diff --git a/composer/spec/soroban/null_backend.py b/composer/spec/soroban/null_backend.py
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+"""A null Solana backend — records extracted properties without verifying them.
+
+It implements the full ``PipelineBackend`` contract over the Solana ecosystem's
+``(SolanaApplication, SolanaProgramInstance, SolanaComponentInstance)`` triple, but its
+``formalize`` just echoes the extracted properties into a trivial result and its
+``fetch_verdicts`` returns nothing.
+
+**Role:** a **test double** for the Soroban front half (analysis + property extraction)
+without a real verifier — see ``tests/test_soroban_gate.py``. Production Soroban
+verification is the Certora Prover.
+"""
+
+import enum
+import json
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import override, Sequence, Any
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+
+from composer.pipeline.core import (
+    CorePhases,
+    Formalizer,
+    GaveUp,
+    PipelineRun,
+    PreparedSystem,
+    SystemAnalysisSpec,
+    ToolBinder,
+)
+from composer.spec.artifacts import ArtifactStore
+from composer.spec.context import WorkflowContext
+from composer.authoring.state import SkippedProperty
+from composer.spec.soroban.model import (
+    SorobanApplication,
+    SorobanComponentInstance,
+    SorobanContractInstance,
+)
+from composer.spec.source.report.collect import Formalized, Verdict
+from composer.spec.source.report.schema import RuleName
+from composer.spec.types import PropertyFormulation, PropertyTitle
+from composer.spec.util import ensure_dir
+
+SOROBAN_NULL_GUIDANCE: str = """\
+These properties are recorded by a null backend (no verification is performed). Extract
+properties a Soroban verification tool could plausibly check: account/state invariants, access
+control (signer/owner/authority), and arithmetic safety. Freely
+state universally-quantified properties.
+"""
+
+
+class SorobanPhase(enum.Enum):
+    ANALYSIS = "analysis"
+    EXTRACTION = "extraction"
+    FORMALIZATION = "formalization"
+    REPORT = "report"
+
+
+class NullResult(BaseModel):
+    """A trivial formalization result: it just carries the properties back out."""
+
+    commentary: str = ""
+    property_rules: list[tuple[PropertyTitle, list[RuleName]]] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    skipped: list[SkippedProperty] = Field(default_factory=list)
+
+    def property_checks(self) -> list[tuple[PropertyTitle, list[RuleName]]]:
+        return [(t, list(u)) for t, u in self.property_rules]
+
+    @property
+    def artifact_text(self) -> str:
+        return json.dumps(
+            {"commentary": self.commentary, "properties": self.property_checks()}, indent=2
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def output_link(self) -> str | None:
+        return None
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class NullArtifact:
+    slug: str
+
+    @property
+    def stem(self) -> str:
+        return f"null_{self.slug}"
+
+    @property
+    def artifact_file(self) -> str:
+        return f"{self.stem}.json"
+
+
+class NullSorobanArtifactStore(ArtifactStore[NullArtifact, NullResult]):
+    def __init__(self, project_root: str):
+        super().__init__(
+            project_root,
+            "property_checks",
+            deliverable_dir="certora/soroban_null",
+            internal_dir=".certora_internal/soroban_null",
+            report_dir="certora/soroban_null/reports",
+        )
+
+    @override
+    def _artifact_dir(self) -> Path:
+        return ensure_dir(Path(self._project_root) / "certora/soroban_null/artifacts")
+
+
+class NullSorobanFormalizer(Formalizer[NullResult, SorobanComponentInstance]):
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        # ``"none"``: this backend verifies nothing, and its report should say so rather than
+        # borrow a real verifier's vocabulary — every unit comes out UNKNOWN, which that tag's
+        # wording renders as "Unverified".
