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From a dancing drone show to a pyramid buried by a volcano, this week's Clicks cross 3 countries:

İzmir
Compton, Studio City & Lauderdale Lakes
Mexico City

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This week, the archive grew by another 199 Clicks. It now has a total of 80,991 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week's selection

Monday, November 2, 2026

Where: Konak, İzmir, Türkiye
Feed: Festivities

"Life is short, the birds are flying." (Hayat kısa, kuşlar uçuyor.) - Cemal Süreya

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Our week opens under a sky that dances. AMDSL made this Click at about 19:25 on Saturday 31 October 2026 in Gündoğdu Square, the heart of İzmir's seafront. Hundreds of drones hang in the dark like stitched points of light, drawing a dancer in a brimmed hat, short trousers and a waistcoat, one knee lifted high and both arms flung wide. His outstretched hand reaches for a Turkish flag glowing red and white beside him. Below, the crowd answers with a sea of raised phones, small paper flags and glowing balloon bouquets, and one screen in the foreground has already captured its own miniature copy of the scene.

The figure in the sky is a zeybek dancer, and the zeybek is the signature folk dance of the Aegean coast. It is slow, proud and played in a lilting nine-beat rhythm, and dancers spread their arms like an eagle gliding over the hills before dropping gracefully to one knee. The traditional costume is just as recognisable as the steps: a wide sash, knee-length trousers and a headdress wrapped in colourful silk scarves, all faithfully traced here in light. There are dozens of regional variants, and İzmir even has its own Kordon Zeybeği and Gündoğdu Zeybeği, named after the very waterfront where this Click was made.

The dancer himself is a small marvel of engineering. Each point of light is a palm-sized drone carrying an LED, flying a pre-programmed path and holding its place in the formation to within a few centimetres thanks to satellite positioning. Shows like this have only been possible for about a decade, and the art form reached a global audience in 2018, when a record-setting fleet of 1,218 drones lit up the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Since then, drone shows have become a favourite way for cities to celebrate without the smoke and noise of fireworks, and judging by the raised phones in this frame, İzmir's crowd approved.

Gündoğdu means "the sun has risen", and the square sits on land reclaimed from the bay in the late 1990s. Today it is the city's open-air living room on the Kordon, the long seafront promenade where locals stroll in the evening, cool off in the imbat, İzmir's famous afternoon sea breeze, and snack on boyoz pastries and sesame-crusted gevrek. A short walk south stands the ornate Konak Clock Tower, built in 1901 and still the city's best-loved meeting point. This Click was made on the closing weekend of the city's Culture Route Festival, when the sky put on one more performance for everyone who came down to the water.

The city's storytelling roots run deep, too. Ancient Smyrna was one of the places that claimed to be the birthplace of Homer, which makes it a fitting starting point for a week that will bring us face to face with his most famous horse by Wednesday.

The quote comes from Cemal Süreya, one of the best-loved Turkish poets of the 20th century, famous for saying a great deal in very few words. Life is short and the birds are flying, so look up while the show is on.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Where: Compton, California, United States
Feed: Street Art

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou

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From the Aegean we fly to Southern California, where OGSPAZM steps into the shade of an overpass in Compton at 11:30 on Monday 2 November 2026. The underside of the bridge is dark and stained, the ground is littered with broken concrete, and a lone orange traffic cone stands guard. Yet across the whitewashed wall runs a message nobody would expect in such a place: GOD ♥S YOU, painted in fat, sandy-orange bubble letters with deep black drop shadows. Hearts hide inside the letters, white sparkle-stars twinkle around them, and at the far end of the tunnel the street opens into bright sunshine and a tall palm tree.

Bubble letters have a story of their own. They were born on the trains and walls of New York in the early 1970s, when writers began rounding off their letters into soft, puffy shapes, and they quickly spread to every city with a spray can and a blank wall. Los Angeles added its own traditions, from sharp-edged neighbourhood lettering to giant freeway murals. This piece borrows the playful side of the style and points it in an unexpected direction, turning an anonymous underpass into a small open-air chapel.

