docs: correct stale and misleading code comments

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Comment-only cleanup. Across the unfork to upstream reth (v2.2.0, then v2.5.2), the V2 engine API, the reference-index cursor runtime, bounded proof history and call-mode fee tokens, many comments kept describing older code. Each change was checked against the current code. Where a comment makes a claim about upstream or go-ethereum, it was also checked against pinned reth v2.5.2, revm 42 and morph-geth main.

No code, string literals, attributes or log messages change. A script over the diff confirms that every added or removed line is a comment. The one exception to "no runtime-visible text" is crates/engine-api/src/metrics.rs: those field docs are exported as Prometheus HELP strings.

What was wrong

Names that no longer exist

• sload_morph / sstore_morph (removed with revm-state 42 in chore: upgrade reth dependencies to v2.5.2 #188), trie_handle / StateHookSender, validate_block_post_execution_with_hashed_state, EXPECTED_GAS_USED.
• MORPH_MAX_BASE_FEE, MorphProofStorage, TokenFeeInfo::fetch, and load_for_caller as the handler's balance path (it is load_token_fee_info since fix(revm): align call-mode fee-token execution with go-ethereum #210).
• min_block_interval, unwind_upto_block, new_blocks, and a tests/lib.rs test that only exists in the vendored Base source.
• Dead links to the morph prover's tx.rs. Geth file.go#Lnnn anchors that had drifted onto unrelated code are replaced with symbol names or current lines.

Behaviour that changed or was described wrongly

• The receipt builder's token-fee formula was inverted. It is now eth_fee * token_scale / fee_rate, rounded up, matching TokenFeeInfo::eth_to_token_amount.
• morph_getTransactionHashesByReference waits up to 300 ms, not 100 ms.
• engine_assembleL2Block receives only L1 messages; L2 transactions come from the pool.
• The cross-block next_l1_msg_index check requires the index to be advanced past the block's leading L1 messages. It is not parent.next + l1_count, because queue indices may skip across blocks.
• The parent timestamp rule is > before Emerald and >= from Emerald on.
• Since fix(reference-index): keep transient sync failures retryable #149, ReferenceIndexPhase::Unavailable is not left by a retry: the runtime stops, and only a restart recovers.
• Reference-index schema v1 shipped in v0.3.0 through v1.0.0; it was not only a pre-release prototype.
• Three e2e comments in engine.rs relied on the FCU historical-finalization fallback that fix(engine-api): preserve finalized tags during safe imports #130 removed.
• Several estimateGas test comments claimed disable_fee_charge = false; reth sets it to true.
• Receipt encoding docs claimed a "DA layer compression" purpose that no Morph code path has.
• The bloom-less network encoding was attributed to eth/66/67. Only eth/69+ Receipts69/Receipts70 use it; eth/66-68 send ReceiptWithBloom.
• The docs said u8 has no Compact impl. It has one; the real constraint is the derive's last-field rule.
• The Trace pre-execution override described a SystemCaller failure that no longer exists.
• MorphPayloadBuilderAttributes was documented as the builder's Attributes type, which it is not.
• Dev mode was documented as sealing every 100 ms; it seals on new pool transactions.

Incomplete lists

• The consensus step lists were missing the MorphTx and next_l1_msg_index checks.
• The engine-api method lists were missing the V2 methods and setBlockTags.
• The txpool check lists were missing the Viridian/Emerald gates and the EIP-3860 check, and the MorphTx list was out of order.
• The "Adding a New Hardfork" checklist pointed at genesis/dev.json and xtask/, which never existed here, and did not name MorphHardforkInfo or build_hardforks.

Vendored proofs code

• The proofs ExEx doc said "fault proof window".
• prune_earliest_state claimed to apply a diff that is no longer passed.
• The unwind_history trait doc described the wrong direction.
• Several unwind/prune test comments contradicted their own assertions.

Non-Rust

• .config/nextest.toml: e2e tests run two at a time on the 4-vCPU ubuntu-latest runner, not one. A recent CI run spent 197 s of test time in 99 s of wall time.
• release.yml: since fix(build): disable x86-64-v3 for EC2 binaries #154, EC2 deploys build with the reproducible profile, not profiling.

Deliberately left unchanged

• The MorphEvmEnv docs in crates/revm/src/token_fee.rs say pool admission builds the env with ConfigureEvm::evm_env. On main the pool still passes MorphBlockEnv::default(). fix(txpool): keep token-fee MorphTx pending and revalidate fees per block #200 makes the docs true, so they are not rewritten here.
• Comments that are accurate but could be worded better were left alone. Only comments that are wrong against the code changed.

