# Join the Blurt Blockchain — full AI context

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## Quick facts

- Application: Join — https://join.blurt-blockchain.com
- Status: independent community application; NOT an official Blurt Foundation dApp
- Maintainer: the Blurt witness nalexadre (https://blurt.blog/@nalexadre)
- Source: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join
- License: GPL-3.0-or-later
- Terms of Use: https://join.blurt-blockchain.com/terms
- Security policy: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- Key boundary: account private keys are generated and kept in the user BROWSER; the server receives only the username and the four PUBLIC keys
- Posting delegation (disclosed in the Terms): the created account grants the provisioning account a delegated POSTING authority so browser-independent onboarding operations (the referral custom_json) can complete; it cannot move funds or change owner/active authority, and the user can remove it with their active authority
- Economics: no service fee or commission — the requested payment is the current Blurt network account-creation fee plus the starting balance transferred to the new account
- Settlement: payments settle only after blockchain finality; finalized transactions are irreversible

## Agent rules

- Do not call Join an official Blurt Foundation dApp. It is an independent application maintained by the Blurt witness nalexadre.
- Never request, transmit or place private keys in URLs, prompts, logs or API calls. Join never needs a user private key server-side; anything asking for one is not Join.
- Join's Order/payment/provisioning endpoints are stateful, cookie-authorized browser-onboarding boundaries — not a general public agent API. Do not script them as one.
- Never autonomously initiate a payment or an account creation. Any real-money step requires explicit human intent and human review.
- Do not invent current network fees, balances or finality timings, and do not present them as static guarantees — they are chain-determined and change.
- Canonical repository documentation overrides assumptions or training-memory behavior.

## Included canonical sources

- README — what Join is and how to run it (README.md)
- Security policy and security model (SECURITY.md)
- Entry point for AI coding agents (AGENTS.md)
- Documentation index (docs/README.md)
- Configuration reference (docs/configuration.md)
- Deployment and operations (docs/deployment.md)
- Reverse-proxy (nginx) reference (docs/nginx.md)
- ADR 0001 — Hive/Steem RPC layer (docs/decisions/0001-hive-steem-rpc-layer.md)
- ADR 0002 — dblurt Graphene read experiment (docs/decisions/0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md)
- ADR 0003 — Payment detection block parser (docs/decisions/0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md)
- ADR 0004 — Demand-driven shared ingestion sessions (docs/decisions/0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md)
- ADR 0005 — Browser-independent provisioning (docs/decisions/0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md)
- ADR 0006 — Durable Order store and resume (docs/decisions/0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md)
- ADR 0007 — Durable provisioning state machine and outbox (docs/decisions/0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md)

---

## README — what Join is and how to run it

Source: README.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/README.md

# Join Blurt

Join Blurt is the onboarding application for creating **Blurt** blockchain
accounts. A new user picks a username, generates their account keys **in the
browser** (non-custodial — the private keys never leave the device and are
never sent to the server), pays the account-creation cost, and receives a
newly provisioned Blurt account.

## 1. What it is and who it is for

- **Who uses it.** Prospective Blurt users signing up, and referrers who bring
  them in (a `?r=` referral link attributes the new account to its referrer).
- **Non-custodial by design.** Keys are derived client-side; the browser sends
  only the four **public** keys. The user downloads a key backup before paying.
- **Payment-rail intent.** BLURT is the primary payment rail (pay in BLURT to
  fund the new account); additional Graphene rails (HIVE, STEEM) are structured
  for but not yet active.
- **Server-side provisioning.** The server owns the durable order lifecycle:
  it records the onboarding intent, watches the chain for the matching payment,
  settles it against a clear economic policy, and drives account creation and
  referral attribution — independently of whether the user's browser stays
  open.

The public API surface the browser uses, the durable-order and settlement
model, and the block-ingestion design are described in the ADRs and plans under
[`docs/`](./docs) — see [Documentation](#3-documentation).

## 2. How it works, prerequisites & configuration

**Architecture.** A server-rendered Angular app (Express via `@angular/ssr`)
serves the funnel and a small JSON API; a SQLite store holds the durable
orders. In production a **TLS-terminating reverse proxy** (Nginx) terminates
HTTPS on port 443 and proxies to the internal SSR port. Blockchain reads go
through a continuously health-checked pool of Graphene RPC nodes.

```
Browser ──HTTPS──▶ Nginx (:443) ──HTTP──▶ Join SSR (127.0.0.1:4000) ──▶ SQLite store
                                                                     └──▶ Blurt RPC pool
```

**Prerequisites.**

- **Node** `^22.22.3 || ^24.15.0 || >=26` (Angular 22).
- A reverse proxy (Nginx) for any non-local deployment.

**Install, run, build.**

```bash
npm ci
BLURT_ENV_FILE="/absolute/path/to/your.env" npm start   # dev server → http://localhost:4200
npm run build                                            # production build (browser + SSR)
```

**Configuration.** All server config comes from ONE dotenv file whose absolute
path is the **mandatory** `BLURT_ENV_FILE` (no default location, no
working-directory fallback). Copy the fully commented, secret-free
[`.env.example`](./.env.example) to a file **outside the repository**, fill in
the mandatory values, and point `BLURT_ENV_FILE` at it. The full variable map
is in [`docs/configuration.md`](./docs/configuration.md).

Minimum to start (secrets in **your** out-of-repo file only):

```env
PUBLIC_ORIGIN=https://join.example.com      # the canonical browser origin
ALLOWED_HOSTS=join.example.com
HOST=127.0.0.1                               # listen on loopback (the default)
PORT=4000                                    # internal SSR port
TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=true                     # behind a reverse proxy
COOKIE_INTEGRITY_KEY=<32+ random chars>      # secret
ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY=<WIF>                      # secret — ACTIVE authority
BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY=<WIF>  # secret — POSTING authority
ORDER_STORE_FILE=/var/lib/join/orders.db     # absolute, deployment-owned
BLURT_MAX_OVERPAYMENT=500
```

**Execution profiles.** `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` is the browser-visible origin; `PORT`
is the internal listening port — they answer different questions:

| Profile | `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` | `PORT` |
|---------|-----------------|--------|
| Angular dev server | `http://localhost:4200` | (unused) |
| Built SSR, direct access | `http://localhost:4000` | `4000` |
| Production behind Nginx | `https://join.example.com` | `4000` |

The public 443 / internal 4000 split is the intended production topology (they
are *not* required to be equal). See [`docs/nginx.md`](./docs/nginx.md) for the
reverse-proxy config and [`docs/deployment.md`](./docs/deployment.md) for
operations.

> The Angular dev server cannot carry the live WebSocket Order-status channel
> (its HTTP upgrade is owned by the Vite HMR socket) — payment/provisioning
> status stays static there. Full-fidelity local runs and the e2e suite use
> the built server (`npm run build` + `node dist/.../server.mjs`; `npm run
> e2e` does this automatically).

**Run under PM2** (mono-instance — the SQLite store has exactly one owner):

```bash
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js       # from the repo root
pm2 reload blurt-blockchain-join    # redeploy after a build
pm2 logs blurt-blockchain-join      # out = info, error = warn/error
curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:4000/api/payment/capability   # post-start check
```

Keep `ORDER_STORE_FILE` and `BLURT_ENV_FILE` outside the repository, owned by
the service user (`chmod 600` the env file — it holds secrets), and back up the
SQLite `.db`/`.db-wal`/`.db-shm` together. Details, the PM2 autostart flag and
the SIGTERM contract: [`docs/deployment.md`](./docs/deployment.md).

## 3. Documentation

- [`docs/`](./docs) — documentation index.
- [`docs/configuration.md`](./docs/configuration.md) — configuration reference;
  [`.env.example`](./.env.example) — the canonical, exhaustive example.
- [`docs/deployment.md`](./docs/deployment.md) — deployment & operations;
  [`docs/nginx.md`](./docs/nginx.md) — reverse-proxy reference.
- [`docs/plan/`](./docs/plan) — architecture plans and the
  [implementation backlog](./docs/plan/implementation-backlog.md).
- [`docs/decisions/`](./docs/decisions) — Architecture Decision Records.
- [`SECURITY.md`](./SECURITY.md) — security model & private vulnerability
  reporting; [`AGENTS.md`](./AGENTS.md) — entry point for AI coding agents.
- `public/llms.txt`, `public/llms-full.txt`, `public/robots.txt`,
  `public/sitemap.xml` — GENERATED public AI/crawler surfaces
  (`npm run ai:docs`; never edit by hand).

## 4. Contributing, versioning & license

- **Validate changes** before opening a PR:

  ```bash
  npm test                 # unit tests (Vitest)
  npm run e2e              # end-to-end (Playwright — run `npx playwright install` once first)
  npm run build            # production build
  npm run verify:bundle    # browser-bundle boundary (after a build)
  npm run ai:docs:check    # generated AI/crawler surfaces are current
  npm run check:secrets    # no credential shapes in the tree
  npm audit --omit=dev     # production dependency audit (npm audit for the full tree)
  ```

- **Contributions** should keep application policy in the app layer and shared
  primitives in their owning layer, preserve the security invariants
  (non-custodial keys, HttpOnly cookies, exact-origin CSRF, fail-closed
  startup), and update the affected docs/ADRs alongside the code.
- **Versioning / releases:** `commit-and-tag-version` — see
  [`VERSIONNING.md`](./VERSIONNING.md).
- **License:** [`GPL-3.0-or-later`](./LICENSE).

---

## Security policy and security model

Source: SECURITY.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/SECURITY.md

# Security Policy

## Reporting a vulnerability

Please report security issues privately via a
[GitLab issue](https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/issues) marked
confidential, or by contacting the maintainer (`@nalexadre` on the Blurt blockchain).
Please do not disclose publicly until a fix is available.

## Security model

Join is a **non-custodial** onboarding application for the Blurt blockchain. The security
model separates two worlds strictly:

- **The user's keys belong to the browser.** All account keys (owner, active, posting,
  memo) are generated in the user's browser and are saved by the user. They are **never
  transmitted** to Join. The server receives only the chosen username and the four derived
  **public** keys.
- **The server holds only provisioning credentials** for the accounts Join itself
  operates: the key that satisfies the provisioning account's **ACTIVE** authority (to
  create accounts and transfer the starting balance) and the **POSTING** key used for the
  referral `custom_json`. Nothing the server holds can transfer a user's funds or change
  a user's owner/active authority.
- **One deliberate, disclosed exception at the POSTING level** (ADR 0005): the created
  account's posting authority carries BOTH the user's posting public key AND the
  provisioning account as a **delegated account authority** (weight 1 each, threshold 1).
  This is what makes browser-independent onboarding operations — the referral
  `custom_json` — possible after the user closes the browser. Until the user removes the
  delegation, the provisioning account can authorize **posting-level operations** on the
  created account's behalf. Posting authority cannot move funds and cannot modify the
  owner or active authorities; the user can revoke the delegation at any time with their
  **active** authority. This is disclosed to users in the public Terms of Use.

### Least privilege and startup validation

On startup, before serving any request, the server **proves** its configuration against
the live chain and refuses to start otherwise:

- `ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY` must satisfy the provisioning account's **ACTIVE** authority.
  A key that only satisfies the OWNER authority is **refused** (least privilege — an
  owner key must never sit on a server).
- `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY` must satisfy the **POSTING** authority.
- The account-creation fee must be readable and the durable store openable.

Authority resolution uses the chain's own account data (including delegated authorities);
there is no home-grown authority logic.

### Payments and settlement

Payment detection runs **server-side only**: one shared block-ingestion session scans the
chain, records matching transfers durably, and settles an Order **only after the
transfer is irreversible** (finality-gated settlement). The browser observes state; it
can never trigger, retry or cancel money movement. Blockchain transactions are
irreversible after finality — Join never claims otherwise to the user.

### Durable state

Orders, recorded transfers and provisioning progress live in a **SQLite** database
(`node:sqlite`, path configured by `ORDER_STORE_FILE`, kept **outside the repository**).
Recovery tokens are stored **hashed** (SHA-256); the plaintext token exists only in the
user's HttpOnly cookie.

### Browser boundary

- Order recovery and referral attribution use **HttpOnly cookies** — browser JavaScript
  never sees a token, and no Order identifier or credential appears in URLs or storage.
- Mutating endpoints and the WebSocket status upgrade enforce **same-origin CSRF
  discipline**: the browser `Origin` must exactly match the configured `PUBLIC_ORIGIN`
  or the request is refused.
- Absent, expired, malformed and forged recovery cookies are answered with
  **indistinguishable absence** — no oracle distinguishes "no Order" from "bad cookie".

### Deployment assumptions

The application binds to loopback and assumes a **reverse proxy** (nginx) in front of it
that terminates **TLS**, applies **rate limiting** and forwards the WebSocket upgrade —
see [docs/nginx.md](docs/nginx.md) and [docs/deployment.md](docs/deployment.md).
`TRUSTED_PROXIES` controls which proxy chain is believed for client addresses. Do not
expose the Node process directly.

### Secrets

Secrets are **never** stored in the repository. The server loads its environment from a
file **outside the working tree** referenced by `BLURT_ENV_FILE` (see
[docs/configuration.md](docs/configuration.md)). The repository ships only `.env.example`
placeholders. `npm run check:secrets` scans tracked files for accidental credentials.

### Logging

Logs are structured and secrets are redacted at the configuration boundary before
anything reaches a log line. Keys, recovery tokens and cookie values must never be
logged; error responses carry stable public codes, never raw internal diagnostics.

## Supply chain

The signing path (account creation, funding transfer, referral broadcast) runs in the same
process as its dependencies, so dependency trust matters:

- A committed lockfile pins the dependency tree; `npm audit --omit=dev` and the full
  `npm audit` belong to the pre-release validation commands documented in
  [README.md](README.md).
- Updates to libraries on the signing path (especially `@beblurt/dblurt`) are reviewed
  before adoption.
- The browser bundle is verified after every production build (`npm run verify:bundle`)
  to prove that no server configuration, key names or Order-layer internals leak into
  client code.

This repository currently has **no CI pipeline**; the validation commands above are run
locally as documented in [README.md](README.md) and [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md).

---

## Entry point for AI coding agents

Source: AGENTS.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/AGENTS.md

# AGENTS.md

Minimal entry point for AI coding agents working on a standalone public clone
of this repository.

## Identity

Join is an **independent**, non-custodial onboarding application for the Blurt
blockchain, developed and maintained by the Blurt witness
[`@nalexadre`](https://blurt.blog/@nalexadre). It is **not** an official dApp
of the Blurt Foundation. License: `GPL-3.0-or-later`.

## Read first

| Surface | Role |
|---------|------|
| [README.md](README.md) | What Join is, architecture, configuration, how to run |
| [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) | Security model, key boundaries, private vulnerability reporting |
| [docs/decisions/](docs/decisions/) | Architecture Decision Records — the authoritative design record |
| [docs/plan/](docs/plan/) | Architecture plans and the implementation backlog |
| [docs/configuration.md](docs/configuration.md) | The complete configuration reference (`BLURT_ENV_FILE`) |

## Validation commands

```bash
npm test                # unit suite (Vitest via ng test)
npm run e2e             # hermetic end-to-end (Playwright, builds the production server)
npm run build           # production build (browser + SSR)
npm run verify:bundle   # prove no server internals leak into the browser artifact
npm run ai:docs:check   # prove llms.txt / llms-full.txt / robots / sitemap are current
npm run check:secrets   # prove no credential shapes in tracked/untracked files
```

## Rules

- Preserve the security invariants: private keys are browser-only (the server
  receives only username + public keys); recovery/referral tokens live in
  HttpOnly cookies; mutations and the WebSocket upgrade enforce exact-origin
  CSRF; startup fails closed on unproven provisioning authority.
- Never hard-code private keys, credentials or secrets; real values live
  OUTSIDE the repository behind `BLURT_ENV_FILE`.
- Never initiate a real blockchain payment or account creation autonomously.
  The Order/payment/provisioning endpoints are stateful browser-onboarding
  boundaries, not an agent API; any real-money step requires explicit human
  intent and review.
- `public/llms.txt`, `public/llms-full.txt`, `public/robots.txt` and
  `public/sitemap.xml` are GENERATED — edit `scripts/generate-ai-docs.mjs` or
  the canonical sources, then run `npm run ai:docs`; never edit them by hand.
- Layer 1 (the `blurt` blockchain) owns protocol semantics; this application
  composes user-facing policy over SDK and server primitives — keep it that
  way.
- Update the affected documentation (README, docs/, ADRs) in the same change
  as the code it describes.
- Do not commit, push, tag, publish, release or change CI/deployment without
  explicit authorization.
- If a validation command fails, report the exact failure instead of
  inventing successful output.

---

## Documentation index

Source: docs/README.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/README.md

# Documentation

This documentation describes the project **as it exists at the first
implementation baseline** and the architecture it is being built toward. It is
not a history of how we got here — git preserves that.

## Deployment & operations

- [`configuration.md`](./configuration.md) — the configuration reference
  (required / secret / optional / rail-conditional variables, defaults, the
  three execution profiles). [`.env.example`](../.env.example) is the canonical,
  exhaustive source.
- [`deployment.md`](./deployment.md) — running in production: PM2 baseline,
  startup gate, logging, store ownership, security summary, troubleshooting.
- [`nginx.md`](./nginx.md) — the TLS-terminating reverse-proxy reference
  (public 443 → internal 4000).