+        super().__init__(NullResult, "none")
+
+    @override
+    async def formalize(
+        self,
+        label: str,
+        feat: SorobanComponentInstance,
+        props: list[PropertyFormulation],
+        ctx: WorkflowContext[NullResult],
+        run: PipelineRun,
+        extra_tools: ToolBinder[SorobanComponentInstance]
+    ) -> NullResult | GaveUp:
+        return NullResult(
+            commentary=f"Null formalization of instruction {feat.display_name} "
+            f"({len(props)} properties recorded, unverified).",
+            # The pseudo-check is named after the title itself: nothing runs, so the property's
+            # own words are the only name its report row could have.
+            property_rules=[(p.title, [RuleName(p.title)]) for p in props],
+        )
+
+    @override
+    async def fetch_verdicts(
+        self, formalized: Formalized[NullResult]
+    ) -> dict[RuleName, Verdict]:
+        return {}
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NullSorobanPrepared(PreparedSystem[NullResult, SorobanComponentInstance, SorobanContractInstance]):
+    form: NullSorobanFormalizer
+
+    @override
+    async def prepare_formalization(
+        self, run: PipelineRun
+    ) -> Formalizer[NullResult, SorobanComponentInstance]:
+        return self.form
+
+
+@dataclass
+class NullSorobanBackend:
+    """``PipelineBackend[SorobanPhase, NullResult, None, NullArtifact, SorobanComponentInstance,
+    SorobanContractInstance, SorobanApplication, None]`` (P, FormT, H, A, Unit, Main, App, Pre) — structural."""
+
+    artifact_store: NullSorobanArtifactStore
+    backend_guidance = SOROBAN_NULL_GUIDANCE
+    analysis_spec = SystemAnalysisSpec("soroban-analysis", "soroban-properties")
+    core_phases = CorePhases(
+        {
+            "analysis": SorobanPhase.ANALYSIS,
+            "extraction": SorobanPhase.EXTRACTION,
+            "formalization": SorobanPhase.FORMALIZATION,
+            "report": SorobanPhase.REPORT,
+        }
+    )
+
+    async def preflight(self, run: PipelineRun[SorobanPhase, None]) -> None:
+        """Nothing to prepare — this backend builds nothing and only records properties."""
+        return None
+
+    async def prepare_system(
+        self, analyzed: SorobanApplication, run: PipelineRun[SorobanPhase, None], preflight: None
+    ) -> PreparedSystem[NullResult, SorobanComponentInstance, SorobanContractInstance]:
+        # Use the Solana ecosystem's locate_main so the backend and ecosystem agree on the
+        # target program (imported lazily to avoid an import cycle with pipeline.ecosystem).
+        from composer.pipeline.ecosystem import SOROBAN
+
+        return NullSorobanPrepared(SOROBAN.locate_main(analyzed, run.source), NullSorobanFormalizer())
+
+    def to_artifact_id(self, c: SorobanComponentInstance) -> NullArtifact:
+        return NullArtifact(c.slug)
diff --git a/tests/test_null_soroban_backend.py b/tests/test_null_soroban_backend.py
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+"""Unit tests for the null Soroban backend (``composer/spec/soroban/null_backend.py``).
+
+The null backend is a pure test double for the Soroban front half — it records extracted
+properties without verifying them. These tests exercise it in isolation: no LLM, no Postgres,
+no prover. (The end-to-end live gate that drives real models through it is
+``tests/test_soroban_gate.py``, marked ``expensive``.)
+"""
+
+import json
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from typing import Any, cast
+
+import pytest
+
+from composer.spec.soroban.model import (
+    SorobanApplication,
+    SorobanComponentInstance,
+    SorobanContractInstance,
+    SorobanContract,
+    SorobanFunction,
+    ContractComponent,
+)
+
+from composer.spec.soroban.null_backend import (
+    NullArtifact,
+    NullResult,
+    NullSorobanArtifactStore,
+    NullSorobanBackend,
+    NullSorobanFormalizer,
+    NullSorobanPrepared,
+    SOROBAN_NULL_GUIDANCE,
+    SorobanPhase,
+)
+from composer.spec.types import ProgramName, PropertyFormulation, RustIdentifier
+
+from .test_soroban_components import _app
+
+def _program_instance() -> SorobanContractInstance:
+    return SorobanContractInstance(0, _app())
+
+
+def _unit() -> SorobanComponentInstance:
+    """The backend's ``Unit`` — a component, not the program (``Main`` is not a ``FeatureUnit``)."""
