Every p8int movement is one immutable event. Balances change only through events, and an event is never edited after it is written.

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The states

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The confirmed-only rule

Only confirmed events count toward The Network Score, Total Earned, the leaderboard and reward eligibility. Pending p8ints are visible in your account but unusable. That visibility is deliberate: you can see what is being processed rather than wondering whether it registered. On-chain p8ints with a suspicious pattern stay pending until review completes. Most things confirm without anyone looking at them.

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Reversals

A reversal is the only thing that reduces Total Earned. Caught fraud loses its p8ints and its rank. Three rules govern how a reversal propagates:
  • It uses the exact figure originally credited. Nothing is recalculated at reversal time.
  • It breaks the streak forward from that day only. Other days are never repriced.
  • Downstream effects are corrected with compensating events, never by editing history. The ledger is append-only.
A reversal takes the current balance first. If the balance does not cover it, the account goes negative and further reward use is blocked until it clears.

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Why it is built this way

An append-only ledger with a stored calculation on every row means any figure on your score can be replayed from what it was built from. Support answers become factual: this is the balance the day’s read found, this was the weight, this was the multiplier that day, this is why the number is what it is.