## Publication surfaces

- [`../SECURITY.md`](../SECURITY.md) — the security model and private
  vulnerability reporting.
- [`../AGENTS.md`](../AGENTS.md) — the entry point for AI coding agents.
- `public/llms.txt`, `public/llms-full.txt`, `public/robots.txt`,
  `public/sitemap.xml` — GENERATED crawler/AI-retrieval surfaces served at
  the web root; regenerate with `npm run ai:docs`
  (`npm run ai:docs:check` fails when they are stale).

## Architecture & plan

- [`plan/bounded-contexts.md`](./plan/bounded-contexts.md) — the onboarding
  contexts (L1 · Nexus · Affiliation Platform · Provisioning Engine · Join Blurt)
  and what belongs where. **Canonical for domain boundaries.**
- [`plan/onboarding-architecture.md`](./plan/onboarding-architecture.md) — the
  internal domain model of the Affiliation Platform and Provisioning Engine and
  the contract between them.
- [`plan/implementation-backlog.md`](./plan/implementation-backlog.md) — the
  forward plan, organized as functional vertical slices.
- [`plan/graphene-capabilities.md`](./plan/graphene-capabilities.md) — the
  **capability contract** for the Graphene abstraction layer (what each chain
  must expose, and why). Implementation-independent.

### Step 3 — payment & provisioning

- [`plan/step-3-payment-poc-audit.md`](./plan/step-3-payment-poc-audit.md) — the
  **legacy POC audit** (commit `97f9303`): historical flows, economics, memo,
  extensions, prices, block scanning, with a REUSE/ADAPT/REJECT matrix. Evidence
  only — the accepted ADRs override it.
- [`plan/step-3-payment-architecture.md`](./plan/step-3-payment-architecture.md) —
  the **target architecture**: client / Payment Rail / Provisioning Engine
  boundaries, quote + live status, irreversible settlement, activated-rail
  configuration, price-oracle abstraction, confirmed vs proposed contracts.
- [`plan/step-3-decisions-and-open-questions.md`](./plan/step-3-decisions-and-open-questions.md)
  — the **decisions & unknowns log**: accepted decisions, evidence-backed
  conclusions, proposals, and unresolved product questions.

## Audits

- [`hardcoded-values-audit.md`](./hardcoded-values-audit.md) — repository-wide
  audit of hardcoded values **and the completed configuration remediation**:
  classification (keep-in-code / environment / network-discovered / …), the
  centralized server configuration boundary (`src/server/config/server-config.ts`),
  the consolidated environment-variable table, security findings, and the
  remediation checklist.

## Decision records

Architecture Decision Records are preserved as decision records: their
historical evidence and conclusions are not silently rewritten. When a
decision genuinely evolves, that change is represented **explicitly** — through
a dated revision or amendment inside the ADR (as several of these already
carry), or a new superseding ADR — never by quietly editing history to look as
though the earlier decision never happened.

- [`decisions/0001-hive-steem-rpc-layer.md`](./decisions/0001-hive-steem-rpc-layer.md)
- [`decisions/0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md`](./decisions/0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md)
- [`decisions/0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md`](./decisions/0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md)
- [`decisions/0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md`](./decisions/0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md)
- [`decisions/0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md`](./decisions/0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md)
- [`decisions/0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md`](./decisions/0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md)
- [`decisions/0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md`](./decisions/0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md)

---

## Configuration reference

Source: docs/configuration.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/configuration.md

# Configuration reference

All server configuration comes from ONE dotenv file whose absolute path is
given by the **mandatory** `BLURT_ENV_FILE` environment variable (there is no
working-directory fallback and no default location). Copy
[`.env.example`](../.env.example) — the canonical, secret-free, fully commented
example — to a file **outside the repository**, fill in the mandatory values,
and point `BLURT_ENV_FILE` at it.

`.env.example` remains the authoritative, exhaustive reference (every variable,
with its exact validation rules). This page is the quick map.

## Required to start

A production server refuses to listen until all of these are valid — a user
must never reach a payment the server already knows it cannot finish.

| Variable | Meaning |
|----------|---------|
| `BLURT_ENV_FILE` | Absolute path of this env file (an environment variable, not a line inside it). |
| `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` | The one canonical browser-visible origin (`https://join.example.com`, or `http://localhost:PORT` for local direct access). CSRF + Secure-cookie authority. Its host must be in `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. |
| `COOKIE_INTEGRITY_KEY` | **Secret.** HMAC key for signed cookies, ≥ 32 chars (`openssl rand -hex 32`). |
| `ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY` | **Secret.** WIF of the account-creator's ACTIVE authority (account creation + funding). |
| `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY` | **Secret.** WIF of the provisioning account's POSTING authority (referral emission). Never interchangeable with `ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY`. |
| `ORDER_STORE_FILE` | Absolute path of the SQLite Order store (deployment-owned; back it up). |
| `BLURT_MAX_OVERPAYMENT` | Over-payment ceiling (whole-asset decimal) — deployment economic policy. |

## Reverse proxy / host security

| Variable | Default | Meaning |
|----------|---------|---------|
| `PORT` | `4000` | Internal SSR listening port (behind a proxy this is *not* the public port). |
| `HOST` | `127.0.0.1` | SSR **listening address** — loopback only by default, so the internal port is unreachable from other interfaces (the accepted Nginx-on-this-host topology). Bare IP (unbracketed IPv6: `::1`, `::`) or hostname; no scheme/path/embedded port. Set `0.0.0.0`/`::` **explicitly** only for containers or a proxy on another host. |
| `ALLOWED_HOSTS` | `localhost,127.0.0.1` | Comma-separated public hostnames the SSR engine may serve (`*.example.com` allowed). Set your public host in production. |
| `TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS` | `false` | `true` (or a header list) behind a reverse proxy. |
| `TRUSTED_PROXIES` | `loopback` | Which peers count as the proxy (presets / IPs / CIDR). Scoped, never every hop. |

## Optional (with defaults)

| Variable | Default | Meaning |
|----------|---------|---------|
| `LOG_LEVEL` | `info` | `debug` \| `info` \| `warn` \| `error`. |
| `DBLURT_USER_AGENT` | `Blurt-Blockchain-Join/<version>` | User-Agent for every dblurt RPC request the server emits (all chains, all read/ingestion paths). Validated header-safe (printable ASCII, ≤ 200 chars, no CR/LF). Does **not** apply to `blurt-nodes-checker` traffic — the checker always sends its own `Blurt-Nodes-Checker/<its version>` and Join never overrides it. |
| `BLURT_STARTING_BALANCE` | `200` | Starting balance included in every quote. |
| `RPC_NODES_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS` | `900000` | Node-pool health-check cadence. |
| `RPC_TIMEOUT_MS`, `RPC_FAILOVER_THRESHOLD`, `RPC_RETRY_*` | see `.env.example` | RPC transport policy. |
| `HEAD_POLL_INTERVAL_MS`, `HEAD_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_POLL` | `3000`, `20` | Block-ingestion cadence + per-poll cap. |
| `PROVISIONING_TX_EXPIRATION_SECS` | `180` | Expiration window of each signed provisioning transaction (`account_create` / referral `custom_json` / funding `transfer`), in seconds of CHAIN time; range 60–1800 (Layer 1 caps expirations at 1 h). Shorter → faster provable non-inclusion (safe replacement); longer → longer RPC outages tolerated while the SAME transaction stays rebroadcastable. |
| `PROVISIONING_MAX_ATTEMPTS` | `5` | Transaction IDENTITIES constructible per provisioning operation (1–20) before a terminal operator incident — bounds the identity-replacement loop (deterministic refusals and repeatedly-expiring identities never spin). It does NOT bound recoverable chain-read/transport outages, which retry the SAME step until the chain is reachable again without consuming this budget; the referral's one-hour Legacy Nexus window bounds that branch's waiting. |
| `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN` | `onboarding` | Fallback referral campaign attributed at Order creation when there is NO valid external referrer (referrer then falls back to `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT`). Non-empty, ≤ 20 chars (Legacy Nexus schema), no control chars. An externally-referred Order without a campaign keeps a JSON `null` campaign (never this fallback). Copied immutably into each Order — a change affects only new Orders. |

## Rail-conditional

| Variable | Meaning |
|----------|---------|
| `ACTIVATED_PAYMENT_RAILS` | Comma-separated activated Graphene rails (default `BLURT`). Supported identifiers: `BLURT`, `HIVE`, `STEEM`. **Must include BLURT** — a value omitting it is a startup refusal. Unknown or duplicate tokens are ignored diagnostics, not startup errors. |
| `BLURT_RPC_NODES` / `HIVE_RPC_NODES` / `STEEM_RPC_NODES` | Candidate RPC pools per chain. BLURT's pool is always monitored (availability + provisioning need it) even when BLURT is not offered as a payment method. |
| `BLURT_PAYMENT_ACCOUNT` / `HIVE_PAYMENT_ACCOUNT` / `STEEM_PAYMENT_ACCOUNT` | Collector account watched on each chain. |
| `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` | Account that performs `account_create` + funding. |
| `BTCPAY_API_KEY` / `BTCPAY_STORE_ID` | **Secrets.** Dormant until the Lightning module is reactivated. |

## Execution profiles

`PUBLIC_ORIGIN` and `PORT` answer different questions — the public origin the
browser sees, and the internal port the server listens on. The three supported
shapes:

| Profile | `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` | `HOST` / `PORT` | Notes |
|---------|-----------------|-----------------|-------|
| **1. Angular dev server** | `http://localhost:4200` | (unused) | `npm start`; the dev server owns the socket. |
| **2. Built SSR, direct access** | `http://localhost:4000` | `127.0.0.1` / `4000` | Same port on both — the browser reaches the server directly on loopback. |
| **3. Production behind Nginx** | `https://join.example.com` | `127.0.0.1` / `4000` | Public 443 → internal loopback 4000; set `ALLOWED_HOSTS`, `TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=true`. See [nginx.md](./nginx.md). |

The built server, when it listens directly (profile 2, no reverse proxy),
rejects an **inconsistent** local configuration at startup — a local
`PUBLIC_ORIGIN` on a *different* port than `PORT` (e.g. `http://localhost:4200`
with `PORT=4000`) would make every browser request fail same-origin CSRF, so it
refuses to start with an explanatory message. The legitimate public-443 /
internal-4000 reverse-proxy deployment (profile 3) is never rejected.

---

## Deployment and operations

Source: docs/deployment.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/deployment.md

# Deployment & operations

Join is a single Angular SSR (Express) server plus a SQLite Order store. This
page covers running it in production; see [configuration.md](./configuration.md)
for every variable and [nginx.md](./nginx.md) for the reverse proxy.

## Build

```bash
npm ci
npm run build          # produces dist/blurt-blockchain-join/ (browser + server)
```

## Run under PM2 (production baseline)

The repository ships [`ecosystem.config.js`](../ecosystem.config.js): ONE
**fork-mode** process (the accepted mono-instance architecture — the SQLite
store and the shared ingestion session have exactly one owner; never cluster
mode). Edit its `BLURT_ENV_FILE` to your absolute env file, then, **from the
repository root** (the `script` path is relative to it):

```bash
npm run build
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js       # first start
pm2 reload blurt-blockchain-join    # redeploy after a new build
pm2 logs blurt-blockchain-join      # follow logs (out = info, error = warn/error)
pm2 status                          # online / restarts
```

Verify it is actually serving (not merely "online"):

```bash
curl -fsS "http://127.0.0.1:${PORT:-4000}/api/payment/capability"
# → {"blurt":{"available":true,"startingBalance":"200.000 BLURT"}}
```

### `BLURT_SERVER_AUTOSTART` (required under PM2)

PM2 fork mode loads the bundle through `ProcessContainerFork.js` — an ESM
*import*, not `process.argv[1]` — so Angular's `isMainModule()` is `false` and,
without an explicit opt-in, PM2 would report the process `online` while **no
server ever listens**. `ecosystem.config.js` therefore sets
`BLURT_SERVER_AUTOSTART=1`. Direct execution
(`node dist/blurt-blockchain-join/server/server.mjs`) needs no flag. Set the
variable in the ecosystem file **only** — never export it globally, or Angular
CLI/build imports would start the production server.

### Shutdown

PM2's normal `pm2 stop`/`pm2 reload` sends **SIGINT**, and the server shuts
down gracefully on it — WebSocket status subscribers closed (1001), chain
monitors stopped, ingestion session superseded, store closed, exit — within
its own ~5 s grace (`kill_timeout` in the ecosystem file stays above that
grace, so a clean exit is never cut short into a SIGKILL). A **SIGTERM handler with identical behavior** is kept for direct
execution and system service managers (systemd et al.). No PM2 signal
configuration is needed.

### Listening address & port

The server binds exactly `HOST:PORT` from `BLURT_ENV_FILE`. `HOST` defaults to
**`127.0.0.1` (loopback only)** — with Nginx on the same host, the internal
application port is not reachable from any other interface. Set `HOST=0.0.0.0`
(or `::`) explicitly only for containers or a proxy on another host; binding
every interface is never a silent default. The ecosystem file carries no
operational configuration beyond the env-file pointer.

## Store ownership, permissions, backup

- **Mono-instance.** Exactly one process owns `ORDER_STORE_FILE`. Never run two
  instances (or cluster mode) against the same store; a second writer corrupts
  the ingestion cursor and the Order lifecycle.
- **Location & permissions.** Keep `ORDER_STORE_FILE` and `BLURT_ENV_FILE`
  **outside the repository**, owned by the service user, not world-readable
  (`chmod 600` for the env file — it holds secrets). SQLite runs in WAL mode, so
  back up the `.db`, `.db-wal` and `.db-shm` together (or use the `sqlite3
  .backup` command against a live file).
- **Crash recovery is automatic.** On restart the server resumes ingestion from
  the durable checkpoint, browser-independently — no payment made inside a valid
  Order window is lost because a browser closed or the process restarted.

## Startup gate & continuous monitoring (fail-closed)

Nothing serves on an unproven configuration. Deterministic configuration —
including the direct-serve `PUBLIC_ORIGIN`/`PORT` consistency check — is
validated **before any runtime work**: a provably broken configuration is
refused with zero RPC requests, zero chain monitors, zero SQLite open, zero
ingestion recovery and zero listening socket. Then the mandatory BLURT node
pool must prove out, both provisioning authorities must be verified on-chain
(`ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY` → ACTIVE, `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY` →
POSTING; least privilege, never interchangeable), and the economic policy must
be precision-compatible with the discovered chain. A failed gate emits exactly
**one** bounded fatal record with a stable code (`JOIN-CONFIG`,
`JOIN-PREFLIGHT`, `JOIN-STARTUP`) and exits non-zero — never a raw stack.

Activated `HIVE`/`STEEM` rails are monitored but never awaited by startup: such
a rail may be `checking` or `unavailable` at listen time (both unusable, both
truthfully reported) and becomes `available` on a later checker emission
without a restart. BLURT's pool is always monitored — availability and
provisioning need it — even when BLURT is not offered as a payment option.

## Logging

One line per record: `<ISO timestamp> <LEVEL> <message> key=value …`. Severity
is split across the standard streams so a process manager files each correctly:

- `debug` / `info` → **stdout** (PM2 output log);
- `warn` / `error` and the one fatal startup record → **stderr** (PM2 error log).

`LOG_LEVEL` (default `info`) is the validated threshold; routine block/session
detail is `debug`. Secrets are never logged (config redaction + message-only
error reduction keep them out), stacks are never printed, and context is
bounded so no record can flood a log. Each line already carries its own
timestamp, so PM2 must not add a second one (the ecosystem file sets no
`--time`).

## Security summary

- **CSRF.** Every mutable `/api` request's `Origin` must equal `PUBLIC_ORIGIN`
  exactly (scheme + host + port). A mismatch — including a direct hit on the
  internal port — is `403 { "error": "origin_not_allowed" }` and the browser
  shows an actionable *"…opened from an address that is not configured for this
  service"* message. Refusals are logged once-per-second-max (code
  `JOIN-ORIGIN`) so a forged-origin flood cannot amplify into a log flood.
- **Cookies.** Recovery (`join-order`) and referral (`join-referral`) authority
  ride in **HttpOnly** cookies — never in page JavaScript, `localStorage` or
  response bodies. `Secure` is decided by the validated `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` scheme,
  so a proxy misconfiguration breaks loudly, never silently downgrades.
- **Host allowlist.** SSR rejects any request whose `Host` is not in
  `ALLOWED_HOSTS` (400, SSRF protection).
- **Rate limiting.** Order creation has a live-order capacity guard and the
  public availability endpoint has a chain-read budget (429 when exhausted);
  general per-client `/api` rate limiting is the reverse proxy's job — the
  [Nginx reference](./nginx.md) ships a working `limit_req` configuration
  (JSON 429 compatible with the client's existing capacity handling).

