Audit log

Every state-changing event for Arbix Finance: moderation decisions on community submissions, plus corrections and updates from the news pipeline. URL-based decisions carry three independent witnesses — the original source, an Internet Archive snapshot taken at submission time, and a Solana memo signed by our publicly-disclosed publisher key.

1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-20 18:36:44Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
   anchoranchored

   chain

   ●mainnet-betaslot 421,041,212

   sig

   5prphgS5zW82…iLYXeWWPcopyexplorer ↗

   hash

   8Q615eQU7oRs…g6BKHkcvcopysha256 → base58

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