fix: stream startup history recovery

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What changed

• Stream follower startup block and signature history directly from published blockstore bytes through a bounded, cancellable channel.
• Use persisted SlotHashes as the authoritative startup boundary, require it outside genesis, and keep leader recovery limited to its newest hash.
• Restore compact signature membership for follower deduplication without loading execution records or retaining historical statuses.

Closes #122

Impact

Startup memory is bounded and no longer performs transaction-index and execution-header lookups for the retained history window. BlockRange now streams compact entries in blockstore order; the ledger and AccountsDB persisted formats are unchanged.

Reviewer notes

Follower recovery merges persisted hashes and streamed history oldest-to-newest so cache expiry remains ordered, but streamed ledger history never advances the latest boundary ahead of AccountsDB. Genesis still creates a fixed-capacity SlotHashes; a missing non-genesis account is a startup error.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The ledger block-range API now streams compact block history directly from blockstore storage and no longer depends on transaction indexes or execution records. Shared signature-prefix types support indexing and deduplication. Keeper startup restores leader caches from persisted SlotHashes and follower caches from retained ledger data. Recovered follower signatures have no historical status. Recovery tests cover leader and follower behavior, replay recovery, clean restart errors, and block-range ordering.

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a7dfe

Concurrent ledger scans can return incomplete or incorrect replay and recovery history, potentially breaking restart recovery. This should be fixed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address the coding objectives in [#122] by streaming blockstore history, avoiding index and execution lookups, supporting cancellation, bounding startup memory, and restoring block and sig…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, tests, and documentation changes are related to startup history recovery and the requirements in [#122]. No unrelated changes are evident.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 93.02% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 43 functions across 13 files. (3 skipped: 3…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: streaming startup history recovery.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately covers streaming follower history, SlotHashes recovery, leader behavior, signature deduplication, and bounded startup memory.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The changes address the coding objectives in [#122] by streaming blockstore history, avoiding index and execution lookups, supporting cancellation, bounding startup memory, and restoring block and signature history for restart recovery.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 93.02% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 43 functions across 13 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@ledger/src/reader.rs`:
- Around line 535-537: Update visit_blockstore to give every blockstore scan an
independent cursor by opening a separate handle or using positional reads; do
not seek or read through the shared superblock.blockstore, and do not use
File::try_clone because it shares the file offset. Preserve the existing limit
and scan behavior for BlockRange and Replay.

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• engine/README.md
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• keeper/src/error.rs
• keeper/src/lib.rs
• keeper/src/tests/recovery.rs
• ledger/README.md
• ledger/src/index.rs
• ledger/src/lib.rs
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