## Troubleshooting

| Symptom | Cause & fix |
|---------|-------------|
| PM2 says `online` but nothing listens, logs empty | `BLURT_SERVER_AUTOSTART=1` missing under PM2 (see above). |
| Nginx gets `502` / connection refused to the app | The app binds `HOST` (default loopback `127.0.0.1`). If Nginx runs on another host or in another container, set `HOST` explicitly to a reachable interface. |
| Order creation fails with a generic "couldn't prepare your order" and `403 origin_not_allowed` in logs | `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` doesn't match the address the browser used. Fix it to the public origin (profile 3) or the same port as `PORT` (profile 2). |
| SSR returns `400` | The request `Host` isn't in `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. Behind Nginx, set `proxy_set_header Host $host`. |
| Server refuses to start citing `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` port vs `PORT` | Direct-serve inconsistency (local origin on a different port, no proxy). Align the ports, or configure the reverse proxy. |

---

## Reverse-proxy (nginx) reference

Source: docs/nginx.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/nginx.md

# Nginx reverse proxy

Join runs as a plain HTTP server bound to **loopback only** (`HOST=127.0.0.1`,
the default) on an internal port (`PORT`, default `4000`) and expects a
**TLS-terminating reverse proxy** in front of it in production: the browser
talks HTTPS to the public origin on port 443, Nginx terminates TLS and proxies
to `127.0.0.1:4000`. Because Join binds loopback, Nginx on the same host is the
only way in — the internal port is not reachable from other interfaces.

```
Browser  ──HTTPS──▶  Nginx (:443, TLS)  ──HTTP──▶  Join SSR (127.0.0.1:4000)
         https://join.example.com                  HOST=127.0.0.1  PORT=4000
```

## Matching Join configuration

In your out-of-repo `BLURT_ENV_FILE` (see [configuration.md](./configuration.md)):

```env
HOST=127.0.0.1
PORT=4000
PUBLIC_ORIGIN=https://join.example.com
ALLOWED_HOSTS=join.example.com
TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=true
TRUSTED_PROXIES=loopback
```

`PUBLIC_ORIGIN` (the browser-visible origin, 443) and `PORT` (the internal
listening port) are **intentionally different** here — that is the correct
reverse-proxy topology and Join validates it as such.

## 1. `http {}` context (normally `nginx.conf`)

Rate limiting is defined at the `http` level. Join's own protections are a
live-order capacity guard and a chain-read budget on the public availability
endpoint; **general per-client `/api` rate limiting is the reverse proxy's
job** — this is where it actually happens:

```nginx
http {
    # ...existing http-level configuration...

    # Per-client request budget for the Join API. 5 r/s sustained with a burst
    # of 20 comfortably covers a real onboarding session (form typing checks,
    # order creation, the one-off WebSocket status upgrade — live status is
    # PUSHED over that single connection, not polled) while stopping scripted
    # floods. These values are a SAFE BASELINE for a low-traffic
    # onboarding application — tune them against your actual traffic before
    # tightening or loosening.
    # Reference: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html
    limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=join_api:10m rate=5r/s;
}
```

**Client address & CDNs.** `$binary_remote_addr` is the address of the peer
that connected to Nginx. With browsers connecting directly to this Nginx, that
is the visitor — correct as-is. If you later put a CDN or another proxy in
front, every visitor would collapse onto the CDN's addresses (one shared
budget) unless you first configure Nginx's real-IP handling — and only for the
trusted hops:

```nginx
    # ONLY if a known CDN/proxy sits in front — never trust arbitrary headers:
    # set_real_ip_from <the CDN/proxy address ranges>;
    # real_ip_header   X-Forwarded-For;
    # real_ip_recursive on;
```

Never enable `real_ip_header` without `set_real_ip_from`: an attacker who can
reach Nginx directly could otherwise spoof any client address and dodge the
limiter.

## 2. Join `server {}` blocks

```nginx
server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    listen [::]:443 ssl;
    server_name join.example.com;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/join.example.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/join.example.com/privkey.pem;

    # WebSocket Order-status stream (wss:// through this same 443 listener —
    # no separate public port): the browser's ONE live status connection.
    # The upgrade needs HTTP/1.1 and the Upgrade/Connection hop headers;
    # the read timeout must exceed the app's 30 s heartbeat cadence so an
    # idle-but-alive stream is never cut by the proxy.
    location = /api/orders/current/stream {
        limit_req zone=join_api burst=20 nodelay;
        limit_req_status 429;
        error_page 429 = @join_rate_limited;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade           $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection        "upgrade";
        proxy_set_header Host              $host;
        # Origin is forwarded by default (not a hop-by-hop header) — the app
        # validates it against PUBLIC_ORIGIN before completing the upgrade.
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host  $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
        proxy_read_timeout 300s;
        proxy_send_timeout 300s;
    }

    # API: rate-limited. Excess requests get a stable JSON 429 that the Join
    # client already understands (same shape as the app's own capacity code) —
    # never an Nginx HTML error page.
    location /api/ {
        limit_req zone=join_api burst=20 nodelay;
        limit_req_status 429;
        error_page 429 = @join_rate_limited;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Host              $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host  $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
    }

    location @join_rate_limited {
        default_type application/json;
        return 429 '{"error":"capacity"}';
    }

    # Everything else (SSR pages + static browser assets): NOT rate-limited —
    # a page load fetches many assets at once and must never trip the limiter.
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;

        # REQUIRED: forward the PUBLIC host in the Host header. Angular SSR
        # validates the request Host against ALLOWED_HOSTS — it must carry
        # "join.example.com", not the internal "127.0.0.1:4000".
        proxy_set_header Host              $host;
        # Forward the original scheme so the app sees https (Secure cookies are
        # decided by the validated PUBLIC_ORIGIN, so this is belt-and-braces).
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host  $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
    }
}

# Redirect plain HTTP to HTTPS.
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name join.example.com;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
```

### Why `proxy_set_header Host $host` matters

The SSR host allowlist (`ALLOWED_HOSTS`, SSRF protection) checks the **`Host`
header**. Forward the public host there. Relying on `X-Forwarded-Host` while
leaving `Host` as the internal `127.0.0.1:4000` will make SSR answer `400`
(host not allowlisted). The config above sets `Host $host`, which is the
supported and tested arrangement.

### Why the 429 body is `{"error":"capacity"}`

Join's API errors are stable JSON codes; its browser client maps `capacity`
(HTTP 429) to the user-facing "too many requests right now, try again shortly"
message. Reusing the same shape means a proxy-level rejection renders exactly
like an application-level one — no special client handling, no raw Nginx HTML.

## CSRF and cookies behind the proxy

Every mutable `/api` request must carry `Origin: https://join.example.com`
(exactly `PUBLIC_ORIGIN`). A browser that reached the app through the proxy
sends exactly that. A request that hits the internal port directly (origin
`http://127.0.0.1:4000`) is refused with `403 { "error": "origin_not_allowed" }`
and the user-facing message *"This application was opened from an address that
is not configured for this service."* — a signal to fix `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` or the
proxy, never a silent failure. Because `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` is `https://…`, all
cookies are emitted `Secure` regardless of what the internal hop claims.

---

## ADR 0001 — Hive/Steem RPC layer

Source: docs/decisions/0001-hive-steem-rpc-layer.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0001-hive-steem-rpc-layer.md

# ADR 0001 — Graphene RPC transport foundation (`@beblurt/blurt-rpc-core`)

**Status:** Proposed — architectural direction. Realization is sequenced separately.
**Date:** 2026-07-12 (revised from a "mtw-client replacement" framing to a transport-foundation framing).
**Relates to:** audit `DEP-01/02` (mtw-client), `DBLURT-05` (dblurt line). MVP rails = BLURT + HIVE + STEEM.

> **⚠ Update 2026-07-12 — experimentally validated ([ADR 0002](./0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md)).** An isolated prototype against live nodes proved **dblurt 0.16.4 already satisfies all read-only Graphene needs for BLURT, HIVE and STEEM** (including `Asset` parsing of foreign symbols). This **supersedes the "keep BLURT on 0.10.9 / two transports" transition below**: adopt **dblurt 0.16.x as the single Graphene read layer** (it brings `blurt-rpc-core` transport), for all three chains — no HIVE/STEEM adapter, no new library, no `mtw-client`. The layering reasoning below still holds; the transition steps are collapsed into one.

> **⚠ Update 2026-07-15 — read set narrowed by [ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md).** Where this document lists `get_transaction` among the needed reads, that is superseded: transaction lookup (like `account_history`) is an **explicitly rejected** dependency. The read set actually used is `get_block` (the only transaction source once a block number is known), `get_dynamic_global_properties` (head / last-irreversible discovery), and `get_accounts` / `get_config` / `get_version` for node-monitoring / configuration purposes only.

## Reframing

`@beblurt/blurt-rpc-core` is **not** a tactical replacement for `@mintrawa/mtw-client`. It is an **architectural extraction of the Graphene RPC transport layer** — a chain-agnostic JSON-RPC 2.0 core (node pools, failover, retry/backoff, batching, cache, hooks, metrics) intended to be the **ecosystem's common transport foundation, independent of dblurt**. Verified chain-agnostic (no `blurt/steem/hive/chain_id/asset/condenser` in its surface; `composeMethod` composes "without assigning domain semantics"); zero-deps; already consumed by dblurt 0.16.x and by `blurt-mcp-server`.

Therefore the question is **not** "keep BLURT on dblurt 0.10.9 vs upgrade." It is: *how does the ecosystem converge on this transport foundation, and how does Join Blurt reuse it immediately across all three chains?*

## Responsibility layering (the target)

```
        ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
        │  @beblurt/blurt-rpc-core  —  TRANSPORT         │  ecosystem foundation,
        │  node pools · failover · retry · metrics       │  chain-agnostic
        └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
              ▲                    ▲                 ▲
   BLURT semantics          HIVE reads         STEEM reads
   via dblurt               + Asset helper     + Asset helper
   (Asset, keys, ops,       (thin, direct)     (thin, direct)
    serialize, sign,
    broadcast)
```

- **Transport responsibility → `blurt-rpc-core`.** How bytes reach a Graphene node reliably: pools, failover, retry, observability. One technology for BLURT, HIVE and STEEM.
- **BLURT semantic responsibility → dblurt.** `Asset`, keys, operation types, serialization, signing, broadcast, condenser/blockchain wrappers — **over** the shared transport.
- **HIVE/STEEM** need only read calls (`get_block`, `get_transaction`, `lookup_accounts`, `get_dynamic_global_properties`) + a **thin internal `Asset` helper**, used **directly** on the transport — no heavy per-chain library.

## How dblurt should evolve

dblurt should **invert its internal transport into a dependency on `blurt-rpc-core`** and retain only BLURT semantics. Its evolution target is "BLURT semantics over the shared transport." Ideally it **exposes/accepts a shared transport** (an injectable client / endpoint pool) so the semantic layer and any direct transport use share one configuration and one failover/observability surface. (dblurt 0.16.x already depends on `blurt-rpc-core@^0.1.0` — corroborating this direction; the exact injection surface is an integration detail to confirm at implementation time, not a version debate.)

## How Join Blurt reuses it

Join Blurt (and the Provisioning Engine) configure **per-chain endpoint pools on the same `blurt-rpc-core`**:
- **BLURT** → through dblurt (semantics + signing), which itself rides `blurt-rpc-core`.
- **HIVE / STEEM** → **directly** on `blurt-rpc-core` + the thin `Asset` helper.

Result: **one transport foundation** across the app; the audit's scattered, triplicated per-chain RPC handling (`ARCH-06`, per-service `NODES_RPC`) collapses onto a single failover/observability surface.

## Decision

Converge on `blurt-rpc-core` as **the** Graphene transport foundation. Concretely:
- Join Blurt adopts `blurt-rpc-core` for the HIVE/STEEM paths **now**, removing `mtw-client` (`DEP-01/02`).
- The BLURT path converges onto the **same** foundation via dblurt-on-`blurt-rpc-core`. Because `DBLURT-05` warns against stacking the dblurt major bump with the mtw-client removal, this is a **transition order**, not two permanent transports: the **end-state is a single foundation**, reached in two steps rather than one.

The dblurt version is the *mechanism* to reach the target, not an open architectural choice.

## To verify at implementation time (not now)

Does dblurt (on the `blurt-rpc-core` line) **expose a shared/injectable transport** (unified pool + failover + metrics across BLURT and HIVE/STEEM), or **encapsulate** `blurt-rpc-core` internally (a separate instance)? This determines how tightly the three chains share one transport configuration.

## Candidate ecosystem principle (proposed, NOT ratified)

*Cross-cutting technical foundations (e.g. the Graphene RPC transport) are extracted as chain-agnostic ecosystem libraries; domain/semantic layers depend on them rather than embedding their own.* Left as a candidate to mature, per current policy.

---

## ADR 0002 — dblurt Graphene read experiment

Source: docs/decisions/0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md

# ADR 0002 — Experiment: `@beblurt/dblurt` 0.16.4 for read-only Graphene (BLURT / HIVE / STEEM)

**Status:** Done — evidence-backed conclusion.
**Date:** 2026-07-12
**Question:** Can `@beblurt/dblurt` **0.16.x** already satisfy Join Blurt's **read-only** Graphene requirements for BLURT, HIVE and STEEM — so we avoid building yet another Graphene library or adapter? *A negative result would have been acceptable if the evidence showed it.*

## Method

An **isolated prototype outside the application** (scratchpad, not the repo): `npm i @beblurt/dblurt@0.16.4`, read-only calls against **live public RPC nodes** for each chain. No keys, no broadcasts. Verified: connection, `get_config`, `get_dynamic_global_properties`, `get_block`, `get_transaction`, transfer-operation parsing, `Asset` parsing, and `Asset` comparison.

- **Library:** dblurt 0.16.4 — a **dsteem fork** (Johan Nordberg BSD header); transport = `@beblurt/blurt-rpc-core`; crypto = `@noble/*`. API: `new Client(nodes, {chainId?, addressPrefix?, timeout?})`, `client.condenser.{getConfig,getDynamicGlobalProperties,getBlock,getTransaction,call}`, `Asset.from/fromString/.amount/.symbol/.subtract`.
- **Nodes:** BLURT `rpc.blurt.blog`, `rpc.beblurt.com`; HIVE `api.hive.blog`; STEEM `api.steemit.com`, `api.moecki.online`.

## Results

| Check | BLURT | HIVE | STEEM |
|-------|:-----:|:----:|:-----:|
| connection / construct | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| `get_config` | ✅ 142 keys (`BLT`, chain_id `cd8d90…`, `IS_TEST_NET=false`) | ✅ 233 keys (`STM`, chain_id `beeab0de…`) | ✅ 207 keys (`STM`, chain_id `0000…`) |
| `get_dynamic_global_properties` | ✅ head 61,826,086 | ✅ head 108,067,637 | ✅ head 107,735,839 |
| `get_block` (deserialize) | ✅ | ✅ (transfer @108,067,631) | ✅ (transfer @107,735,835) |
| `get_transaction` | ✅ (via acct-history txid) | ✅ | ⚠ node-dependent (see below) |
| transfer-op parsing | ✅ `300.000 BLURT` | ✅ `0.463 HIVE` | ✅ `0.001 STEEM` |
| `Asset.from` | ✅ `300 / BLURT` | ✅ `0.463 / HIVE` | ✅ `0.001 / STEEM` |
| `Asset.fromString` | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| `Asset` compare / subtract | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |

## Incompatibility classification

- **Transport:** none from dblurt. All RPC calls succeed on all three chains.
- **Protocol:** none. `get_config` returns chain-prefixed keys (`BLURT_*` / `HIVE_*` / `STEEM_*`); dblurt passes them through. The app must read the chain-appropriate key — a **network-discovery** concern (audit 08), not a dblurt break.
- **Serialization:** none. Blocks and transfer operations deserialize correctly on all three chains.
- **Semantic:** **none blocking.** The decisive risk — that dblurt's BLURT-typed `Asset` would reject foreign symbols — **did not materialize**: `Asset.from("0.463 HIVE")` and `Asset.from("0.001 STEEM")` parse to the correct amount and symbol. (The `AssetSymbol` TypeScript type is BLURT-oriented at *compile* time, but at *runtime* it accepts any symbol string.)
- **Implementation-specific:** none blocking. Note: Steem's `get_config` returns `chain_id` as all-zeros (a known Steem quirk) — irrelevant for reads; would matter only for *signing*, which is out of scope (the target signs only BLURT via `join.blurt`, dblurt's native chain).
- **Operational caveat (node capability, NOT dblurt):** `get_transaction` requires a node with `account_history_api` enabled. It worked on HIVE and on `rpc.blurt.blog`; it failed on `api.moecki.online` with `account_history_api_plugin not enabled` and on `api.steemit.com` with `Unknown Transaction`. Mitigation: select nodes that expose it, or use `get_account_history` (which also carries `trx_id`).

## Conclusion

**dblurt 0.16.4 is sufficient for Join Blurt's read-only Graphene requirements across BLURT, HIVE and STEEM.** We do **not** need to build another Graphene library or adapter. Use **dblurt 0.16.x as the single Graphene read layer** — it brings the `blurt-rpc-core` transport with it and handles all three chains' reads and `Asset` semantics.

This **supersedes ADR 0001's "keep BLURT on 0.10.9 / two transports" transition framing**: the evidence shows one library, one transport, all three chains. Scope of this result is **read-only**; signing/broadcast (BLURT-only, native chain) is separate and not in question.

## Reproduce

`scratchpad/dblurt-016-experiment/` — `experiment.js` (per-chain matrix), `followup.js` (node-capability isolation), and the account-history check for a real BLURT transfer.

