Evidence row 540497

What was observed

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What the leaf hashes

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Proof

Fold these into the leaf in order, hashing each sorted pair with keccak256, to reach the root of 2026-10-27 (273461 rows).

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Day root

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Chained

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Published

On Arc Testnet, block 69414147: 0xb2ebd83aafeb765a0ce66e76aefb133ed06606c98038fd56191e2bcd1dcb77b4