Faith has been part of Compton since its first day. In 1867, Griffith D. Compton led about 30 Methodist settlers south by wagon train from Stockton to farm land that once belonged to the vast Rancho San Pedro. Two years later, the first railroad in the region ran along the Alameda Street route, just around the corner from this wall. Today that line is the 20-mile Alameda Corridor, carrying freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach through a long series of trenches and overpasses. The city's central position in Los Angeles County earned it the nickname "Hub City", and in Richland Farms, a pocket of land still zoned for agriculture, families keep horses in their backyards and young riders known as the Compton Cowboys trot through the streets.

The date adds one more layer. 2 November is Día de los Muertos, the day when families set out marigolds, candles and photographs to welcome back the people they love, and Compton is today a largely Latino city where many homes keep the tradition. A wall that simply says "you are loved" feels right at home on that morning.

Maya Angelou wrote that love "penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." In Compton, someone skipped the metaphor and painted it straight onto one.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Where: Studio City, California, United States
Feed: General

"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns…" (Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον) - Homer

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A short drive north, SCVCRYPTO brings us face to face with a legend. This Click was made at 14:16 on Tuesday 3 November 2026 on Universal's backlot above Studio City, where a colossal horse rears on its hind legs against a deep blue sky. Its body is built from dark, curved planks like the hull of a ship, its mane is a row of stiff wooden fins, and its forelegs kick out above a sculpted dune carved with the words THE ODYSSEY. A white contrail slices across the sky, the Santa Monica Mountains roll behind, and down below, very un-Homeric trucks, lifts and traffic cones go about their business, while a giant inflatable figure in a green hat peeks out from behind a building.

This is the kind of horse that promoted Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the first feature shot entirely on IMAX film and partly filmed on this very lot. The touring horse was built by a team of 34 from steel, resin and fibreglass, and it has stood in Trafalgar Square, on Broadway and at Universal CityWalk before this Click found a towering horse back among the working sets. Not far away, the wrecked jumbo jet from War of the Worlds still lies across the backlot, a reminder that this is a place where epics come to be built and then quietly parked.

The lot has been welcoming curious visitors almost from the start. When Carl Laemmle opened Universal City on 15 March 1915, guests paid 25 cents to sit in bleachers and watch silent films being shot, with a boxed lunch included. Studio City next door took its name a few years later from the film studio Mack Sennett built there in the late 1920s, and the hills have been full of cameras ever since.

The horse itself is one of the great surprises of classical literature. The Iliad ends before Troy falls, so the most famous trick in history is told mostly in flashbacks in the Odyssey. Menelaus remembers how Helen circled the hollow horse, calling to the hidden heroes in the voices of their wives, and later Odysseus weeps at a royal feast when a blind bard sings of the wooden horse and the fall of the city. The quote comes from the poem's very first line, which introduces Odysseus as the man "of many turns", a hero who wins with wit rather than muscle.

The date suits him too. 3 November was Election Day in the United States, and the Odyssey ends with feuding families in Ithaca being made to lay down their arms and swear peace. Homer, Hollywood and one very hollow horse: an epic way to spend a Tuesday afternoon.

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Where: Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, United States
Feed: Cars

"Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation." - John Steinbeck

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On Thursday, NODLEFARMACY takes us across the country to South Florida, where a parking lot in Lauderdale Lakes turns into a car show of one. This Click was made at about 18:00 on Saturday 24 October 2026, as the low sun bounced off so much chrome that the lens answered with a shower of starbursts. The star of the frame is a canary-yellow T-bucket with orange-and-red flames licking down its flanks, a black soft top, a tiny pickup box at the back and a V8 sitting proudly out in the open, crowned by a chrome air cleaner and wired in bright yellow. Chrome headers snake down into a side pipe, fat tyres sit on polished wheels, and a skull-and-crossbones plate grins from the nose. Parked beside it, an army-green pickup looks almost shy.