---

## ADR 0003 — Payment detection block parser

Source: docs/decisions/0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md

# ADR 0003 — Payment detection via a real-time block parser (not `account_history`)

**Status:** Accepted. **Revised 2026-07-14** (two-level observation/settlement)
and again **2026-07-15** (single sequential ingestion — see
[Revision 2026-07-15](#revision-2026-07-15--one-sequential-ingestion-path-no-settlement-vocabulary),
which supersedes the 2026-07-14 revision's dual-consumer design while keeping
its invariants). The original decision below stands unchanged.
**Date:** 2026-07-12
**Scope:** The payment-rail role — detecting incoming payments to the collector account (`join.blurt`) on **BLURT, HIVE and STEEM**. In the user-paid MVP, BLURT is also a payment rail, not only the provisioning target. Signing/broadcast (BLURT-only writes) is unaffected by this decision.

## Context

Join Blurt must detect and validate a user's payment before BLURT provisioning
begins. Two viable strategies remained (all others — block-range scanning,
external indexers, push notifications — were out of scope):

1. **`account_history`** — query the collector account's history (or a reported
   `trx_id`) for the matching transfer.
2. **Real-time block parser** — follow the chain head, fetch each new block once
   in order from a durable cursor, and extract transfers addressed to the
   collector account.

[ADR 0002](./0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md) already established
that `account_history` is an **optional** RPC plugin: it worked on some nodes
and failed on others (`account_history_api_plugin not enabled`), whereas block
retrieval (`get_block`) succeeded on **all three chains**.

## Decision

**Payment detection is founded on a real-time block parser.** The payment rail
follows the chain head, consumes each new block exactly once and in order from a
**durable cursor**, extracts transfers addressed to the collector account,
validates them against the expected memo and amount, and treats a payment as
settled **only once its block is irreversible** (last-irreversible-block gating).

**`account_history` is rejected as the foundation** for payment detection.

## Rationale

The objective is the strongest **long-term foundation**, not the simplest
implementation. By upfront effort, `account_history` wins; it loses on every
axis that defines a foundation:

1. **No optional-plugin dependency.** Block retrieval is core and universal — a
   node cannot serve the chain without it. `account_history` is optional,
   increasingly pruned by operators to save disk, and **scarcest on BLURT, the
   one chain we cannot avoid**. A money path must not rest on a capability a node
   operator can silently drop.
2. **Provable correctness.** A sequential block cursor gives an **exactly-once,
   no-missed-payment** guarantee; after any downtime it resumes and cannot skip a
   block. `account_history` polling can only approximate this — gaps between
   polls, paging, and per-node history-depth limits create a silent
   miss/double-count risk, the exact failure a payment system must never have.
3. **The evidence already points this way.** The parser's sole dependency
   (`get_block`) is **verified present on all three chains** (ADR 0002);
   `account_history` availability is unverified and doubtful on BLURT. We found
   the money path on the proven dependency, not the unproven one.
4. **It generalizes.** The block stream is the chain's canonical source of truth.
   Any future on-chain signal Join Blurt needs — e.g. confirming its own referral
   `custom_json` — reuses the same stream with **no new dependency**.

## Consequences (trade-offs accepted)

- **More upfront implementation:** a durable block-follower (cursor persistence,
  catch-up after downtime, finality gating) instead of a one-line query.
- **Constant baseline cost:** every block is fetched once even while the
  collector account is idle. This is predictable and activity-independent —
  acceptable for a backend service, and equal-or-cheaper under real load.
- **Shared reader:** the PaymentRail is built around **one head-following block
  reader per chain**; transfer detection and finality gating become two consumers
  of the same cursor. This is a consolidation, not new scope.

## Relationships

- Builds on [ADR 0002](./0002-dblurt-016-graphene-read-experiment.md) (the
  node-capability caveat that motivated this decision).
- Feeds the [Graphene capability contract](../plan/graphene-capabilities.md),
  which this decision updates: payment detection is now expressed as block-stream
  following, not `account_history`.
- WHEN this parser runs and WHO owns its lifecycle (demand-driven shared
  sessions, one per activated chain, `head + 1` fresh-session boundary) is
  decided by [ADR 0004](./0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md);
  every invariant of this ADR holds within each session, and ADR 0004
  supersedes the "constant baseline cost" consequence above.

---

## Revision 2026-07-14 — two-level detection: observation + settlement

**Why revised.** The Step 3 user-facing specification requires reporting a
payment *before* it is irreversible ("Payment found in block N — waiting for
confirmation"). An irreversible-only follower cannot say that: it discovers a
transfer only once its block is already final. The decision therefore evolves —
without weakening anything above — into **two coordinated consumers of one
shared block source**:

### 1. Reversible head observation (new)

- Follows blocks close to the head (from `last_irreversible_block + 1`), using
  the same core reads (`get_dynamic_global_properties` + `get_block`).
- Emits **provisional observations** for early payment visibility:
  `scanning` → `payment_observed` → `waiting_for_irreversibility`
  (finality progress as the last-irreversible boundary advances).
- Is **transient** (no durable cursor; a restart re-observes the reversible
  window) and **may be invalidated by forks** — block-ancestry continuity is
  checked; on a break it rewinds to the irreversible boundary and re-observes.
- **Must not settle or consume anything, ever.** Nothing it emits may trigger
  provisioning or enter a consumed-payment ledger.

### 2. Irreversible durable processing (unchanged — the original decision)

- Follows the canonical irreversible stream from the **durable cursor**.
- Consumes transfer events **exactly once**, in order, restart-safe.
- Produces the **only authoritative settlement**; it alone may trigger
  provisioning.

### The invariant, stated once

```text
payment observed ≠ payment settled
```

A payment may be reported as settled **only** when its block is at or below the
last irreversible block —

```text
foundBlock <= lastIrreversibleBlock
```

— **and** the irreversible processor has confirmed the same canonical transfer
(correlated by network + transaction id + operation index, never by reversible
block position) and consumed it exactly once.

**Identity split.** Settled identity stays block-position-based
(`networkId:blockNum:trxInBlock:opInTrx` — final positions are immutable).
Provisional identity is transaction-based (`networkId:trxId:opInTrx`) so the
same candidate survives fork repositioning without ever being trusted.

**Where settlement is emitted.** A small transport-independent
`PaymentDetectionCoordinator` sits above the two consumers: it translates
observation events into client-facing statuses and emits `payment_settled`
**only after a durable consume-once port (`SettledTransferConsumer`) accepts**
the settled event. The coordinator holds no durable state and owns no
Order/provisioning policy; exactly-once lives entirely in the port's durable
implementation (supplied by the Order/Provisioning layer — restart replays are
rejected by the port, so no duplicate settlement can be emitted). The rail
itself never emits a settled status.

This revision adds early user-facing observation while preserving the original
irreversible financial authority intact.

---

## Revision 2026-07-15 — one sequential ingestion path, no settlement vocabulary

**Why revised.** Two corrections to the 2026-07-14 revision, both driven by an
honesty/efficiency review of the pre-Step-3 foundation:

1. **The dual-consumer design double-read every block.** Running a reversible
   head observer *and* an irreversible follower over one block source meant a
   normal block was fetched and parsed twice — once while reversible, once
   again after it became irreversible. That is systematic waste, not a
   guarantee.
2. **The rail claimed settlement it could not honestly provide.** The
   `PaymentDetectionCoordinator` emitted `payment_settled` whenever a generic
   consume-once port accepted an arbitrary transfer to the watched account —
   with no Order attribution, no memo/amount matching and no durable
   persistence behind it. Exactly-once settlement cannot exist before the
   Step 3 Order layer does.

### The replacement: single sequential ingestion

One authoritative server-side ingestion path per active chain
(`GraphenePaymentRail.follow()`):

- a single cursor walks the chain; each block is fetched through `get_block`
  and structurally parsed **exactly once** in normal operation;
- while the block is above the last irreversible boundary, its matching
  transfers are emitted as **provisional observations** (`transfer_observed`,
  with immediate and ongoing `finality_progress`) and kept pending;
- when the boundary reaches the block, the **same canonical parsed events**
  transition to `transfer_irreversible`, followed by the block's `checkpoint`
  — no refetch, no reparse;
- a reversible fork emits `fork_detected` with the invalidated observation
  ids, rewinds to the irreversible boundary and re-reads the affected blocks
  (recovery/fork/restart re-reads are the accepted exception to single-read);
- `get_dynamic_global_properties` is used solely to discover the head and
  last-irreversible block numbers.

All invariants of the earlier revisions carry over unchanged: **no block is
silently skipped**, `payment observed ≠ payment final`, a transfer may be
treated as final only at or below the last irreversible block, provisional
identity is transaction-based (`networkId:trxId:opInTrx`) while final identity
is block-position-based, and `account_history` / transaction-lookup RPCs stay
rejected everywhere (node monitoring included — the continuous node checker
runs a custom minimal suite precisely to avoid them; since 2026-07-15 that
suite also carries NO fixed-block `get_block(1)` probe: the checker's own
recent-reference-block consensus proves block retrieval, and the sequential
ingestion validates the exact blocks it consumes).

### What the rail no longer says

The rail's vocabulary is now **structural transfer facts only**:
`block_scanned`, `transfer_observed`, `finality_progress`,
`transfer_irreversible`, `checkpoint`, `fork_detected`. There is **no
`payment_settled`** anywhere in the foundation: payment/order attribution,
memo and amount matching, atomic consume-once persistence, the durable cursor
transaction and provisioning are the Step 3 Order layer's responsibilities,
built on `transfer_irreversible` + `checkpoint`. That layer EXISTS since
2026-07-16 (`src/server/orders/` — ADR 0006): settlement and exactly-once
claims live there and only there; the rail's vocabulary is unchanged and
still claims nothing.

---

## ADR 0004 — Demand-driven shared ingestion sessions

Source: docs/decisions/0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md

# ADR 0004 — Demand-Driven Shared Blockchain Ingestion Sessions

**Status:** Accepted.
**Date:** 2026-07-15
**Scope:** WHEN the sequential block-ingestion path runs and WHO owns its
lifecycle — parser startup, sharing, shutdown and multi-instance ownership,
per activated Graphene chain (BLURT, HIVE, STEEM). This ADR does **not**
change how ingestion works: sequential `get_block` reading,
reversible/irreversible semantics, ancestry checking, event identity and the
forbidden-RPC policy remain owned by
[ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md), and every ADR 0003
invariant holds **within** each session defined here.

## Context

The repository has two structurally different chain-facing activities:

- **Continuous RPC node monitoring** (`src/server/monitoring/`) — one
  process-lifetime `@beblurt/blurt-nodes-checker` per monitored chain, at a
  slow cadence (`RPC_NODES_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS`, default 15 minutes). It owns
  endpoint health and the effective pool. It is cheap, always on, and NOT this
  ADR's subject.
- **Block ingestion** (`ConfiguredGrapheneRail.follow()`) — the ADR 0003
  sequential parser: roughly one `get_dynamic_global_properties` plus one
  `get_block` per new block (~50 000 requests/day/chain if run permanently,
  overwhelmingly over empty blocks for a low-traffic onboarding service).

Join's payment detection is bursty: it is needed only while an Order awaits
payment or an observed payment awaits finality. ADR 0003 accepted a "constant
baseline cost" for a permanently running follower; this ADR removes that cost
without weakening any detection guarantee. Two properties of the current
implementation make this possible:

- `follow()` is **lazy and cheap to open/close**: each call builds a fresh
  rail over the chain monitor's CURRENT pool, nothing runs until the first
  `next()`, and closing the generator terminates it cleanly (the transport is
  request-based; there is no connection to tear down).
- `follow()` has **no sharing semantics**: two concurrent calls are two full
  parsers. Sharing must therefore be owned above the rail — which is also
  where Order-driven demand lives.

## Decision

Block ingestion runs in **demand-driven, shared sessions** — exactly one
session per activated chain, existing only while there is something to watch.

### Ownership

- A per-chain **ingestion supervisor** (one instance per activated Graphene
  rail, owned by the server composition root) is the **sole owner and sole
  caller of `ConfiguredGrapheneRail.follow()`** in the entire system.
- **No parser is ever created per user, per Order, per HTTP request or per
  status-channel connection.** Clients subscribe to their **persisted Order
  state** only; the status channel observes Order state transitions, never
  the rail's event stream and never the generator.
- BLURT, HIVE and STEEM supervisors have fully **independent lifecycles**; at
  most one active parser per chain. An inactive rail has no supervisor
  (consistent with the zero-work guarantee for inactive chains).

### The interest set (when a session must exist)

A chain's session runs **iff its interest set is non-empty**:

```text
interest = unexpired unpaid Orders WITH A BOUND RAIL OBLIGATION
           ∪
           expired Orders whose closure boundary is not yet durably drained
           ∪
           observed payments awaiting irreversibility or fork resolution
           ∪
           accepted Orders whose provisioning is unresolved   (added 2026-07-18)
```

**Extended 2026-07-18 ([ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md)):**
an economically ACCEPTED Order holds BLURT ingestion interest until its
provisioning operations are all terminal — pending operations and unresolved
broadcasts need the canonical block stream for their inclusion, confirmation
and chain-time expiry proofs. The session may return to idle only when no
payment AND no provisioning interest remains and the required checkpoints are
durable.

**Lifecycle revision (2026-07-17):** the durable Order is now created
rail-agnostically when the user continues past the key backup (recovery and
conversion analysis need the intent BEFORE any payment-method decision — see
ADR 0005/0006). Such an Order carries **no ingestion interest**: no valid
payment can exist until a rail is selected and instructions are ready, so a
user who creates an Order and abandons before choosing a payment method never
costs a parser. Selecting BLURT binds the rail obligation (quote, collector,
pinned network) and is the moment the Order enrolls in this interest set.

**User-facing expiration and ingestion drainage are two different events**,
and only the second releases interest:

- An Order lives at most **30 minutes** from the USER's perspective: at the
  deadline it **expires** — its payment instructions are no longer usable and
  it is no longer offered for payment.
- At that deadline the server **durably captures the Order's chain closure
  boundary**: a chain position that dominates every block able to include a
  payment broadcast within the Order's valid window, plus a bounded inclusion
  margin — a small documented constant of approximately 1–5 blocks covering
  broadcast-to-inclusion latency (ACCEPTED as compatible with the product
  requirement, not an open architectural question).
  **Corrected 2026-07-17 — the boundary is derived from CHAIN TIME on the
  sequential block stream, never from a later head observation.** The
  original text claimed that when the chain is unavailable at the deadline,
  deferring capture to a later head is safe because "a later head still
  dominates the window". That statement is INCOMPLETE: a later head dominates
  every in-window block (no false negatives) but also contains post-deadline
  blocks — a payment broadcast AFTER expiry, during the same outage, would
  fall under such a boundary and be wrongly accepted (false positives; the
  late transfer's own processing must never widen its window). The correct,
  deterministic rule: the deadline-crossing position is the FIRST scanned
  block whose own chain timestamp is at/after the Order deadline, and

      closure boundary = (crossing block − 1) + inclusion margin.

  Block timestamps are chain facts, so live following, restart, outage
  recovery and checkpoint replay all re-derive the exact same boundary; a
  transfer processed before the crossing block is scanned is judged by its
  OWN block timestamp (strictly before the deadline → in-window). Until the
  boundary is both **captured and drained** the expired Order retains its
  interest.
- The expired Order **retains ingestion interest until the session has
  processed and durably checkpointed past that closure boundary**. The parser
  may be behind, temporarily unavailable, or mid-block at the deadline — a
  wall-clock tick must never truncate detection. **No payment made within a
  valid Order window may be missed merely because detection happened after
  the deadline.** Only the durable drain of the boundary releases the
  expired Order's interest.
- A payment **observed within the Order's valid window** keeps the session
  alive until the observation becomes irreversible or is invalidated by fork
  handling — **even after the Order's deadline and after its boundary is
  drained**. The observation, not the Order clock, holds that interest.
- The stop triggers in practice — "last tracked payment became irreversible",
  "last expired Order's closure boundary durably drained" — are simply the
  ways the set becomes empty.

### Lifecycle

```text
idle → starting → running → stopping → idle
```

- **Enrollment is synchronous:** selecting the rail first binds the
  obligation in the chain's interest registry (the durable Order row), then
  inspects the supervisor state. `idle` →
  start a session; `running` → attach (nothing to start — attribution happens
  on the supervisor's fan-out, so attaching is free); `starting`/`stopping` →
  the Order is already in the registry, and the supervisor re-evaluates the
  interest set after the transition completes, so a session in the middle of
  starting simply covers it and a session in the middle of stopping is
  immediately followed by a fresh one. Because enrollment writes the same
  registry the stop predicate reads, **no Order can fall between a stop
  decision and the stop itself**. Sessions carry a monotonically increasing
  generation; events from a superseded generation are discarded.
- **Stopping:** the supervisor closes the generator only when **no active
  Order, no unresolved payment observation and no undrained expired Order
  remains** — the interest set is empty — **and the last safe checkpoint is
  durable**. After a clean stop the chain costs zero ingestion RPC until the
  next Order.
- Under sustained traffic the interest set simply never empties: the shared
  session runs continuously and the design degenerates gracefully into
  ADR 0003's permanent follower.

