diff --git a/src/app.cpp b/src/app.cpp
index 1e54a6b..7e12b0a 100644
--- a/src/app.cpp
+++ b/src/app.cpp
@@ -2163,10 +2163,10 @@ void App::render()
     // long confirmed (the other leg holds the real count). So: a txid with ANY confirmed leg is
     // confirmed, and we count UNIQUE unconfirmed txids — otherwise the badge sticks on stale 0-conf
     // legs of already-confirmed transactions and double-counts multi-leg ones.
-    // Recompute only when the tx list actually changed (last_tx_update is bumped on every tx refresh;
-    // size() catches same-second content changes). Otherwise this built two unordered_sets over the whole
+    // Recompute only when the tx list actually changed. tx_revision moves on EVERY content change (incl. a
+    // confirmation flip at equal tx count) and, unlike last_tx_update, lite stamps it. Otherwise this built two unordered_sets over the whole
     // wallet tx list every frame just to size a badge.
-    if (state_.last_tx_update != sb_unconf_key_ts_ || state_.transactions.size() != sb_unconf_key_n_) {
+    if (state_.tx_revision != sb_unconf_key_rev_) {
         std::unordered_set<std::string> confirmedTxids;
         for (const auto& tx : state_.transactions) {
             if (tx.confirmations >= 1) confirmedTxids.insert(tx.txid);
@@ -2178,8 +2178,7 @@ void App::render()
             }
         }
         sb_unconf_count_  = static_cast<int>(unconfirmedTxids.size());
-        sb_unconf_key_ts_ = state_.last_tx_update;
-        sb_unconf_key_n_  = state_.transactions.size();
+        sb_unconf_key_rev_ = state_.tx_revision;
     }
     sbStatus.unconfirmedTxCount = sb_unconf_count_;
 
diff --git a/src/app.h b/src/app.h
index eecd018..fe37fab 100644
--- a/src/app.h
+++ b/src/app.h
@@ -1006,10 +1006,9 @@ private:
     mutable std::uint64_t chat_unread_rev_ = ~0ull;   // ~0 forces the first compute
     mutable int    chat_unread_cached_ = 0;
     mutable double chat_unread_computed_at_ = 0.0;
-    // Sidebar unconfirmed-tx badge — recomputed only when the tx list changes (keyed on last_tx_update +
-    // size), not every frame. See App::render().
-    std::int64_t sb_unconf_key_ts_ = -1;
-    std::size_t  sb_unconf_key_n_  = 0;
+    // Sidebar unconfirmed-tx badge — recomputed only when the tx list changes (keyed on tx_revision),
+    // not every frame. See App::render().
+    std::uint64_t sb_unconf_key_rev_ = 0;   // sentinel 0 never matches: tx_revision starts at 1
     int          sb_unconf_count_  = 0;
     // Daemon-memory probe is expensive (/proc scan on Linux, popen on macOS): it runs on this sampler's own
     // thread, at most once per 3 s and only while a reader asks (Mining tab memory bar, Peers tab Memory cell).