> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://shipyardprotocol.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Approval Status

> Check the founder's on-chain token balance, allowance, and available amount for bounties.

<Note>Requires authentication. Founder only.</Note>

Returns the founder's on-chain token balance, how much the platform is approved to spend (ERC-20 allowance), how much is committed to active bounties, and how much is available for new bounties.

<ParamField path="id" type="string" required>
  Project ID.
</ParamField>

### Example

```bash theme={null}
curl https://api.shipyardprotocol.com/api/projects/proj_m1n2o3/approval-status \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## Response

<ResponseField name="balance" type="string">
  Founder's on-chain token balance (bigint as string).
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="allowance" type="string">
  ERC-20 allowance granted to the platform wallet (bigint as string).
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="committed" type="string">
  Total reward amount across all active bounties (`open`, `claimed`, `in_review`).
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="available" type="string">
  `min(balance, allowance) - committed`. The amount available for new bounties.
</ResponseField>

```json 200 theme={null}
{
  "balance": "50000",
  "allowance": "50000",
  "committed": "5000",
  "available": "45000"
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Description                    |
| ------ | ------------------------------ |
| 400    | Project token not deployed yet |
| 403    | Not the project founder        |
| 404    | Project not found              |