, which can be many times the 2.0% of the fill that THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 promises for every trade through any router ('a partial fill pays only on what filled'). Nothing is stolen, but the swapper silently loses up to 1.72% of the unfilled input to the pool. THREAT-MODEL section 3 only accepts that a trader-less trade pays no cashback (the 0.5% of the fill stays in the pool), not a fee on IMD that never traded.

  Reachable only after the death (while the Cabal lives a trader-less buy reverts RecipientRequired and sells go through the gate), and only with a self-chosen price limit, so the loss is bounded and partly the swapper's own choice: Medium, with invariant 19's partial-fill clause broken for this class of swap.

  Fix preserving the design: refund the surplus to sender (the router is the only party the hook knows; a router that cannot name its caller still sweeps its own balance), or for trader-less swaps charge the specified-side fee only in afterSwap on the fill. Merged from the audit_economics specialist (reproduced).

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  Project fixture, after the Cabal's death (plea.restricted() == false). alice has bought 100e18 IMD worth so the pool trades. bob calls the fixture's BuyRouter (it has no msgSender()) buyExactInLimit(1000e18, '', TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(currentTick - 60)) so the hook resolves no trader.

  Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_traderlessPartialFill): bob receives 2371793416510539561844157 PLEA and pays 31419685769073311432 IMD; hook.totalPoolFees() grows by 17092362184741778174 (= 1000e18*175/10175 - the fee due on the fill).

  The same swap with hookData = abi.encode(bob) (test_traderlessPartialFillCompare) fills the same 2371793416510539561844157 PLEA for 14469530270032094382 IMD with no claims.

  Expected per invariant 19: the trader-less swap pays at most fill + 1.75% of the fill, i.e. 14.47 IMD, not 31.42 IMD.

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• 5.lowA partially filled exact-input buy refunds the unearned IMD fee as ERC-6909 claims at any pool age whenever the refund exceeds the PoolManager's IMD, not only on the first buyssrc/PleaHook.sol:624

              poolManager.mint(trader, _id(address(imd)), amount);

  beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (line 456) and afterSwap refunds the part the fill did not earn through _refund (lines 616-627). The refund is paid as ERC-20 IMD only while the PoolManager's IMD balance covers it (line 620); otherwise it is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 claim.

  The refund is 1.72% of (requested - filled), which is unbounded by the pool's size: a trader who sends a large exact-input buy with a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot (a partial fill through any plain v4 router, or a slippage limit the market moved past before inclusion) fills little and is owed far more IMD than the PoolManager holds, so the refund lands as claims.

  THREAT-MODEL section 3 and the README document claims only for the payouts of a buy larger than about 66x the PoolManager's IMD and say only the first few sizeable buys after the open can hit it; this path has no such bound and is reachable whenever (requested - filled) x 1.72% exceeds the PoolManager's IMD balance. For a plain wallet the refunded IMD is unusable until it writes a contract that unlocks, burns and takes (the same limitation the threat model notes for claims).

  No funds are lost (the claim is backed once the swapper settles) and the trader chose the limit, so Low: an undocumented edge case.

  Fix: document the path next to the 66x residual (THREAT-MODEL section 3, README fee table) and have the site's router always swap with the MIN/MAX price limit so a fill is never partial, or reserve the specified-side fee in beforeSwap against the IMD the pool can actually fill rather than the requested amount. Merged from the audit_math specialist (reproduced).

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  Project fixture (IMD is currency0, Cabal alive, past the launch window).

  1. carol: router.buyExactIn(10e18, abi.encode(carol)): the PoolManager holds 10 IMD.

  2. alice: router.buyExactInLimit(1000e18, abi.encode(alice), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(currentTick - 30)).

  Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_refundAsClaimsOnAMaturePool): alice pays 24053089564451275616 wei of IMD as ERC-20, receives 1188370521621326532801193 PLEA, basisOf(alice).imdSpent = 6974018631829172939, and pm.balanceOf(alice, uint160(imd)) = 17079070932622102677 (FeeRefunded with asClaims = true).

  Expected per README/THREAT-MODEL: claims only on the first few sizeable buys after the open; here the pool is already trading and an EOA holds a 17 IMD claim it cannot redeem without a contract.

  The assertion 'refund paid as claims: 17079070932622102677 != 0' fails.

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• 6.infoThe 5M PLEA launch cap is per swap, not per transaction or wallet: a router chains several swaps in one unlocksrc/PleaHook.sol:683

          if (block.timestamp < launchedAt + LAUNCH_WINDOW && pleaAmount > LAUNCH_MAX_BUY) {

  _checkMaxBuy bounds the PLEA output of one swap during the 90-minute launch window. A router's unlockCallback may call PoolManager.swap any number of times inside one unlock (or one transaction), each naming the same trader in hookData, so a single buyer takes 5M PLEA per swap times as many swaps as it likes in one block, paying the same launch fee it would pay for one large buy. The cap therefore limits only the price impact of one swap, not how much one buyer can take early.

  The README and THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 say 'capped at 5M PLEA each', which matches the code, so this is a documentation/intent note rather than a defect unless the cap was meant to throttle a single buyer. Merged from the audit_economics specialist (confirmed by reading: the check has no per-trader, per-block or per-unlock state).

  Inside the launch window (block.timestamp < launchedAt + 90 minutes) a contract calls PoolManager.unlock and in its callback runs pm.swap(key, {zeroForOne: !pleaIsZero, amountSpecified: -X, limit}, abi.encode(buyer)) ten times with X sized so each swap yields just under 5,000,000e18 PLEA, then settles the IMD once.

  Every swap passes _checkMaxBuy (lines 453 and 518 read only the swap's own amount); the buyer leaves with just under 50M PLEA in one transaction.

  Expected if the cap is meant per buyer or per block: BuyTooLarge; actual: all ten succeed.

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• 7.infoTrader rule case 3 (a plain-wallet sender) is unreachable: a codeless account can never be the swap sendersrc/PleaHook.sol:665

          if (sender.code.length == 0) return _validTrader(sender, sender) ? sender : address(0);

  The PoolManager only accepts swap from a caller that is inside unlock, and unlock calls back msg.sender's unlockCallback and abi-decodes a bytes return value; an account without code returns empty data, so the decode reverts and the swap never happens. An EIP-7702 delegated wallet has a 23-byte delegation designator, so sender.code.length != 0 and the hook takes the msgSender() path, which a delegated wallet without that function fails (ret.length != 32 -> address(0)).

  So a wallet that calls the PoolManager itself with no hookData never resolves a trader: while the Cabal lives its buy reverts RecipientRequired, after the death it trades without cashback or a buy record. The documented rule (README 'Who gets the cashback', THREAT-MODEL section 1, the comment at lines 652-655) lists the plain-wallet case as a real path; it is dead code. No funds at risk; the fix is a documentation change or dropping the branch.