### Fresh-session start boundary: `head + 1`

A session started from `idle` (no surviving interest) must **not** parse
blocks that belong only to the idle period. The rail's code-level default
(`lastIrreversibleBlock + 1`) is safe but re-reads the ~15–20 reversible
blocks that predate the Order — blocks in which no valid payment can exist,
because the payment memo did not exist yet. The fresh-session boundary is:

```text
H         = current head_block_number
fromBlock = H + 1
ancestry anchor = block_id of H
```

with this **mandatory ordering** (running at RAIL SELECTION — the Order
itself already exists, rail-agnostic, since the funnel's Continue):

1. bind the rail obligation internally (quote, collector, pinned network),
   **without exposing payment instructions**;
2. obtain the current `head_block_number` (`H`) — a chain-status read over
   the chain's checked pool (the monitor's snapshot is health metadata on a
   slow cadence, not a head source);
3. **durably record** the session and Order observation boundary `H + 1`;
4. initialise the shared parser with `fromBlock = H + 1`, which anchors
   ancestry on block `H`'s `block_id`;
5. establish that the session is **ready**;
6. **only then** expose the collector, amount and memo to the user.

**Readiness is defined as:** the durable start boundary from step 3 exists
**and** the supervisor owns the chain's active single-consumer ingestion loop
at `fromBlock = H + 1`. By the rail's construction, driving that loop
guarantees the chain-status read and the ancestry-anchor read of block `H`
happen before any block is ingested — the current rail emits no dedicated
pre-ingestion event, so whether readiness is realised as "the supervisor has
begun driving the loop" or via an explicit session-start signal added at
implementation time is an implementation choice; both satisfy this
definition. Readiness does NOT require the first block to have been scanned
(`H + 1` may not even be produced yet), and it is consistent with the rail's
existing anchor behaviour: when a lagging endpoint cannot serve the
reversible anchor block yet, the rail's standing rule applies — continuity
anchors on the **first successfully chained pair** instead, and readiness is
not delayed by it. Continuity checking is never weakened, merely started one
block later.

A valid payment cannot exist before `H + 1`: block `H` was already produced
before the user could know the payment instructions. Gating the instructions
on readiness (steps 5–6) is what turns "a payment made while its Order is
valid must not be missed" into a property that holds **by construction**, not
by timing luck.

### Crash recovery vs fresh start (do not confuse them)

- **Fresh session, no surviving interest** → start from the newly observed
  `head + 1`. **No catch-up across an idle period is ever performed** — those
  blocks can contain no valid payment.
- **Process restart or parser recovery while interest survives** (valid
  Orders, expired Orders with an undrained closure boundary, or observed
  non-irreversible payments exist durably) → resume from the **durable
  session checkpoint**, so nothing inside the active observation window can
  be missed. Checkpoint-based recovery re-reads are ADR 0003's accepted
  exception to single-read.
- **Interest must be reconstructible from durable Order state alone.**
  Provisional observations remain transient and untrusted (ADR 0003) — but an
  observation advances its Order's PERSISTED status (e.g. "payment observed,
  awaiting finality"), and an expired Order's closure boundary is captured
  DURABLY when the sequential scan crosses the deadline in chain time
  (corrected 2026-07-17, above); it is these durable Order records — status and
  undrained boundary — that hold interest past the Order deadline and across
  a crash. An expired Order with an undrained closure boundary is therefore
  fully reconstructible after a process crash. Without this, an Order whose
  payment was observed (or merely included) near expiry could lose its
  interest in a crash and the payment could be missed on restart.
- **Fork/ancestry recovery** remains the other intentional exception: the
  rail may rewind below the session floor (down to the irreversible boundary)
  and re-read earlier blocks when ADR 0003's continuity checking requires it.
  **Bandwidth optimisation never weakens chain-continuity validation.**

### Failure and optional-rail behaviour

- A rail failure while interest remains (pool `unavailable`, ancestry
  exhaustion → `RailError`) must not orphan valid Orders: the supervisor
  retries the session with bounded backoff, resuming from the durable
  checkpoint, and recovers when the chain monitor re-admits a pool. Order
  status reporting may truthfully surface "chain temporarily unavailable"
  from the monitor's snapshot.
- An optional chain that is `checking` or `unavailable` cannot host a
  session; Orders for it fail or wait per Order-layer policy — a parser is
  never fabricated against an unproven pool.

### Multi-instance concurrency invariant

If the application ever runs as multiple instances, there must still be **at
most one active ingestion owner per chain** across all instances. The concrete
mechanism (lease, lock, or single-writer role in the chosen store) is
deliberately **deferred to the persistence design**; what this ADR fixes is
the invariant itself and that the durable session/checkpoint records above are
the natural substrate for such a lease. The CURRENT deployment model is a PM2
mono-instance process (ADR 0005 §5), which satisfies the invariant trivially —
the lease mechanism becomes relevant only if that model changes.

### What stays where

- **Consume-once, idempotency, attribution** (memo/amount matching), Order
  persistence, expiry policy and the durable cursor transaction remain the
  Step 3 **Order layer's** durable responsibility, exactly as ADR 0003 states
  — sessions change none of it. Recovery re-emissions are absorbed by the
  Order layer's consume-once ledger via the stable ADR 0003 identities.
- The rail's mechanics, event vocabulary and forbidden-RPC policy remain
  ADR 0003's.

## Consequences (trade-offs accepted)

- **Large bandwidth savings:** an idle chain performs zero ingestion RPC;
  only the slow continuous node monitoring remains. This supersedes the
  "constant baseline cost" consequence accepted by ADR 0003.
- **Cold-start latency:** the first rail selection on an idle chain waits for
  session readiness before payment instructions appear — in the normal case
  well under one head-poll interval; bounded and user-invisible in practice.
- **Lifecycle complexity:** an explicit state machine, synchronous
  enrollment, session generations, durable session and per-Order closure
  boundaries and a bounded retry policy — all isolated in one supervisor per
  chain and testable without the network.
- **Sessions outlive the last deadline slightly:** after the last Order
  expires, the session keeps running until its closure boundary is durably
  drained and any observation resolves — bounded by drain lag plus the
  finality window, and a deliberate cost of never missing an in-window
  payment.
- **No corner painted:** under continuous demand the session simply never
  stops, so growth converts the design back into a permanent follower with no
  rework.

## Relationships

- Constrains the consumption of the rail decided by
  [ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md); all ADR 0003
  invariants hold within each session. ADR 0003 owns detection mechanics;
  this ADR owns lifecycle and sharing.
- The supervisor, Order layer, persistence and APIs described here are
  **implemented for BLURT as of 2026-07-16** (`src/server/orders/` on the
  [ADR 0006](./0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md) store): shared
  demand-driven sessions, `head + 1` readiness ordering, expiry-vs-drainage
  (chain-time closure boundary — corrected 2026-07-17, above), durable
  checkpoint recovery and the observation state. The consume-once ECONOMIC
  settlement on top of the recorded facts is implemented too
  (`settleIrreversibleTransfer` — atomic record + window + classification +
  consumption in one transaction). The provisioning increment
  (2026-07-18) consumes the settled facts and extends the interest set as
  decided in [ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md).

---

## ADR 0005 — Browser-independent provisioning

Source: docs/decisions/0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md

# ADR 0005 — Browser-Independent Provisioning and Durable Onboarding Intent

**Status:** Accepted.
**Date:** 2026-07-15
**Scope:** Ownership and architectural invariants for (a) key custody, (b) the
durable provisioning intent that survives the browser, and (c) referral
attribution continuity before and after Order creation. This ADR defines WHO
owns WHAT and WHICH guarantees must hold; it deliberately does not prescribe
storage technology, API shapes or transport details (those belong to the
Step 3 persistence/API design).

## Context

- **Keys are already non-custodial.** Step 2 generates the future account's
  keys entirely in the browser (dblurt `fromLogin`, TXT backup); the standing
  repository invariant is that no user private key ever reaches the server.
- **The legacy POC coupled provisioning to the open browser.** Account
  creation was triggered from the payment dialog's close handler and driven
  over a live socket; a user who paid and then closed the tab, refreshed, or
  lost connectivity could pay without ever getting the account. For a money
  path this is unacceptable: the chain does not un-pay.
- **The referral contract.** Attribution on Blurt is the pair
  `(referrer, campaign)` anchored on-chain as the referral `custom_json`
  (`id: 'referral'`), materialized into public stats by Nexus
  (`bounded-contexts.md`; Graphene capability 12: reporting attribution
  on-chain is Join's thin-client responsibility). The POC captured `r`/`cid`
  query parameters into a browser cookie. Attribution is acquired BEFORE
  payment — it must survive the same browser losses the payment does.
- ADR 0004 already fixes the Order/ingestion lifecycle this ADR plugs into:
  intent is persisted durably before payment instructions are exposed
  (readiness ordering, steps 1–6), and detection/settlement run entirely
  server-side in shared ingestion sessions.

## Decision

### 1. Key custody (unchanged invariant, restated as a boundary)

- All future-account private keys are **generated and retained exclusively in
  the browser**. No user private key is ever transmitted to, logged by, or
  stored on the server — under any failure mode.
- Before payment instructions are exposed, the browser sends **only** the
  chosen username and the four **public** keys (owner, active, posting, memo)
  required to construct the future BLURT account.

### 1b. Delegated posting authority on the created account (accepted)

At `account_create`, the new account's **posting authority contains both**:

- the user's posting **public key** (generated in the browser), and
- **`BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` as an account authority** with sufficient
  weight to satisfy the posting threshold.

Either the user or the provisioning account can therefore satisfy the new
account's posting authority. This is standard Layer 1 semantics, verified in
source: the `authority` struct carries `account_auths`
(`blurt/libraries/protocol/.../authority.hpp`), `account_create_operation`
takes full authority structs, and signature validation resolves account
authorities recursively (`sign_state`, `BLURT_MAX_SIG_CHECK_DEPTH`).

**Recorded honestly:** the server still never possesses the user's private
posting key — but `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` retains **delegated
posting-level authority over the created account**. This is an accepted part
of the ownership and authority model, not an open question. The user can
remove the delegation at any time with their own keys (posting authority is
theirs to edit via active authority).

This delegation is what makes post-creation, browser-independent on-chain
actions possible:

- the server **publishes the referral `custom_json` on behalf of the new
  account** after creation (required_posting_auths = the new account, signed
  with the provisioning account's posting key through the delegated
  authority) — even if the browser was refreshed, disconnected or permanently
  closed. **No browser callback or best-effort browser signing is permitted**
  on this path.
- the same delegated posting authority may back the optional profile
  operation, if the actual Blurt operation used requires posting authority.

**Dedicated secret:** `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY` — server-only,
with exactly the `ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY` boundary discipline: never in browser
configuration, TransferState, SSR output, logs, errors or serialized
diagnostics (`secrets` redaction); documented in `.env.example` with no real
value; the real value lives in the deployment-owned env file. At startup the
gate proves it is a parseable WIF whose derived public key satisfies the
CURRENT **POSTING** authority of `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` — and refuses,
by least privilege, ANY key with higher-privilege reach: a key that only
reaches posting through ACTIVE or OWNER, and equally a key that satisfies
posting but is ALSO listed in the active/owner authority on-chain (shared key
material is still higher-privilege material). The account-creation (active)
key and this posting key are **never interchangeable**.

### 2. Durable provisioning intent (the browser becomes optional)

- At Order creation — when the user continues past the key backup, before
  the payment page opens and before any payment-method decision (lifecycle
  revision 2026-07-17) — the server **durably persists the complete
  browser-independent provisioning intent**: username, the four public keys,
  the opaque payment reference/memo (which IS the Order identity), the
  Order's referral attribution, `createdAt` and `expiresAt`. The intent is
  deliberately **rail-agnostic**: selecting a payment method later binds the
  rail-specific obligation (rail, exact amount/asset, collector, pinned
  network) and the ADR 0004 session start boundary onto the SAME record —
  each step stamping its durable conversion milestone. The Order's
  **closure boundary** is the one later addition still: per ADR 0004 it is
  captured **at the expiry deadline**, not at creation.
- The final `account_create` operation and the funding operation are signed
  **server-side by `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT`** (whose key is already
  authority-proven against the account's ACTIVE authority at startup and
  required at provisioning time).
- **After payment instructions have been exposed, nothing on the path from
  irreversible payment to created account depends on the browser** being
  open, reconnecting, or performing any further action. Closing the payment
  modal, refreshing the page, losing the connection or permanently closing
  the browser must not prevent an irreversible in-window payment from
  producing the intended account. Detection (ADR 0003/0004 sessions),
  attribution (below), consume-once settlement and provisioning are all
  server-side consumers of durable state.
- The status channel is **observational only**: a client that reopens
  attaches to its persisted Order state (ADR 0004) and sees where the journey
  stands; it never drives it.
- **Resume, never duplicate:** reopening the payment UI while an Order is
  non-expired resumes THAT Order — same memo, same amount, same obligation.
  A second Order, memo or payment obligation must not be minted for the same
  in-flight onboarding intent. (How the browser re-finds its Order is an
  implementation concern of the persistence/API design; the invariant is at
  most one active Order per onboarding intent.)

### 3. Referral attribution — two continuity regimes

Attribution begins **earlier than the Order** and has two explicitly distinct
carriers:

**Browser-local attribution (continuity BEFORE an Order exists):**

- `referrer` and `campaign` are captured **when the user arrives** in the
  application (URL parameters). The optional campaign belongs to that
  captured referrer — it is never combined with a different one.
- The **first valid attribution is persisted for 24 hours**. Navigation and
  refreshes preserve it; URLs **without** referral parameters never erase
  it. *(Revised 2026-07-16 — implementation shape: the SERVER captures and
  validates the attribution at the arrival request — grammar AND existence
  of the referrer as a BLURT account — and persists it as an HttpOnly
  cookie whose `Max-Age` is the real 24-hour window; an invalid referrer is
  simply not captured and never poisons the window; nothing referral-related
  lives in `localStorage` or any permanent browser storage. Hardened
  2026-07-17: the cookie value is server-AUTHENTICATED — HMAC-signed with
  the mandatory server-only `COOKIE_INTEGRITY_KEY`, issuance and expiry
  inside the signed payload, verified server-side on every read; tampering,
  forgery or replay of an expired attribution counts as absent, and the
  referrer's existence is re-verified at Order creation — ADR 0006 §3.)*
- While the 24-hour attribution is valid, later referral links do **not**
  replace it — **first referrer wins**. After the 24 hours, a later valid
  referral link may establish a new attribution.

**Durable Order attribution (continuity AFTER the payment journey begins):**

- When an Order is created, the current valid browser-local attribution is
  **copied into the durable server-side Order**. From that moment the Order's
  attribution is **immutable** and fully independent of the browser-local
  24-hour expiry, of later links, and of the browser itself — refreshing or
  losing the browser after Order creation cannot lose it.
- If **no valid local attribution exists** at Order creation (referrer absent,
  malformed, unknown or rejected), the server assigns
  **`BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` as the referrer and the validated
  `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN`** (default `onboarding`). This is the no-referrer
  regime of a two-regime rule refined by
  [ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md) §3a
  (2026-07-19): the fallback campaign applies ONLY here; an EXTERNAL referrer
  that carried no valid campaign keeps a JSON `null` campaign (see below).
- Browser-provided attribution is **untrusted input**, validated at the
  server boundary (at minimum the Graphene account-name grammar; a value that
  fails validation is treated as absent → fallback referrer). Validation
  depth beyond format (e.g. on-chain existence) is settlement-time policy,
  not a capture-time requirement.
- **On-chain anchoring (decided):** the server emits the referral
  `custom_json` (`id: 'referral'`) on behalf of the created account through
  the delegated posting authority (§1b). The payload follows **Legacy Nexus
  semantics, which are authoritative** (verified in
  `nexus/hive/indexer/referral.py`: BOTH keys must be present; the stored
  campaign is nullable):

  ```json
  { "referrer": "<account>", "campaign": <string or null> }
  ```

  `campaign` is **always present**, in two regimes (ADR 0007 §3a): with a valid
  EXTERNAL referrer that carried no valid campaign it is emitted as
  `"campaign": null` — never an empty string, never omitted; in the NO-referrer
  fallback regime (above) it is the configured `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN`.
  Nexus-Go's current behaviour (rejecting payloads whose campaign is null/empty —
  `parseReferralCustomJSON` in `nexus-go/internal/indexer/processor.go`) is
  an **upstream compatibility defect against the legacy contract and must not
  be copied into Join**. Two further legacy-contract bounds apply: a non-null
  `campaign` is at most **20 characters** (legacy schema `String(20)`;
  Nexus-Go enforces the same bound) — enforced at the same server boundary as
  the referrer grammar (an over-long campaign is treated as absent → `null`);
  and legacy Nexus only accepts a referral within **one hour of account
  creation** (`_old_account`), so emission happens promptly after creation as
  part of the provisioning sequence, with any retries bounded by that window.

### 4. Ownership summary

| Concern | Owner |
|---|---|
| Private keys (all four) | Browser, exclusively — never transmitted |
| Public keys + username submission | Browser → server, before instructions |
| Pre-Order attribution continuity (24 h, first-wins) | Browser-local persistence |
| Durable Order + provisioning intent + immutable attribution copy | Server (Step 3 Order layer) |
| Attribution validation + fallback referrer | Server boundary |
| Payment detection & settlement | Server (ADR 0003 rail in ADR 0004 sessions) |
| `account_create` + funding signatures | Server, `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` ACTIVE key (`ACCOUNT_CREATE_KEY`) |
| Referral `custom_json` emission (and posting-authority profile op, if used) | Server, `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` POSTING key (`BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT_POSTING_KEY`) via the created account's delegated posting authority |
| Delegated posting authority over created accounts | `BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` (accepted; user-removable with their own keys) |
| Status visibility | Client subscribes to its persisted Order state only |

### 5. Deployment topology (resolved for the current model)

Join runs as a **PM2 mono-instance application**. The private provisioning
engine is a **clearly isolated, server-only component inside that existing
server process** — no second process or service is introduced. The isolation
is enforced by the same strict module and serialization boundaries the
repository already guards (browser code imports nothing from `src/server/**`;
secrets never serialize; bundle-level verification). ADR 0004's
one-ingestion-owner-per-chain invariant is trivially satisfied by the
mono-instance model; its lease mechanism becomes relevant only if the
deployment model ever changes.