Henry Ford famously said customers could have the Model T in any colour they wanted, "so long as it is black." For about a decade the cars really did leave the factory in black only, because the paint dried fastest and kept the assembly line moving. More than 15 million Model Ts were built between 1908 and 1927, and Steinbeck, who wrote the line in our quote in Cannery Row, knew that a whole generation of Americans had learned to drive, court and dream in one. Hot rodders, of course, never listened to Ford about the colour.

The T-bucket was born in 1950s California, when Norm Grabowski stripped a Model T down to the bare essentials, added a pickup box and dropped in a big V8. His "Kookie Kar" became a television star in 77 Sunset Strip and inspired a whole school of tiny, loud and gloriously impractical cars. This one sticks to the original recipe, small cab and little box included.

It is parked in exactly the right place. Lauderdale Lakes was incorporated in 1961 with only about 300 residents, calls itself "The Heart of Broward County", and its motto is "Life in Full Color". Florida also has deep motoring roots: the hard sands of Ormond and Daytona Beach hosted speed trials from 1903, and Henry Ford himself bought a winter home in Fort Myers in 1916, right next door to his friend Thomas Edison.

The date brings a final contrast. The Click was made 21 years to the day after Hurricane Wilma swept across Broward County. This time, a Saturday in Broward brought nothing more dramatic than sunshine, chrome and painted flames.

Friday, November 6, 2026

Where: Mexico City, Mexico
Feed: General

"Traveller: you have arrived in the most transparent region of the air." (Viajero: has llegado a la región más transparente del aire.) - Alfonso Reyes

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FAMMMG closes the week in the south of Mexico City at 13:38 on Thursday 29 October 2026, standing in a meadow and looking up at what at first glance seems to be an ordinary grassy hill. Look again and the layers appear: rings of dark volcanic stone stacked in terraces, softened by golden late-October grass, with spiky agaves, prickly pear cacti heavy with red fruit and splashes of orange wildflowers growing from the walls. A thin fence runs along the summit, a single house peeks over the edge on the right, and above it all stretches a sky of perfect, cloudless blue.

This is the Great Circular Pyramid of Cuicuilco, whose Nahuatl name is usually translated as "the place of song and dance". Long before Teotihuacan became the great metropolis of central Mexico, Cuicuilco was one of the largest settlements in the valley, and its round pyramid, more than 100 metres across, is among the oldest monumental buildings in the region. The city also left behind some of the earliest images of Huehuetéotl, the Old God of Fire, usually shown as a hunched elder carrying a brazier on his head.

Fire, in the end, had the last word. Sometime around AD 250 to 300, the nearby volcano Xitle erupted and poured lava across some 70 square kilometres, creating the rocky landscape known as the Pedregal de San Ángel and ending life in the city. The upper body of the pyramid stayed above the rock, and centuries later people still came to leave offerings to Tláloc, the rain god, at the edge of the lava. When archaeologists led by Byron Cummings excavated the site in the 1920s, they had to use dynamite to free it. Today the same lava field holds the main campus of UNAM, Mexico's National Autonomous University, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the 1968 Olympic Village was built just next door.

The timing of this Click is full of meaning. In the calendar of Día de Muertos, 29 October is traditionally set aside for those who drowned, when families place a glass of water on the altar for the souls who belong to Tláloc. Two days later, the capital's great parade honoured Juan Rulfo, whose novel Pedro Páramo describes a town full of echoes and murmurs beneath the stones, a fitting thought for a city that still sleeps under its lava.

The quote comes from Alfonso Reyes, who opened his 1917 essay Visión de Anáhuac with a greeting to the traveller arriving in "the most transparent region of the air". Decades later, Carlos Fuentes borrowed the phrase for the title of his first novel. With a sky as clear as the one in this frame, it is easy to see why the line has stuck.

