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orders: exchange-rate encoding panics on rate>1 and collapses same-rate mirrors to one OrderID #464

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@deepanshutr

Two related defects in the order exchange-rate encoding, both PRE-EXISTING and surfaced by the immediate-matcher review (rwa/phase3-identity-compliance).

A. Rate > 1 panics in OrderID derivation (user-reachable)

make/put/immediate store exchangeRate = takerSplit / 1e-18 / makerSplit. When takerSplit > makerSplit the value exceeds LegacyMaxSortableDec (1e18), and NewOrderID -> Immutables.GenerateHashID -> DecData.Bytes -> LegacySortableDecBytes panics "dec must be within bounds". ValidateBasic only checks positivity (x/orders/transactions/make/message.go, immediate/message.go), so a normal user message with a sell price above 1:1 reaches the panic. baseapp recovers it (failed tx, not a halt), but it silently forbids all rate>1 orders.

B. Same-rate mirror shares an OrderID

Immutables.GenerateHashID (schema qualified/base/immutables.go) hashes each property's data ID and sorts them, ignoring the property key. Swapping MakerAssetID/TakerAssetID at the same rate/height/parties yields the same OrderID, so a legitimate counterparty at an identical rate is rejected as EntityAlreadyExists, and the immediate matcher must rely on rate differing to see a counterparty.

Proposed direction (needs a design decision)

Either (a) change the rate encoding so the full economic range is representable and hashable, or (b) explicitly reject rate>1 in ValidateBasic with a clear error (a cap, not a panic) and document the constraint. (B) is a footgun-removal; (A) is the real fix and touches schema hashing (wide blast radius).

Fix-priority scorecard

SEC UX AUTO YAGNI DELTA FIN
40 55 35 45 40 43

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