  Merged from the audit_economics specialist (confirmed by reading v4-core PoolManager.unlock and _resolveTrader).

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  An EOA calls pm.unlock directly: unlock reverts decoding the empty return of the callback, so beforeSwap is never reached.

  A 7702-delegated EOA whose delegate implements unlockCallback but not msgSender() reaches _resolveTrader with sender.code.length == 23, the staticcall to msgSender() returns no 32-byte word, and the trader is address(0): RecipientRequired while alive, no cashback or buy record after the death.

  Expected per the documented rule: the wallet itself is the trader.

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2. Audit permissionsAgent #316found 2 medium

   I found two Medium issues in PleaHook and nothing at Critical or High. Both are written to .imd-findings.json. Neither carries a self-contained proof: Mediums don't need one, so I proved both with scratch tests in test/scratch/ that build on the project's own test setup (Fixture) and ran them on this commit. No contract or config files were changed.

   1. Medium — the round-1 fix R1-A3-1 is incomplete (src/PleaHook.sol:564)

   • The fix only stops a buy whose total fee rounds to zero from using up the "first buy" exception.
   • The payouts that exception protects round to zero for larger buys. For a buy of 59–133 wei the fee is 1 wei, but the cashback, owner and prize shares are all 0.
   • Such a buy still marks the exception as used, so the next real buy is paid in ERC-6909 claims instead of staked IMD and plain IMD.
   • Checked: after a 100-wei first buy, a 100 IMD buy pays the buyer 0.4914 IMD in claims and 0 staked IMD, and pays the owner 0.7371 IMD in claims. The existing regression test only tries a 1-wei buy, so it misses this.
   • Suggested fix: count a buy as the first only when its payouts were actually paid out of the pool's IMD (buy && out != 0 && !asClaims).

   2. Medium — anyone can shorten another holder's hold time (src/PleaHook.sol:538)

   • The hook accepts any address in hookData as the trader and records that buy in that address's cost basis. That moves their average buy time toward now.
   • The gate scores hold time from that record, so a stranger can push a seller under the 7-day or 3-day mark just before they plead, for example by front-running submitSell. The seller's need goes up by 3 or 2, and a denied plea costs them the 0.5 IMD fee and starts the 4-hour cooldown.
   • Checked: a holder 174 h past their buys scores 40. A 6 IMD buy by someone else naming them drops their age to 164 h and their score to 37. A holder only one hour past 7 days would need a gift of about 0.6% of their position.
   • This isn't in THREAT-MODEL §3 or FINDINGS.md.
   • Suggested fix: give the hold points only when the PLEA already old enough covers the plea amount, so later buys can't age older PLEA down.

   Invariants checked: 19 (fee split and exact deltas, in both directions and both token orderings, plus partial fills and refunds), 20 (who may initialize or add liquidity, the launch window), 21 (cap ratchet, trims, wall and its guard, the Stacker approval per credit), 22 (gas check before the cashback credit, cost basis and hold time), and 3 as far as it reads the hook's price checkpoints and basis.

   Fixes from round 1:

   • R1-A3-2 (exact-output fee): correct.
   • R1-A3-3 (no wall at a drained tick): holds as written. One gap is unproven: repeated dust sells after the Cabal's death might walk the hook's reference tick down to a drained price over many blocks. I left it out as no more than Low.

   Looked at and not reported:

   • Sends to the system contracts (hookData naming the gate, Letterbox, Seasons or distributor): listed as accepted in THREAT-MODEL §3.
   • Lying routers, dirty upper bits, excluded recipients, a contract swapping from its own constructor: no harm beyond the router's own funds.
   • Donations, nested unlocks, unlockCallback access, fundWall, rebalance: no harm found.

   I didn't run the full suites under FOUNDRY_PROFILE=full.

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   • mediumR1-A3-1 fix incomplete: a 59-wei first buy (IMD fee 1 wei, payouts 0) still consumes the first-buy exception, so the next real buy pays ERC-6909 claims instead of sIMD/IMDsrc/PleaHook.sol:564

     FINDINGS.md R1-A3-1 (Medium) is marked fixed by setting hasBought only for a buy with a nonzero IMD fee, and THREAT-MODEL section 3 says 'a buy whose IMD fee rounds to zero does not consume this exception'.

     But the exception exists to cover the payouts (cashback + owner + prize = 1.5% of the basis), and those round to zero for far larger buys than the fee does: the fee is basis*175/10000 (nonzero from ~58 wei of basis), while cashback needs 200 wei, the owner share 134 wei and the prize 400 wei. Any first buy of 59..133 wei therefore has imdFee = 1 wei, out = 0, asClaims = false (balance >= 0), sets hasBought = true and leaves the PoolManager holding ~100 wei of IMD.

     The next real buy (out = 1.5% of the fill > PM balance, firstBuy false) takes the claims branch: the trader's cashback is minted as an ERC-6909 IMD claim (no sIMD, no Stacker call), the launch owner's 0.75% and Seasons' 0.25% are minted as claims.

     This is exactly the round-1 grief at a cost of ~100 wei + gas; the attacker only needs to land right after seed (seed is permissionless from START, so it can be back-run in the same block, ahead of the owner's 'closing' first buy that section 3 relies on).

     Fix preserving the design: consume the exception only when a buy's payouts were actually funded, e.g. compute out first and set hasBought only when buy && out != 0 && !asClaims (a dust or redirected buy then never closes it), or apply the PayoutsToPool redirect to any shortage while the PoolManager holds less than out.

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     Fixture defaults (Cabal alive, after the launch window, fresh PoolManager holding 0 IMD). carol: router.buyExactIn(100, abi.encode(carol)) -> imdFee = 100*175/10175 = 1, basis 99, out = 0, hasBought = true, imd.balanceOf(pm) = 100. bob: buyExactIn(100e18, abi.encode(bob)).

     Expected (R1-A3-1 fix, invariant 19): bob's 0.5% cashback stacked as sIMD (or the payouts routed to pool liquidity as the first fee-paying buy), no claims.

     Actual on this commit (test/scratch/DustFirstBuy.t.sol, inheriting the project Fixture): pm.balanceOf(bob, imd) = 491400491400491400, pm.balanceOf(OWNER, imd) = 737100737100737100, simd.byProject(bob, hook) = 0.

     The existing regression test test/AuditRound1.t.sol test_aDustFirstBuyDoesNotConsumeTheFirstBuyException only tries a 1-wei buy (fee 0) and so misses this.

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   • mediumAnyone can dilute another holder's buy-weighted hold time (and fact score) by buying PLEA with hookData naming themsrc/PleaHook.sol:538

     The trader is whatever address the swapper puts in hookData (_resolveTrader, line 448/656: any non-excluded address is accepted, no link to the payer). afterSwap then writes a buy into basisOf[trader] (line 538), and _updateBasis (line 695) moves avgBuyTime toward block.timestamp weighted by the PLEA bought. CabalGate._factScoreAt reads basisOf(seller).avgBuyTime for the hold band (>=7d: 7, >=3d: 4, >=1d: 2).

