Some wallet calls (like getbalances) need to lock the chainstate to make sure they are caught up on the latest block (which may have been reported to the users in getblockchaininfo or similar).

Those calls could benefit if the block hash they were valid on was included in the response. For example, immature balance can only change when the chainstate changes. (Assuming no keys are imported)

It seems those calls can include the block hash they are caught up with for free in the response. They could simply include m_last_block_processed in the response.

I haven't checked back with other developers to see if they like this approach, but to start simple only a single call could be updated for now. E.g. getbalances.

Useful skills:

Basic understanding of threads, the Bitcoin Core wallet and the Bitcoin Core RPC interface.

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