Final words

This week began with AMDSL in İzmir, where drones turned a traditional Aegean folk dance into a performance of light above the bay. OGSPAZM then found a message of love hiding under an overpass in Compton, on a day dedicated to remembering the people we love. At midweek, SCVCRYPTO brought Homer to Hollywood with a giant Trojan Horse on Universal's backlot, before NODLEFARMACY showed us a canary-yellow T-bucket proving that Henry Ford's favourite colour never stood a chance. FAMMMG brought the journey to a close at Cuicuilco, a pyramid that outlived the volcano that buried its city.

Together, these Clicks show how much can be contained in a single frame. A drone show can give new wings to a folk dance, a few painted words can bless a forgotten corner, a film prop can open the oldest stories in Western literature, a hot rod can tell the history of an entire nation on wheels, and a grassy hill can turn out to be one of the oldest monuments in Mexico. Each photograph remains faithful to the scene its Clickstar encountered, with its origin preserved through Click Camera and the Trust Network.

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Crypto 101 | e49: The Network in Your Pocket

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:16:33 GMT

Crypto 101 is Nodle’s educational series about blockchain, digital trust, content provenance, and the technologies shaping Web3.

Your phone carries a radio, a clock, a location sensor, and an internet connection. For most of the day, it sits in a pocket or on a table, surrounded by other devices quietly announcing that they exist.

What if some of that everyday capacity could help a business find a missing crate, or help a hospital locate a piece of shared equipment?

In e48, Digital Trust in Practice, we closed an arc about a single question: what evidence should I trust? This edition begins a new one with a different question: how does a decentralised network turn real-world observations into useful information?

The starting point is the device you already carry. This edition explains what an edge node is, how a participating smartphone can play that role, and why community-powered infrastructure comes with real benefits and real trade-offs.

The edge is a place, not a product: An edge node is any device working where the network meets the physical world, which is why an ordinary phone can qualify.

Where the network meets the world

Most of the internet lives in data centres: large buildings full of servers that store and process information. But information about the physical world has to be collected somewhere physical first.

The edge is that boundary. It is where a sensor, a scanner, or a phone sits close enough to an object or event to observe it, and then passes what it observed into the wider network.

A device doing that job is often called an edge node. A node is simply a participant in a network. An edge node is a participant positioned at the boundary with the real world.

Traditionally, edge nodes for tracking objects have been dedicated equipment: fixed readers at warehouse doors, gateways mounted on walls, or cellular trackers with their own SIM cards. Someone has to buy them, install them, power them, and maintain them.

A smartphone is different. It is already deployed, already powered, already connected, and already moving through the places where people work and live.

How objects announce themselves

Many small devices use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a version of Bluetooth designed to use very little power. A BLE device does not always need to connect to anything. It can simply broadcast short messages called advertising packets, and any compatible device nearby can listen.

The Bluetooth SIG’s explainer on advertising describes this connectionless broadcasting: a device can share information with any listener without ever pairing. A small tag that does this is often called a beacon.

If you have ever used a lost-item tracker that is found by other people’s phones, you have already encountered a version of this idea. The tag does not need its own internet connection. It needs someone nearby who is listening.

How a participating phone becomes a node

Nodle’s network applies this listening model at scale. According to Nodle’s technology overview, the process follows five steps.

First, a tagged object broadcasts a Bluetooth beacon with an identifier that changes over time, so the signal is harder to link to a particular object by casual observers.

Second, a nearby participating device, usually a smartphone, picks up the beacon in the background.

Third, the phone encrypts that sighting and relays it through the network. Nodle states that this is designed so the report does not expose who observed it.

Fourth, the network combines sightings from different devices into a single, de-duplicated location.

Fifth, the object’s authorised owner reads the result through an API, a software interface that lets one system request information from another.

From tag to answer: a beacon becomes useful only after it is heard, relayed, resolved, and read by someone authorised to see it.

Phones join in two main ways. Most participating phones run the Nodle App, where people choose to take part. Partner apps can also include Nodle’s SDK, a software development kit that developers add to their own apps. Nodle’s marketplace announcement says partners using the SDK either disclose this to their users or limit it to apps used by their own staff and subcontractors.

A sighting is not a live feed: A detection tells you a tag was near a participating phone at a particular time, not where it is every second.