     So any third party can, with no permission from the victim, push a seller's buy-weighted age back under a band edge just before the victim submits (front-running submitSell, or pre-emptively, since basisOf is public). The PLEA needed is only held x margin/age: a holder 1 hour past 7 days loses the 3 hold points for a gift of ~0.6% of their position; 1 hour past 3 days loses 2 points for ~1.4%.

     The victim's need rises by up to 3 (invariant 3 says the fact score is computed from the trader's own buys), so a plea scored at need can be denied, losing the 0.5 IMD fee and starting the 4-hour cooldown (invariant 5). The gifted PLEA cannot help the victim: it is gated and only improves the share band, which the attacker avoids by targeting sellers not near a 15%/30% edge.

     This is a trust gap in the trader rule: hookData is trusted for who earns cashback (harmless: the payer gives it away) but is also trusted to write another account's scoring record. Not listed in THREAT-MODEL section 3 or FINDINGS.md.

     Fix preserving the design: score the hold band on PLEA whose age already covers the plea amount (e.g. keep per-trader buckets or a FIFO of buys and award the band only if the PLEA bought before now-7d/3d/1d is >= amount, so later additions never age older PLEA down), or record basis only when the trader is the swapper's own attested caller and treat other buys as untracked gifts.

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     Fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol, Cabal alive, after the launch window). alice buys 100 IMD (16,784,742 PLEA); carol keeps the Cabal alive for a week (holdAWeek) plus 6 hours; a trade fixes the hour's checkpoint. alice's age is 174 h and gate.factScore(alice, balance/10) = 40 (hold band 7). bob calls router.buyExactIn(6e18, abi.encode(alice)): the buy succeeds, the PLEA goes to alice, basisOf(alice).avgBuyTime moves to an age of 164 h.

     Expected: a stranger's purchase does not change alice's scoring record (score 40).

     Actual: factScore(alice, same amount) = 37 (hold band 4), i.e. alice's need rises from 31 to 34.

     Measured on this commit with test/scratch/HoldDilution.t.sol (inherits the project Fixture, so it is attached as a description of the run, not as a self-contained proof).

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3. Audit mathAgent #179found 1 low

   All 54 tests in the round-1 and hook suites pass, including the regression tests for R1-A3-1, R1-A3-2 and R1-A3-3. I'm done with the review; here is the recap.

   Outcome. The findings file holds one Low. I found no Critical, High or Medium in PleaHook or IStacker, and every agreed number in the hook matches the threat model (2.0% split 50/75/25/25 plus 25 bps PLEA burn, 90-minute window 70% to 0%, 5M per buy, 5,700 IMD seed, 900k floor over 15 days, 400 ticks a day, 1M gas reserve).

   The finding (Low). A partially filled exact-input buy reserves its fee on the requested amount and refunds the unearned part in afterSwap. When that refund exceeds the IMD the PoolManager holds, it is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 claim. The threat model documents claims only for buys larger than about 66 times the pool's IMD and says only the first few buys can hit it. The refund path has no such bound: a 1,000 IMD buy with a price limit 30 ticks from spot filled 6.85 IMD and left 17.08 IMD of claims in an EOA's hands. No funds are lost, and the trader chose the limit, so it is a documentation and router-guidance gap.

   Invariants checked for this area. 19 (fee on the fill, both specified sides, partial fills, claims paths, nothing stuck in the hook), 20 (hook-only liquidity and initialization, launch window), 21 (cap ratchet pace and floors, trims, wall placement below the guard, wall IMD stays in the pool, per-credit Stacker allowance), 22 (NotEnoughGas and the 63/64 rule, basis bookkeeping), and the checkpoint source behind invariant 3.

   What I verified and why it holds.

   • Exact-in and exact-out fee formulas are algebraically the same share of the fill, and the min with the reserved fee means the trader is never overcharged. Sum of floored shares never exceeds the IMD fee, so the pool share never underflows.
   • Hook deltas balance in every path (buy alive, buy dead, sell, exact-out), and an int128 truncation of a huge fee can only lead to a revert, never a credit.
   • The cap ratchet's remainder bookkeeping conserves the allowance exactly over long gaps. My probe's apparent overshoot was the 91 minutes banked since seed.
   • The guard rises at 400 ticks a day bounded by the lagging reference tick, drops at once only to lower traded prices, and ignores drained ticks. The wall is always placed below spot, guard and reference.
   • The cashback fallback pays plain IMD and leaves no allowance.

   Round-1 fixes for this area (hasBought dust guard, exact-output fee on the fill, no wall at a drained tick) are correct and their tests pass. Scratch probes are in test/scratch and are not part of the submission.

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   • lowA partially filled exact-input buy refunds the unearned fee as ERC-6909 IMD claims at any pool age, not only on the first buyssrc/PleaHook.sol:624

     beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (line 456) and afterSwap refunds the part the fill did not earn through _refund (lines 616-627). The refund is paid as ERC-20 IMD only while the PoolManager's IMD balance covers it; otherwise it is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 claim.

     The refund is 1.72% of (requested - filled), which is unbounded: a trader who sends a large exact-input buy with a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot (a partial fill through any plain v4 router) fills little and is refunded far more IMD than the PoolManager holds, so the refund lands as claims.

     THREAT-MODEL section 3 and the README document claims only for the payouts of a buy larger than about 66x the PoolManager's IMD and say 'only the first few sizeable buys after the open can hit it'; this path has no such bound and is reachable whenever (requested - filled) x 1.72% exceeds the PoolManager's IMD balance. For a plain wallet the refunded IMD is unusable until it writes a contract that unlocks, burns and takes (the same limitation the threat model notes for claims).

     No funds are lost and the trader chose the limit, so Low: an undocumented edge case.

     Fix: document the path next to the 66x residual (THREAT-MODEL section 3, README fee table) and have the site's router always swap with the MIN/MAX price limit so a fill is never partial, or reserve the specified-side fee against the pool's available IMD rather than the requested amount.

     whole finding

     Fixture (IMD is currency0, Cabal alive, past the launch window).

     1. buy(carol, 10e18): the PoolManager holds about 9.8 IMD.

     2. alice calls router.buyExactInLimit(1_000e18, abi.encode(alice), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(currentTick + 30)).

     Observed: alice pays 24.053 IMD ERC-20, receives 1,188,370 PLEA (6.85 IMD of fill plus 0.12 IMD of fee), basisOf(alice).imdSpent = 6.974 IMD, and pm.balanceOf(alice, uint160(imd)) = 17.079 IMD of ERC-6909 claims (FeeRefunded with asClaims = true).

     Expected per README/THREAT-MODEL: claims only on the first few sizeable buys; here the pool is already trading and the trader is an EOA holding an unredeemable claim.

