Reward Desk: When a Payout Claim Is Missing Its Proof

Description and use

Reward Desk shows how to visualize proof chains for rewards, excluding payouts without delivery evidence, and ensures accurate income calculation.

Problem

Users cannot confirm that advertised rewards have been paid because the system does not link payout claims to proof documents, leading to uncertainty about earned income.

Outcome

Reward Desk accurately separates advertised, awarded, delivered, and redeemed amounts, and prevents missing-proof payouts from inflating income totals.

Workflow

• 1. Load published synthetic records from Sanity.
• 2. For each reward case, retrieve milestone events and associated proof documents.
• 3. Validate that each payout claim has a corresponding delivery receipt proof.
• 4. Exclude any payout from counted income if its receipt proof is missing.
• 5. Display totals for advertised, awarded, delivered, and redeemed amounts, highlighting evidence gaps.

Evidence

Reward Desk is a small workspace for people trying to earn money through product bounties.

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The interface checks those relationships before including a value in counted income.

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The demonstration contains a complete $96 payout, a $75 award still awaiting delivery and redemption, a submitted report, a rejected report, a service-credit reward, and a claimed $40 payout with its delivery evidence missing.

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The frontend validates the chain independently of Studio. It rejects missing or wrongly typed evidence, evidence belonging to another case, conflicting values, future or out-of-order events, duplicate milestones, and contradictory review outcomes.

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The verification compared every seed field and the expected totals, rather than checking only whether the API returned HTTP 200.

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