Following a crate (a hypothetical example)

Throughout this arc, we will follow one fictional scenario. It is a teaching example, not a customer story or a reported result.

Imagine a food distributor that delivers to restaurants in reusable plastic crates. Crates leave the depot full and are supposed to come back empty. Some do not. They pile up in a back room, travel to the wrong partner, or end up in a storage yard nobody checks.

The distributor attaches a small Bluetooth tag to each crate.

On Monday morning, a crate is loaded at the depot. Phones belonging to participating staff and passers-by are nearby, so the crate is sighted. Later that day, it sits in a busy restaurant kitchen near a high street. It is sighted again.

By Thursday, the crate has been moved to an outdoor storage yard on the edge of town. Very few people walk past. No participating phone comes close enough to hear it, so there are no new sightings.

The distributor’s dashboard does not show the crate moving along a continuous line. It shows a series of moments: seen here, then seen there, then a last known location and a growing gap.

In this hypothetical journey, sightings depend on participating phones passing nearby, so quiet places can create gaps.

That gap is not necessarily a failure. It is information. It tells the distributor where coverage is thin and where a different approach might be needed. We will return to that question of where coverage exists, and why, in the next edition of this arc.

Coverage follows people: A phone-powered network tends to be strongest where participating phones spend time and weakest where they rarely go.

Two ways to build coverage

There are broadly two ways to give physical objects a path into the network.

Dedicated infrastructure means one operator plans, buys, and installs readers or gateways where coverage is needed. It offers more control over exactly where readers sit and how they behave. It also requires up-front investment, installation, power, and maintenance at every site.

Community-powered infrastructure means many independent participants contribute devices they already own. This is a form of DePIN, short for decentralised physical infrastructure network, a theme we first explored in Crypto 101 e2. It can reach places no single operator planned for and can grow as participation grows. In exchange, coverage is less predictable, because it depends on where participants happen to be.

Dedicated and community-powered infrastructure make different trade-offs between control and reach.

Neither model is automatically better. A warehouse with one loading door might be well served by a single fixed reader. Equipment that moves between dozens of sites and partners might benefit more from a network that already exists wherever people are. Many real deployments may combine both.

The benefits of the community-powered model are worth stating plainly:

It reuses devices that already exist, rather than requiring new hardware at every location.
It can extend coverage across many sites, cities, and countries without one operator deploying each reader.
It allows inexpensive tags, because the tag does not need its own cellular connection.

So are the trade-offs:

Coverage depends on where participating phones are, and when.
Phones are controlled by their owners and operating systems, which can limit background activity, Bluetooth scanning, or battery use.
Location is based on proximity to a phone, so precision depends on how close the phone was and how accurately it knew its own position.
Coverage grows with participation, so the network gets stronger as more people choose to take part.

Decentralised is a design choice, not a guarantee: Whether community-powered coverage works better or costs less depends on the specific objects, places, and decisions involved.

How you can be part of it

When a phone acts as a node, its owner contributes a small, steady piece of the network. The phone keeps doing everything it normally does, while occasionally listening for nearby Bluetooth tags in the background. A commute, a trip to the shops, or a walk through town can all help an object get found.

Nodle built this listening layer with privacy in mind. According to its technology page, sightings are encrypted on the phone and use rotating identifiers, so a tag’s owner learns where the tag was, not who walked past. Its about page states that Nodle does not sell user data.

Getting started is simple. Install the Nodle App, allow Bluetooth and location access when asked, and let the app run in the background. Phones treat Bluetooth scanning as location-related, which is why location access is part of the setup.

People who run the Nodle App can earn NODL, the network’s token, for contributing. Rewards follow Nodle’s current rules and depend on eligible activity, so they are a thank-you for participation rather than a promise of value or income.

A quiet contributor: The Nodle App works in the background, so taking part fits into the routine you already have.

