state-is-monotonically-accumulative

Status: IN

State only accumulates across the full codebase: stream processing uses doubly-forward-only ratchets preventing regression (windows never reopen, dedup outlives finalization), and deletions across all system types append metadata rather than destroying data (tombstones, delete markers, soft-delete flags) — the system's information content is monotonically non-decreasing.

Justifications

Forward-only processing + append-only deletion = no operation reduces information content — gated because wallet creation silently replaces existing wallet state, destroying balance history

Depends on (SL): stream-processing-correctness-is-doubly-forward-only, deletion-is-append-only-across-all-contexts

Unless: wallet-creation-silently-overwrites

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