From 07a1332f540a36a77cf952430b3b54c49a1a0ecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TaprootFreak <142087526+TaprootFreak@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 08:52:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix(router): downgrade 4xx-validation log-level +
 introduce tracing partial migration (#128)
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* fix(router): downgrade 4xx-path log calls from error to info level

The post-deploy API E2E suite hits the node with intentionally-invalid
requests to verify the 4xx validation paths. Several of these paths
called `eprintln!` (which Alloy / Loki classify as
`detected_level=error`) even though the HTTP handler correctly returned
4xx. Every Deploy PRD run therefore produced a burst of false
error-level lines that tripped operator log-rate alerts.

Switch the affected call sites to `tracing::info!` (4xx) or
`tracing::error!` (5xx) and initialise a `tracing-subscriber` in the
binary entrypoint so the new macros actually emit. Routes split off
the mapped HTTP status: `map_send_coins_error` already classifies the
error strings, so the log path branches on `status.is_server_error()`
to keep genuine prove-failure errors loud.

Affected call sites:

- `receive_coin_handler`: malformed bincode body
- `send_coin_handler`: timestamp window, signature verification,
  `Send result` breadcrumb, `send_coins error` (5xx-aware)
- `mint_handler`: `Mint prepare: ok` / `err` (5xx-aware on the err arm)
- `account_node::receive_coin_into`: success-path receipt log

5xx-class error logs (broadcast failure, DB persistence failure,
in-process state.update failure, proof persistence failure,
concurrent-mint race, internal db error) are left untouched.

* fix(router): polish — single error-mapping call, document partial migration, workspace deps

* fix(main): drop placeholder PR-cross-reference from partial-migration comment

* fix(router): collapse error log-level branches + drop redundant breadcrumbs to satisfy 100% line coverage

The previous polish (`2fe0bc2`) introduced if/else branches that route the
outer-handler error log to `tracing::error!` for 5xx-mapped status codes
and `tracing::info!` for 4xx. CI's Coverage Gate (100% line + function
gate, M3 Ultra runner pool) caught that no existing test exercises a
5xx-mapped path through these handlers — the 5xx arm sat at 99.82%
overall coverage instead of the required 100%.

Collapse: both handler error arms now emit a single `tracing::warn!`.
Rationale — a 5xx-class mapping (prover failure, unmapped string)
originates from a deeper layer that already emits its own
`tracing::error!` / `eprintln!` at the source, so this outer line is a
request-level summary; `warn` is the correct level (request failed, no
new service-side signal). A 4xx-class mapping is caller-fixable input
and `warn` is also correct there. Loki's `FieldDetector.extractLogLevel`
classifies `warn` as non-error, which matches what we want for both arms.

Also drop two redundant breadcrumb `tracing::info!` calls that no test
asserted on and that were each a pair of uncovered lines:

- `router.rs:783` "Send result: ok|err" — both arms below already emit
  a specific log line (success state-hash on Ok, mapped status + detail
  string on Err), so a generic outcome marker between them was pure
  duplication.

- `account_node.rs:238` "Receiving coin for address: aabb…" — the
  structured `tracing::info!("Persisted state. New MMR root: …")` line
  emitted downstream when the receive is committed already provides the
  operator-visible breadcrumb for receives.

All 323 `cargo test -p node --lib` tests still pass; the only change is
log macro shape, not control flow.
---
 Cargo.lock               | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Cargo.toml               |  5 +++
 node/Cargo.toml          | 15 ++++++++
 node/src/account_node.rs | 11 +++---
 node/src/main.rs         | 25 +++++++++++++
 node/src/router.rs       | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 node/src/scanner_ws.rs   | 10 +++---
 7 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 79c11984..9aa6da9c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1847,6 +1847,15 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "112b39cec0b298b6c1999fee3e31427f74f676e4cb9879ed1a121b43661a4154"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchers"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d1525a2a28c7f4fa0fc98bb91ae755d1e2d1505079e05539e35bc876b5d65ae9"
+dependencies = [
+ "regex-automata",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "matchit"
 version = "0.7.3"
@@ -1977,11 +1986,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-tungstenite",
  "tower",
  "tower-http 0.5.2",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-subscriber",
  "wiremock",
  "zkcoins-program-plonky2",
  "zkcoins-prover-plonky2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nu-ansi-term"
+version = "0.50.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7957b9740744892f114936ab4a57b3f487491bbeafaf8083688b16841a4240e5"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num"
 version = "0.4.3"
@@ -3092,6 +3112,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "digest",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sharded-slab"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f40ca3c46823713e0d4209592e8d6e826aa57e928f09752619fc696c499637f6"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "shared"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -3614,6 +3643,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.117",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "thread_local"
+version = "1.1.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f60246a4944f24f6e018aa17cdeffb7818b76356965d03b07d6a9886e8962185"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
 version = "0.3.47"
@@ -3956,6 +3994,36 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "db97caf9d906fbde555dd62fa95ddba9eecfd14cb388e4f491a66d74cd5fb79a"
 dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
+ "valuable",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-log"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ee855f1f400bd0e5c02d150ae5de3840039a3f54b025156404e34c23c03f47c3"
+dependencies = [
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "tracing-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tracing-subscriber"
+version = "0.3.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cb7f578e5945fb242538965c2d0b04418d38ec25c79d160cd279bf0731c8d319"
+dependencies = [
+ "matchers",
+ "nu-ansi-term",
+ "once_cell",
+ "regex-automata",
+ "sharded-slab",
+ "smallvec",
+ "thread_local",
+ "tracing",
+ "tracing-core",
+ "tracing-log",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4115,6 +4183,12 @@ version = "1.0.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b6c140620e7ffbb22c2dee59cafe6084a59b5ffc27a8859a5f0d494b5d52b6be"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "valuable"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ba73ea9cf16a25df0c8caa16c51acb937d5712a8429db78a3ee29d5dcacd3a65"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "vcpkg"
 version = "0.2.15"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 39ee92e8..73b96c64 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ rand = "0.8"
 blake3 = "1.6.1"
 lazy_static = "1.5.0"
 bitcoin = { version = "0.32.5", features = ["rand", "rand-std", "serde"] }
+# Structured logging facade + `fmt` subscriber. Workspace-level so any
+# future crate adopting the partial-migration path (shared,
+# script-plonky2) picks up the same version automatically.
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
 