## Consequences (trade-offs accepted)

- **Pay-then-leave is safe:** the money path is exactly as durable as the
  server's Order store; the browser is a capture-and-display device after
  instructions are shown.
- The server durably holds a small amount of user-provided data (username,
  public keys, attribution) per Order; a **retention policy** for settled and
  expired intents is required from the persistence design.
- The server accepts attribution it cannot fully verify at capture time; the
  explicit fallback (`BLURT_PROVISIONING_ACCOUNT` + the validated
  `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN`, ADR 0007 §3a) makes the degraded case
  deterministic rather than silent.
- Resume semantics require the persistence/API design to give the browser a
  way to re-find its non-expired Order without creating a new one.

## Open points (deliberately not decided here)

1. **Order resume mechanism** (how the browser re-finds its Order) and the
   durable store — persistence design. **RESOLVED by
   [ADR 0006](./0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md)** (SQLite store,
   non-enumerable id + hashed recovery token, at most one live Order per
   intent).
2. **Retention/erasure policy** for settled and expired provisioning intents
   — was still open when the settlement increment shipped (2026-07-16).
   **RESOLVED by [ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md) §8
   (2026-07-18):** nothing is auto-deleted — the durable Orders, provisioning
   outbox and append-only journal are the paid path's audit trail; erasure
   stays an explicit operator action, to be revisited when formal
   data-protection requirements are set.

Formerly open, now RESOLVED in this ADR: the referral `custom_json` signer
(server-side via the created account's delegated posting authority, §1b/§3 —
the POC's new-account-posting-key signing is superseded; no browser signing
path exists) and the provisioning-executor topology (§5 — isolated
server-only component inside the PM2 mono-instance process).

## Relationships

- Builds on [ADR 0004](./0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md)
  (readiness ordering, durable boundaries, interest lifecycle — the intent
  persisted here is the same durable Order record ADR 0004's drainage and
  crash recovery rely on) and
  [ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md) (the irreversible
  facts that trigger server-side provisioning).
- Grounded in `plan/bounded-contexts.md` and
  `plan/onboarding-architecture.md` (the provisioning-instruction contract:
  username + four public keys, authority, endowment, optional attribution)
  and `plan/graphene-capabilities.md` capability 12.
- The durable-intent half of this ADR is **implemented as of 2026-07-16**
  (`src/server/orders/`, `src/app/onboarding/payment/` — durable Order with
  the complete provisioning intent, two-regime referral attribution,
  resume-never-duplicate on the [ADR 0006](./0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md)
  store). The provisioning half — `account_create` + funding, referral
  `custom_json` emission, the §1b delegated-authority write — is
  **implemented as of 2026-07-18** per
  [ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md)
  (durable state machine + signed-transaction outbox on the shared ingestion
  session; note ADR 0007 §3 for the Layer-1-verified referral fee constraint
  that forces the strict sequential order `account_create → transfer →
  referral`). This ADR's invariants are the contract that implementation
  satisfies.

---

## ADR 0006 — Durable Order store and resume

Source: docs/decisions/0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md

# ADR 0006 — Durable Order Store and Browser Order Resume

**Status:** Accepted. **Revised 2026-07-16:** resume moved from a
browser-held `localStorage` record to a server-issued **HttpOnly cookie**
(§3, §4), the store became **mandatory at startup** (§1), and the
settlement columns/consume-once transition are now implemented (§2) —
each revision is marked in place. **Revised 2026-07-20:** the §4 status
transport moved from 4-second polling to the cookie-authorized **WebSocket
status channel** (polling superseded; history preserved in §4).
**Date:** 2026-07-15
**Scope:** The persistence substrate for the durable Order/provisioning-intent
records required by ADR 0004 (interest set, session boundaries, durable
checkpoint, closure-boundary drainage) and ADR 0005 (browser-independent
provisioning intent, immutable attribution), and the mechanism by which a
browser re-finds its own Order without enumerable identifiers. This resolves
ADR 0005's open point 1 (resume mechanism + durable store) for the accepted
PM2 mono-instance deployment.

## Context

- ADR 0004/0005 fixed the invariants: intent is persisted durably **before**
  payment instructions exist; expiry and drainage are distinct durable facts;
  interest must be reconstructible from durable Order state alone after a
  crash; the settlement work needed **atomic consume-once + durable cursor
  in one write** (since delivered — §2). Browser storage, in-memory maps and
  component state are explicitly not acceptable as the authoritative store.
- The deployment model is a **PM2 mono-instance** Node process (ADR 0005 §5).
  A multi-instance lease is out of scope until that model changes (ADR 0004).
- The repository pins Node engines (`^22.22.3 || ^24.15.0 || >=26`) that all
  ship the built-in **`node:sqlite`** module (`DatabaseSync`).

## Decision

### 1. Store: SQLite via `node:sqlite`, one deployment-owned file

The authoritative Order store is a single **SQLite database file** accessed
through Node's built-in `node:sqlite` (`DatabaseSync`), opened in WAL mode by
the server process only.

Why this and not the alternatives considered:

- **Real ACID transactions.** The settlement increment must persist
  `(grapheneTransferEventId, orderId)` consumption together with the rail
  checkpoint **in one atomic write** (ADR 0003/0004). SQLite gives that
  transaction now, so nothing is redesigned later. A hand-rolled JSON/JSONL
  file store would need bespoke fsync/rename/replay machinery to approximate
  it — more code, weaker guarantees.
- **Zero new dependencies.** `node:sqlite` ships with the pinned Node
  engines: no native build step (unlike `better-sqlite3`), no service to
  operate (unlike Postgres/Redis — grossly oversized for one mono-instance
  onboarding funnel).
- **Operationally understandable.** One file next to the deployment's env
  file; standard SQLite tooling can inspect it; backup = copy the file while
  the process is stopped (or use SQLite's backup API later).
- **Mono-instance single-writer** matches SQLite's sweet spot and trivially
  satisfies ADR 0004's one-ingestion-owner-per-chain invariant. If the
  deployment model ever changes, the lease ADR 0004 anticipates can be built
  in the same database (single-writer lease table) or the store swapped
  behind the same interface — the Order layer depends on an interface, not on
  SQL spread through the code.

**Configuration:** `ORDER_STORE_FILE` — the ABSOLUTE path of the database
file, deployment-owned exactly like `BLURT_ENV_FILE` (no working-directory
fallback, no default location). **Revised 2026-07-16:** the store is
MANDATORY — BLURT payment Orders are the product, not a feature flag. An
unset/empty/relative `ORDER_STORE_FILE`, or a file that cannot be
opened/initialized, is a startup refusal: the production server exits
**before listening**. (The transient `available: false` capability state
still exists, but it reports runtime chain health only — never a missing
mandatory dependency.)

### 2. Schema (owned by the Order layer, versioned in one place)

Three tables, created/migrated by the store module at open — **plus, since
2026-07-18 ([ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md)),
two additive provisioning tables**: `provisioning_operations` (the durable
signed-transaction outbox — one row per Order per operation, carrying the
signed transaction, its locally derived id, expiration, inclusion/confirmation
positions and incident state) and `provisioning_attempts` (the append-only
attempt/incident journal). Both are created by the same schema block; no
existing table changed:

- **`orders`** — the durable provisioning intent and lifecycle (ADR 0005 §2):
  id, recovery-token **hash**, username, the four public keys, opaque
  memo/reference, immutable referral (`referrer`, nullable `campaign`),
  status, `created_at`, `expires_at` — plus the RAIL OBLIGATION bound at
  payment-method selection (selected rail + pinned network id, exact quote as
  integer raw amount + precision + symbol for total/fee/starting balance,
  collector), ADR 0004 `session_start_boundary`, nullable `closure_boundary`
  + `drained_at`, and the neutral observation markers (`found_block`,
  `found_observation_id`) that make interest reconstructible after a crash.
  **Revised 2026-07-17 (lifecycle):** the Order is created RAIL-AGNOSTIC when
  the user continues past the key backup — the rail-obligation columns are
  NULL until the user selects a payment method, and the durable conversion
  milestones `rail_selected_at`, `instructions_ready_at`, `found_at` and
  `abandoned_at` (with `created_at` and `settled_at`) make creation →
  method selection → instruction exposure → payment observation →
  settlement — and explicit abandonment (§3b) — measurable for conversion
  and abandonment analysis. The Order identity IS the payment
  reference carried in the transfer memo (one opaque reference for recovery,
  support and analysis). The model deliberately does not assume BLURT stays
  the only rail: a future HIVE/STEEM activation binds the same columns with a
  different rail value and needs no intent-model change.
- **`ingestion_sessions`** — one row per chain: durable session start
  boundary (`fromBlock = H + 1`) and the durable checkpoint
  (`lastProcessedBlock`), written before instructions are exposed and on
  every rail `checkpoint` respectively.
- **`observed_transfers`** — the **durable neutral observation state**:
  irreversible transfers attributed to an Order by (collector, memo), keyed
  by the fork-stable `grapheneTransferEventId`. **Revised 2026-07-16:** the
  consume-once transition is now implemented: economic settlement
  (`settleIrreversibleTransfer`) records the transfer, classifies it against
  the Order's quote and the deployment's `BLURT_MAX_OVERPAYMENT` ceiling,
  and — only when the payment is economically accepted — sets `consumed_at`,
  all **in one SQLite transaction**. Duplicates, out-of-window transfers and
  manual-review cases stay recorded but **unconsumed**. The `orders` table
  gained the settlement columns (`paid_raw`, `settled_balance_raw`,
  `settled_transfer_id`, `settled_at`, `review_reason`) by additive
  migration; a settled Order is never re-classified.

All money amounts are stored as **integer strings in the asset's smallest
units plus an explicit precision and symbol** (the `GrapheneTransferAmount`
shape); arithmetic is `BigInt`-exact; floating point never touches money.

### 3. Resume: non-enumerable id + recovery token, at most one live Order per intent

Resolves ADR 0005 open point 1 ("how the browser re-finds its Order"):

- **Order id**: crypto-random hex (96-bit since the 2026-07-17 lifecycle
  revision, where it also became the payment-memo reference itself) —
  globally non-enumerable; carries no user data.
- **Recovery token**: 256-bit crypto-random; the server stores only its
  SHA-256 digest and compares timing-safely. Any failure (absent, malformed,
  rotated, forged) is indistinguishable absence, so Order existence cannot
  be probed and one visitor can never open another's onboarding intent.
  **Revised 2026-07-17:** on the READ resource, absence is the truthful
  `200 { order: null }` — "no current Order" is an expected funnel state,
  never a console-visible HTTP failure; the response is byte-identical for
  absent, forged, rotated and expired tokens, and a presented-but-useless
  cookie is still cleared. Mutable endpoints keep answering 404.
- **Revised 2026-07-16 — the token travels ONLY in an HttpOnly cookie.**
  The original design returned the token in the creation response body for
  the browser to persist in `localStorage`; that exposed a payment-scoped
  bearer credential to every script in the page and left permanent records
  in browser storage. Instead the server now sets the token as the
  `join-order` cookie on Order creation/resume: **HttpOnly** (never readable
  by JavaScript), **SameSite=Lax**, `Path=/` (it must authorize both the
  SSR navigation and the API), **`Secure`** decided by the VALIDATED
  deployment configuration (revised 2026-07-17: an `https` `PUBLIC_ORIGIN`
  makes every cookie Secure — never inferred from `req.protocol`, which a
  misconfigured proxy could get wrong), and **`Expires` set to the Order
  deadline plus a bounded one-hour READ grace** (revised 2026-07-17: an
  in-window payment becomes irreversible only AFTER the deadline — finality
  lag — and the payer must still see the truthful settled outcome; the
  grace grants nothing beyond reading one's own recorded facts) — never
  extended by refresh, polling or resume. An
  invalid/stale cookie is cleared by the server. The token appears in no
  response body, no URL, no custom header, no browser storage and no client
  bundle; the browser's only read is `GET /api/orders/current`, where the
  cookie is both selector and authorization. Losing the cookie does not lose
  the Order and never loses a payment (detection and provisioning are
  browser-independent — ADR 0005).
- **Server-side lifetime (added 2026-07-17):** browser cookie expiry is
  hygiene, never an authorization boundary. A token's PAYMENT authority
  (rail selection, supersede proof) always ends exactly at the Order
  deadline. For READS, a token presented after the deadline resolves only
  an Order that CARRIES FACTS (any status beyond `awaiting_payment`) and
  only within the bounded one-hour grace — so the payer of a late-settling
  in-window payment still sees the truthful outcome, while a token replayed
  against an expired UNPAID Order finds indistinguishable absence (cookie
  cleared), exactly like a forged one. The durable Order, its ingestion
  interest and any settled facts remain server-side and are unaffected
  (ADR 0005 browser-independence).
- **CSRF (revised 2026-07-17):** because cookies travel automatically,
  every mutable endpoint validates the `Origin` header by EXACT comparison
  against the ONE mandatory configured canonical origin (`PUBLIC_ORIGIN` —
  normalized scheme + hostname + effective port). Hostname-only or
  partial-scheme checks are insufficient (different ports/schemes on the
  same hostname are different origins); anything not exactly the public
  origin — including the internal server port reached directly behind the
  proxy — is refused with 403. `SameSite` remains defense in depth only.
- **Referral attribution cookie (added 2026-07-17):** the 24-hour
  `join-referral` attribution is a server-ISSUED, server-VERIFIED value:
  `base64url(payload).base64url(HMAC-SHA256)` keyed by the mandatory
  server-only `COOKIE_INTEGRITY_KEY`, with issuance and expiry INSIDE the
  signed payload. Tampered payloads, forged signatures, malformed
  structures, expired windows and future-dated issuances are all treated as
  ABSENT — they can never poison a later valid capture — and a valid cookie
  preserves first-referrer-wins for its signed 24 hours; the referrer's
  on-chain existence is additionally re-verified at Order creation. Cookie
  deletion by the user remains possible (and harmless); modification and
  replay of an expired attribution cannot alter attribution.
- **Resume-never-duplicate, enforced server-side:** at most one **live**
  (unexpired) Order may exist per onboarding intent `(username, the four
  public keys)` — rail-agnostic since the 2026-07-17 lifecycle revision; the
  store enforces it inside the creation transaction. A create request
  matching a live Order **resumes** that Order — same memo, same reference,
  same obligation if one is bound — rotating its recovery token (the
  requester proved full knowledge of the intent: username + all four public
  keys, data only the intent-holder's browser has). Two concurrent creates
  for the same intent yield one Order. An expired Order never blocks a fresh
  one. **Key regeneration (added 2026-07-17):** a create for the same
  username under DIFFERENT keys is a conflict, EXCEPT when the caller's own
  cookie proves the conflicting Order and that Order never selected a rail —
  instructions were never exposable, so no payment can exist for it; it is
  expired in-transaction and the username passes to the new intent. A
  rail-bound Order is never superseded: its payment window stays intact.

### 3b. Username reservation, arrival recovery and abandonment (added 2026-07-17)

- **Safe-release predicate.** A username is RESERVED by an Order — for the
  step-1 availability decision AND the creation-transaction conflict check —
  while any of these hold: the Order is economically settled (its account
  path continues), its user-facing window is open, a payment observation is
  unresolved, or its EXPOSED payment window (durable session boundary) is
  not yet safely drained (closure boundary uncaptured or undrained). Mere
  `expiresAt` passage NEVER releases an exposed, undrained window. Rail-less
  or never-exposed intents release exactly at their deadline; drained
  windows with nothing accepted release too.
- **Server-authoritative step-1 availability** (`GET
  /api/username-availability`): one combined decision — grammar, current
  reservations under the predicate above, actual on-chain existence
  (memoized read shared with the referral boundary). The funnel gates KEY
  GENERATION on it, and the user-visible/API vocabulary truthfully
  distinguishes `taken` (the account exists on the Blurt blockchain) from
  `reserved` (temporarily held by an onboarding Order — with the
  server-authoritative normal retry time while the window is open, and a
  `finalizing` flag when the deadline passed but drainage/observation is
  unresolved: never a false "available"). The creation/selection
  transactions remain the race-safe final authority; a race lost after
  step 1 returns the visitor to username selection (`username_reserved` /
  `username_taken` are distinct public codes) — never trapped on the
  key-backup page. The earlier "accepted residual" (a visitor could reach
  the key-backup page before discovering a same-username conflict) is
  RETIRED by this revision.
- **Arrival recovery.** A browser carrying a valid recovery cookie is
  offered, on the funnel's start page and before any new journey, to RESUME
  the exact current Order or to ABANDON the browser journey. Resume is the
  ONLY "keep" exit; EVERY dismissal — the explicit Abandon button, the close
  (X) button and the native ESC/cancel path — performs the same
  server-authoritative abandonment (the dialog is never a trap that merely
  hides while retaining the cookie). Abandonment is a durable funnel
  milestone (`abandoned_at`) that severs the BROWSER-side association (the
  HttpOnly cookie and all in-memory onboarding/key state; the recovery token
  itself is deliberately NOT rotated — its bounded read authority, deadline +
  grace, remains a same-user-only exposure). It is a BROWSER-JOURNEY action,
  deliberately distinct from a destructive server cancellation, and ALWAYS
  succeeds for an existing Order — a visitor is never imprisoned, whatever the
  payment state: a RAIL-LESS intent is ended immediately (its reservation
  releases at once — no payment can exist for it); a RAIL-BOUND Order (unpaid,
  observed, recorded, settled or in manual review) is NEVER destroyed — the
  server keeps processing it through the accepted
  expiry/closure/finality/drainage/provisioning rules, so an in-flight payment
  stays settleable and the username stays reserved under the safe-release
  predicate. (The former `not_abandonable` refusal — which trapped a visitor
  whose payment had progressed — is RETIRED: browser abandonment and
  destructive server cancellation are now cleanly separate; only the latter
  never happens.) The dialog shows the SERVER-authoritative release facts:
  immediate release (rail-less), a countdown then a truthful "final
  verification in progress" (bounded) until the safe-release condition
  confirms (unpaid rail-bound), or a stable "stays reserved while your payment
  is processed" for an Order that carries a payment. If the abandonment
  request itself fails, the dialog shows a bounded, retryable error and keeps
  Resume available — never stuck.

