Pipelined sync as the standard driver + Ironwood-first wallet UX + setup-reliability fixes

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         still authenticates end-to-end, so the transport only provides
         reachability).
 
-## Voting (coinholder polling)
-
-- [ ] **Automated poll source / discovery** — voting currently uses **manual
-      ballot entry**: the user pastes the poll's published ballot-definition JSON
-      and its reception address, answers, and casts (a shielded memo via the FROST
-      send path; weight is set by the poll's off-chain balance snapshot). Replace
-      the manual paste with a programmatic source once one is available:
-      - Fetch active polls from a configurable **poll-source URL** (Zodl exposes a
-        "custom poll sources" config; confirm the feed format), render the ballot
-        automatically, and show live/closed status + results.
-      - The definitive protocol design is ValarDragon/Valar's; get the poll-feed +
-        registration/snapshot spec from there (or the Zodl integration docs) to
-        match eligibility exactly. Keep manual entry as the fallback/offline path.
-      - The casting core (`voting.rs`: memo v1 encode/validate/poll-hash,
-        `prepare_vote`) is source-agnostic and already done — this is only about
-        *where the ballot comes from* and surfacing results.
+## Voting (protocol / coinholder governance)
+
+- [ ] **Migrate to ValarGroup Shielded Vote (full rebuild; supersedes memo v1)** —
+      the real coinholder-vote protocol we should target is **ValarGroup Shielded
+      Vote**: https://valargroup.gitbook.io/shielded-vote-docs . It is a live,
+      cryptographically-private, on-chain voting system on a **dedicated vote
+      chain**, used infrequently to gauge protocol-upgrade sentiment *before*
+      committing engineering resources — exactly Cyze's governance use case.
+
+      **This is not a change to the current memo format — it is a different
+      system.** Our shipped `core/src/voting.rs` implements the informal
+      **zec-coin-polling "Vote Cast Memo v1"** (a JSON memo cast as a shielded send
+      to a reception address, tallied off-chain from a *transparent*-balance
+      snapshot). Shielded Vote has no vote memo: a vote is a ZK-proven **Vote
+      Commitment** (VAN consumed → new VAN + `H(DOMAIN_VC, round_id, shares_hash,
+      proposal_id, vote_decision)`) plus 16 ElGamal share ciphertexts, submitted to
+      REST endpoints on the vote chain. **Expect to scrap `voting.rs` and its UI**
+      (`VoteTab`/`parseBallot` in `src/screens/Groups.tsx`, `wallet_prepare_vote`,
+      `VoteEntry`/`BallotDefinition`) and rebuild around the SDK below. Keep memo v1
+      only if a lightweight, no-infra sentiment poll is still wanted; otherwise
+      remove it so the two are never confused.
+
+      **Confirmed (2026-08-04, from the user):**
+      1. **Infrastructure is live** — vote chain + election authority + PIR fleet
+         are running; there is a real network to build/test against.
+      2. **FROST-compatible** — the delegation step (ZKP1) takes an externally
+         produced re-randomized spend-auth signature via a governance PCZT
+         (`(rk, sighash, spend_auth_sig)`), which maps onto Cyze's existing FROST
+         re-randomized Orchard signing ceremony. Confirm the exact PCZT hand-off
+         when building.
+      3. **Ironwood supported going forward** — vote weight snapshots the group's
+         shielded note holdings, and Ironwood is covered, so a post-NU6.3 shielded
+         treasury can vote (this also fixes memo v1's flaw that only *transparent*
+         balances counted — a shielded FROST treasury effectively couldn't vote).
+      4. **Crate versions: pin to whatever is in production at build time.** Both
+         SDK crates are published and moving fast — snapshot the then-current
+         production versions rather than an early rc:
+         - `zcash_voting` — client lib (ZKP1/2/3 via Halo2, ElGamal, governance
+           PCZT, Merkle witnesses, SQLite round state). Repo:
+           https://github.com/valargroup/zcash_voting
+         - `pir-client` — nullifier non-membership PIR queries.
+         (Swift SDK exists too, but Cyze is Rust — use the crates directly.)
