Pool spent: board notice + closed missions, starts/claims refused until midnight Central; no-wallet onboarding panel; landing: Before your first hunt steps + teaser player above the fold

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

lib/rewards.js

@@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ function payable() {
 }
 function mark(id, patch) { return store.update('payouts', [], all => { const p = all.find(x => x.id === id); if (p) Object.assign(p, patch); return all; }); }
 
+// the day's pool: committed POL (paid, sent, due, queued; never failed) against the cap, and when it
+// resets: the next midnight in Central time, found by bisection on the day key (never a UTC midnight)
+function nextResetAt(now) {
+  const t0 = now || Date.now(); const today = ctDay(t0);
+  let lo = t0, hi = t0 + 26 * 3600000;
+  while (hi - lo > 1000) { const mid = Math.floor((lo + hi) / 2); if (ctDay(mid) === today) lo = mid; else hi = mid; }
+  return hi;
+}
+function pool() {
+  const s = settings(); const day = ctDay(); const today = paidToday(day); const cap = Number(s.dailyCapPol);
+  return { capPol: cap, todayPol: Math.round(today * 10000) / 10000, spent: today >= cap - 1e-9, resetsAt: nextResetAt() };
+}
+
 function ledger(n) { return store.read('payouts', []).filter(p => p.status === 'paid').sort((a, b) => b.paidAt - a.paidAt).slice(0, n || 50); }
 function mine(memberId) { return store.read('payouts', []).filter(p => p.memberId === Number(memberId)).sort((a, b) => b.at - a.at); }
 function totals() {
@@ -74,4 +87,4 @@ function totals() {
   return { paid: paid.length, pol: Math.round(paid.reduce((n, p) => n + p.pol, 0) * 10000) / 10000, queued: all.filter(p => p.status === 'queued').length, today: paidToday(ctDay()), hunters: new Set(paid.map(p => p.memberId)).size };
 }
 
-module.exports = { settings, setSettings, draw, grant, completed, payable, mark, ledger, mine, totals, paidToday };
+module.exports = { settings, setSettings, draw, grant, completed, payable, mark, ledger, mine, totals, paidToday, pool, nextResetAt };