Sponsor hold: a named sponsor that cannot be paid (payouts off, chain lookup failed, unknown) blocks the first purchase and activation with a message and alerts the admin, instead of silently crediting the company

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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 - PROMO TOOLKIT BY BADGE + AI COPY ENGINE (2026-09-14): Promo tools > AI Copy Engine shows the ladder: Free (links, posts, swipes, banners, wall, objections, shorts, badge pages), Spark (payouts on: one-tap campaign templates aimed at the member's link, printable handout with their QR at /handout/<username>), Surge (first qualifying buyer; the AI Copy Engine is live: posts, DMs, follow-ups, objection replies, emails, story posts, team broadcasts in the member's name with their link, honesty rules built in; 20 free generations a month), Circuit (60 free; Video Maker renders every promo video and short with the member's own end card and QR, hosted for download; split tester compares join angles by views, joins, buyers), Nexus (150 free; Leader Ops: three-level team triage with stalled flags and one-click nudges, AI-drafted team broadcasts, credit grants from the leader's earned pool to anyone in their line, co-branded join page showing the sponsor's bio, and the member's own partner code: welcome credits funded from the leader's pool at each redemption, plus a partner kit page /partners?ref=<username>&promo=CODE). After the free allowance each generation costs 10 ad credits from the earned pool. Credits are advertising, never money.
 - MEMBER UPDATE EMAILS (2026-09-14, admin only): Admin > Releases > Email an update to members: pick release notes, add an intro, choose an audience (newsletter opt-ins, opt-ins active in the last 30 days, or everyone including those who declined), preview, send a test to the admin, then send; plain text from no-reply@instantadpay.com with an opt-out link; the log shows sent/opted out/failed.
 - LINKED POSITIONS AND BADGES (2026-09-14): qualifying buyers on a member's linked positions count toward their achievement badges (Spark/Surge/Circuit/Nexus) and light their chip on their sponsor's line, and a badge once earned never regresses. The contract still pays levels 2 and 3 to each position based on that position's OWN qualifying buyers, so the Qualifying buyers tile shows the main position's count with the linked positions' count underneath.
+- SPONSOR HOLD (2026-09-14): if a member's account names a sponsor that cannot be paid right now (sponsor has not switched on payouts, or the chain lookup failed), the first purchase and the payouts activation are held with a message instead of silently crediting the company. Fix: the sponsor switches on payouts, or the member retries; the admin gets a Telegram alert.
 - NO-PAYOUT POSITIONS (2026-09-14): admin can list member ids (Settings > No-payout positions) whose wallets must never be paid again (e.g. a compromised key). Those positions stay linked for history and counting only: the buy-from picker disables them, a purchase from them is refused, and invite links that would place a new member under them (or under their upline chain) route to the fallback sponsor instead. The contract itself cannot change a member's wallet.
 - LINE AT A GLANCE, ALL LEVELS (2026-09-14): a gold chip on any level means that person made their $20+ buy (a qualifying buyer for their own sponsor); a small number on the chip is how many qualifying buyers of their own they have. My line rows say the same in words. Leaders use it to see who is one buyer short and encourage them.
 - MY LINE SPONSOR LINE (2026-09-14): every row on My line, all three levels, shows who sponsored that person ("sponsored by @name", or "you" for directs).