+
+      **Rough shape of the wallet-side flow** (see the Integration Guide): discover
+      + validate vote config → `GET /shielded-vote/v1/rounds/active` → PIR
+      nullifier proofs → build+prove **ZKP1 delegation** (governance PCZT, FROST
+      spend-auth) → `POST /delegate-vote` → sync the vote-commitment tree → per
+      proposal, build **ZKP2** and `POST /cast-vote` → split into 16 ElGamal shares
+      and `POST /shares` with staggered anti-censorship `submit_at` timing → read
+      `GET /tally-results/{round_id}` once the round is `FINALIZED`. Note
+      `vote_round_id` encoding is context-sensitive (hex in config/URLs/shares,
+      base64 in delegate/cast bodies).
+
+      **Suggested first step — a scoping spike** before any UI: add the production
+      `zcash_voting` + `pir-client` crates, hit a live round's `/rounds/active`, and
+      prove the FROST-produced re-randomized spend-auth sig feeds ZKP1 end-to-end.
+      That de-risks the one genuinely novel part (threshold signing into their
+      prover) cheaply. Own branch, own PR; larger effort than any current item.
 
 ## Wallet (Zcash)
 

docs/SYNC_OPTIMIZATION.md

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+# Sync optimization — design & roadmap
+
+Status: **driver implemented, pending testnet validation** (branch
+`feat/sync-optimizations`). The pipelined driver is built and off by default; it
+becomes the default only after the validation gate below passes. This is the next
+major targeted update. Its goal is to cut the wall-clock latency of wallet
+sync — especially the recovery / large-range case — without leaving the
+Ironwood-capable `zcash_client_backend` (ECC) stack.
+
+## Why we stay on the ECC stack
+
+We surveyed the open-source Zcash wallets (YWallet/ZKool, Zingo, Cake, ZODL,
+Vizor). All but ZODL are light wallets on lightwalletd compact blocks; the
+differentiation is entirely in the scan engine.
+
+- **YWallet/ZKool** use **Warp Sync** — the fastest engine — but it is
+  Sapling/Orchard-oriented, keeps its own DB schema, and **has no Ironwood
+  support**. Adopting it wholesale would fork us off the maintained NU6.3 stack
+  for a rewrite: wrong trade for a funds wallet on Ironwood.
+- **ZODL** offers a full/hybrid node mode — a privacy feature, not a general
+  latency win, and a large architectural add.
+
+So we **port Warp's ideas onto our existing stack** rather than switch engines.
+
+## What we already have (main)
+
+- **Tip-height birthday for new wallets** — a new group starts at the chain tip,
+  so it never scans pre-creation history. (The single biggest first-sync win; done.)
+- **Subtree-root tree init** — `zcash_client_backend::sync::run` calls
+  `update_subtree_roots` (GetSubtreeRoots), so the note-commitment tree is
+  initialized without replaying all history.
+- **Spend-before-sync ordering** — `run` scans `suggest_scan_ranges()` in
+  priority order (ChainTip/Verify first), so the balance surfaces before a full
+  catch-up finishes, and the UI polls it every ~5s.
+- **Configurable batch size** — `sync_group(batch_size)`, clamped
+  `[MIN,MAX]_SYNC_BATCH_SIZE`, persisted via `Settings.sync_batch_size`.
+
+## What's missing (this update)
+
+The upstream `sync::run` is explicit that "block batches are not downloaded in
+parallel with scanning." Two levers remain, and both require driving the sync
+loop ourselves instead of calling `sync::run`:
+
+1. **Pipelining** — overlap network download with CPU trial-decryption. This is
+   Warp's core advantage and the single biggest safe win left. **Implemented and
+   now the standard (only) sync driver** (`run_pipelined` in `wallet.rs`). The
+   stock `sync::run` path and its on-disk block cache were removed once the
+   pipelined driver was validated.
+2. **Adaptive batch size** — grow the batch over empty ranges (cheap to scan),
+   shrink over dense ranges (expensive), instead of one fixed size for the run.
+   **Deliberately deferred**: the pipelined driver keeps the *same* fixed batch
+   units as the stock driver so its output is byte-identical and the validation
+   gate below is a clean equality check. Adaptive sizing changes the scan units,
+   so it lands as a separate follow-up once pipelining is validated and default.
+
+A third lever is crate-gated:
+
+3. **Parallel trial decryption** — the pinned `zcash_note_encryption` 0.4.2 does
+   batch decryption single-threaded. Getting multi-core decryption needs either a
+   `zcash_note_encryption` with the `multicore` feature or wiring the
+   `zcash_client_backend` `sync-decryptor` (rayon) pipeline. Deferred to the next
+   crate-cohort bump; tracked here so it isn't forgotten.
