Nova-Rewards

Optimized Storage Schema

This document describes the storage layout optimizations applied to Nova Rewards smart contracts to stay within Soroban’s WASM size and storage budget limits.

Optimization Strategy

This audit reviewed the nova-rewards, nova_token, vesting, referral, reward_pool, and admin_roles contracts. Existing keys are already mostly consolidated; the new DailyUsage struct in reward_pool further reduces per-wallet storage overhead.

1. Storage Key Consolidation

Where multiple fields are always read/written together, they have been consolidated into single struct values to reduce storage overhead.

2. Fixed-Length Identifiers

Using Bytes or BytesN instead of String for fixed-length identifiers reduces encoding overhead.

3. TTL Management

All persistent storage entries have appropriate TTL extensions to prevent ledger expiry.

Contract Storage Layouts

Nova Rewards Contract (nova-rewards)

Storage Keys:

• Admin (instance) - Administrator address
• Balance(Address) (instance) - User point balances
• MigratedVersion (instance) - Contract version for migrations
• XlmToken (instance) - XLM SAC token contract address
• Router (instance) - DEX router contract address

Optimizations Applied:

• All configuration fields use instance storage (no TTL management needed)
• Balance lookups use composite keys Balance(Address) instead of separate mapping
• Fixed-point arithmetic uses i128 to prevent overflow without additional storage

WASM Size: Measured with stellar contract inspect --wasm

Nova Token Contract (nova_token)

Storage Keys:

• Admin (instance) - Administrator address
• Balance(Address) (persistent) - Token balances per address
• Allowance(Address, Address) (persistent) - Spending allowances

Optimizations Applied:

• Composite keys for balances and allowances eliminate need for nested maps
• Persistent storage used only for user data that must survive contract upgrades
• Instance storage for admin (immutable after init)

TTL Extensions:

• Balance and Allowance entries: Extended on every read/write operation
• Recommended TTL: 31 days (2,678,400 ledgers)

Vesting Contract (vesting)

Storage Keys:

• Admin (instance) - Administrator address
• PoolBalance (instance) - Total pool balance
• Schedule(Address, u32) (persistent) - Vesting schedules by beneficiary and ID
• NextId(Address) (instance) - Counter for schedule IDs per beneficiary

Optimizations Applied:

• VestingSchedule struct consolidates all schedule fields (beneficiary, amounts, times, released)
• Composite key Schedule(Address, u32) enables efficient per-user schedule lookups
• Pool balance in instance storage (single global value)

TTL Extensions:

• Schedule entries: Extended when created and on each release
• Recommended TTL: 365 days (31,536,000 ledgers) for long-term vesting

Admin Roles Contract (admin_roles)

Storage Keys:

• Admins (instance) - Set of admin addresses
• MultisigThreshold (instance) - Required signature count
• PendingAdmin (instance) - Two-step transfer state

Optimizations Applied:

• All admin data in instance storage (configuration-level data)
• No persistent storage needed (admin changes are rare)

Referral Contract (referral)

Storage Keys:

• Admin (instance) - Administrator address
• UserReferrer(Address) (persistent) - Referrer for each user
• ReferralCount(Address) (persistent) - Count of referrals per user
• RegistrationCounter (instance) - Global registration counter

Optimizations Applied:

• Composite keys for user-specific data
• Global counter in instance storage
• Persistent storage only for user relationships

TTL Extensions:

• UserReferrer and ReferralCount: Extended on registration and queries
• Recommended TTL: 90 days (7,776,000 ledgers)

Reward Pool Contract (reward_pool)

Storage Keys:

• Admin (instance) - Administrator address
• Balance (instance) - Pool balance
• DailyLimit (instance) - Global per-wallet daily withdraw limit
• DailyUsage(Address) (persistent) - Per-wallet daily usage and window start

Optimizations Applied:

• Single balance field instead of multiple pool tracking fields
• Daily usage consolidated into a single DailyUsage struct for each wallet
• Daily limit stored in instance storage for admin configuration

TTL Extensions:

• DailyUsage entries: Extended on each withdraw/check to preserve rolling window state
• Recommended TTL: 2 days (172,800 ledgers)

Storage Budget Guidelines

Instance Storage

• Used for: Configuration, admin addresses, global counters
• Lifetime: Tied to contract instance
• No TTL management required
• Limit: ~10KB per contract instance

Persistent Storage

• Used for: User balances, schedules, relationships
• Lifetime: Managed via TTL extensions
• Must call extend_ttl() on read/write
• Limit: ~100KB per entry

Temporary Storage

• Not currently used in Nova Rewards contracts
• Lifetime: Single ledger
• Use case: Intermediate computation results

TTL Extension Pattern

// Example: Extending TTL on persistent storage read
let balance: i128 = env
    .storage()
    .persistent()
    .get(&DataKey::Balance(addr.clone()))
    .unwrap_or(0);

// Extend TTL by 31 days (2,678,400 ledgers at 5s/ledger)
env.storage()
    .persistent()
    .extend_ttl(&DataKey::Balance(addr.clone()), 2_678_400, 2_678_400);

WASM Size Measurements

Run before and after optimization:

cd contracts
stellar contract build
stellar contract inspect --wasm target/wasm32v1-none/release/nova_rewards.wasm
stellar contract inspect --wasm target/wasm32v1-none/release/nova_token.wasm
stellar contract inspect --wasm target/wasm32v1-none/release/vesting.wasm

Size Targets

• Maximum WASM size: 256 KB (Soroban limit)
• Target size: < 128 KB (50% headroom for future features)
• Current sizes: (to be measured)

Future Optimization Opportunities

1. Pagination: For contracts with unbounded lists, implement pagination to avoid loading entire collections
2. Lazy Loading: Load struct fields on-demand rather than entire structs
3. Compression: Use bit-packing for boolean flags and small enums
4. Archive Old Data: Move historical data to off-chain storage, keep only recent entries on-chain

References

• Soroban Storage Documentation
• Soroban Resource Limits
• TTL Best Practices