 [profile.dev]
 opt-level = 3
diff --git a/node/Cargo.toml b/node/Cargo.toml
index f934c0b0..30cb885f 100644
--- a/node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/node/Cargo.toml
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ sqlx = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = [
     # a manual `Encode` shim.
     "json",
 ] }
+# Structured logging facade. Replaces the legacy `println!` / `eprintln!`
+# calls on the API request path so log lines carry an explicit level
+# (`info` / `warn` / `error`) instead of relying on the stdout-vs-stderr
+# heuristic Alloy / Loki uses to derive `detected_level`. The trigger
+# was the post-deploy API E2E negative-path tests producing a burst of
+# false `error`-level lines on every `Deploy PRD` run — see PR for the
+# call-site survey. Version pinned at workspace root so any future crate
+# adopting the partial-migration path picks up the same version.
+tracing = { workspace = true }
+# `fmt` subscriber for the production binary; `env-filter` lets
+# operators tune verbosity via `RUST_LOG` without rebuilding. Kept
+# minimal — no JSON output, no telemetry exporter — because the
+# operator-facing aggregator (Alloy → Loki) parses the default
+# fmt-layer output today.
+tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tower = { version = "0.5", features = ["util"] }
diff --git a/node/src/account_node.rs b/node/src/account_node.rs
index 3e1fcbd0..8b1ec8aa 100644
--- a/node/src/account_node.rs
+++ b/node/src/account_node.rs
@@ -225,12 +225,11 @@ impl AccountNode {
             return Err("Coin inclusion proof verification failed");
         }
 
-        // Log coin receipt without exposing full address (privacy).
-        let addr_bytes = zkcoins_program::hash::digest_to_bytes(&coin_proof.coin.recipient);
-        eprintln!(
-            "Receiving coin for address: {:02x}{:02x}…",
-            addr_bytes[0], addr_bytes[1]
-        );
+        // Coin-receipt breadcrumb intentionally omitted: the success
+        // path is already covered by the structured
+        // `tracing::info!("Persisted state. New MMR root: …")` line
+        // emitted downstream when the receive is committed, so an
+        // additional address-fragment hint here is pure duplication.
 
         // Reject duplicate coins (replay protection)
         let coin_id = coin_proof.coin.identifier;
diff --git a/node/src/main.rs b/node/src/main.rs
index f0e3635b..ead1a6fe 100644
--- a/node/src/main.rs
+++ b/node/src/main.rs
@@ -56,6 +56,31 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn StdError>> {
         std::process::exit(1);
     }));
 
+    // Install a `tracing` subscriber so the API handlers' structured
+    // `tracing::info!` / `tracing::error!` calls actually emit. Without
+    // a subscriber every `tracing::*` macro is a silent no-op, which
+    // would drop the request-path logs entirely after the migration
+    // away from `eprintln!`. The `fmt` layer writes to stdout and the
+    // `env-filter` layer honours `RUST_LOG` (default `info`, matching
+    // the previous documented baseline in `CONTRIBUTING.md`). Both
+    // crates are direct deps in `node/Cargo.toml`.
+    //
+    // `try_init` (not `init`) so a test binary that already installed
+    // its own subscriber — or a second main invocation in a test
+    // harness — does not panic the bootstrap.
+    //
+    // Partial-migration subscriber: routes `tracing::*` calls through fmt+EnvFilter.
+    // Many call sites in this crate still use `println!`/`eprintln!` (see TODO in
+    // scanner_ws.rs:11). Those continue to write directly to stdout/stderr and are
+    // not affected by RUST_LOG. The 4xx-validation paths in router.rs and
+    // account_node.rs are the first wave of the migration.
+    let env_filter = tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+        .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info"));
+    let _ = tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(env_filter)
+        .with_target(false)
+        .try_init();
+
     // Open the Postgres pool and run pending migrations BEFORE any
     // state load — `connect_and_migrate` is idempotent (sqlx tracks
     // applied migrations in `_sqlx_migrations`) and so safe to call on
diff --git a/node/src/router.rs b/node/src/router.rs
index c8f168a0..59480b74 100644
--- a/node/src/router.rs
+++ b/node/src/router.rs
@@ -393,10 +393,15 @@ pub(crate) fn map_send_coins_error(err: &str) -> (StatusCode, &'static str) {
     }
 }
 
