[0xQuerencia]

Verified behavior vs intended economy

Pixl's payout code documents earned Restoration Energy as banked forever, but both the server and reviewer dashboard only counted rows with current status approved. Re-shipping an approved project temporarily sets its status to shipped, with prior_approved_hours captured specifically to preserve the last approved baseline. Previously earned RE could disappear until the update was reapproved.

Changes

• Count approved projects at their current approved hours, and in-review updates only at their previously approved hours (not new unapproved tracked hours).
• Keep the server's lifetime hours/RE, total community RE, Vault's community energy and historical chapter eligibility consistent with this rule.
• Align internal-dashboard lifetimeRe (used by reviewer payout calculations) with the same banked-hours baseline.
• Add regression tests covering updates in shipped, fraud_review, second_review and needs_changes, while excluding first-time unapproved submissions.
• Do not alter refund/reversal logic, Trial prize settlement or funding grants.

Policy intent and safeguards

No credit for new work until approval. Banned projects remain excluded. No database migration, no direct production changes. This PR requires CI and financial review before merge.

Remaining work

Hardware funding order deduplication and Trial item update payouts need database-backed settlement/idempotency guarantees and are not silently changed here.

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