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# 2026-09-02 — Architecture v2.1 operational correctness

This release converts SONIC's product architecture into explicit operational contracts for ownership, state transitions, commercial history, settlement and events.

## Runtime changes

* Added bounded-context and authoritative-state contracts; `SonicProject` remains the creative aggregate without owning commerce, rewards, wallet or settlement state.
* Formalized Project, Release, Marketplace Order, Action/Blink and AI Generation state machines.
* Separated Activity, Credit, Financial, Reward and Entitlement ledgers.
* Added immutable Marketplace order snapshots, settlement-split snapshots and short-lived payment quotes.
* Added versioned rights policies, license offers, asset provenance and entitlement issuance after verified settlement.
* Added versioned policy references for rewards/scoring/eligibility and Marketplace commercial rules.
* Added Action Registry definitions and server-side preflight conditions.
* Expanded chain transaction state through submitted, processed, confirmed and finalized with workflow-specific settlement thresholds.
* Added transactional outbox and consumer inbox/deduplication contracts with versioned domain events.
* Added creator graph, Discovery, scoring explanation/caps/windows, attribution and separate product-vs-operational analytics.
* Added service-health and feature/deployment registries.
* Rebuilt the Studio home around creator goals and goal-aware quick actions; added a simplified mobile navigation shell.
* Simplified the public story to CREATE → BUILD → RELEASE → GROW → EARN → PARTICIPATE → CREATE AGAIN.

## Security/authority rule

Client state is never authoritative for money, rewards, permissions, balances, entitlements or settlement. Wallet signatures initiate actions; trusted reconciliation completes them.

## Documentation

Documentation and API Reference now describe the same bounded contexts, state machines, ledgers, rights/order/entitlement model, action preconditions and event guarantees shipped in source.


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