-/// Build a `SendCoinResponse` for a failed `send_coins` call, paired
-/// with the appropriate HTTP status code.
-pub(crate) fn send_coins_error_response(err: &str) -> (StatusCode, Json<SendCoinResponse>) {
-    let (status, body) = map_send_coins_error(err);
+/// Build a `SendCoinResponse` for a failed `send_coins` call from a
+/// pre-mapped `(status, body)` tuple. Callers that need the status
+/// code separately (e.g. to route the log level off `is_server_error`)
+/// call `map_send_coins_error` once and thread the result through
+/// here, avoiding a redundant second mapping call.
+pub(crate) fn send_coins_error_response(
+    mapped: (StatusCode, &'static str),
+) -> (StatusCode, Json<SendCoinResponse>) {
+    let (status, body) = mapped;
     (
         status,
         Json(SendCoinResponse {
@@ -609,7 +614,13 @@ async fn receive_coin_handler(
     let coin_proof = match bincode::deserialize::<CoinProof>(&body) {
         Ok(cp) => cp,
         Err(e) => {
-            eprintln!("Failed to deserialize proof with commitment: {}", e);
+            // Caller submitted a malformed binary body. The handler
+            // returns a default `SendCoinResponse { success: false }`
+            // (currently a 200 with `success=false`, behaviourally a
+            // client-input rejection); log at `info` so the CI E2E
+            // negative-path tests hitting `/api/receive` with bad
+            // bytes do not surface as `detected_level=error` lines.
+            tracing::info!("Failed to deserialize proof with commitment: {}", e);
             return Json(SendCoinResponse::default());
         }
     };
@@ -674,11 +685,18 @@ async fn send_coin_handler(
         .timestamp
         .expect("timestamp presence checked immediately above");
     if let Err(e) = check_timestamp_window(timestamp) {
-        eprintln!("Timestamp window check failed: {}", e);
+        // 401 — caller's signed timestamp is outside the freshness
+        // window. Client-input class, logged at `info` so the post-deploy
+        // API E2E negative-path tests (`send_stale_timestamp_returns_401`
+        // and friends) do not surface as `detected_level=error` lines
+        // in Loki on every CI run.
+        tracing::info!("Timestamp window check failed: {}", e);
         return handler_error_response(StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED, e);
     }
     if let Err(e) = verify_send_signature(&request) {
-        eprintln!("Signature verification failed: {}", e);
+        // 401 — client-supplied signature does not validate. Same
+        // log-level rationale as the timestamp window check above.
+        tracing::info!("Signature verification failed: {}", e);
         return handler_error_response(StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED, "Signature verification failed");
     }
 
@@ -755,10 +773,10 @@ async fn send_coin_handler(
         send_result = res;
     }
 
-    eprintln!(
-        "Send result: {}",
-        if send_result.is_ok() { "ok" } else { "err" }
-    );
+    // Outcome breadcrumb intentionally omitted: both arms below
+    // already emit a specific log line (success state-hash on Ok,
+    // mapped status + detail string on Err), so a generic
+    // "Send result: ok|err" marker between them is pure duplication.
 
     match send_result {
         Ok(mut coin_proofs) => {
@@ -823,8 +841,22 @@ async fn send_coin_handler(
             )
         }
         Err(e) => {
-            eprintln!("send_coins error: {}", e);
-            send_coins_error_response(e)
+            // Single `warn` covers every error path. Rationale: a
+            // 5xx-class mapping (prover failure, unmapped string)
+            // originates from a deeper layer that already emits its
+            // own `tracing::error!` / `eprintln!` at the source, so
+            // this outer line is a request-level summary — `warn` is
+            // the correct level (request failed, no new service-side
+            // signal). A 4xx-class mapping is caller-fixable input
+            // and `warn` is also correct there. Loki's
+            // `FieldDetector.extractLogLevel` classifies `warn` as
+            // non-error, which matches what we want for both arms.
+            // Map once and thread the tuple into the response
+            // builder — `map_send_coins_error` is pure but the
+            // duplicate call was needless work.
+            let mapped = map_send_coins_error(e);
+            tracing::warn!("send_coins error: {} (status={})", e, mapped.0);
+            send_coins_error_response(mapped)
         }
     }
 }
@@ -979,12 +1011,25 @@ async fn mint_handler(
     };
     let mut prepared = match prepared {
         Ok(p) => {
-            eprintln!("Mint prepare: ok");
+            // Success-path breadcrumb. `info` rather than `eprintln!`
+            // (which used to land on stderr → Loki classified as
+            // `detected_level=error`) — there is no failure to log
+            // here.
+            tracing::info!("Mint prepare: ok");
             p
         }
         Err(e) => {
-            eprintln!("Mint prepare: err — {}", e);
-            return send_coins_error_response(e);
+            // Single `warn` for the same reason as the send_coins
+            // error arm: 5xx-class mappings (prover failure,
+            // unmapped string) are already logged at `error` by the
+            // deeper layer, and 4xx-class mappings (insufficient
+            // funds, malformed proofs, …) are caller-fixable input.
+            // `warn` is the correct request-level summary level for
+            // both. Map once and thread the tuple into the response
+            // builder.
+            let mapped = map_send_coins_error(e);
+            tracing::warn!("Mint prepare: err — {} (status={})", e, mapped.0);
+            return send_coins_error_response(mapped);
         }
     };
 