     Test: test/scratch/Probe.t.sol test_probe_partialFillBuyAccounting logs these values (the assertion in it is a probe, not the finding).

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4. Audit economicsAgent #869found 1 medium, 2 info

   The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds three findings, one with a Foundry proof.

   What I found

   • Medium, src/PleaHook.sol:507. After the Cabal's death, a price-limited exact-input swap from a caller the hook cannot name (empty hookData, no msgSender(): an aggregator executor or a contract wallet) fills partially, and the unearned part of the fee reserved on the whole requested amount is kept for the pool instead of refunded. The swapper pays the fee on the request, not the fill, which breaks invariant 19. Proof: test/scratch/TraderlessPartialFill.t.sol fails on this code with a 17.2 IMD charge on a 14.4 IMD fill where 0.25 IMD was due.
   • Info, line 683. The 5M PLEA launch cap is per swap. One unlock can chain many swaps, so it bounds price impact per swap, not what one buyer takes. The docs say "each", so this is an intent note.
   • Info, line 665. The plain-wallet branch of the trader rule is unreachable: a codeless account cannot be the swap sender, and a 7702 wallet has code and goes down the msgSender() path.

   What I checked and found sound

   • Invariants 19 to 22: before/after swap deltas for exact-in and exact-out in both orderings, the fee split never exceeding the IMD fee (floor sums bounded, no underflow in toPool), the burn from the PLEA leg, the prize share rerouted after death, claims paths and the first-buy exception, the Stacker allowance per credit and the 63/64 gas rule, the cap ratchet bookkeeping across gaps and its floors, trims never over the excess, the wall guard's 400-tick rise and instant drop, drained-tick placement, checkpoints recording the found price, and basis updates.
   • Round 1 fixes R1-A3-1 to R1-A3-3 read correct and complete, and their regression tests pass on this commit.
   • Access control on every hook callback, seed, unlockCallback, rebalance, and fundWall.

   Not covered

   I did not run the FOUNDRY_PROFILE=full invariant, adversarial or fork suites within the time budget, and the Info findings carry no proof. The scratch test lives under test/scratch/ and nothing else in the tree was changed.

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   • mediumPrice-limited partial fill with no resolvable trader keeps the whole reserved fee: the swapper pays the fee on the requested amount, not on the fill (invariant 19)src/PleaHook.sol:507

     beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (amount * rate / (BPS + rate)) and afterSwap settles it against the realised fill.

     When the fill is partial (a swap with a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot, which every real router sets) the unearned part specFee - specDue is refunded to the trader, but when the hook resolved no trader (empty hookData and a sender without msgSender(): an aggregator executor, a Safe or any contract wallet calling the PoolManager itself, which is allowed once the Cabal is dead) the surplus is kept: _keep mints it to the hook as pool-share claims (IMD) or burns it (PLEA).

     The swapper's net cost is fill + fee-on-requested-amount, which can be many times the 1.75% of the fill that THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 promises for every trade through any router (a partial fill pays only on what filled).

     Nothing is stolen, but the swapper silently loses up to 1.72% of the unfilled input to the pool; the surplus could instead be refunded to sender (the router is the only party the hook knows, and a router that cannot name its caller still sweeps its own balance), or the fee could be charged only in afterSwap on the fill for trader-less swaps.

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     After the dead-man (plea.restricted() == false), a contract with no msgSender() calls PoolManager.unlock and swaps exact-input 1000 IMD for PLEA with hookData = "" and sqrtPriceLimitX96 one tick spacing from spot.

     The pool fills about 14.4 IMD (FeesTaken.imdBasis); the fee due on that fill is 0.25 IMD; the swapper is charged 1000 * 175 / 10175 = 17.2 IMD on top of the fill (a 120% fee on the fill) and hook.totalPoolFees() grows by about 17 IMD.

     Expected: the swapper pays at most fill + fill * 175 / 10000, as a named trader does in the same swap (the refund branch on line 506).

     Proof: test/scratch/TraderlessPartialFill.t.sol fails with 'the swapper paid more than 2.0% on the filled amount: 17199017199017199017 > 251614315063344748'.

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   • infoThe 5M PLEA launch cap is per swap, not per transaction or wallet: a router chains several swaps in one unlocksrc/PleaHook.sol:683

     _checkMaxBuy bounds the PLEA output of one swap during the 90-minute launch window. A router's unlockCallback may call PoolManager.swap any number of times inside one unlock (or one transaction), each naming the same trader in hookData, so a single buyer takes 5M PLEA per swap times as many swaps as it likes in one block, paying the same launch fee it would pay for one large buy.

     The cap therefore limits only the price impact of one swap, not how much one buyer can take early; the README and THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 say 'capped at 5M PLEA each', which matches the code, so this is a documentation/intent note rather than a defect unless the cap was meant to throttle a single buyer.

     Inside the launch window (block.timestamp < launchedAt + 90 minutes) a contract calls PoolManager.unlock and in its callback runs pm.swap(key, {zeroForOne: !pleaIsZero, amountSpecified: -X, limit}, abi.encode(buyer)) ten times with X sized so each swap yields just under 5,000,000e18 PLEA, then settles the IMD once.

     Every swap passes _checkMaxBuy; the buyer leaves with just under 50M PLEA in one transaction.

     Expected if the cap is meant per buyer or per block: BuyTooLarge; actual: all ten succeed.

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   • infoTrader rule case 3 (a plain-wallet sender) is unreachable: a codeless account can never be the swap sendersrc/PleaHook.sol:665

     The PoolManager only accepts swap from a caller that is inside unlock, and unlock calls back msg.sender's unlockCallback, which an account without code cannot implement (the ABI decode of the empty return reverts). An EIP-7702 delegated wallet has a 23-byte delegation designator, so sender.code.length != 0 and the hook takes the msgSender() path, which a delegated wallet without that function fails.

     So a wallet that calls the PoolManager itself with no hookData never resolves a trader: while the Cabal lives its buy reverts RecipientRequired, after the death it trades without cashback or a buy record. The documented rule (README 'Who gets the cashback', THREAT-MODEL section 1) lists the plain-wallet case as a real path; it is dead code. No funds at risk; the fix is a documentation change or dropping the branch (gas).

     An EOA (or a 7702-delegated EOA whose delegate has no msgSender()) calls pm.unlock directly: unlock reverts in the callback decode for the EOA; for the 7702 wallet the swap reaches _resolveTrader with sender.code.length == 23, the staticcall to msgSender() returns no 32-byte word, and the trader is address(0): RecipientRequired while alive. Expected per the documented rule: the wallet itself is the trader.

5. Audit flowAgent #759found 1 medium

   The round-1 regression tests pass, and the findings file is complete and valid. Final report follows.

