diff --git a/src/lib/redis/dead-letter-queue.ts b/src/lib/redis/dead-letter-queue.ts
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+/**
+ * Dead letter queue for failed events (frontend hook-point).
+ *
+ * Minimal DLQ over the existing Redis client. Retry/manual-requeue logic
+ * lives in the backend jobqueue.
+ */
+
+import { getRedisClient } from "../redis/client"
+
+const DLQ_KEY = "moistello:dlq"
+
+export interface DeadLetterEvent {
+  id: string
+  type: string
+  attempts: number
+  error: string
+}
+
+export class DeadLetterQueue {
+  async push(event: DeadLetterEvent): Promise<void> {
+    await getRedisClient().rpush(DLQ_KEY, JSON.stringify(event))
+  }
+
+  async list(): Promise<DeadLetterEvent[]> {
+    const raw = await getRedisClient().lrange(DLQ_KEY, 0, -1)
+    return raw.map((item) => JSON.parse(item) as DeadLetterEvent)
+  }
+
+  async retry(id: string): Promise<void> {
+    await getRedisClient().lrem(DLQ_KEY, 0, JSON.stringify({ id }))
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/stellar/error-classifier.ts b/src/lib/stellar/error-classifier.ts
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+/**
+ * Soroban error classification (frontend hook-point).
+ *
+ * Maps Soroban/Stellar error responses to typed domain errors. The
+ * authoritative classifier (Go) lives in pkg/stellar/errors.go in the
+ * backend; this mirrors the same codes for client-side handling.
+ */
+
+export class SorobanError extends Error {
+  code: string
+  isRetryable: boolean
+
+  constructor(code: string, message: string, isRetryable: boolean) {
+    super(message)
+    this.code = code
+    this.isRetryable = isRetryable
+  }
+}
+
+export function classifySorobanError(
+  statusCode: number,
+  body: string,
+): SorobanError {
+  const message = body.trim()
+  switch (statusCode) {
+    case 429:
+      return new SorobanError("TX_RATE_LIMITED", message, true)
+    case 400:
+      return new SorobanError("TX_BAD_REQUEST", message, false)
+    default:
+      return new SorobanError("TX_UNKNOWN", message, false)
+  }
+}