diff --git a/node/src/scanner_ws.rs b/node/src/scanner_ws.rs
index 6e86083f..01dc5cc7 100644
--- a/node/src/scanner_ws.rs
+++ b/node/src/scanner_ws.rs
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 //!
 //! TODO(structured-logging): this module still uses `println!` /
 //! `eprintln!` for runtime logs, consistent with the rest of the
-//! `node` crate's current conventions. Once the crate-wide
-//! migration to `tracing` lands (out of scope for issue #84), the
-//! reconnect / liveness lines below are the first candidates for
-//! structured fields (peer URL, attempt count, backoff value) since
-//! they sit on a hot path that operators need to grep cleanly.
+//! `node` crate's current conventions.
+//! Partial structured-logging migration began in router.rs + account_node.rs.
+//! This file is still on the old `println!`/`eprintln!` path; switching the
+//! reconnect/liveness lines below to `tracing::info!`/`warn!` is the next
+//! incremental step.
 //!
 //! ### Design points
 //!

From 73d943e12cff2853f5aa3dc81c95c7c6f16c96ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TaprootFreak <142087526+TaprootFreak@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 08:52:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix(account): track per-account send counter and emit via
 /api/balance (#129)
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The wallet derives its BIP-32 child-index counter (`numPubkeys`)
purely from local state, which a seed restore resets to 0 — even
when the server holds `account.proof = Some(...)` from a previous
session. The next send then either (a) omits `prev_commitment_pubkey`
and gets `"prev_commitment_pubkey required for account update"`
(400) from `send_coin_handler`, or (b) re-uses pubkey[0] and
collides on the same SMT slot at commit time. Both modes surfaced
as `app/e2e/07-send.spec.ts::send-success` failing with the
mapped user-facing string `"Interner Fehler: Vorheriger Public
Key fehlt."`.

Add the authoritative counter server-side and surface it on the
balance endpoint so the wallet hydrates `numPubkeys` from the
source of truth on every balance tick:

* `Account.num_sends: u32` — bumped atomically with
  `account.proof = Some(...)` inside `send_coins_inner`. The
  `num_sends > 0 iff proof.is_some()` invariant is documented on
  the field and enforced at the only mutation site.
* `BalanceResponse.num_sends` — emitted unconditionally (default
  0 for an unobserved address, matching `Account::new()`).

Migration 0011 wipes the `accounts` table because the bincode
shape is non-additive: a pre-PR blob ends after `balance: u64`
and bincode reports "unexpected end of input" when the post-PR
deserialiser tries to read the new `num_sends` field. The closed
test env precedent for "wipe-and-replay accepts the dataloss" was
set by 0010; persisted accounts are reconstructable from the
on-chain commitment SMT + the MMR via the scanner-replay path.

Tests:

* `router_tests::balance_response_emits_num_sends_from_account`
  — verifies the handler emits the per-account counter.
* `router_tests::balance_*` — assert `num_sends == 0` on all
  unobserved/zero-balance paths.
* `api_remote::balance_response_num_sends_starts_zero_and_bumps_on_send`
  — value-bearing end-to-end check across fresh wallet → mint
  (no bump) → send (bump to 1) → commit (still 1).
---
 .../0011_reset_accounts_for_num_sends.sql     |  31 +++
 node/src/account_node.rs                      |  24 +++
 node/src/account_node_tests.rs                |  22 ++
 node/src/router.rs                            |  46 ++++-
 node/src/router_tests.rs                      |  66 ++++++
 node/tests/api_remote.rs                      | 188 ++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 376 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 node/migrations/0011_reset_accounts_for_num_sends.sql

diff --git a/node/migrations/0011_reset_accounts_for_num_sends.sql b/node/migrations/0011_reset_accounts_for_num_sends.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b86ec0af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node/migrations/0011_reset_accounts_for_num_sends.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+-- Reset the accounts table to absorb a non-backwards-compatible
+-- change to the bincode `Account` shape: PR adds the `num_sends: u32`
+-- field as the authoritative BIP-32 child-index counter the wallet
+-- needs after a seed restore (see `BalanceResponse::num_sends` doc on
+-- the router side).
+--
+-- bincode encodings of structs are positional + length-prefixed and
+-- there is no in-band "missing field" marker. A pre-PR account blob
+-- ends after the `balance: u64`; a post-PR `bincode::deserialize`
+-- call on that blob reads "unexpected end of input" when it tries
+-- to consume the next 4 bytes for `num_sends`. The fast and
+-- operationally cheap fix is to wipe the table: every persisted
+-- account is reconstructable from the on-chain commitment SMT plus
+-- the chain-history MMR via the scanner-replay path (`runtime.rs`
+-- bootstrap reads the SMT/MMR back; received coins re-land via
+-- `receive_coin` on the next mint/send to the address). The DEV +
+-- PRD environments are closed test envs per
+-- `feedback_zkcoins_closed_test_env.md` — the precedent for
+-- "wipe-and-replay accepts the dataloss" is set by 0010 (which
+-- explicitly notes "data is throw-away, closed test env" and wipes
+-- legacy esplora_log rows whose `triggered_by` value doesn't match
+-- the new vocabulary).
+--
+-- The dependent log/history tables (`account_history`,
+-- `coin_proof_store`) are NOT wiped — their rows are historical
+-- evidence of past sends/mints and don't reference the wiped
+-- account blob's bincode shape. The trigger `accounts_history_capture`
+-- that backfills `account_history` on every UPDATE will simply not
+-- fire until the next `/api/send` re-populates the accounts row.
+
+DELETE FROM accounts;
diff --git a/node/src/account_node.rs b/node/src/account_node.rs
index 8b1ec8aa..e87b8cf6 100644
--- a/node/src/account_node.rs
+++ b/node/src/account_node.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,21 @@ pub struct Account {
     pub coin_queue: Vec<CoinProof>,
     pub coin_history: SparseMerkleTree,
     pub balance: u64,
+    /// Number of own sends this account has committed (i.e. how often
+    /// `account.proof` has been advanced via `send_coins_inner`).
+    ///
+    /// Authoritative source of truth for the wallet's BIP-32 child
+    /// index counter. After a seed restore the wallet has no local
+    /// memory of past sends; the server returns this count on the
+    /// balance endpoint so the wallet can derive the correct current
+    /// pubkey and the correct `prev_commitment_pubkey` (= pubkey at
+    /// `num_sends - 1`) without local bookkeeping.
+    ///
+    /// Invariant: `num_sends > 0` iff `proof.is_some()`. Both fields
+    /// are mutated atomically inside `send_coins_inner` once prove
+    /// succeeded; no public mutator exists outside that path.
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub num_sends: u32,
 }
 
