}
/**
- * Limit our total exposure to in-flight HTLCs which are burned to fees as they are too
- * small to claim on-chain.
+ * Limit our total exposure to potential loss to on-chain fees on close, including in-flight
+ * HTLCs which are burned to fees as they are too small to claim on-chain and fees on
+ * commitment transaction(s) broadcasted by our counterparty in excess of our own fee estimate.
+ *
+ * # HTLC-based Dust Exposure
*
* When an HTLC present in one of our channels is below a \"dust\" threshold, the HTLC will
* not be claimable on-chain, instead being turned into additional miner fees if either
* party force-closes the channel. Because the threshold is per-HTLC, our total exposure
- * to such payments may be sustantial if there are many dust HTLCs present when the
+ * to such payments may be substantial if there are many dust HTLCs present when the
* channel is force-closed.
*
* The dust threshold for each HTLC is based on the `dust_limit_satoshis` for each party in a
* The selected limit is applied for sent, forwarded, and received HTLCs and limits the total
* exposure across all three types per-channel.
*
- * Default value: [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] with a multiplier of 5000.
+ * # Transaction Fee Dust Exposure
+ *
+ * Further, counterparties broadcasting a commitment transaction in a force-close may result
+ * in other balance being burned to fees, and thus all fees on commitment and HTLC
+ * transactions in excess of our local fee estimates are included in the dust calculation.
+ *
+ * Because of this, another way to look at this limit is to divide it by 43,000 (or 218,750
+ * for non-anchor channels) and see it as the maximum feerate disagreement (in sats/vB) per
+ * non-dust HTLC we're allowed to have with our peers before risking a force-closure for
+ * inbound channels.
+ *
+ * Thus, for the default value of 10_000 * a current feerate estimate of 10 sat/vB (or 2,500
+ * sat/KW), we risk force-closure if we disagree with our peer by:
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 43_000 / (483*2)` = 0.6 sat/vB for anchor channels with 483 HTLCs in
+ * both directions (the maximum),
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 43_000 / (50*2)` = 5.8 sat/vB for anchor channels with 50 HTLCs in both
+ * directions (the LDK default max from [`ChannelHandshakeConfig::our_max_accepted_htlcs`])
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 218_750 / (483*2)` = 0.1 sat/vB for non-anchor channels with 483 HTLCs
+ * in both directions (the maximum),
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 218_750 / (50*2)` = 1.1 sat/vB for non-anchor channels with 50 HTLCs
+ * in both (the LDK default maximum from [`ChannelHandshakeConfig::our_max_accepted_htlcs`])
+ *
+ * Note that when using [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] this maximum disagreement
+ * will scale linearly with increases (or decreases) in the our feerate estimates. Further,
+ * for anchor channels we expect our counterparty to use a relatively low feerate estimate
+ * while we use [`ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep`] (which should be relatively high) and
+ * feerate disagreement force-closures should only occur when theirs is higher than ours.
+ *
+ * Default value: [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] with a multiplier of 10_000.
+ *
+ * [`ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep`]: crate::chain::chaininterface::ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep
*/
public MaxDustHTLCExposure get_max_dust_htlc_exposure() {
long ret = bindings.ChannelConfig_get_max_dust_htlc_exposure(this.ptr);
}
/**
- * Limit our total exposure to in-flight HTLCs which are burned to fees as they are too
- * small to claim on-chain.
+ * Limit our total exposure to potential loss to on-chain fees on close, including in-flight
+ * HTLCs which are burned to fees as they are too small to claim on-chain and fees on
+ * commitment transaction(s) broadcasted by our counterparty in excess of our own fee estimate.
+ *
+ * # HTLC-based Dust Exposure
*
* When an HTLC present in one of our channels is below a \"dust\" threshold, the HTLC will
* not be claimable on-chain, instead being turned into additional miner fees if either
* party force-closes the channel. Because the threshold is per-HTLC, our total exposure
- * to such payments may be sustantial if there are many dust HTLCs present when the
+ * to such payments may be substantial if there are many dust HTLCs present when the
* channel is force-closed.
*
* The dust threshold for each HTLC is based on the `dust_limit_satoshis` for each party in a
* The selected limit is applied for sent, forwarded, and received HTLCs and limits the total
* exposure across all three types per-channel.
*
- * Default value: [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] with a multiplier of 5000.
+ * # Transaction Fee Dust Exposure
+ *
+ * Further, counterparties broadcasting a commitment transaction in a force-close may result
+ * in other balance being burned to fees, and thus all fees on commitment and HTLC
+ * transactions in excess of our local fee estimates are included in the dust calculation.
+ *
+ * Because of this, another way to look at this limit is to divide it by 43,000 (or 218,750
+ * for non-anchor channels) and see it as the maximum feerate disagreement (in sats/vB) per
+ * non-dust HTLC we're allowed to have with our peers before risking a force-closure for
+ * inbound channels.
+ *
+ * Thus, for the default value of 10_000 * a current feerate estimate of 10 sat/vB (or 2,500
+ * sat/KW), we risk force-closure if we disagree with our peer by:
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 43_000 / (483*2)` = 0.6 sat/vB for anchor channels with 483 HTLCs in
+ * both directions (the maximum),
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 43_000 / (50*2)` = 5.8 sat/vB for anchor channels with 50 HTLCs in both
+ * directions (the LDK default max from [`ChannelHandshakeConfig::our_max_accepted_htlcs`])
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 218_750 / (483*2)` = 0.1 sat/vB for non-anchor channels with 483 HTLCs
+ * in both directions (the maximum),
+ * `10_000 * 2_500 / 218_750 / (50*2)` = 1.1 sat/vB for non-anchor channels with 50 HTLCs
+ * in both (the LDK default maximum from [`ChannelHandshakeConfig::our_max_accepted_htlcs`])
+ *
+ * Note that when using [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] this maximum disagreement
+ * will scale linearly with increases (or decreases) in the our feerate estimates. Further,
+ * for anchor channels we expect our counterparty to use a relatively low feerate estimate
+ * while we use [`ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep`] (which should be relatively high) and
+ * feerate disagreement force-closures should only occur when theirs is higher than ours.
+ *
+ * Default value: [`MaxDustHTLCExposure::FeeRateMultiplier`] with a multiplier of 10_000.
+ *
+ * [`ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep`]: crate::chain::chaininterface::ConfirmationTarget::OnChainSweep
*/
public void set_max_dust_htlc_exposure(org.ldk.structs.MaxDustHTLCExposure val) {
bindings.ChannelConfig_set_max_dust_htlc_exposure(this.ptr, val.ptr);
* Two objects with NULL inner values will be considered "equal" here.
*/
public boolean eq(org.ldk.structs.ChannelConfig b) {
- boolean ret = bindings.ChannelConfig_eq(this.ptr, b == null ? 0 : b.ptr);
+ boolean ret = bindings.ChannelConfig_eq(this.ptr, b.ptr);
Reference.reachabilityFence(this);
Reference.reachabilityFence(b);
if (this != null) { this.ptrs_to.add(b); };
* Applies the given [`ChannelConfigUpdate`] as a partial update to the [`ChannelConfig`].
*/
public void apply(org.ldk.structs.ChannelConfigUpdate update) {
- bindings.ChannelConfig_apply(this.ptr, update == null ? 0 : update.ptr);
+ bindings.ChannelConfig_apply(this.ptr, update.ptr);
Reference.reachabilityFence(this);
Reference.reachabilityFence(update);
if (this != null) { this.ptrs_to.add(update); };