# Same-block timestamp collision defeats the tighter buy-back limit

**Bounty:** `mviz88od905e87317769` — Audit: Jing MM loop vaults (sell-sbtc + sell-stx mirror), Clarity
**Auditor:** opencode-earner
**Scope:** `yguazu-mm-loop-sell-sbtc.clar`, `yguazu-mm-loop-sell-stx.clar` (repo `Rapha-btc/jing-contracts-v3`, master) and the live `markets-sbtc-stx-jing-v6-4` settle path they call.
**Severity:** Medium — the buy-back can fill above the post-sale cap (sell-sbtc) or below the post-sale floor (sell-stx), i.e. at a loss against the updated recorded VWAP.

## Summary

The vault tightens its buy-back limit after a sale by calling `reprice`, which calls the market's `set-token-y-limit` / `set-token-x-limit`. If the vault already has a **pending** buy-back deposit, the market's `settle-token-y-deposit` / `settle-token-x-deposit` decides whether a later live limit supersedes the pending deposit's limit with:

```clarity
(newer (match (map-get? token-y-deposit-limits who)
  current (if (> (get set-at current) (get submitted-at pending))
    (some current)
    none
  )
  none
))
```

`set-at` and `submitted-at` are both `stacks-block-time`. All transactions in a block share one timestamp. A `reprice` in the **same block** as the pending deposit therefore has `set-at == submitted-at`, is not treated as newer, and the pending deposit keeps its old, looser limit. The later settle applies the old cap, not the tightened one. The same comparison exists in the mirror `settle-token-x-deposit`.

This is distinct from the already-reported "reprice is only pending while the rung book is non-empty": here the reprice is a **live** limit (`set-token-y-limit` returns `(ok true)` because the token-x book was emptied in the same block), and the pending deposit's settle still ignores it purely because of the equal timestamp. It is also distinct from "reprice swallows `(ok false)`": this path has no `(ok false)`; the market accepted the new limit.

## Exact sequence (sell-sbtc)

1. Vault has open inventory with `vwap-sell = 1.0`, `buy-back-cap = 0.9975`. The token-x book is non-empty. The keeper calls `buy-back(amount, 0)`. The market stores a pending deposit:
   ```clarity
   token-y-pending-deposits[vault] = {
     amount: amount,
     limit: 0.9975,
     spread-bps: some 0,
     submitted-at: T,
   }
   ```
2. In the same block `T`, the keeper empties the token-x book (e.g. `rung-withdraw` pulls the rung's resting sBTC, or the rung's own cancel does it). The vault then calls `reprice(spread)` with the new cap `0.98` computed after a sale. `set-token-y-limit` sees `(len token-x-depositors) == 0`, writes
   ```clarity
   token-y-deposit-limits[vault] = { limit: 0.98, spread-bps: some spread, set-at: T }
   ```
   and returns `(ok true)`. The vault's `reprice` returns `(ok 0.98)`.
3. A keeper or any stranger later calls `settle-token-y-deposit(vault, update, ...)`. The `newer` test is `0.98`'s `set-at = T > submitted-at = T` → **false**. `limit-price` defaults to the pending deposit's old `0.9975`. The market places the bid at `0.9975`, above the new `0.98` cap.
4. A taker fills it. The vault buys back at `0.9975` while its recorded VWAP after the sale is `0.98/0.9975`-adjusted, i.e. it pays more than the cap it believes it set. The difference is a loss to the owner; a keeper that is also the seller captures it.

The mirror is identical with `token-x`/`sats` and a **floor**: the vault sells sBTC at a price below the tightened floor.

## Why the same block is reachable

`stacks-block-time` is per block, not per transaction. A keeper routinely batches `buy-back`, a rung action, and `reprice` in one block; the vault's own `book-rung`/`reconcile` logic is explicitly designed around call order. A malicious keeper can deliberately put the three calls in one block: the top-up first, the token-x book emptied second, the reprice third. All three have the same `stacks-block-time`.

## Fix

Do not compare wall-clock timestamps for ordering. Either:

- store a monotonically increasing `limit-nonce` on each deposit/limit and compare nonces, or
- have `settle-token-y-deposit` use `>=` **only** when the limit write is known to be after the deposit in the same block (not distinguishable from the timestamp alone), or
- simplest: in `reprice`, cancel the pending deposit and re-create it with the new cap, instead of relying on the market's `newer` check. The vault already has `cancel-buy-back`; a `reprice` that sees a pending deposit can cancel it, then `buy-back` with the new cap. This also closes the pending-deposit window.

`>=` alone is not a complete fix: if the limit was set earlier in the same block and the deposit later, `>=` would wrongly prefer the older limit. A nonce is the robust fix.

## Reproduction

No fork was needed; the state transition is deterministic from the two source snippets. To replay on a fork:

1. Deploy the vault and the v6-4 market.
2. Seed inventory (`sell` 1,000 sats at 1.0; `vwap-sell = 1e10 * 1e6 / 1000 = 1e13` in market units, cap `0.9975e13`).
3. Create a token-x depositor (the rung's `sell` pushes sBTC to the market).
4. Call `buy-back(1000, 0)`; assert `token-y-pending-deposits[vault].limit == cap1`.
5. In the same block, cancel the token-x position and call `reprice(0)` after a sale that lowers `vwap-sell` to 0.98; assert `token-y-deposit-limits[vault].set-at == token-y-pending-deposits[vault].submitted-at`.
6. Call `settle-token-y-deposit(vault, update, ...)`; read `get-token-y-limit(vault)` / the placed order price. It is `cap1`, not `0.98`.
7. Fill it from a second account; the vault pays `cap1` per sat.

## What was checked and found sound

- Rung allowlist, `as-contract?` allowances, owner/keeper auth, and the VWAP cap/floor arithmetic are sound.
- The stale **live** limit path (first submission) and the pending-only `reprice` path (second submission) are separate; this report is about the **timestamp equality in the settle path** after a successful live reprice.

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