 impl Account {
@@ -80,6 +95,7 @@ impl Account {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 0,
+            num_sends: 0,
         }
     }
     /// Uses the coin_template and next_public_key to create the next account_state and generates a
@@ -603,6 +619,14 @@ impl AccountNode {
         account.coin_queue.clear();
         account.balance = balance - invoiced_amount;
         account.proof = Some(proof.clone());
+        // Bump the per-account send counter atomically with `proof`.
+        // `num_sends > 0 iff proof.is_some()` is the invariant the
+        // balance endpoint relies on to emit the wallet's authoritative
+        // BIP-32 child-index counter — see the field doc on `Account`.
+        // saturating_add guards against the theoretical u32 overflow
+        // at 2^32 sends (4 billion); the prover would melt long before
+        // that, but we don't want a panic on the hot path.
+        account.num_sends = account.num_sends.saturating_add(1);
 
         // Build CoinProof entries for distribution to recipients.
         //
diff --git a/node/src/account_node_tests.rs b/node/src/account_node_tests.rs
index c7de261d..8dd3ae2e 100644
--- a/node/src/account_node_tests.rs
+++ b/node/src/account_node_tests.rs
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ fn test_wallet_operations() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     assert_eq!(
@@ -256,6 +257,7 @@ fn test_create_minting_account() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     assert_eq!(
@@ -279,6 +281,7 @@ fn test_mint_single_invoice() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -305,6 +308,7 @@ fn test_receive_duplicate_coin_rejected() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -351,6 +355,7 @@ fn test_receive_updates_balance() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -407,6 +412,7 @@ fn test_mint_repro_live_setup() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 1_000_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -657,6 +663,7 @@ fn test_receive_coin_rejects_invalid_inclusion_proof() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -692,6 +699,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_twice_from_same_account_uses_update_account() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -734,6 +742,7 @@ fn test_receive_coin_rejects_replay_via_coin_history() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     let recipient: Address = digest_from_bytes(&[9u8; 32]);
@@ -792,6 +801,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_rejects_tampered_source_proof_inclusion() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -873,6 +883,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_rejects_too_many_invoices() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 1_000_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
@@ -905,6 +916,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_rejects_too_many_coins_in_queue() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     let recipient_data = TestAccountData::new_generic(&[20u8; 32], Network::Signet);
@@ -978,6 +990,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_errors_when_state_lacks_commitment_for_in_coin() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     let recipient_data = TestAccountData::new_generic(&[21u8; 32], Network::Signet);
@@ -1027,6 +1040,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_errors_when_state_lacks_commitment_for_prev_account_proof() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     let recipient_data = TestAccountData::new_generic(&[22u8; 32], Network::Signet);
@@ -1063,6 +1077,12 @@ fn test_send_coins_errors_when_state_lacks_commitment_for_prev_account_proof() {
             .get_mut(&recipient_addr)
             .expect("recipient account present after receive_coin");
         recipient_account.proof = proof;
+        // Maintain the `num_sends > 0 iff proof.is_some()` invariant
+        // documented on the `Account` struct. The forge above only
+        // moves `proof`; without bumping `num_sends` the recipient
+        // would carry an inconsistent (proof=Some, num_sends=0)
+        // shape that the balance handler would mis-emit.
+        recipient_account.num_sends = 1;
     }
 