   Scope

   Files read in full: src/PleaHook.sol (1,071 lines), src/interfaces/IStacker.sol, plus the code the hook calls on every trade (PLEA._update, CabalGate._sell / _swapFee / unlockCallback / _factScoreAt, Seasons.checkpoint, PleaLaunch), v4's Hooks.beforeSwap / afterSwap delta plumbing and PoolManager.swap, and the hook test suites (Hook, HookAdversarial, HookRevision, AuditRound1, TraderResolution, the fixture and mocks). Build done with forge build --skip test --skip script; test/AuditRound1.t.sol run (10 passed).

   Severity counts: 0 Critical · 0 High · 1 Medium · 0 Low

   [M-1] Zero-fill swaps drag refTick to a drained tick, so rebalance parks the whole wall reserve far below the market

   Location: src/PleaHook.sol:965 (_observeTick), used at src/PleaHook.sol:846-853 (_rebalance's edge) and 829-831 (the drained test). Root cause: _observeTick records the post-swap tick unconditionally and walks refTick 200 ticks per block toward it. Unlike _updateWallGuard, it never checks that the pool has active liquidity there. _rebalance places the wall at max(spot, refTick), and its drained check only compares spot with refTick. Reproduction: after the Cabal's death, a seller drains the market band to a limit 60,000 ticks into the liquidity-free region. An attacker then sends one 1-wei exact-input buy per block with a price limit one sqrt-price unit toward the market: each fills nothing, pays no fee, and moves refTick 200 ticks. After 310 blocks refTick sits at the drained tick. Any buy brings spot back into the band, then fundWall(10e18) and rebalance() deploy the whole reserve with its near edge 60,210 ticks below spot. Expected vs actual: the README and the R1-A3-3 fix say the wall is placed against the market once IMD is back, never parked at a drained tick. Actual gap is 60,210 ticks, and pendingRebalance() is then false, so nothing can move it until 1 IMD of fresh fees accrues and refTick has walked back through as many organic blocks as the attacker spent. No funds leave the pool, but the only post-death bid support is removed for gas cost only, repeatably. Proof: test/scratch/RefTickDrag.t.sol fails on this code with the message above; its source is embedded in .imd-findings.json. Fix: have _observeTick ignore ticks with no active liquidity, mirroring _updateWallGuard, or clamp the edge to spot when refTick lies on the drained side. The 200-tick step and the guard stay unchanged.

   Round-1 fixes checked

   R1-A3-1 (hasBought only on a nonzero fee), R1-A3-2 (exact-output fee amount × rate / (BPS − rate), verified to be the same share of the fill and never to underflow the split) and R1-A3-3 are correctly implemented and their tests pass. R1-A3-3 is complete for a single drain but bypassable by the refTick drag above.

   Coverage, found correct

   • v4 accounting: all four cases (exact-in and exact-out, buy and sell, both orderings) return exact deltas; the specified-side fee is capped at the fill and refunded (ERC-20, or IMD claims when the PoolManager cannot pay); the hook's net delta is zero; a buyer never leaves with a positive PLEA delta while alive.
   • Fee split: floor shares never exceed the IMD fee, including at wei sizes and with the launch extra; the prize share joins the pool after the death; the burn is taken from the PLEA leg. A giant amountSpecified that truncates the int128 fee delta always reverts in the refund's toInt128.
   • Cashback and trader rule: per-credit allowance only, the credit gets exactly creditGas under the 63/64 rule, the plain-IMD fallback and the retainedImd fallback are consistent, dirty hookData words fall through, excluded recipients hold, RecipientRequired while alive.
   • Cap ratchet and trims: the cap never rises, never falls below the holdings

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   • mediumZero-fill swaps in the liquidity-free region drag refTick to a drained tick, so rebalance parks the whole wall reserve tens of thousands of ticks below the market after a buy has restored spot (defeatsrc/PleaHook.sol:965

     _observeTick (src/PleaHook.sol:956-966) records the post-swap tick as curBlockTick unconditionally and, on the first swap of each new block, walks refTick toward it by up to MAX_REF_STEP (200) ticks.

     Unlike _updateWallGuard (lines 1002-1005), it does not check that the pool has active liquidity at that tick. _rebalance then uses refTick as the wall's edge: int24 edge = spot > refTick ? spot : refTick; (line 853, PLEA token1) / spot < refTick ? spot : refTick (line 846), and the drained test (lines 829-831) only compares spot with refTick.

     After the Cabal's death a seller can drain the market band's IMD to a limit deep in the liquidity-free region (free trading, partial fills allowed), where every subsequent swap is a zero-fill: a 1-wei exact-input buy with sqrtPriceLimitX96 one unit toward the market moves the price inside the empty region, fills nothing, pays no fee (fee = 1*175/10175 = 0) and costs only gas, yet runs afterSwap and _observeTick.

     One such swap per block walks refTick 200 ticks per block to the drained tick (60,000 ticks in 300 blocks, about one hour on mainnet).

     Once a buy brings spot back into the market band (liquidity != 0, so drained is false), rebalance() deploys the entire reserve as a wall whose near edge is alignUp(refTick + 1): in the proof 60,210 ticks below the market (a PLEA bid at about 0.25% of the market price) instead of within a few hundred ticks of spot as the README (Wall placement guard) and the R1-A3-3 fix promise ('the wall is placed against the market once IMD is back, not parked at the extreme for years').

     The wall guard does not help: it only floors the placement on the high-price side, and a lower bid is always 'safe' for it.

     The reserve never leaves the pool (no fund loss) but the buy wall, the only bid support after the death, is useless until refTick walks back, which takes as many organic swaps in distinct blocks as the attacker spent (the restoring buy moves refTick only 200 per block), and a corrective rebalance is refused (RebalanceNotNeeded) until a further 1 IMD of pool fees or claims accrues, since the deployment spent the reserve.

     The attacker can repeat the drag at any time for gas only. THREAT-MODEL invariant 21 checked: the wall is 'placed only below the guard price' still holds literally, but the agreed behaviour that a drained, untraded tick never sets the wall's placement (README; FINDINGS R1-A3-3) is broken.

     Fix: make _observeTick ignore ticks with no active liquidity, as _updateWallGuard does (e.g. only assign curBlockTick when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) != 0 and the tick is inside the usable range), or clamp the edge in _rebalance to spot when refTick lies on the drained side of the market band; keep the 200-tick step and the guard untouched.

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     State: after the Cabal's death (no verdict for DEADMAN), PLEA token1 orientation (the default fixture; the proof handles both).

     1. alice buys 100e18 IMD worth of PLEA, holds 50M PLEA, sells 50M PLEA through a plain router with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(market.tickUpper + 60000): the market band's IMD is drained, spot = that tick, getLiquidity() == 0, refTick stays near the market (about 60,000 ticks away).

     2. In each of 310 consecutive blocks bob calls router.buyExactInLimit(1 wei IMD, abi.encode(bob), currentSqrtPriceX96 - 1): each swap fills 0, pays 0 fee, liquidity stays 0, spot stays within one tick of the limit, and hook.refTick() ends within 60 ticks of the drained tick.

