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No timeout/retry/backoff on any Horizon call in stellar.ts #36

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getAccount, getBalances, and sendPayment in src/services/stellar.ts call the Horizon SDK with no explicit request timeout and no retry/backoff strategy. On mobile networks, a single slow or dropped request currently means the entire balance load or payment attempt just hangs or fails outright with no resilience — this is materially worse on mobile than it would be on a stable server connection, which is exactly the environment this SDK usage pattern seems to assume.

Definition of done:

  • Explicit timeout on every Horizon call
  • Retry-with-backoff for idempotent reads (getAccount/getBalances); explicit non-retry (with clear reasoning) for sendPayment's submission step, since blind retry of a submit risks double-processing perception even though Horizon itself is idempotent per-transaction-hash
  • Test simulating a slow/hanging Horizon response and asserting bounded wait time

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  • Any adjacent/related behavior this issue calls out re-verified, not assumed unaffected

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