From an idea to real deployments

How does this look outside a hypothetical example? Nodle’s September 2026 marketplace announcement describes construction-tool tracking as in production, supply-chain tracking as live with enterprise customers, and mobile medical equipment tracking as being tested in hospital pilots. It also lists hardware makers whose tags can be ordered and set up for the network, a topic we will explore later in this arc.

In May 2026, Nodle announced a partnership with iONLINE in South Africa. The announcement describes a first deployment targeting roughly 500,000 active end-user devices. That figure is a stated target, not a reported result.

Nodle’s about page reports more than 2.4 million active devices across 175 countries. That figure covers both phones running the Nodle App and devices onboarded through enterprise customers’ apps.

The bigger point is about the connectivity market. For decades, connecting objects at scale usually meant one operator building dedicated infrastructure. Community-powered networks test a different idea: that some of that coverage can come from devices people already carry. The value of that idea will be decided case by case, by whether the objects get found and whether the information leads to better decisions.

Try it yourself

Next time you are in a café, on a train, or in a busy street, open your phone’s Bluetooth settings. Many phones show a list of nearby devices that are announcing themselves. Each one is a small reminder of how much is already broadcasting around you.

Then think about the objects in your own routine that would be easier to manage if they could be found: a bike, a toolbox, a suitcase, or a box of equipment shared between friends.

If you already run the Nodle App, your phone is part of this listening layer as you go about your day. If you have not tried it yet, it is the simplest way to experience the network in your pocket first-hand.

Four simple steps turn an everyday phone into part of a community-powered network.

Small contributions add up: One phone hears only what is nearby, but many phones moving through a city can cover far more places than any single reader could.

The network you already carry

A smartphone can act as an edge node because it already sits where the network meets the physical world. When it hears a nearby Bluetooth tag and relays an encrypted sighting, it helps turn a small radio signal into information an authorised owner can use.

That model can extend coverage without installing readers everywhere. It follows the patterns of human movement, and it grows stronger with every person who takes part.

The useful question is not whether community-powered infrastructure is better in general. It is whether, for a particular object and a particular place, enough of the right devices are nearby at the right time.

Where in your daily routine do you think a phone-powered network would be most useful? And if you already run the Nodle App, what tip would you give a friend who is just getting started?

Thank you for starting this new Crypto 101 arc with us and for being part of the Nodle Network.

Next time, we look at why coverage has a geography. Hot Zones are Nodle’s experiment in temporarily boosting participation in particular places, and they can serve local communities as well as business coverage, as the current Hot Zone in Paraguay shows.

Risk disclaimer

This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies carry inherent risks, and the tools and services discussed may have technical, privacy, security, coverage, and availability limitations. Token rewards are not guaranteed and token values can change. Always do your own research and consult a qualified professional before making financial decisions.

Glossary

API: A software interface that lets one system request information or actions from another in a defined way.

Beacon: A small device that repeatedly broadcasts a short Bluetooth signal so nearby listeners can detect it.

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE): A low-power version of Bluetooth designed for small devices that send short bursts of data.

Community-powered infrastructure: A network built from devices contributed by many independent participants rather than deployed by one operator.

Coverage: The places and times in which a network can detect or reach the devices it is meant to serve.

DePIN: Short for decentralised physical infrastructure network, a model in which participants contribute real-world hardware or capacity to a shared network.

Edge: The boundary where a digital network meets the physical world through sensors, readers, or other nearby devices.

Edge node: A device at the edge that observes something in the physical world and passes that observation into the network.

Encryption: A technique that transforms information so that only parties with the right key can read it.

Node: Any device that participates in a network by sending, receiving, or relaying information.

NODL: The token used by the Nodle Network, including for rewarding eligible participants.

Rotating identifier: An identifier that changes over time so a broadcast signal is harder to link to a specific object by casual observers.

SDK: A software development kit that developers add to their own apps to use a particular service or feature.

Sighting: A record that a participating device detected a particular tag at a particular time and approximate place.

Click Bounty: Pope Leo XIV in South America

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:24:34 GMT

Qué: el Papa León XIV visita Uruguay, Argentina y Perú del 6 al 16 de noviembre. Captura la visita con Click en las ciudades y fechas de la tabla de abajo.

