_Originally posted by @S3RK in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/24984#pullrequestreview-952900468_

> With current implementation we don't save the rescan progress and on the next load we will have to start from scratch. Is it possible to save the last processed blocked at shutdown?

It would be nice if wallet code would call `WriteBestBlock` and save the last scan position if it is interrupted during a sync. This could be implemented by trying to save the scan position during the shutdown, or by just periodically saving the scan position after an interval, similar to indexing code which saves sync position once every 30 seconds:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/f0a834e2f10a0aa60c7cc76e9f3eb090168a32e5/src/index/base.cpp#L170-L175
pwallet->BlockUntilSyncedToCurrentChain();
    LOCK(pwallet->cs_wallet);
    uint256 hash(ParseHashV(request.params[0], "txid"));
    if (!pwallet->mapWallet.count(hash)) {
        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY, "Invalid or non-wallet transaction id");
    }
    if (!pwallet->AbandonTransaction(hash)) {
        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_ADDRESS_OR_KEY, "Transaction not eligible for abandonment");
    }
    return NullUniValue;
},
    };
}
RPCHelpMan rescanblockchain()
{
    return RPCHelpMan{"rescanblockchain",
                "\nRescan the local blockchain for wallet related transactions.\n"
                "Note: Use \"getwalletinfo\" to query the scanning progress.\n",
                {
                    {"start_height", RPCArg::Type::NUM, RPCArg::Default{0}, "block height where the rescan should start"},
                    {"stop_height", RPCArg::Type::NUM, RPCArg::Optional::OMITTED_NAMED_ARG, "the last block height that should be scanned. If none is provided it will rescan up to the tip at return time of this call."},
                },
                RPCResult{
                    RPCResult::Type::OBJ, "", "",
                    {
                        {RPCResult::Type::NUM, "start_height", "The block height where the rescan started (the requested height or 0)"},
                        {RPCResult::Type::NUM, "stop_height", "The height of the last rescanned block. May be null in rare cases if there was a reorg and the call didn't scan any blocks because they were already scanned in the background."},
                    }
                },
                RPCExamples{