Root + Impact

Description

• The contract defines a state variable:

This variable is only initialized at deployment and never used or updated anywhere in the code.

It has no functional purpose, yet it occupies a storage slot and increases deployment gas usage.

Risk

Impact:

• Performance Overhead (Low):

  Adds one unnecessary storage slot, increasing deployment cost by ~20,000 gas.

• Code Maintainability (Low):

  Misleads readers into thinking the variable plays a role in the contract’s timing logic.

Recommended Mitigation