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Problem

PR #302 checked fixed-sats amounts against the node's min_order_amount / max_order_amount. Market-price orders stayed unchecked: they carry no sats amount, so nothing on this side could tell whether the daemon would price them inside the range — the user submitted and got OutOfRangeSatsAmount after the fact. The blocker was that the check needs a fiat↔sats rate, and this app had no rate source at all.

Fix

Read the rate the Mostro node itself publishes (kind 30078, NIP-33, d tag mostro-rates) and use it to check the fiat amount before submitting.

Rust — the rate source (mostro/rates.rs, api::nostr::fetch_exchange_rate):

  • Same NIP-33 query shape as fetch_mostro_instance_tags, re-verifying kind, author and d-tag on whatever the relay returns.
  • Discards an event that has expired per its NIP-40 expiration tag, so a relay that ignores NIP-40 cannot serve a zombie price.
  • The rate table is cached per node — never served back to a different one, like pow and escrow_mode — bounded by the event's own expiration and clamped to one hour, so a range order's amount fields cost a single relay query.
  • Per Principle I this is protocol work and belongs in Rust; v1 does it in Dart only because v1 is all-Dart.

Dart — the check (shared/utils/order_amount_limits.dart, add_order_screen.dart):

  • marketAmountsOutOfNodeRange(...) takes every amount the daemon will price — both ends for a range order — disables submit, and shows an inline message naming the accepted range, with the usual defence-in-depth re-check in _submit.
  • The range is shown in the user's own currency, since the sats bounds mean nothing to most people, falling back to sats when the whole valid range is under one fiat unit and no whole number is enterable:

    Amount must be between {min} and {max} {currency} for this Mostro node

  • Fails open: no rate, no advertised bounds, or an amount that is not yet a number blocks nothing, and the daemon stays the authority. This is the opposite of v1's choice, deliberately — publishing rates is optional for an operator (publish_to_nostr), so blocking would make market-price orders unusable against every node that leaves it off. Written into contracts/orders.md.

Decisions taken from the daemon, not from v1

Verified against MostroP2P/mostro while implementing; v1 differs on the first point:

  • Truncation, not rounding. The daemon computes (fiat_amount / price * 1E8) as i64 (src/app/order.rs). v1 rounds, which can accept an amount one sat below the node's floor and still see it rejected — the exact surprise this check exists to remove.
  • The premium is not part of the check. The daemon prices the raw fiat amount.
  • Both ends of a range order are checked, because the daemon prices every amount in amount_vec and rejects the order if any one of them is out of range.
  • The min_order_amount tag is the very value the check compares against (src/nip33.rs publishes mostro_settings.min_payment_amount), and the published rate comes from the same aggregate as get_bitcoin_price — so this reproduces the node's own arithmetic rather than approximating it.

Scope

  • No Yadio/HTTP fallback. The Nostr path adds no external dependency and does not disclose which currency the user is interested in; a fallback can be its own issue.
  • The kind-38385 double read noted in the issue (Rust for pow / protocol_version / escrow, Dart for min/max) is left alone — that is a refactor, and deserves a separate issue.
  • The preview footer still shows a sats figure in Fixed price mode only. Extending it to market price is now possible, but out of scope here.

Testing

Automated only so far — not yet verified against a live node:

  • cargo test: 304 passed (14 new in mostro::rates); cargo clippy --all-targets clean on the touched files.
  • flutter test: 281 passed (24 new); flutter analyze clean.
  • The acceptance criterion "every whole fiat value in the shown range is accepted by the daemon" is covered by a test sweeping bounds and midpoints across four limit/rate combinations, including a sub-1 rate and a 1,000,000 rate, against the same conversion the daemon performs.

Closes #337.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added exchange-rate retrieval for supported fiat currencies.
    • Market-price orders now validate entered amounts against node limits using current exchange rates.
    • Out-of-range warnings display the applicable fiat range when available.
    • Added localized validation messages in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing, expired, invalid, or unavailable exchange-rate data without blocking order submission.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds a Rust Mostro exchange-rate API with node-scoped caching, a Flutter provider, fiat-to-sats conversion utilities, and market-price order validation. The order screen shows localized fiat range warnings and fails open when validation data is unavailable.

