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Every state-changing event for Cozy V2: 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.
- #1publishby system:backfill2026-05-29 17:23:35ZScore: ? → ? (no score change)anchoranchored
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- ●mainnet-betaslot 422,983,056
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31xUDY9FuRuY…ky2gVoMRexplorer ↗- hash
BNmAMBMsxYZx…D91AYoL4sha256 → base58
verifying row…full verify ↗canonical bytes (4564 B) ▸
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