A payout locks in profit and opens nothing, so stopping the trading no
longer stops it: a claim watcher runs the same claims once a minute while
the scheduler is off (its tick still claims while it runs), and the
dashboard's Auto-claim payouts box turns them off.
From two independent reviews of the claim path:
- A claim holds every further claim on the account until Vest's
transactions show its WITHDRAW. A sync already out when the claim lands
(by sync generation, not the clock) no longer writes the pre-claim
balance back, and a fresh sync follows the claim.
- A withdraw that fails in transit (timeout, reset, 5xx) may have gone in:
it is recorded as of unknown outcome and holds claims the same way,
until the transactions show it, or an hour of them shows it didn't.
- claimProfit checks Vest's own account: funded (or instant), and no more
than the balance above its starting capital.
- A claiming account is marked in flight; runClaims sends the amount it
re-checked under the mutex.
- The watcher starts before the rest of the init can fail; settings are
validated before any is written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