+
+## Approach: a custom pipelined driver, alongside `sync::run`
+
+Pipelining needs control of the loop, so we add a **custom driver**
+(`run_pipelined` / `running_pipelined` in `wallet.rs`) that faithfully reproduces
+the upstream `run`/`running` control flow (subtree roots → chain tip → verify
+pass → historic ranges), changing only how batches are fed:
+
+- A **producer** task downloads each batch's compact blocks **into memory** and
+  the chain-state anchor, then hands `(ScanRange, Vec<CompactBlock>, ChainState)`
+  over a **bounded channel** (capacity 2) so download runs up to two batches
+  ahead. A cloned tonic client shares the underlying HTTP/2 connection, so this
+  adds no new socket.
+- The **consumer** (main task) receives a ready batch, wraps its blocks in an
+  in-memory `BlockSource` (`MemBlockSource`), and runs `scan_cached_blocks` on it
+  (CPU-bound). Scanning is transactional per batch via `put_blocks`, so an
+  interrupted or cancelled batch leaves the db consistent at a batch boundary —
+  the same guarantee the stock driver gives.
+- On a **reorg / continuity error** or a newly-added higher-priority range, the
+  consumer breaks, the producer is aborted, and the pass restarts from
+  `suggest_scan_ranges` — exactly the upstream `return Ok(true)` → outer-loop
+  behavior.
+
+Because each batch is downloaded fresh into memory and never persisted, the
+pipelined path **never touches the on-disk `FsCache`** — no file writes, no cache
+mutex contended between producer and consumer, and nothing to truncate on a
+reorg rewind (only the db is rewound).
+
+**Transparent UTXO refresh is intentionally omitted.** Upstream `running` performs
+it only under the `transparent-inputs` feature, which our `zcash_client_backend`
+build does not enable (group accounts are Orchard-only view keys). The stock
+driver we run today therefore does not perform it either, so omitting it keeps
+the two byte-identical.
+
+Correctness-critical logic (reorg rewind, verify ranges, subtree roots,
+chain-tip update, batch splitting) is **ported faithfully** from the upstream
+`sync.rs` we depend on; only the download/scan overlap is new. The batch splitter
+(`split_scan_range`) has a unit test asserting it produces the exact same units as
+the upstream step-7 splitter.
+
+### A note on overlap and the runtime
+
+`scan_cached_blocks` is synchronous and CPU-bound; the consumer calls it directly
+on the async task. On the multi-threaded Tokio runtime the app uses, the producer
+keeps downloading the next batches on other worker threads while the consumer
+thread scans — which is where the latency win comes from. On a single-threaded
+runtime the code is still correct (no overlap, identical result). Moving the scan
+onto `spawn_blocking` to guarantee overlap regardless of runtime is a possible
+future refinement; it is not needed for correctness.
+
+### Status: standard driver
+
+The pipelined driver was validated on testnet (byte-identical wallet state vs the
+stock driver, faster on high-latency links) and is now the **standard, only** sync
+path. `sync_group` always calls `run_pipelined`; the `experimental_pipelined_sync`
+setting, the stock `zcash_client_backend::sync::run` call, and the on-disk
+`FsBlockDb`/`FsCache` block cache it required have been removed. The pipelined
+driver streams blocks straight from the network to the scanner in memory.
+
+### Validation gate before default
+
+Before flipping the default to the pipelined driver:
+
+1. A testnet recovery sync (large range) produces a **byte-identical** wallet
+   state to the stock driver (same balance, notes, witnesses, scanned height).
+2. A reorg is exercised (or simulated) and recovers correctly.
+3. A shielded send after a pipelined sync builds, signs, and broadcasts.
+
+## Sequencing
+
+1. **[done] Settings gate + custom pipelined driver** (prefetch download while
+   scanning), off by default. ← core of the work; `run_pipelined` in `wallet.rs`.
+2. **[next] Testnet validation** against the stock driver; flip default if it
+   passes (see the validation gate above).
+3. **[follow-up] Adaptive batch size** — grow/shrink the batch by range density,
+   once pipelining is the validated default.
+4. **[next crate bump] Parallel trial decryption** via note-encryption
+   `multicore` / the `sync-decryptor` pipeline.
+5. **[optional, infra] Zaino indexer** — evaluate a Rust indexer (Zingo's path)
+   in place of stock lightwalletd for richer per-request data. Composes with the
+   above; not a wallet rewrite.
