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Design a Digital Wallet (like PayPal or Venmo) — atomic transfers and idempotent payments.

The financial consistency and idempotency problem: how transfers between accounts are made atomic, how the system prevents double-charging on a retried request, and how transaction history is stored for auditability. Idempotency keys on every payment operation are the central design detail interviewers probe hardest.

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Design a Digital Wallet (like PayPal or Venmo) — atomic transfers and idempotent payments.

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