### 4. Status transport: WebSocket push (revised 2026-07-20; polling superseded)

**History.** The initial transport of this increment (2026-07-16/17) was the
cookie-authorized `GET /api/orders/current` resource (**revised 2026-07-16**
from the earlier `GET /api/orders/:id` shape — no Order identifier ever
appears in a URL; **revised 2026-07-17**: absence answers
`200 { order: null }`), POLLED every 4 s by the open payment UI — the
simplest correct transport for the increment, with the explicit note that a
push channel could replace it without touching the Order contract. That
polling transport is **superseded (2026-07-20)**: it added up to a full poll
interval of latency to every state change, froze counters between polls and
skipped visible block progress.

**Current transport.** The observational status channel (ADR 0005 §2) is ONE
cookie-authorized **WebSocket** per browser onboarding context — an
`upgrade` on the same listener at `/api/orders/current/stream`, shared
across the payment modal → account-creation navigation and REPLACING all
frontend status polling (no `setInterval` Order reads, no hidden polling
fallback):

- **authorization** is the same HttpOnly recovery cookie riding the upgrade
  request; no token, Order id or credential ever appears in the URL, query
  string or any JavaScript-accessible value. An absent/expired/malformed/
  forged cookie is the same indistinguishable absence as the read resource:
  one `{ order: null }` snapshot, then a normal close;
- **cross-site WebSocket hijacking fails closed**: the upgrade is refused
  (403) unless the browser `Origin` is exactly the configured
  `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` — the CSRF discipline of the mutable endpoints applied to
  the socket;
- **push after durability**: the ingestion supervisor and the provisioning
  engine emit into an in-process status feed AFTER each durable fact
  commits; the channel re-derives the caller's public Order view from the
  store and pushes it iff it changed — scan/LIB advancement, observation,
  settlement, outbox transitions, inclusion, fork rewind, confirmation and
  terminal outcomes all arrive as fresh snapshots, never before their
  durable mutation. Snapshots carry a version + per-connection monotonic
  sequence; they are derived at send time on one TCP-ordered socket, so a
  client can never observe states out of order, and a slow connection
  coalesces obsolete intermediates (bounded buffers) in favour of the
  newest authoritative state;
- **strictly observational**: connecting, disconnecting or closing the
  browser never starts, advances, retries or cancels anything; the per-chain
  supervisor remains the sole owner of the shared follower and no parser,
  scanner or RPC client exists per connection;
- **lifecycle**: the initial message resynchronizes the browser from the
  current authoritative state; client reconnection uses bounded exponential
  backoff (sparse capped retries after a truthful `null`); a terminal
  provisioning outcome or a superseding newer stream stops reconnection;
  one active logical stream per context (a newer authorized connection for
  the same cookie supersedes the older, close code 4001); server-side
  heartbeats reclaim dead peers and graceful shutdown closes every
  subscriber (1001) before the process exits;
- **presentation**: the pushed `lastIrreversibleBlock` and the
  chain-DISCOVERED `blockIntervalSeconds` (`get_config` `*_BLOCK_INTERVAL`,
  carried in the public view) drive the truthful finality countdowns —
  remaining blocks per included operation and the overall wait decided by
  the slowest one, with an explicitly approximate duration; the browser
  never decrements a local counter and never assumes a hardcoded cadence.

**Delayed-network presentation (added 2026-07-21).** Three distinct notions
around this channel must never be conflated:

1. **Authoritative pushed chain progress** — the snapshots above, the ONLY
   source of block, finality and outcome values.
2. **Presentation-only detection of unusually long silence** — when a
   HEALTHY stream's authoritative markers (`detection.headBlock`,
   `detection.lastIrreversibleBlock`) stop advancing, the browser escalates
   a reassuring notice after 3, 6 and 10 chain-DISCOVERED block intervals
   of silence; the third message remains until progress resumes. Any
   head/LIB advancement clears the notice immediately and restarts the
   observation window; an unchanged (re-pushed) snapshot never resets it (a
   CHANGED discovered interval re-times the window with the new cadence);
   without a discovered `blockIntervalSeconds` there is no fallback cadence
   and no timed notice. This is pure presentation — local timers between
   pushed snapshots: no HTTP polling, no additional socket, no
   client→server message, no invented block or finality progression, and no
   effect on any server-side lifecycle. Only states actively awaiting
   network progress are eligible; `payment_recorded` is NOT one — the
   matching transfer is already irreversible and durably recorded but was
   not economically accepted (e.g. outside the accepted payment window), so
   nothing continues automatically and the existing support presentation
   applies, exactly like `expired`, `manual_review` and terminal
   provisioning outcomes.
3. **Transport health** — `reconnecting`/`lost`/`ended` keep their own
   truthful connection wording, which always takes PRECEDENCE over the
   delayed-network notice; terminal outcomes show neither a stale progress
   claim nor a stale reassurance.

`GET /api/orders/current` remains for initial SSR/resume/recovery and
explicit non-periodic reads (guards, page loads). Rail selection is its own
cookie-authorized, CSRF-protected mutation (`POST /api/orders/current/rail`)
— idempotent, so reopening the payment modal re-selects the SAME obligation
and can never mint a duplicate; its response is the first exposure of the
payment instructions and never arrives before ADR 0004 readiness. The same
cookie resolves the Order during **SSR**: the server reads it from the
incoming request, transfers only the public Order view via Angular
`TransferState`, and the `/payment` route resumes after a refresh or a
direct navigation **without any in-memory key material** (ADR 0005
browser-independence). Behind the documented topology (public HTTPS/WSS on
nginx 443 → loopback `HOST:PORT`) the same nginx server block proxies the
upgrade — see [nginx.md](../nginx.md); no separate public WebSocket port
and no new environment variable exist. One composition consequence: the
hermetic e2e suite now runs against the BUILT production server (the
Vite-based dev server owns HTTP upgrades for its HMR socket and cannot
carry this channel — `ng serve` remains for iterative UI work, without live
status).

### 5. Retention (partial — deliberately narrow)

Nothing is auto-deleted in this increment: settled/expired intents remain in
the store for operational traceability while the money path is being built.
The **retention/erasure policy** (ADR 0005 open point 2) remained open when
the settlement increment shipped (2026-07-16), with a deadline of the
provisioning increment. **Decided there —
[ADR 0007](./0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md) §8
(2026-07-18):** no auto-deletion; the durable Orders, provisioning outbox and
append-only journal are the paid path's audit trail; erasure stays an
explicit operator action on the deployment-owned store, revisited when formal
data-protection requirements are set.

## Consequences

- The Order layer gained a real transactional substrate; the settlement
  increment indeed added statements, not architecture (delivered 2026-07-16
  — §2).
- `node:sqlite` is marked Stability 1.1 (active development) by Node. Risk
  accepted: the API surface used (`DatabaseSync`, prepared statements,
  transactions) is the stable core; the store module is the single place that
  touches it; engines are pinned.
- The database file joins the env file as deployment-owned state: operators
  must place BOTH outside the repository and back the database up.
- A browser that clears its cookies loses its resume handle; the server
  dedup rule still prevents duplicate obligations if the user recreates from
  the same username + keys, and an in-window payment is still detected and
  honoured (browser-independence, ADR 0005).
- The `Secure` cookie attribute and CSRF validation are anchored on the
  mandatory `PUBLIC_ORIGIN` configuration (fail-closed — revised
  2026-07-17): an https public origin makes cookies Secure regardless of
  what the internal hop claims, and the exact-origin CSRF comparison does
  not depend on forwarded headers at all. `TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS` +
  `TRUSTED_PROXIES` still govern the SSR host check and `req.ip`, scoped to
  the intended proxy hop(s) — see the README's reverse-proxy section.

## Relationships

- Implements the persistence/lease substrate anticipated by
  [ADR 0004](./0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md) (durable
  boundaries, checkpoint, drainage) and resolves open point 1 of
  [ADR 0005](./0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md).
- The consume-once/settlement semantics remain
  [ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md)'s exactly-once
  contract, to be realised on this store in the payment-interception
  increment.

---

## ADR 0007 — Durable provisioning state machine and outbox

Source: docs/decisions/0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md
Canonical URL: https://gitlab.com/blurt-blockchain/blurt-blockchain-join/-/blob/main/docs/decisions/0007-durable-provisioning-state-machine-and-outbox.md

# ADR 0007 — Durable Account-Provisioning State Machine and Transaction Outbox

**Status:** Accepted (corrected 2026-07-19 — see Correction below).
**Date:** 2026-07-18; corrected 2026-07-19.
**Scope:** How an economically ACCEPTED payment becomes a created, attributed
and funded BLURT account: the durable per-operation state machine, the signed
transaction outbox and its idempotency/replacement rules, block-proof
confirmation through the shared ingestion session (extending the ADR 0004
interest model), the strict sequential ordering of `account_create` → funding
`transfer` → referral `custom_json`, the incident model, and the observational
progress UX. Implements the provisioning half of
[ADR 0005](./0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md)
on the [ADR 0006](./0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md) store.

## Correction (2026-07-19)

The initial 2026-07-18 revision of this ADR modelled the referral `custom_json`
and the funding `transfer` as INDEPENDENT, concurrent child branches scheduled
together the moment `account_create` confirmed, with the referral gated on a
`get_accounts` read of the created account's CHAIN balance ("maximum
independence the protocol permits"). That framing was accepted prematurely and
is **superseded** by this correction. Under Blurt Layer 1 the two operations
are NOT independent: the referral's fee is charged to the newly created
account, which holds no liquid BLURT until Join's funding transfer credits it
(Context, facts 1–2), so the correct execution is a strict SEQUENCE
`account_create → transfer → referral`. The referral now waits on the funding
transfer's canonical INCLUSION — the sufficient chain fact that Join's known
transfer credited the account — not on per-block balance polling. The three
operations keep independent durable RECORDS and incident histories, but their
protocol EXECUTION is sequential, never parallel. The sections below describe
the corrected (accepted) design; this note preserves what was changed and why.
Also corrected here: the observational UX (§7), the fallback referral campaign
(§3a), the truthful starting-balance semantics (§4), and the durable chain-read
incident history with its explicitly UNBOUNDED recoverable-outage retries (§5).
The observational UX was further redesigned on 2026-07-19 after the real
pipeline first ran on-chain: the single sequential card (three simultaneous
spinners that made already-included operations look unfinished, with the Order
reference buried) is **superseded** by the two-column composition described in
§7 — a prominent Order-reference strip, a dominant single-animation live panel,
and a spinner-free connected operation journey with one clear Included↔Final
distinction. The durable state machine, sequencing, inclusion/finality
semantics and economics are unchanged; only the presentation changed.

## Context

- Settlement is implemented (2026-07-16): an irreversible in-window payment is
  classified and CONSUMED exactly once, atomically. What follows the consumed
  payment — `account_create`, the referral `custom_json`, the starting-balance
  `transfer` — was the last unimplemented step of the money path.
- The POC drove this sequence from the open browser with fixed `sleep()`s,
  optimistic broadcast success and a browser-signed referral. All of that is
  rejected by ADR 0005: the chain does not un-pay, so everything after the
  accepted payment must survive browser closure, RPC failover, process
  restart, duplicated triggers and uncertain broadcast outcomes.
- **Layer 1 facts verified in the local `blurt` sources before this design**
  (they shape the accepted execution graph):
  1. `account_create.fee` must equal the median `account_creation_fee`
     EXACTLY — not merely cover it (`libraries/chain/steem_evaluator.cpp:321`);
     the fee is **burned** to the `null` account, so a freshly created account
     holds **zero balance** (`steem_evaluator.cpp:331-332` — the in-source
     comments claiming fee→vesting conversion are stale Steem heritage);
  2. every transaction burns a flat + bandwidth fee charged to each
     required-auth account (`libraries/chain/database.cpp:3141-3194`). For a
     `custom_json` with `required_posting_auths = [new_account]` the payer is
     **the newly created account itself**;
  3. a transaction requiring posting authority can never also contain
     active/owner-required operations
     (`libraries/protocol/transaction.cpp:124-134`) — the three provisioning
     operations are necessarily three separate transactions;
  4. the delegated posting account authority of ADR 0005 §1b is confirmed:
     `sign_state` resolves `posting.account_auths` through the delegated
     account's own posting authority (`libraries/protocol/sign_state.cpp:31-87`),
     so the provisioning POSTING key signs the referral on the new account's
     behalf;
  5. a transaction id is the first 20 bytes of the SHA-256 of the serialized
     unsigned transaction (`transaction.cpp:42-48`) — computable locally,
     before any broadcast; the duplicate-transaction index rejects an
     already-known id until its expiration passes (`database.cpp:3047-3050`,
     `3551-3559`); expirations are capped at one hour (`config.hpp:101`).
- Legacy Nexus (authoritative referral consumer) accepts the referral only
  with `required_auths = []`, exactly one posting auth, BOTH payload keys
  (`campaign` nullable), and only within **one hour of the account's creation
  block time** (`nexus/hive/indexer/referral.py`, `custom_op.py`).

## Decision

### 1. One durable outbox row per operation; ambiguity is a first-class state

Each of the three operations (`account_create`, `referral`, `transfer`) is a
durable row keyed `(orderId, kind)` with the lifecycle

```text
pending → prepared → broadcast_pending → broadcast → included → confirmed
                                   (terminal: confirmed | not_required | incident)
```

- **Sign first, durably, then broadcast.** The transaction is constructed
  from chain facts (TaPoS from the current head, expiration from CHAIN time,
  the fee re-read for this exact attempt), signed, and persisted WITH its
  locally derived transaction id before any RPC. A crash anywhere resumes the
  SAME identity.
- **`broadcast_pending` is entered durably BEFORE the RPC call** — it means
  "the network may know this transaction". Only three things resolve it: a
  node acceptance (→ `broadcast`; a "duplicate transaction" answer counts as
  acceptance evidence), an observed canonical inclusion, or the chain-time
  expiry proof (§3). An uncertain outcome is NEVER resolved by constructing a
  new economic transaction.
- **Replacement rule — the expiry proof is the ONLY replacement license.** A
  new identity (attempt + 1) may be constructed exclusively after
  non-inclusion is proven by the chain-time expiry proof (§2). A
  deterministic node rejection is deliberately NOT such a license — the RPC
  transport can fail over across pool nodes inside one broadcast call, so
  the surfaced clean refusal of one node can mask an earlier unacknowledged
  acceptance by another; a rejected identity therefore stays in the
  ambiguous state until it provably expired (bounding a genuinely refused
  identity's lifetime by its ≤ `PROVISIONING_TX_EXPIRATION_SECS`
  expiration). Replacements are bounded by the per-operation attempt budget
  (`PROVISIONING_MAX_ATTEMPTS`); exhaustion is a terminal incident, so
  deterministic refusals never spin. The funding branch's duplicate-transfer
  impossibility follows directly: at most one live transfer identity exists
  at any time, and a replacement requires proof that its predecessor can
  never be included.
- Broadcast failures are classified fail-safe into sanitized categories
  (`deterministic` / `transient` / `duplicate` / `uncertain`): anything
  unrecognized stays ambiguous. Transient trouble retries the SAME identity
  under the bounded RPC backoff policy; pacing (`nextRetryAt`) is wall-clock
  but is only ever pacing — never proof, never a deadline.

### 2. Confirmation comes from the shared ingestion session — nothing else

The ADR 0004 supervisor remains the system's SOLE block consumer. The rail's
`block_scanned` event now carries the block's `transaction_ids` (structural
block facts from the same single `get_block` read), and the supervisor
forwards four chain facts to the provisioning engine: accepted settlements,
scanned blocks (number, chain timestamp, transaction ids), durable
checkpoints, and fork rewinds.

