The in-game hint badge ignored the payments hint wallet: loading a game clobbered
app.profile.hintBalance with the deprecated StateView.wallet_balance (zeroed in the
D31 domain removal but left in the protocol as a dead 0, then synced over the real
balance at game load).
Finish the removal honestly. StateView carries the per-game allowance alone
(hints_remaining); the purchasable wallet lives solely on the profile and the client
adds it (lib/hints). Removed StateView.wallet_balance across every layer — backend
StateView/DTO, notify.PlayerState (live events), gateway StateResp + wire.StateView,
the client model/codec/mock/localgame — and dropped the now-unused wallet arg from
hintsRemaining. The FBS field is tombstoned `(deprecated)` (not deleted) so the vtable
slots after it stay stable across a rolling deploy; no accessor is generated. HintResult
keeps wallet_balance (the real post-spend payments balance the client adopts into the
profile). The StateView type no longer has walletBalance, so the clobber cannot return
without a compile error.
Tests: hintsRemaining (2-arg); hints.hintsLeft (allowance + live wallet, no strip); the
game state/hint integration (allowance-only HintsRemaining); gateway transcode; FBS regen.
The /_gm user card gains a Grant panel: grant raw benefit atoms (hints /
no-ads days / forever) or a defined value product (a reward bundle, including
an archived one), origin-picked. Both write an admin_grant ledger row via
payments.Grant / GrantProduct; the by-product grant records the source
product_id + snapshot. Both refuse a chips atom (never grant currency) or a
tournament atom (no credit target yet); chips/tournament products are also
kept out of the by-product picker.
Tests: the console grant end to end (raw, by-product, refuse a chips pack,
CSRF-guarded).
Ilia Denisov