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Market-price validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exchange-rate retrieval and caching
rust/src/mostro/*, rust/src/api/nostr.rs, rust/src/frb_generated.rs, specs/004-mostro-p2p-client/contracts/nostr.md
The Rust API retrieves and validates mostro-rates events, caches rates per node until expiry, and exposes fetch_exchange_rate through Flutter Rust Bridge.
Fiat amount conversion and range checks
lib/shared/utils/order_amount_limits.dart, test/shared/utils/order_amount_limits_test.dart
Utilities convert fiat amounts with daemon-compatible truncation, calculate safe fiat bounds, and return out-of-range results while failing open for unavailable validation data.
Order-screen validation and warnings
lib/features/order/providers/exchange_rate_provider.dart, lib/features/order/screens/add_order_screen.dart, lib/l10n/app_*.arb, test/features/order/market_amounts_out_of_node_range_test.dart
The order screen fetches exchange rates, validates market-price amounts before submission, and displays localized fiat or sats range warnings.
Order validation contract
specs/004-mostro-p2p-client/contracts/orders.md
The order contract documents market-price conversion, pre-submission validation, and fail-open behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 70c0a

This change uses node-published pricing to decide whether market-price orders can be submitted. The current implementation does not explicitly authenticate the received pricing event before trusting it, and cache transitions can produce stale or unavailable validation data; malformed numeric input can also trigger validation failures. These risks should be addressed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Trader
  participant AddOrderScreen
  participant ExchangeRateProvider
  participant RustNostrApi
  participant MostroRelay
  Trader->>AddOrderScreen: enter market-price amount
  AddOrderScreen->>ExchangeRateProvider: request fiat rate
  ExchangeRateProvider->>RustNostrApi: fetch_exchange_rate(pubkey, fiatCode)
  RustNostrApi->>MostroRelay: query mostro-rates event
  MostroRelay-->>RustNostrApi: rate event or no event
  RustNostrApi-->>ExchangeRateProvider: rate or error
  ExchangeRateProvider-->>AddOrderScreen: exchange-rate result
  AddOrderScreen->>AddOrderScreen: convert fiat to sats and check node limits
  AddOrderScreen-->>Trader: show warning or submit order
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A rabbit checks the rates with care

Fiat hops through sats in air
Bounds are shown, both low and high
Bad data lets the order fly
Local words now guide the way
Cache the rates for one more day

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: validating market-price orders against the node's sats limits.
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The implementation satisfies issue #337: it fetches and validates Mostro-published exchange rates over Nostr, converts fiat amounts using daemon-compatible truncation, validates every amount in range orders before submission, displays fiat limits with a sats fallback, and documents fail-open behavior when validation data is unavailable.

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The changes are directly related to issue #337. The Rust API, generated FFI bindings, rate cache, Dart validation utilities, localized messages, tests, and contract updates support the requested market-price order validation. No unrelated code changes are identified.

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Comment on lines +25 to +26
int satsFromFiat(double fiat, double rate) =>
(fiat / rate * _satsPerBtc).truncate();

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P2 Badge Validate the fiat amount serialized onto the wire

For decimal inputs, this computes sats from the original double, but new_order converts fixed and range fiat amounts to i64 in rust/src/mostro/actions.rs:48-50 before the daemon receives them. For example, with a 30,000 rate and a 3,334-sat minimum, 1.1 is accepted here as 3,666 sats but is transmitted as 1, which the daemon prices at 3,333 sats and rejects. Perform this protocol conversion and validation in Rust, or normalize the fiat value exactly as the wire path does before comparing it.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L23-L27

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final fiat = double.tryParse(fiatStr.trim());
if (fiat == null || fiat <= 0) return null;

final sats = satsFromFiat(fiat, rate);

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P2 Badge Reject non-finite fiat values before converting to sats

Because the amount fields have no input formatter, pasted values such as Infinity or 1e309 parse successfully and pass the positive-value check; calling truncate() on the resulting infinity then throws while the order screen is building. A sufficiently large finite amount can also overflow during multiplication and hit the same path. Check fiat.isFinite and the conversion result before truncating so malformed input makes the form invalid rather than crashing the screen.

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In `@lib/shared/utils/order_amount_limits.dart`:
- Line 53: Validate that amounts and rates are finite before conversion in
fiatOutOfNodeRange and within _checkValid, rejecting Infinity, -Infinity, and
NaN rather than allowing them to reach truncate() or ceil(). Add regression
coverage for all three non-finite values.