- **Inclusion** = the persisted transaction id appears in a scanned canonical
  block (reversible: `included`, fork-revertible).
- **Confirmation** = the durable checkpoint passes the inclusion block
  (irreversible; terminal). A broadcast RPC response is NEVER confirmation.
- **Fork awareness**: a rewind to `R` durably reverts every reversible
  inclusion at/after `R` to `broadcast` (and clears the captured inclusion
  timestamp); the canonical re-scan re-proves whatever the canonical branch
  actually contains. Confirmed operations never revert (they are behind the
  irreversible boundary by construction). **Offline forks are covered too:**
  the session's ancestry checking cannot see a reorg that happened while the
  process was down, so startup recovery reverts every inclusion the durable
  checkpoint has not passed — the resumed scan re-covers exactly those
  blocks, re-proving genuine inclusions and never promoting a forked-away
  one to a false confirmation.
- **Chain-time expiry proof (non-inclusion)**: when the checkpoint passes the
  first canonical block whose own timestamp exceeds the transaction's
  expiration, the sequential scan has covered every block that could have
  included it and found no match — and Layer 1 refuses expired transactions,
  so it can never be included later. Deterministic on replay, exactly like
  the ADR 0004 closure boundary; the ~3-second block interval remains a
  user-visible cadence, never a timer.
- **Interest-set extension (amends ADR 0004):** economically accepted Orders
  with unresolved provisioning (no outbox rows yet, any non-terminal
  operation, or `account_create` confirmed while fewer than the three outbox
  rows exist — the crash window between one stage's irreversible confirmation
  and the lazy scheduling of the next stage's row must keep the Order
  recoverable) hold BLURT ingestion interest. Rows are scheduled LAZILY as the
  sequential pipeline advances (funding when the account exists; referral when
  the funding transfer settles), so the "fewer than three rows" term closes
  both the confirm→funding and the funding→referral gaps. One shared session
  serves every concurrently provisioning Order; it may return to idle only when
  no payment AND no provisioning interest remains and the checkpoint state is
  durable. Startup recovery resumes both payment detection and provisioning
  from the same durable records, browser-independently.

### 3. The execution graph — a strict Layer-1-forced sequence

```text
accepted irreversible payment (consumed once)
        |
        v
fee re-read (exact-equality rule) → economic re-check
        |                               \
        v                                → fee > paid: fee_unpayable incident
account_create signed, persisted, broadcast     (nothing broadcast)
        |
        v
account_create INCLUDED in a canonical block  ── inclusion advances the pipeline
        |
        v
funding transfer signed, persisted, broadcast   (exact remainder = accepted
        |                                          payment − actual fee; zero →
        v                                          not_required, never a zero
funding transfer INCLUDED in a canonical block     transfer)
        |
        v
referral custom_json signed, persisted, broadcast  (the created account now
        |                                            holds the balance to pay
        v                                            its OWN custom_json fee)
referral custom_json INCLUDED in a canonical block
        |
        v
every operation passes the irreversible checkpoint → provisioning complete
```

`account_create` is the sole INITIAL gate. The three operations execute in a
strict SEQUENCE forced by Layer 1: the referral `custom_json`'s fee is charged
to the newly created account (Context, fact 2), which is born with zero balance
(fact 1), so a referral broadcast before the account is funded deterministically
fails with "insufficient funds". The referral therefore waits for **Join's
funding transfer to be canonically INCLUDED** — Join already knows its exact
funding transaction, and its inclusion in the shared sequential scan is the
sufficient chain fact that the new account was credited (no per-block
`get_accounts` balance polling). The funding transfer, in turn, waits only for
`account_create`'s inclusion, and NEVER on any referral read, state, retry or
failure.

**Inclusion advances; irreversibility completes.** Canonical REVERSIBLE
inclusion of each stage is enough to advance to the next (the ~3-second block
cadence stays user-visible — the pipeline does not stall waiting for finality
between stages). An operation is `confirmed` only when the durable checkpoint
passes its inclusion block, and the Order is `complete` only when every
applicable operation is irreversibly confirmed. A fork that invalidates a
parent's inclusion durably rewinds it (§2) and PAUSES its descendants — the
gate simply stops seeing the parent as included; an already-broadcast
descendant identity is left ambiguous (resolved only by canonical re-inclusion
or the expiry proof), never blindly replaced, so re-inclusion/recovery never
duplicates account creation, funding or referral emission.

The three operations keep INDEPENDENT durable records and incident histories,
but this is independence of RECORDS, not of protocol EXECUTION. A terminal
referral incident never undoes or misrepresents the already-created and funded
account. A terminal funding incident means the account exists but the promised
bonus was not delivered, the referral consequently cannot proceed (the account
cannot pay its fee), and the UI directs the user to support with the Order
reference; the durable records retain the exact funding and referral states.

The Legacy Nexus one-hour account-age window still bounds the referral: it is
measured in CHAIN time from the `account_create` inclusion block's timestamp
(captured durably at inclusion) to the newest scanned block, and the emission
gate reserves a FULL transaction-expiration margin — requiring
`emission + expiration ≤ window end` makes every possible inclusion in-window
by construction, so a referral the indexer would silently drop can never be
reported as a confirmed one. If the window elapses, or the funding transfer
never delivered a balance (terminal `not_required` / `incident`), or the window
anchor is unknowable, the referral ends in the truthful `referral_window_missed`
incident; the account and its funding are unaffected.

### 3a. Referral attribution and the fallback campaign

Attribution is validated at the server boundary and frozen immutably into the
Order at creation (a later change to configuration affects only new Orders):

- a valid external referrer WITH a valid campaign → that referrer + that
  campaign (≤ 20 chars, Legacy Nexus schema);
- a valid external referrer WITHOUT a valid campaign → that referrer + a JSON
  `null` campaign — never an empty string, never the fallback campaign;
- NO valid referrer (absent, malformed, or an unknown/invalid account — treated
  as absent) → the provisioning account as referrer AND the configured
  `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN` (validated server configuration, default
  `onboarding`, non-empty, ≤ 20 chars).

The emitted `custom_json` payload always carries BOTH `referrer` and `campaign`
keys; only the no-referrer fallback substitutes the default campaign, so an
externally-referred Order without a campaign keeps emitting JSON `null`.

### 4. Economic finalization (the ADR 0005/step-3 invariant, made concrete)

- The creation fee is re-read immediately before EVERY `account_create`
  construction (exact-equality consensus rule); the fee actually paid is
  persisted on the operation.
- The funding transfer amount = `accepted payment − fee actually paid`, in
  exact smallest-unit integer arithmetic (operational costs remain modelled as
  0 — open question Q2). A zero remainder is terminal `not_required` (a zero
  transfer is protocol-invalid and there is truthfully nothing to send); a
  negative remainder is the pre-broadcast `fee_unpayable` manual-intervention
  incident.
- **The product promises the TRANSFER, not a guaranteed final balance.** Join
  broadcasts exactly the settled starting-balance amount (e.g. 20.000 BLURT for
  an exact payment with a configured 20 BLURT bonus). The referral fee is NEVER
  added to the bonus, deducted from the transfer, reimbursed or estimated from
  dynamic witness fees. Once the transfer is included, the bonus contract is
  fulfilled. The created account then pays the Layer 1 transaction fee of its
  OWN referral `custom_json` (Context, fact 2), so its final balance ends up
  slightly BELOW the transferred amount — this is intentional and accepted. The
  UI may truthfully state that the starting balance was transferred/included; it
  must never reinterpret that as a guaranteed post-referral balance.
- The funding memo is intentional and traceable: it names the product action
  and carries the Order identity (the same opaque reference used for payment,
  recovery and support).
- **Costs borne by the provisioning account, accepted:** the per-transaction
  flat+bandwidth fees of `account_create` and the funding `transfer` are
  burned from the provisioning account (operational costs, not billed to the
  user). The referral transaction's fee is burned from the CREATED account by
  protocol (Context, fact 2) — recorded here explicitly and reflected in the
  hermetic e2e chain, which debits these fees from the required-authority
  accounts so a created account's proven final balance is below the transfer it
  received.

### 5. Incidents, journal, retry policy

- Terminal incidents carry stable public codes only: `fee_unpayable`,
  `attempts_exhausted`, `referral_window_missed` (a repeatedly refused
  operation exhausts its budget — the per-attempt journal's sanitized error
  categories tell the operator whether the refusals were deterministic).
  Raw node diagnostics are sanitized (bounded, single-line, secret-free) into
  the operator journal, never into responses.
- Every lifecycle step appends to a durable, append-only journal
  (`provisioning_attempts`): Order, kind, attempt, event, transaction id,
  block, sanitized error category/detail, timestamps — sufficient to diagnose
  any incident after the fact. This includes recoverable chain-read/transport
  outages that prevent progression (fee read, TaPoS anchor, chain identity,
  broadcast, inclusion/expiry proof): they append a bounded, sanitized
  `chain_read_failed` line, TIME-THROTTLED per (Order, kind) so a long outage
  cannot grow the journal without bound. No private key, signed-secret
  diagnostic, raw exception or serialized configuration is ever persisted or
  logged.
- **What the attempt budget does and does NOT bound.** `PROVISIONING_MAX_ATTEMPTS`
  bounds the number of transaction IDENTITIES an operation may construct (each
  replacement following a chain-time expiry proof); exhausting it is the
  terminal `attempts_exhausted` incident, so deterministic refusals and
  repeatedly-expiring identities never spin. It deliberately does NOT bound
  recoverable chain-read/transport outages: a temporarily unreachable RPC pool
  is retried on the SAME step under bounded backoff, WITHOUT consuming the
  identity budget, until the chain is reachable again — counting a transient
  outage against the budget would convert it into a false terminal incident.
  The referral branch's one-hour Legacy Nexus window independently bounds that
  branch's waiting. So: every transaction-identity loop is bounded; recoverable
  chain-read retries are intentionally unbounded in count (bounded only by the
  chain returning, and — for the referral — by its window).
- Operator-tunable policy lives in validated server configuration
  (`PROVISIONING_TX_EXPIRATION_SECS`, default 180 s, bounded well under the
  Layer 1 one-hour cap; `PROVISIONING_MAX_ATTEMPTS`, default 5), documented
  in `.env.example` — never in UI components or scattered constants.

### 6. The Order-level result — partial completion is never generic success

Derived (never stored redundantly) from the operation rows, on the
inclusion-advances / irreversibility-completes rule: `creating_account` (until
`account_create` is included on chain) → `finalizing` (the account exists but
not every operation is irreversibly confirmed yet) → `complete` (every
applicable operation irreversibly confirmed, none an incident) |
`complete_with_incident` | `needs_intervention` (`account_create` itself
terminal-failed, including `fee_unpayable`). A terminal funding incident yields
`complete_with_incident` with an explicit "account exists, funding needs
support — contact support with the Order reference" presentation — never a
claim of complete onboarding; a terminal referral incident is recorded and
surfaced truthfully without affecting the account or its starting balance.

### 7. Observational progress UX

Payment stays in the payment modal. The moment a payment is ACCEPTED, the
funnel transitions to a dedicated full-page provisioning-progress route
(`/account-creation`), which is **strictly observational**: it renders the
durable Order state through the existing cookie-authorized boundary
(SSR-transferred on refresh/direct navigation, then kept live by the ADR
0006 §4 transport — since 2026-07-20 the pushed WebSocket status channel,
superseding the earlier 4-second polling), and loading, refreshing, closing
or reopening it never starts, advances, retries or cancels anything. Since
the same transport revision, the securing phase presents truthful finality
progress from PUSHED facts: each included operation's remaining-block count,
the current last irreversible block, and the overall wait decided by the
slowest included operation with an explicitly approximate duration derived
from the chain-discovered block interval — never a locally decremented
counter, never a zero/negative countdown (an inclusion the irreversible
boundary has reached but canonical reconciliation has not yet confirmed
reads as reconciliation, never as a false Final). Since 2026-07-21 the same
pages add a presentation-only **delayed-network reassurance**: when the
healthy stream's head/LIB markers stop advancing for 3, 6 and 10
chain-discovered block intervals, an escalating polite notice explains that
the network is slower than usual and progress is safe — cleared immediately
by any authoritative advancement, absent without a discovered interval, and
always yielding to the transport-health wording and to terminal outcomes
(ADR 0006 §4, delayed-network presentation).

The composition (redesigned 2026-07-19 — see Correction) is a full-width Order
**reference strip** — the prominent support identifier, shown untruncated with
a copy affordance in every state — above a **two-column** progress area:

- a **dominant live blockchain-finalization panel** (left) with exactly ONE
  principal animated element representing the overall live process (a
  shield-check inside a rotating ring; `prefers-reduced-motion` disables the
  rotation). Its message tracks the real phase — preparing account creation;
  account included, sending the starting balance; starting balance included,
  registering the referral; then, once all three are included, **"Securing
  transactions"** with the live scanned block and a real `N operations included`
  count while irreversible confirmation is awaited;
- a compact **connected four-stage operation journey** (right) — Payment,
  Account, **Starting balance** (not the POC generator's vague "Sent"), Referral
  — always showing all four with **stable semantic markers and NO per-operation
  spinners**: pending (grey), in progress (orange), **Included** (amber,
  canonically on chain but reversible), **Final** (green, irreversible), not
  required (neutral), and a support marker for a terminal incident. A legend
  states the single Included↔Final distinction. Because the pipeline advances on
  reversible inclusion, several stages are legitimately **Included at once**
  while awaiting finality — the panel names that state instead of implying
  concurrent jobs. Each stage carries its dynamic block and, where appropriate,
  its amount: Payment its received amount, Account the ACTUAL network creation
  fee (never a bonus figure), Starting balance the actual transfer.

A collapsed **technical-details** disclosure holds the full transaction ids,
operation kinds, inclusion/confirmation blocks and copy affordances; the
ordinary user never needs it. Recovery reassurance is demoted to one quiet
line ("Progress continues safely if you refresh or leave."). The SAME layout
becomes the success state (celebratory title, the username, a green success
mark, all four stages Final, the actual fee and transfer) and the incident
states, which describe partial completion PRECISELY — never collapsed into
generic success or failure: a terminal funding incident states the account
succeeded and only the starting balance needs support; a terminal referral
incident states the account and balance are unaffected. No raw diagnostics,
exception messages, secrets or server state ever render. This increment ends at
the account-ready result — the interactive discovery guide is the next
increment's.

### 8. Retention (resolves ADR 0005 open point 2 / ADR 0006 §5 deadline)

Nothing is auto-deleted: the durable Orders, outbox rows and the append-only
journal ARE the paid path's audit trail, and money-path traceability wins
while the product operates in this phase. Erasure remains an explicit
operator action on the deployment-owned store. Revisit when formal
data-protection/retention requirements are set for the deployment; the store
module remains the single place a policy would be implemented.

## Consequences (trade-offs accepted)

- Correctness rests on durable rows plus canonical chain facts; every
  transaction-identity loop is bounded and every ambiguous state has exactly
  one safe resolution (recoverable chain-read outages retry unbounded but are
  journalled and, for the referral, window-bounded — §5). The cost is an
  explicit state machine (8 statuses, 3 operations) — isolated in one engine
  module and testable without a network.
- The referral waits on the funding transfer's canonical inclusion, NOT on a
  balance read — there is no `get_accounts` polling in the provisioning path;
  in the normal flow each stage advances one or two blocks after the previous.
- A same-identity rebroadcast can occur after pacing (safe by the duplicate
  check); the accepted-but-never-included edge resolves through the expiry
  proof at the configured expiration cadence.
- The strict sequence trades a small amount of latency (three stages advancing
  at block-inclusion cadence, not concurrently) for correctness under Layer 1:
  the referral can only ever pay its fee from a funded account.
- Provisioning keeps the shared session alive until every operation is
  terminal — slightly longer sessions, in exchange for never missing an
  inclusion or expiry proof.
- The provisioning account absorbs the per-transaction fees of creation and
  funding; the created account pays its referral anchor's fee (protocol
  behaviour, documented — not silently compensated), so its final balance is
  below the transferred bonus. The product promises the transfer, not a
  guaranteed final balance (§4).

## Relationships

- Implements the provisioning half of
  [ADR 0005](./0005-browser-independent-provisioning-and-durable-intent.md)
  (§1b delegated authority write, §3 referral emission, §5 in-process
  isolated engine) on the [ADR 0006](./0006-durable-order-store-and-resume.md)
  store (two additive tables), and resolves ADR 0005 open point 2 /
  ADR 0006 §5 (retention — §8 above).
- Extends [ADR 0004](./0004-demand-driven-shared-ingestion-sessions.md)'s
  interest set with the provisioning term (§2 above) and reuses its
  chain-time determinism discipline for the expiry proof; extends
  [ADR 0003](./0003-payment-detection-block-parser.md)'s single sequential
  scan with structural `transaction_ids` on `block_scanned` — no second
  scanner, and the forbidden-RPC policy (no account-history, no
  transaction-lookup) holds for provisioning too.
- Grounded in `plan/step-3-payment-architecture.md` §3 (economic invariant)
  and `plan/bounded-contexts.md`; the Legacy Nexus referral contract of
  ADR 0005 §3 is preserved bit-for-bit (`{"referrer": …, "campaign": string
  or null}`, id `referral`, one posting auth).
- Implemented 2026-07-18; corrected 2026-07-19 to the strict sequential
  pipeline, the `DEFAULT_REFERRAL_CAMPAIGN` fallback, the durable chain-read
  incident history and the fee-faithful hermetic chain:
  `src/server/orders/provisioning*.ts` (engine, domain, pure transaction
  construction), store extensions, supervisor forwarding,
  `src/app/onboarding/account-creation/` (observational sequential page),
  hermetic e2e with a broadcast-capable, fee-faithful mock chain.