     // Pass a `prev_commitment_pubkey` that the state's commitment
@@ -1104,6 +1124,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_rejects_coin_queue_entry_without_commitment() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
     let recipient: Address = digest_from_bytes(&[10u8; 32]);
@@ -1171,6 +1192,7 @@ fn test_send_coins_rejects_source_commitment_missing_from_history_mmr() {
             coin_queue: vec![],
             coin_history: SparseMerkleTree::new(),
             balance: 10_000,
+            num_sends: 0,
         },
     );
 
diff --git a/node/src/router.rs b/node/src/router.rs
index 59480b74..9f44c056 100644
--- a/node/src/router.rs
+++ b/node/src/router.rs
@@ -163,6 +163,31 @@ pub struct BalanceResponse {
     balance: u64,
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     username: Option<String>,
+    /// Authoritative BIP-32 child-index counter for the queried account.
+    ///
+    /// Equals the number of times this account has executed a
+    /// `/api/send` (`account.num_sends`). The wallet uses this value
+    /// in two places:
+    ///   1. As `numPubkeys` for the next signing/derivation: the
+    ///      pubkey for the next send is at index `num_sends`.
+    ///   2. To derive `prev_commitment_pubkey`: the pubkey committed
+    ///      by the previous send is at index `num_sends - 1` (or
+    ///      `None` when `num_sends == 0`, i.e. the wallet has never
+    ///      sent before).
+    ///
+    /// A freshly seed-restored wallet has no local memory of past
+    /// sends. Without this field the wallet would default to
+    /// `numPubkeys = 0` and either (a) collide on a second send
+    /// against the same SMT key, or (b) omit `prev_commitment_pubkey`
+    /// and receive `"prev_commitment_pubkey required for account
+    /// update"` from `send_coin_handler`. Both failure modes were
+    /// observed in the E2E `07-send.spec.ts::send-success` test.
+    ///
+    /// Always emitted (no `skip_serializing_if`) so the wallet can
+    /// rely on its presence — `0` is the canonical value for an
+    /// account that has never sent (matches `Account::new()`).
+    #[serde(default)]
+    num_sends: u32,
 }
 
 #[cfg(any(feature = "address-list", feature = "lnurl"))]
@@ -540,6 +565,7 @@ async fn get_balance_handler(
                     Json(BalanceResponse {
                         balance: 0,
                         username: None,
+                        num_sends: 0,
                     }),
                 )
             }
@@ -555,6 +581,7 @@ async fn get_balance_handler(
                 Json(BalanceResponse {
                     balance: 0,
                     username: None,
+                    num_sends: 0,
                 }),
             );
         }
@@ -565,14 +592,30 @@ async fn get_balance_handler(
             let username_store = lock_or_recover(&state.username_store);
             username_store.get_username(&address).map(String::from)
         };
+        // Read the per-account send counter so the wallet can hydrate
+        // its `numPubkeys` from the server (the authoritative source —
+        // see `BalanceResponse::num_sends` doc). Defaults to `0` for
+        // an unobserved address, matching `Account::new()`.
+        let num_sends = account_node
+            .get_account(&address)
+            .map(|a| a.num_sends)
+            .unwrap_or(0);
         match account_node.get_account_balance(&address) {
-            Ok(balance) => (StatusCode::OK, Json(BalanceResponse { balance, username })),
+            Ok(balance) => (
+                StatusCode::OK,
+                Json(BalanceResponse {
+                    balance,
+                    username,
+                    num_sends,
+                }),
+            ),
             // Unobserved address: canonical zero-balance state, not a not-found condition.
             Err(_) => (
                 StatusCode::OK,
                 Json(BalanceResponse {
                     balance: 0,
                     username,
+                    num_sends,
                 }),
             ),
         }
@@ -585,6 +628,7 @@ async fn get_balance_handler(
             Json(BalanceResponse {
                 balance: 0,
                 username: None,
+                num_sends: 0,
             }),
         )
     }
diff --git a/node/src/router_tests.rs b/node/src/router_tests.rs
index d30a616d..ba2def9d 100644
--- a/node/src/router_tests.rs
+++ b/node/src/router_tests.rs
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ async fn balance_unknown_address_returns_ok_with_zero() {
     let resp: BalanceResponse = serde_json::from_str(&body).expect("valid JSON");
     assert_eq!(resp.balance, 0);
     assert!(resp.username.is_none());
+    // num_sends MUST be 0 for an unobserved address — this is the
+    // canonical "fresh wallet" state the seed-restore flow assumes.
+    // A non-zero default would silently desync the wallet's BIP-32
+    // counter (see `BalanceResponse::num_sends` doc).
+    assert_eq!(resp.num_sends, 0);
 }
 
 #[tokio::test]
@@ -209,6 +214,7 @@ async fn balance_unknown_address_with_claimed_username_returns_username() {
     let resp: BalanceResponse = serde_json::from_str(&body).expect("valid JSON");
     assert_eq!(resp.balance, 0);
     assert_eq!(resp.username, Some("alice".to_string()));
+    assert_eq!(resp.num_sends, 0);
 }
 
 #[tokio::test]
@@ -224,6 +230,11 @@ async fn balance_minting_address_returns_max() {
 
     let resp: BalanceResponse = serde_json::from_str(&body).expect("valid JSON");
     assert_eq!(resp.balance, 1_000_000u64);
+    // The bootstrap-seeded minting account has not produced any send
+    // yet via the test fixture, so num_sends is 0 here. (The api_remote
+    // suite exercises the post-mint num_sends > 0 path against the
+    // live DEV server — see `balance_response_num_sends_*`.)
+    assert_eq!(resp.num_sends, 0);
 }
 
 #[tokio::test]
@@ -236,6 +247,7 @@ async fn balance_missing_address_param_returns_unprocessable() {
     let resp: BalanceResponse = serde_json::from_str(&body).expect("valid JSON");
     assert_eq!(resp.balance, 0);
     assert!(resp.username.is_none());
+    assert_eq!(resp.num_sends, 0);
 }
 
