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# Double-Spend Proof Distributed Financial Ledger (`arch-idempotent-payment-orchestration`)

> **Architectural Pillar**: TRANSACTIONAL_SAGA | **Archetype**: TRANSACTIONAL_OUTBOX_CDC
> **PACELC**: PC/EC | **Consensus Protocol**: None

Zero-double-spend payment processing architecture utilizing deterministic natural idempotency keys, two-phase reservation commits, and database unique index constraints.

### 3 Maturity Target Configurations

#### 1. Initial Target: 1,000 payments/sec

- **Guarantees**: Database Unique Constraint Idempotency
- **Infrastructure Topology**: API services acquire Redis mutex, write ledger transaction with unique `idempotency_key` to PostgreSQL.
- **Operational Trade-Off**: Redis lock failure or network blip can cause temporary rejection (HTTP 429).

#### 2. Scaled Target: 12,000 payments/sec

- **Guarantees**: Two-Phase Intent Ledger with Distributed Deduplication Filter
- **Infrastructure Topology**: Payments recorded as PENDING intent, authorized through payment gateway, settled via Temporal saga.
- **Operational Trade-Off**: Increased state transitions for each transaction before final settlement.

#### 3. Ultra-Scale Target: 80,000 payments/sec

- **Guarantees**: Immutable TigerBeetle / Sharded Distributed Financial Accounting
- **Infrastructure Topology**: Dedicated TigerBeetle cluster running Viewstamped Replication and direct storage I/O without OS pagecache.
- **Operational Trade-Off**: Specialized accounting DSL and strict transactional constraints.

### Handled Failure Modes

- `DS-FAIL-16: Idempotency Key TTL Eviction`
- `DS-FAIL-02: Dual-Write Mutation Drift`


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