Merge notes

This PR has small comment-only textual conflicts with open PRs:

• feat(chainspec): read payload limit from custom genesis #198: crates/consensus/src/validation.rs. Both PRs edit the same step lists; keep both edits.
• fix(txpool): keep token-fee MorphTx pending and revalidate fees per block #200 and feat: support MorphTx v2 with EIP-7702 authorization lists #211: crates/node/src/test_utils.rs and crates/rpc/src/eth/transaction.rs, plus crates/txpool/src/morph_tx_validation.rs in fix(txpool): keep token-fee MorphTx pending and revalidate fees per block #200. Where those PRs rewrite the same doc, keep their version, and keep the PreViridian line added here.
• refactor(revm): keep fee-token logs in the journal instead of finalizing mid-transaction #215 merges cleanly.

Follow-ups found (code, not in this PR)

• Trace::apply_pre_execution_changes in crates/rpc/src/eth/mod.rs returns Ok(()). The upstream default now only runs the Morph executor's pre-execution step, which just pre-warms the L1 gas oracle account, so the override looks redundant.
• use alloy_consensus as _; in crates/chainspec/src/lib.rs is redundant now that spec.rs imports Sealable.
• mixed_block_pressure::l2_da_bytes sums RLP network lengths, while the builder counts EIP-2718 lengths (refactor: raise per-block DA packing cap to 720 KiB #160). The test oracle over-counts typed transactions by a few bytes.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.
• cargo clippy --all --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo clippy -p morph-node --all-targets --features test-utils -- -D warnings: clean.
• cargo test --doc --all: pass.
• typos: clean.
• cargo doc --workspace --no-deps --document-private-items: the same warning set as main, so no new broken intra-doc links.
• Unit and e2e tests were not re-run locally because the diff is comment-only; CI covers them.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified guidance and terminology across transaction fees, L1 message validation, hardforks, block building, proofs, and RPC behavior.
  • Updated descriptions of transaction validation requirements, including fork-dependent rules and token-fee checks.
  • Refreshed operational notes on test concurrency, release build profiles, proof indexing, and API behavior.
  • No runtime behavior or user-facing functionality changed.

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This pull request revises documentation and comments across chain specifications, consensus, engine APIs, payload building, transactions, proofs, the reference index, and RPCs. It also updates CI and release-workflow comments. No executable logic changes are reported.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hardfork and transaction validation crates/chainspec/*, crates/consensus/*, crates/txpool/*, crates/node/src/test_utils.rs, crates/node/tests/it/consensus.rs	Comments describe current hardfork configuration, consensus checks, transaction validation rules, and related test coverage.
Engine, payload, and node documentation crates/engine-api/*, crates/payload/*, crates/node/src/args.rs, crates/node/src/validator.rs, crates/node/src/version.rs, crates/node/tests/it/*	Comments describe Engine API V2 methods and metrics, payload-building details, validator wiring, and integration-test conditions.
Transaction, fee, and receipt documentation crates/evm/*, crates/primitives/*, crates/revm/*, crates/node/tests/it/morph_tx.rs	Documentation clarifies transaction fields, receipt encoding, fee descriptions, and implementation references.
Proof history and reference-index documentation crates/proofs*/*, crates/reference-index/*	Comments describe proof-history pruning and unwinding, block updates, reference-index states, and schema history.
RPC documentation and test comments crates/rpc/*, crates/node/tests/it/rpc.rs	Comments describe RPC gas-cap handling, transaction conversion, receipt conversion, and the reference-index catch-up wait.
Workflow and test-runner comments .config/nextest.toml, .github/workflows/release.yml	Comments clarify CI test concurrency and release build-profile selection.

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In `@crates/engine-api/src/metrics.rs`:
- Line 45: Update the HELP text for validate_l2_block_failures_total to describe
only failures that increment the counter, rather than all validate_l2_block
calls returning an error; leave the uncounted current_head() error path
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- Line 1197: Update the `prune_earliest_state` documentation to describe pruning
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preserving the state needed at that boundary; retain the reference to the
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In `@crates/rpc/src/eth/transaction.rs`:
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• crates/evm/src/lib.rs
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• crates/node/tests/it/helpers.rs
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