Raise limit of minting

[szg251]

Issue by: gege251
Original date: 2023-05-16 11:01:40 UTC
Originally opened as: mlabs-haskell/trustless-sidechain/issues/433
Original assignees:
Status on 2023-06-20: open

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Description

There is a hard limit on the amount we can mint in one transaction, set in the cardano-ledger spec:
transaction_body
mint

Mint amount is a nonZeroInt64 (-9223372036854775808 .. 9223372036854775807 excluding 0).

Instead of implementing some workaround, we should first reach out to someone at IOG about this issue, and if required, write a CIP.

Open questions:

• what is a reasonable amount that satisfies the requirements
• do we need a CIP (previous transaction size, block size etc. did not include a CIP process)

Links

• meta-task input-output-hk/trustless-sidechain#181

[szg251]

Comment by: gege251
Original date: 2023-05-18 13:54:46 UTC

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After some discussion with Samuel Leathers, they are considering this with the core team, but it's something that couldn't really be done this year (likely mid 2024)

[jstolarek]

Is this something that can realistically be fixed internally in trustless-sidechain?

[jstolarek]

I am closing this ticket since: a) it doesn't seem actionable on our end - it stems from (one of many) limitations of Cardano and b) it isn't a problem that we have ever run against in practice.