     3. Next block bob buys 50e18 IMD: spot returns into the market band (liquidity > 0).

     4. alice calls fundWall(10e18); keeper calls rebalance().

     Expected: wall.tickLower within a few hundred ticks above spot (as test_rebalancePlacesNoWallAtASellerChosenDrainedTick asserts for the undragged case, gap < 1000).

     Actual: wall.tickLower - spot = 60,210 and the wall holds the whole 10 IMD reserve; pendingRebalance() is then false, so nobody can move it back until 1 IMD of new fees accrues and refTick has walked back.

     Run: forge test --match-path test/scratch/RefTickDrag.t.sol (fails with 'the wall followed the drained tick refTick was dragged to: 60210 >= 1000').

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6. Audit judgeAgent #1979found 4 medium, 1 low, 2 info

   The review is complete. The findings file is written and verified, and no tracked file in the repository was modified.

   Outcome. All seven specialist findings reproduced against the code at this commit, so I kept all of them: four Medium, one Low, two Info. No duplicates across specialists, and no Critical or High. I found no additional defect in my own pass over the fee split, the cap ratchet, the wall placement, the checkpoint and the trader rule.

   Reproduced with a Foundry test (one file, test/scratch/Judge.t.sol, inheriting the project fixture, so it is attached as a reproduction, not as a self-contained proof):

   • R1-A3-1 fix incomplete (Medium). A 100-wei first buy pays a 1-wei fee but zero payouts, still sets the first-buy flag, and the next real buy pays its cashback, owner and prize shares as ERC-6909 claims. The round-1 regression test only tries a 1-wei buy.
   • Hold-time dilution (Medium). A stranger buying 6 IMD of PLEA with hookData naming alice moved her buy-weighted age from 175 to 165 hours and her fact score from 36 to 33.
   • refTick drag (Medium). After the death, 310 zero-fill 1-wei swaps in the drained region cost the attacker 0 IMD and walked refTick to the drained tick. After a buy restored spot, rebalance deployed the entire 12.46 IMD reserve 60,209 ticks from the market.
   • Trader-less partial fill (Medium). After the death, the same partial fill cost 31.42 IMD without a resolvable trader versus 14.47 IMD with one. The 17.09 IMD difference went to pool fees, against invariant 19's partial-fill clause.
   • Refund as claims on a mature pool (Low). With the PoolManager holding 10 IMD, a 1000 IMD price-limited buy left alice with a 17.08 IMD ERC-6909 claim.

   Confirmed by reading only: the 5M launch cap is per swap (Info), and the plain-wallet branch of the trader rule is unreachable (Info).

   Invariants checked: 3, 5, 19, 20, 21 and 22. Invariant 19's partial-fill clause is the one broken, for trader-less swaps after the death. I rated that Medium rather than High because the loss is bounded, requires a self-chosen price limit and a router without msgSender, and is unreachable while the Cabal lives. The project owner may want to raise it.

   Left out: no self-contained proof files, since none of the findings is Critical or High and the fixture-based reproductions already fail for the stated reasons. Fixes for the four Mediums are described in each finding and all preserve the agreed design.

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   • mediumR1-A3-1 fix incomplete: a first buy of 59-133 wei (IMD fee 1 wei, payouts 0) consumes the first-buy exception, so the next real buy pays cashback, owner and prize shares as ERC-6909 claimssrc/PleaHook.sol:564

     FINDINGS.md R1-A3-1 (Medium) is marked fixed by setting hasBought only for a buy with a nonzero IMD fee, and THREAT-MODEL section 3 says a buy whose IMD fee rounds to zero does not consume the exception.

     But the exception exists to cover the payouts (cashback 0.5% + owner 0.75% + prize 0.25% of the basis), and those round to zero for larger buys than the fee does: the fee is basis*175/10000 (nonzero from 58 wei of basis) while the cashback needs 200 wei, the owner share 134 wei and the prize 400 wei.

     A first buy of 59..133 wei gross therefore has imdFee = 1 wei, out = 0, asClaims = false (any balance >= 0), sets hasBought = true and leaves the PoolManager holding about 100 wei of IMD. The next real buy (out = 1.5% of the fill > the PoolManager's balance, firstBuy false) takes the claims branch in _payFees: the trader's cashback is minted as an ERC-6909 IMD claim (no sIMD, no Stacker call), the launch owner's 0.75% and Seasons' 0.25% are minted as claims.

     This is the round-1 grief at a cost of about 100 wei plus gas; seed is permissionless from START, so the dust buy can be back-run into the same block, ahead of the owner's closing first buy that section 3 relies on. The regression test test/AuditRound1.t.sol test_aDustFirstBuyDoesNotConsumeTheFirstBuyException only tries a 1-wei buy (fee 0) and misses this.

     Invariants checked: 19 (the first buy may route payouts to pool liquidity; here the second buy pays claims instead), 22. Fix preserving the design: consume the exception only when a buy's payouts were actually funded, e.g. compute out first and set hasBought only when buy && out != 0 && !asClaims; or apply the PayoutsToPool redirect to any shortage while the PoolManager holds less than out. Merged from the audit_permissions specialist (reproduced).

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     Project fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol: IMD is currency0, Cabal alive, past the launch window, PoolManager holding 0 IMD).

     1. carol: router.buyExactIn(100, abi.encode(carol)): imdFee = 100*175/10175 = 1 wei, cashback/owner/prize = 0, hasBought = true, imd.balanceOf(pm) = 100 wei.

     2. bob: router.buyExactIn(100e18, abi.encode(bob)).

     Expected (R1-A3-1 fix, invariant 19): bob's 0.5% cashback stacked as sIMD, or the payouts routed to pool liquidity as the first fee-paying buy; no claims.

     Actual on this commit (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_dustFirstBuy100Wei): pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) = 491400491400491400, pm.balanceOf(OWNER, imd) = 737100737100737100, pm.balanceOf(seasons, imd) = 245700245700245700, simd.byProject(bob, hook) = 0.

     The assertion 'bob was paid ERC-6909 claims: 491400491400491400 != 0' fails.

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   • mediumAnyone can dilute another holder's buy-weighted hold time (and fact score) by buying PLEA with hookData naming themsrc/PleaHook.sol:538

     The trader is whatever address the swapper puts in hookData (_resolveTrader line 657-663: any non-excluded address is accepted, with no link to the payer). afterSwap then writes a buy into basisOf[trader], and _updateBasis (line 695) moves avgBuyTime toward block.timestamp weighted by the PLEA bought. CabalGate._factScoreAt (src/CabalGate.sol:263-268) reads basisOf(seller).avgBuyTime for the hold band (>=7d: 7, >=3d: 4, >=1d: 2).

     So a third party can, without the victim's consent, push a seller's buy-weighted age back under a band edge just before the victim submits (front-running submitSell, or pre-emptively, since basisOf is public).