+    return SorobanComponentInstance(0, _program_instance())
+
+
+def _props() -> list[PropertyFormulation]:
+    return [
+        PropertyFormulation(
+            title="balance_conserved", sort="invariant",
+            description="The vault balance equals the sum of recorded deposits.",
+        ),
+        PropertyFormulation(
+            title="only_authority_withdraws", sort="safety_property",
+            description="Only the stored authority can reduce the vault balance.",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def _backend(project_root: str) -> NullSorobanBackend:
+    return NullSorobanBackend(NullSorobanArtifactStore(project_root))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_formalize_echoes_properties_into_result():
+    feat = _unit()
+    props = _props()
+
+    result = await NullSorobanFormalizer().formalize(
+        "batch", feat, props, cast(Any, None), cast(Any, None), cast(Any, None)
+    )
+
+    assert isinstance(result, NullResult)
+    # Every property is echoed back verbatim as its own single-rule mapping.
+    assert result.property_checks() == [
+        ("balance_conserved", ["balance_conserved"]),
+        ("only_authority_withdraws", ["only_authority_withdraws"]),
+    ]
+    # Commentary records the unit and the count.
+    assert feat.display_name in result.commentary
+    assert "2 properties" in result.commentary
+    # artifact_text is well-formed JSON carrying the same properties; there is no output link.
+    parsed = json.loads(result.artifact_text)
+    assert parsed["properties"] == [
+        ["balance_conserved", ["balance_conserved"]],
+        ["only_authority_withdraws", ["only_authority_withdraws"]],
+    ]
+    assert result.output_link is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_formalize_with_no_properties_records_empty():
+    result = await NullSorobanFormalizer().formalize(
+        "batch", _unit(), [], cast(Any, None), cast(Any, None), cast(Any, None)
+    )
+    assert isinstance(result, NullResult)
+    assert result.property_checks() == []
+    assert "0 properties" in result.commentary
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fetch_verdicts_is_empty():
+    # The null backend never verifies, so it surfaces no verdicts.
+    assert await NullSorobanFormalizer().fetch_verdicts(cast(Any, None)) == {}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_prepare_system_locates_main_and_builds_formalizer(tmp_path):
+    feat = _program_instance()
+    backend = _backend(str(tmp_path))
+    run = cast(Any, SimpleNamespace(source=SimpleNamespace(contract_name="vault")))
+
+    prepared = await backend.prepare_system(feat.app, run, await backend.preflight(run))
+
+    assert isinstance(prepared, NullSorobanPrepared)
+    # prepare_system routes through SOROBAN.locate_main, so main is the matched program.
+    assert isinstance(prepared.main, SorobanContractInstance)
+    assert prepared.main.app == feat.app
+
+    formalizer = await prepared.prepare_formalization(cast(Any, None))
+    assert isinstance(formalizer, NullSorobanFormalizer)
+
+
+def test_to_artifact_id_uses_unit_slug(tmp_path):
+    feat = _unit()
+    artifact = _backend(str(tmp_path)).to_artifact_id(feat)
+    assert isinstance(artifact, NullArtifact)
+    assert artifact.slug == feat.slug
+    assert artifact.artifact_file == f"null_{feat.slug}.json"
+
+
+def test_backend_declares_soroban_front_half(tmp_path):
+    backend = _backend(str(tmp_path))
+    assert backend.backend_guidance is SOROBAN_NULL_GUIDANCE
+    assert backend.analysis_spec.analysis_key == "soroban-analysis"
+    assert backend.analysis_spec.properties_key == "soroban-properties"
+    assert {p.value for p in SorobanPhase} == {
+        "analysis", "extraction", "formalization", "report",
+    }