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Improve Soroban support for transaction envelopes
This is a top-level issue to discuss and design the Soroban-specific transaction envelope enhancements. Protocol 20 doesn't do anything Soroban-specific besides providing a way to specify the Soroban resources and resource fee.
Here is the list of some ideas and use cases to take into account in the design:
- Soroban fee/resource bumps
- Provide a way to bump Soroban resource fee past
u32::MAX
via fee bump - Provide a way to bump Soroban resources and fee
- Consider alternative ways of composing Soroban transactions, the primary example is providing a way for the fee source to sign only the maximum resource fee and some trusted external party to attach the transaction resources
- One idea here is to allow the internal tx signer to append the account id of the external party that they trust to provide the valid resources
- Provide a way to bump Soroban resource fee past
- Better integration of Soroban auth with tx envelope auth
- Generalize the concept of the 'source account' auth to be usable with an arbitrary number of the tx envelope signers.
- Motivational example is the commitment scheme where the source account signs the transaction envelope as a proof of commitment to a certain operation, then another party authorizing that operation via signing the whole envelope.
- Consider also extending this to the custom accounts (via apply-time signature checks)
- Generalize the concept of the 'source account' auth to be usable with an arbitrary number of the tx envelope signers.