+
+## Explicit non-goals
+
+- No wholesale swap to Warp/ZKool's engine (no Ironwood support; own DB).
+- No full/hybrid-node mode (privacy feature, not latency; large surface).

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+# UAT — pipelined sync (now the standard driver)
+
+Acceptance checklist for the pipelined sync driver (`feat/sync-optimizations`).
+Run on **testnet** first.
+
+> **Note:** the pipelined driver is now the **standard, only** sync path — there
+> is no `experimental_pipelined_sync` toggle anymore, and the stock
+> `sync::run` path was removed. Sections **A0a** and **A** (the on/off
+> checkbox test and the stock-driver baseline) are therefore **historical** — you
+> can no longer switch to the stock driver in-app to compare. If you still want an
+> equality baseline, capture it from an older build; otherwise start at **B** and
+> validate the single driver's correctness, speed, incremental behavior,
+> cancellation, and post-sync send.
+
+See `docs/SYNC_OPTIMIZATION.md` for the design.
+
+## Setup
+
+- [ ] Build the current branch: `npm run tauri build` (or `cargo build` for a dev
+      backend), and launch the freshly built binary — not a previously installed
+      bundle.
+- [ ] Use a **testnet** group with a known, non-trivial history (funded a few
+      times, at least one send), so scanning actually finds notes.
+
+## A0a. The toggle itself (checkbox wiring) — HISTORICAL
+
+- [ ] *(No longer applies — the toggle was removed and pipelined is the only path.)*
+
+## A. Baseline with the stock driver (control) — HISTORICAL
+
+- [ ] *(No longer runnable in-app — the stock driver was removed. Kept for
+      reference; use an older build if you need a stock baseline to compare.)*
+
+## B. Pipelined driver — clean-state correctness (the core test)
+
+- [ ] Delete the wallet db (force a full rescan from birthday) and sync to the tip.
+- [ ] **Balance is correct** — total (Ironwood), plus any legacy Orchard, matches
+      the group's known funds and what block explorers show.
+- [ ] Received-note count is correct.
+- [ ] Transaction history is complete (txids, amounts, memos).
+- [ ] Scanned-to height reaches the chain tip.
+- [ ] Wall-clock sync time is reasonable (faster on a high-latency link is the
+      whole point). If you kept a stock baseline from an older build, it should be
+      **≤** that.
+
+## C. Incremental sync
+
+- [ ] With the pipelined wallet already at the tip, wait for / cause a new inbound
+      testnet payment, then "Sync Now".
+- [ ] Only the new blocks are scanned (fast), the new note appears, and the balance
+      increases by the expected amount.
+- [ ] Sync a second time with no new activity → completes quickly, balance
+      unchanged (no double-count, no drift).
+
+## D. Cancellation / resume
+
+- [ ] Start a full rescan (delete db) with the pipelined driver, then hit "Sync
+      Now" (or switch away) mid-sync to cancel it.
+- [ ] App stays responsive; no panic; no error toast beyond an expected
+      "cancelled".
+- [ ] Start sync again → it resumes and completes, ending at the same
+      balance/height as B (cancellation left the db consistent at a batch
+      boundary, not corrupted).
+
+## E. Reorg tolerance (best-effort)
+
+- [ ] If a testnet reorg happens to occur during a sync, confirm it recovers: the
+      log shows a "chain reorg detected … rewinding" line and the sync finishes at
+      the correct tip with the correct balance. (Hard to force on demand; watch for
+      it opportunistically during A–D.)
+
+## F. Send after a pipelined sync (funds path)
+
+- [ ] After a pipelined sync, build + FROST-sign + broadcast a small testnet send.
+- [ ] Transaction is accepted by the node (no branch-id / MissingSpendAuthSig /
+      note-selection errors).
+- [ ] After it confirms, a re-sync shows the spend and the reduced balance
+      correctly.
+
+## G. Regression — HISTORICAL
+
+- [ ] *(No longer applies — there is no flag to turn off; the pipelined driver is
+      the only path.)*
+
+## Sign-off
+
+- [ ] B balances/notes/history/height are correct (against known funds / an
+      explorer).
+- [ ] C, D, F pass on testnet.
+- [ ] No panics, no stuck syncs, UI responsive throughout.
+
+Only after this passes on testnet: repeat B/F once on **mainnet** with a small
+balance before relying on it broadly.