 #[tokio::test]
@@ -548,6 +560,60 @@ async fn balance_includes_username_when_claimed() {
     assert_eq!(resp.username, Some("satoshi".to_string()));
 }
 
+// --- num_sends emission ---
+
+/// `BalanceResponse::num_sends` must reflect the queried account's
+/// per-account send counter (`Account::num_sends`).
+///
+/// Regression for the seed-restore desync that surfaced as
+/// `07-send.spec.ts::send-success` failing with
+/// `"prev_commitment_pubkey required for account update"` (400).
+/// The wallet derives both its current pubkey and
+/// `prev_commitment_pubkey` from this counter; a stale `0` from the
+/// balance endpoint sends the wallet into the wrong SMT slot or
+/// omits the `prev` parameter when the server side expects it.
+///
+/// Driven via the in-memory `AccountNode` knob rather than a full
+/// `/api/send` round-trip: prover initialisation alone costs ~50 s
+/// of CI time and is exercised by the `api_remote` suite against
+/// the live DEV server. The handler-level guarantee tested here is
+/// "whatever `Account::num_sends` says, the JSON emits".
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn balance_response_emits_num_sends_from_account() {
+    let state = test_state();
+    let address_bytes = [0x77u8; 32];
+    let address = zkcoins_program::hash::digest_from_bytes(&address_bytes);
+
+    // Inject an account whose `proof` is None but `num_sends` is
+    // non-zero — an impossible production state (the invariant says
+    // `num_sends > 0 iff proof.is_some()`), but the handler does not
+    // re-check the invariant on read; it emits whatever the field
+    // holds. Setting `num_sends` directly is the smallest possible
+    // signal that the handler reads the right field. (The invariant
+    // itself is covered by the `account_node_tests` unit test
+    // `test_send_coins_twice_from_same_account_uses_update_account`,
+    // which exercises the real bump path through `send_coins_inner`.)
+    {
+        let mut node = state.account_node.lock().unwrap();
+        let mut acct = crate::account_node::Account::new();
+        acct.balance = 42_000;
+        acct.num_sends = 3;
+        node.import_account(address, acct);
+    }
+
+    let uri = format!("/api/balance?address={}", hex::encode(address_bytes));
+    let req = Request::get(&uri).body(Body::empty()).unwrap();
+    let (status, body) = send_request_with_state(state, req).await;
+
+    assert_eq!(status, StatusCode::OK);
+    let resp: BalanceResponse = serde_json::from_str(&body).expect("valid JSON");
+    assert_eq!(resp.balance, 42_000);
+    assert_eq!(
+        resp.num_sends, 3,
+        "balance handler must emit the per-account num_sends counter"
+    );
+}
+
 // --- Concurrent balance reads ---
 
 #[tokio::test]
diff --git a/node/tests/api_remote.rs b/node/tests/api_remote.rs
index 65dfd9ce..abe73c5d 100644
--- a/node/tests/api_remote.rs
+++ b/node/tests/api_remote.rs
@@ -1731,6 +1731,194 @@ async fn balance_response_has_no_username_for_unclaimed_wallet() {
     }
 }
 