     The PLEA needed is only held x margin/age: a holder 1 hour past 7 days loses the 3 hold points for a gift of about 0.6% of their position; the victim's need rises by up to 3 (invariant 3 says the fact score is computed from the trader's own record), so a plea scored at need is denied, losing the 0.5 IMD fee and starting the 4-hour cooldown (invariant 5).

     The gifted PLEA is gated and cannot be sold without a plea, and only improves the share band, which the attacker avoids by targeting sellers not near a 15%/30% edge. hookData is trusted for who earns cashback (harmless: the payer gives it away) but is also trusted to rewrite another account's scoring record. Not listed in THREAT-MODEL section 3 or FINDINGS.md.

     Invariants checked: 3, 22 (hold time kept per trader and reduced only by final sales: a stranger's buy reduces it). Fix preserving the design: award the hold band only on PLEA whose own age covers the plea amount (per-trader buckets or a FIFO of buys so later additions never age older PLEA down), or record basis only when the trader is the swapper's attested caller and treat other hookData buys as untracked gifts. Merged from the audit_permissions specialist (reproduced).

     whole finding

     Project fixture (Cabal alive, after the launch window). alice buys 100 IMD of PLEA; carol buys 10 IMD and keeps the Cabal alive for a week (holdAWeek) plus 7 hours with two small trades fixing the hourly checkpoints. alice's buy-weighted age is 175 h and gate.factScore(alice, balance/10) = 36 (hold band 7). bob calls router.buyExactIn(6e18, abi.encode(alice)): the buy succeeds, the PLEA goes to alice, basisOf(alice).avgBuyTime moves to an age of 165 h.

     Expected: a stranger's purchase does not change alice's scoring record (score 36).

     Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_holdDilution): gate.factScore(alice, same amount) = 33 (hold band 4), so alice's need rises from 35 to 38; the assertion 'a stranger's buy changed alice's fact score: 33 != 36' fails.

     whole reproduction

   • mediumZero-fill swaps in the liquidity-free region drag refTick to a drained tick, so rebalance parks the whole wall reserve tens of thousands of ticks below the market once a buy restores spotsrc/PleaHook.sol:965

     _observeTick (lines 956-966) records the post-swap tick as curBlockTick unconditionally and, on the first swap of each new block, walks refTick toward it by up to MAX_REF_STEP (200) ticks. Unlike _updateWallGuard (line 1002), it does not check that the pool has active liquidity at that tick. _rebalance then uses refTick as the wall's edge (line 846 / 853: the safest of spot and refTick) and its drained test (lines 829-831) only compares spot with refTick.

     After the Cabal's death a seller can drain the market band's IMD to a limit deep in the liquidity-free region (free trading, partial fills allowed, as in the R1-A3-3 test), where every later swap is a zero-fill: a 1-wei exact-input buy with sqrtPriceLimitX96 one unit toward the market moves the price inside the empty region, fills nothing, pays no fee (1*175/10175 = 0) and costs nothing but gas (the swapper's delta is 0), yet runs afterSwap and _observeTick.

     One such swap per block walks refTick 200 ticks per block to the drained tick (60,000 ticks in 300 blocks, about an hour on mainnet).

     Once a buy brings spot back into the market band (liquidity != 0, drained false), rebalance() deploys the entire reserve as a wall whose near edge is alignUp(refTick + 1): in the reproduction 60,209 ticks below the market (a PLEA bid at about 0.25% of the market price) instead of against the band as the README (Wall placement guard) and the R1-A3-3 fix promise. The guard does not help: it only floors the placement on the high-price side, and a lower bid is always safe for it.

     The reserve never leaves the pool (no fund loss) but the buy wall, the only bid support after the death, is useless until refTick walks back (200 ticks per block with a swap, i.e. as many blocks as the attacker spent), and a corrective rebalance is refused (RebalanceNotNeeded) until a further 1 IMD of pool fees or fundWall accrues, since the deployment spent the reserve. The attacker can repeat the drag at any time for gas only.

     Invariant 21 checked: the wall is placed only below the guard price still holds literally, but the agreed behaviour that a drained, untraded tick never sets the wall's placement (README; FINDINGS R1-A3-3) is broken through refTick instead of spot.

     Fix: have _observeTick ignore ticks with no active liquidity, as _updateWallGuard does (only assign curBlockTick when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) != 0), or clamp the edge in _rebalance to spot when refTick lies on the drained side of the market band. Merged from the audit_flow specialist (reproduced).

     whole finding

     Project fixture, after the Cabal's death (skip DEADMAN + 1; PLEA is token1 by default).

     1. alice buys 100e18 IMD worth of PLEA, receives 50M PLEA from the distributor, and sells 50M PLEA through the plain router with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(market.tickUpper + 60000): the market band's IMD is drained, getLiquidity() == 0, spot = -180720, refTick = -120721.

     2. In each of 310 consecutive blocks bob calls router.buyExactInLimit(1, abi.encode(bob), currentSqrtPriceX96 - 1): each swap fills 0 and costs bob 0 IMD (measured: 0 wei spent over the 310 swaps); liquidity stays 0; hook.refTick() ends at -180720, the drained tick.

     3. Next block bob buys 50e18 IMD: spot returns to -120511 inside the market band (liquidity > 0).

     4. alice calls fundWall(10e18); keeper calls rebalance().

     Expected: the wall's near edge within a few hundred ticks of spot (test/AuditRound1.t.sol asserts this for the undragged case).

     Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_refTickDrag): wall = (-887220, -180720, liquidity 104592815340425039044945), wallImd = 12456990000000000000 (the whole reserve), retainedImd = 12457002457002 wei, gap between the wall's upper tick and spot = 60209; pendingRebalance() is then false.

     The assertion 'the wall followed the dragged refTick: 60209 >= 1000' fails.

     whole reproduction

   • mediumA price-limited partial fill with no resolvable trader keeps the whole reserved fee: the swapper pays the IMD fee on the requested amount, not on the fillsrc/PleaHook.sol:507

     beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (line 456) and afterSwap settles it against the realised fill (lines 503-508).

     When the fill is partial (a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot) the unearned part specFee - specDue is refunded to the trader, but when the hook resolved no trader (empty hookData and a sender without msgSender(): an aggregator executor, a Safe or any contract wallet that unlocks the PoolManager itself, which is allowed once the Cabal is dead) the surplus is kept: _keep mints it to the hook as pool-share claims (IMD) or burns it (PLEA).

     The swapper's net cost is fill + fee-on-requested-amount, which can be many times the 2.0% of the fill that THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 promises for every trade through any router ('a partial fill pays only on what filled'). Nothing is stolen, but the swapper silently loses up to 1.72% of the unfilled input to the pool. THREAT-MODEL section 3 only accepts that a trader-less trade pays no cashback (the 0.5% of the fill stays in the pool), not a fee on IMD that never traded.

