Audit log

Every state-changing event for Renzo: 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

   2026-05-18 23:35:01Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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   ●mainnet-betaslot 420,653,476

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   4DXBsDoHJyoU…obGKSLsacopyexplorer ↗

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   7NviBA7i3JHj…mHi2vswFcopysha256 → base58

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