Nonce
A unique value carried by each payment, consumed once before settlement; a repeat means replay. Without it, a legitimate payment that passed every compliance check can be resent verbatim any number of times — because each instance, viewed on its own, is perfectly compliant. This is the gate we added after breaking our own implementation in Attack Lab episode 5.
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