Fix critical reward manipulation vulnerabilities in anti-double-mining

[nkar123412-hub]

Fixed two critical vulnerabilities:

1. Race condition in epoch settlement (C-01) allowing double payments.
2. Uncapped warthog bonus inflation (C-02) allowing reward capture.

Verified via local PoC simulations.

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[jujujuda]

LGTM. Two important fixes: (1) Critical race condition fix — replaces check-then-set (TOCTOU) with atomic UPDATE ... WHERE settled=0, preventing double-settlement if two nodes call settle_epoch_with_anti_double_mining simultaneously. (2) Warthog bonus cap at 2.0x — prevents reward inflation via oversized warthog_bonus values in miner_attest_recent. Both are real exploit vectors. Clean XS fix. Approved.

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[Scottcjn]

Elyan Labs review. This overlaps your own #7715 (both touch anti_double_mining.py:673) — please consolidate into one PR.

Blocking — anti_double_mining.py:673 marks epoch_state.settled=1 (and writes settled_ts at claim time) before reward calculation/persistence. If called on a shared/autocommit connection or a later write fails, the epoch is left "settled" with rewards not fully applied — and any consumer treating settled_ts as completion-time now sees an earlier value. The prior invariant (settled only after successful processing) was load-bearing; keep the settled write after rewards persist, inside the same transaction.
Should-fix — :866 silently clamps warthog_bonus > 2.0 to 2.0. That's a consensus/reward policy change bundled with a race fix — separate it and call it out explicitly, since it alters payouts for already-accepted attestations. — Elyan Labs

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