In `@rust/src/api/nostr.rs`:
- Around line 273-280: Before passing the selected event to rates::store, verify
it with Event::verify() and only cache events that authenticate successfully;
retain the existing kind, pubkey, tag, and newest-event selection behavior. Add
a regression test covering a forged rate event that confirms it is rejected and
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required int maxSats,
required double rate,
}) {
if (rate <= 0) return const FiatAmountLimits(minFiat: 0, maxFiat: 0);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🌐 Web query:

According to the Dart SDK documentation, do double.tryParse('Infinity')anddouble.tryParse('NaN')return non-finite doubles, and dotruncate()orceil() throw for those values?

💡 Result:

Yes, according to the Dart SDK documentation, double.tryParse('Infinity') and double.tryParse('NaN') return the respective non-finite double values (Infinity and NaN) [1][2]. Both truncate and ceil throw an UnsupportedError if called on a non-finite double, such as NaN or Infinity [3][4][5]. This is because these methods are designed to return an integer representation, which is not defined for non-finite values [3][4][5]. Conversely, methods like truncateToDouble and ceilToDouble do not throw for non-finite values and instead return the value unmodified [5][6].

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Reject non-finite amounts and rates.

Infinity and NaN pass the positivity checks in fiatOutOfNodeRange and _checkValid. They can reach truncate() or ceil(), which throw during rebuild or submission validation. Reject non-finite values before conversion and in _checkValid. Add regression tests for Infinity, -Infinity, and NaN.

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In `@lib/shared/utils/order_amount_limits.dart` at line 53, Validate that amounts
and rates are finite before conversion in fiatOutOfNodeRange and within
_checkValid, rejecting Infinity, -Infinity, and NaN rather than allowing them to
reach truncate() or ceil(). Add regression coverage for all three non-finite
values.

Comment thread rust/src/api/nostr.rs
Comment on lines +273 to +280
let event = events
.into_iter()
.filter(|e| {
e.kind == Kind::from(rates::RATES_KIND)
&& e.pubkey == pubkey
&& tag_value(e, "d").as_deref() == Some(rates::RATES_D_TAG)
})
.max_by_key(|e| e.created_at);

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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🌐 Web query:

For nostr-sdk 0.44.0, does Client::fetch_events verify each received Event ID and Schnorr signature before returning Events, or must callers invoke Event::verify?

💡 Result:

In nostr-sdk 0.44.0, Client::fetch_events does not inherently guarantee that every received Event has been cryptographically verified before it is returned to the caller [1]. Specifically, versions of nostr-sdk up to 0.44.7 (including 0.44.0) have been identified as vulnerable to improper verification issues [1]. In these versions, the library's internal relay pool and processing mechanisms have been found to pass received events through various stages—such as policy evaluation or database insertion—before confirming the validity of their Event ID and Schnorr signature [1]. Furthermore, reliance on verification caches in these versions could allow forged events to bypass signature validation entirely if the event ID was already present in the cache, or due to cache key collisions [2][1]. Because the library does not consistently perform mandatory, unbypassable signature verification upon receipt for all event paths in version 0.44.0, it is considered best practice for callers to explicitly invoke Event::verify on any event received from an untrusted source before processing or trusting its content [2][1][3]. The Event::verify method is provided by the underlying nostr types to check the cryptographic integrity of the event [3]. Security advisories note that this vulnerability was addressed in later versions (starting with 0.44.8), which ensure that verification is performed before any further processing (such as policy evaluation or database lookups) and that the verification cache is handled securely [1]. Upgrading to at least version 0.44.8 is the recommended way to resolve this issue [1].

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printf '%s\n' '--- selected function ---'
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Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate

Verify each rate event before caching it.

The lockfile uses nostr-sdk 0.44.1, whose fetch_events path does not guarantee event ID and signature verification. The field checks do not authenticate the event. Call Event::verify() before rates::store, and add a forged-event regression test.

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In `@rust/src/api/nostr.rs` around lines 273 - 280, Before passing the selected
event to rates::store, verify it with Event::verify() and only cache events that
authenticate successfully; retain the existing kind, pubkey, tag, and
newest-event selection behavior. Add a regression test covering a forged rate
event that confirms it is rejected and not stored.

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