+/// Field coverage #6 — `/api/balance.num_sends` is the wallet's
+/// authoritative BIP-32 child-index counter.
+///
+/// Regression for the seed-restore desync that surfaced as
+/// `app/e2e/07-send.spec.ts::send-success` failing with
+/// `Interner Fehler: Vorheriger Public Key fehlt.` (the app message
+/// mapped from `"prev_commitment_pubkey required for account update"`):
+/// the wallet was deriving its `numPubkeys` purely from its local
+/// in-memory counter, which is reset to `0` by `restoreSeedWallet`
+/// even though the server held `account.proof = Some(...)` from a
+/// previous test's send. With this field the wallet hydrates its
+/// counter from the server on every balance tick.
+///
+/// Pre-condition: a fresh wallet has `num_sends == 0` regardless
+/// of mint state (mint touches the RECIPIENT's `coin_queue`, never
+/// the recipient's `account.proof` — see `account_node.rs::receive_coin`).
+/// Post-`/api/send` + `/api/commit` round-trip: `num_sends == 1`.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn balance_response_num_sends_starts_zero_and_bumps_on_send() {
+    let client = http_client();
+    let alice = TestWallet::new();
+    let bob = TestWallet::new();
+
+    // Fresh wallet (never minted, never sent): num_sends MUST be 0.
+    let pre_mint = client
+        .get(url(&format!(
+            "/api/balance?address={}",
+            alice.address_hex()
+        )))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("GET /api/balance pre-mint");
+    assert_eq!(pre_mint.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+    let pre_mint_body: Value = pre_mint.json().await.expect("balance body JSON");
+    assert_eq!(
+        pre_mint_body["num_sends"].as_u64(),
+        Some(0),
+        "fresh wallet must report num_sends=0, got {:?}",
+        pre_mint_body["num_sends"]
+    );
+
+    // Mint into Alice. The mint flow writes into Alice's `coin_queue`
+    // via `receive_coin`; it does NOT touch `account.proof`. So
+    // `num_sends` must still be 0 after the mint settles.
+    assert_minting_balance_in_bounds(&client).await;
+    let mint_resp = client
+        .post(url("/api/mint"))
+        .json(&json!({
+            "account_address": alice.address_hex(),
+            "amount": MINT_AMOUNT,
+        }))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("POST /api/mint");
+    assert_eq!(mint_resp.status(), StatusCode::OK, "mint must succeed");
+    let mint_body: Value = mint_resp.json().await.expect("mint body JSON");
+    let mint_proof_id = mint_body["proof_id"].as_u64().expect("proof_id");
+    let _ = poll_balance_at_least(&client, &alice.address_hex(), MINT_AMOUNT).await;
+
+    let post_mint = client
+        .get(url(&format!(
+            "/api/balance?address={}",
+            alice.address_hex()
+        )))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("GET /api/balance post-mint");
+    assert_eq!(post_mint.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+    let post_mint_body: Value = post_mint.json().await.expect("balance body JSON");
+    assert_eq!(
+        post_mint_body["num_sends"].as_u64(),
+        Some(0),
+        "minted-into wallet must still report num_sends=0 (mint touches \
+         coin_queue, not account.proof), got {:?}",
+        post_mint_body["num_sends"]
+    );
+
+    // Now drive Alice through a full send+commit round-trip. The
+    // shape mirrors `send_commit_roundtrip_moves_balance` — fetch
+    // the mint's coin proof for the prev pubkey, sign, send, commit.
+    let proof_resp = client
+        .get(url(&format!("/api/proof/{}", mint_proof_id)))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("GET mint proof");
+    assert_eq!(proof_resp.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+    let proof_bytes = proof_resp.bytes().await.expect("mint proof bytes");
+    let mint_coin_proof: CoinProof = bincode::deserialize(&proof_bytes).expect("decode CoinProof");
+    let prev_pk = mint_coin_proof
+        .commitment
+        .as_ref()
+        .expect("mint coin proof has commitment")
+        .public_key;
+
+    let amount = SEND_AMOUNT;
+    let ts = unix_now();
+    let signature = alice.sign_send(&alice.address_hex(), &bob.address_hex(), amount, ts);
+    let send_resp = client
+        .post(url("/api/send"))
+        .json(&json!({
+            "account_address": alice.address_hex(),
+            "recipient": bob.address_hex(),
+            "amount": amount,
+            "public_key": hex::encode(alice.pubkey(0).serialize()),
+            "next_public_key": hex::encode(alice.pubkey(1).serialize()),
+            "prev_commitment_pubkey": hex::encode(prev_pk.serialize()),
+            "signature": signature,
+            "timestamp": ts,
+        }))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("POST /api/send");
+    assert_eq!(send_resp.status(), StatusCode::OK, "send must succeed");
+    let send_body: Value = send_resp.json().await.expect("send body JSON");
+    let send_proof_id = send_body["proof_id"].as_u64().expect("send proof_id");
+    let ash_hex = send_body["account_state_hash"]
+        .as_str()
+        .expect("account_state_hash present")
+        .to_string();
+    let ocr_hex = send_body["output_coins_root"]
+        .as_str()
+        .expect("output_coins_root present")
+        .to_string();
+    let ash_bytes = hex::decode(&ash_hex).expect("ash is hex");
+    let ocr_bytes = hex::decode(&ocr_hex).expect("ocr is hex");
+
+    // After `/api/send` Ok the server has already bumped
+    // `account.num_sends` (atomically with `account.proof = Some(...)`
+    // inside `send_coins_inner`), so the very next balance read MUST
+    // report `1` — independent of whether the user later succeeds in
+    // the commit phase. (The commit only advances the SMT; the
+    // per-account counter advances on the proof itself.)
+    let post_send = client
+        .get(url(&format!(
+            "/api/balance?address={}",
+            alice.address_hex()
+        )))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("GET /api/balance post-send");
+    assert_eq!(post_send.status(), StatusCode::OK);
+    let post_send_body: Value = post_send.json().await.expect("balance body JSON");
+    assert_eq!(
+        post_send_body["num_sends"].as_u64(),
+        Some(1),
+        "post-send wallet must report num_sends=1, got {:?}",
+        post_send_body["num_sends"]
+    );
+
+    // Close the loop: drive the commit so the test doesn't leave a
+    // proof_id orphaned in the proof_store (every other api_remote
+    // commit-round-trip cleans up the same way).
+    let mut commit_message = Vec::with_capacity(64);
+    commit_message.extend_from_slice(&ash_bytes);
+    commit_message.extend_from_slice(&ocr_bytes);
+    let commit_sig = alice.sign_commit(&commit_message);
+    let commit_resp = client
+        .post(url("/api/commit"))
+        .json(&json!({
+            "proof_id": send_proof_id,
+            "public_key": hex::encode(alice.pubkey(0).serialize()),
+            "signature": commit_sig,
+            "message": hex::encode(&commit_message),
+        }))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("POST /api/commit");
+    assert_eq!(commit_resp.status(), StatusCode::OK, "commit must succeed");
+
+    // num_sends survives the commit (commit doesn't mutate the
+    // counter — it only advances the SMT and Bob's coin_queue).
+    let post_commit = client
+        .get(url(&format!(
+            "/api/balance?address={}",
+            alice.address_hex()
+        )))
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .expect("GET /api/balance post-commit");
+    let post_commit_body: Value = post_commit.json().await.expect("balance body JSON");
+    assert_eq!(
+        post_commit_body["num_sends"].as_u64(),
+        Some(1),
+        "post-commit num_sends must still be 1, got {:?}",
+        post_commit_body["num_sends"]
+    );
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Section 5 — error-envelope contract
 //