     Reachable only after the death (while the Cabal lives a trader-less buy reverts RecipientRequired and sells go through the gate), and only with a self-chosen price limit, so the loss is bounded and partly the swapper's own choice: Medium, with invariant 19's partial-fill clause broken for this class of swap.

     Fix preserving the design: refund the surplus to sender (the router is the only party the hook knows; a router that cannot name its caller still sweeps its own balance), or for trader-less swaps charge the specified-side fee only in afterSwap on the fill. Merged from the audit_economics specialist (reproduced).

     whole finding

     Project fixture, after the Cabal's death (plea.restricted() == false). alice has bought 100e18 IMD worth so the pool trades. bob calls the fixture's BuyRouter (it has no msgSender()) buyExactInLimit(1000e18, '', TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(currentTick - 60)) so the hook resolves no trader.

     Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_traderlessPartialFill): bob receives 2371793416510539561844157 PLEA and pays 31419685769073311432 IMD; hook.totalPoolFees() grows by 17092362184741778174 (= 1000e18*175/10175 - the fee due on the fill).

     The same swap with hookData = abi.encode(bob) (test_traderlessPartialFillCompare) fills the same 2371793416510539561844157 PLEA for 14469530270032094382 IMD with no claims.

     Expected per invariant 19: the trader-less swap pays at most fill + 1.75% of the fill, i.e. 14.47 IMD, not 31.42 IMD.

     whole reproduction

   • lowA partially filled exact-input buy refunds the unearned IMD fee as ERC-6909 claims at any pool age whenever the refund exceeds the PoolManager's IMD, not only on the first buyssrc/PleaHook.sol:624

     beforeSwap reserves the specified-side fee on the whole requested amount (line 456) and afterSwap refunds the part the fill did not earn through _refund (lines 616-627). The refund is paid as ERC-20 IMD only while the PoolManager's IMD balance covers it (line 620); otherwise it is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 claim.

     The refund is 1.72% of (requested - filled), which is unbounded by the pool's size: a trader who sends a large exact-input buy with a sqrtPriceLimitX96 near spot (a partial fill through any plain v4 router, or a slippage limit the market moved past before inclusion) fills little and is owed far more IMD than the PoolManager holds, so the refund lands as claims.

     THREAT-MODEL section 3 and the README document claims only for the payouts of a buy larger than about 66x the PoolManager's IMD and say only the first few sizeable buys after the open can hit it; this path has no such bound and is reachable whenever (requested - filled) x 1.72% exceeds the PoolManager's IMD balance. For a plain wallet the refunded IMD is unusable until it writes a contract that unlocks, burns and takes (the same limitation the threat model notes for claims).

     No funds are lost (the claim is backed once the swapper settles) and the trader chose the limit, so Low: an undocumented edge case.

     Fix: document the path next to the 66x residual (THREAT-MODEL section 3, README fee table) and have the site's router always swap with the MIN/MAX price limit so a fill is never partial, or reserve the specified-side fee in beforeSwap against the IMD the pool can actually fill rather than the requested amount. Merged from the audit_math specialist (reproduced).

     whole finding

     Project fixture (IMD is currency0, Cabal alive, past the launch window).

     1. carol: router.buyExactIn(10e18, abi.encode(carol)): the PoolManager holds 10 IMD.

     2. alice: router.buyExactInLimit(1000e18, abi.encode(alice), TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(currentTick - 30)).

     Actual (test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_refundAsClaimsOnAMaturePool): alice pays 24053089564451275616 wei of IMD as ERC-20, receives 1188370521621326532801193 PLEA, basisOf(alice).imdSpent = 6974018631829172939, and pm.balanceOf(alice, uint160(imd)) = 17079070932622102677 (FeeRefunded with asClaims = true).

     Expected per README/THREAT-MODEL: claims only on the first few sizeable buys after the open; here the pool is already trading and an EOA holds a 17 IMD claim it cannot redeem without a contract.

     The assertion 'refund paid as claims: 17079070932622102677 != 0' fails.

     whole reproduction

   • infoThe 5M PLEA launch cap is per swap, not per transaction or wallet: a router chains several swaps in one unlocksrc/PleaHook.sol:683

     _checkMaxBuy bounds the PLEA output of one swap during the 90-minute launch window. A router's unlockCallback may call PoolManager.swap any number of times inside one unlock (or one transaction), each naming the same trader in hookData, so a single buyer takes 5M PLEA per swap times as many swaps as it likes in one block, paying the same launch fee it would pay for one large buy. The cap therefore limits only the price impact of one swap, not how much one buyer can take early.

     The README and THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 say 'capped at 5M PLEA each', which matches the code, so this is a documentation/intent note rather than a defect unless the cap was meant to throttle a single buyer. Merged from the audit_economics specialist (confirmed by reading: the check has no per-trader, per-block or per-unlock state).

     Inside the launch window (block.timestamp < launchedAt + 90 minutes) a contract calls PoolManager.unlock and in its callback runs pm.swap(key, {zeroForOne: !pleaIsZero, amountSpecified: -X, limit}, abi.encode(buyer)) ten times with X sized so each swap yields just under 5,000,000e18 PLEA, then settles the IMD once.

     Every swap passes _checkMaxBuy (lines 453 and 518 read only the swap's own amount); the buyer leaves with just under 50M PLEA in one transaction.

     Expected if the cap is meant per buyer or per block: BuyTooLarge; actual: all ten succeed.

     whole reproduction

   • infoTrader rule case 3 (a plain-wallet sender) is unreachable: a codeless account can never be the swap sendersrc/PleaHook.sol:665

     The PoolManager only accepts swap from a caller that is inside unlock, and unlock calls back msg.sender's unlockCallback and abi-decodes a bytes return value; an account without code returns empty data, so the decode reverts and the swap never happens. An EIP-7702 delegated wallet has a 23-byte delegation designator, so sender.code.length != 0 and the hook takes the msgSender() path, which a delegated wallet without that function fails (ret.length != 32 -> address(0)).

     So a wallet that calls the PoolManager itself with no hookData never resolves a trader: while the Cabal lives its buy reverts RecipientRequired, after the death it trades without cashback or a buy record. The documented rule (README 'Who gets the cashback', THREAT-MODEL section 1, the comment at lines 652-655) lists the plain-wallet case as a real path; it is dead code. No funds at risk; the fix is a documentation change or dropping the branch.

     Merged from the audit_economics specialist (confirmed by reading v4-core PoolManager.unlock and _resolveTrader).

     whole finding

     An EOA calls pm.unlock directly: unlock reverts decoding the empty return of the callback, so beforeSwap is never reached.

     A 7702-delegated EOA whose delegate implements unlockCallback but not msgSender() reaches _resolveTrader with sender.code.length == 23, the staticcall to msgSender() returns no 32-byte word, and the trader is address(0): RecipientRequired while alive, no cashback or buy record after the death.

     Expected per the documented rule: the wallet itself is the trader.

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