Cómo participar: firma tu Click en el feed público y publícalo en X o Instagram con su link, #ClickBounty #ClickDeepreals #PapaLeonXIV #ViajeApostolico y el hashtag de tu país (#Uruguay, #Argentina o #Peru). Etiqueta a @clickdeepreals y @nodlenetwork.

Envío: responde con el link de tu post bajo nuestro post oficial de tu país, a más tardar el miércoles 18 de noviembre a las 23:59 (hora de Perú).

Premio mayor: en cada ciudad, nuestro equipo elige la mejor foto de alta calidad del Papa León XIV, y esa foto recibe 50.000 NODL (hasta 11 premios).

Otras fotos: los Clicks de los lugares, el público y el ambiente pueden recibir premios menores, según su calidad y solo si los elige nuestro equipo.

Hot Zone 10×: una foto de alta calidad del Papa activa un Hot Zone 10× en todo su país si se publica bajo el post de ese país antes de que termine el último día de la visita (Uruguay 8, Argentina 11, Perú 16 de noviembre). Las fechas se anuncian después de la visita a Perú.

No se premian: Clicks de pantallas, fotos de otras fotos ni tomas de baja calidad.

Cobro: usa la app Nodle con la misma cuenta que usas en Click.

We're asking the Click community to document it. Capture authentic, high-quality photos of the public moments of the visit, sign them publicly in Click, and share them.

The best high-quality Click of Pope Leo XIV in each eligible city earns 50,000 NODL, and only a high-quality Click of the Pope unlocks a 10× Hot Zone for its country. Other Clicks of the venues, crowds and atmosphere may win smaller prizes, depending on their quality.

What to photograph

Pope Leo XIV himself: arrivals, the Popemobile, Masses, blessings. These are the only Clicks eligible for the 50,000 NODL prize and the Hot Zone

Crowds gathering and waiting along the route and at venues

Public Masses, vigils and welcome ceremonies, seen from public areas

The atmosphere of each city: flags, banners, volunteers, pilgrims and street scenes

Landmarks and venues on the day of the visit

We value real, well-composed moments. A sharp, well-framed shot wins; a blurry zoom on the Popemobile doesn't.

Not rewarded: Clicks of screens (TVs, phones, monitors or live streams), photos of other photos (prints, posters or other people's pictures), and blurry, dark or otherwise low-quality shots. Capture the moment yourself, on site.

Photos of the Pope matter most. The 50,000 NODL prize goes to the best high-quality Click of Pope Leo XIV in each city, and only a high-quality Pope Click unlocks the 10× Hot Zone for its country (see below).

Where and when

Photos must be captured in an eligible city during that city's capture window. All dates are in local time.

City	Capture window (local time)
Montevideo, Uruguay	6–8 Nov (UYT, UTC−3)
Paysandú, Uruguay	7 Nov (UYT)
Florida, Uruguay	8 Nov (UYT)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (incl. Claypole)	8–11 Nov (ART, UTC−3)
Córdoba, Argentina	10 Nov (ART)
Luján, Argentina	11 Nov (ART)
Lima and Callao, Peru	11–12 Nov and 15–16 Nov (PET, UTC−5)
Chiclayo and Pimentel, Peru	13–14 Nov (PET)
Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, Peru	14 Nov (PET)
Cusco, Peru	15 Nov (PET)
Pucallpa, Peru	15 Nov (PET)

Social sharing deadline: your post must be live, with its link posted under our country post, by Wed 18 Nov 2026, 23:59 PET (UTC−5). You can share after a city's capture window closes, as long as the photo was captured inside it.

How to take part

Install the latest Click app: https://www.nodle.com/click-app
Capture photos in an eligible city on its date.
Sign and publish your Click to the public feed. Clicks in private feeds do not qualify.
Post the photo and its Click link on X or Instagram.
Include #ClickBounty #ClickDeepreals #PapaLeonXIV #ViajeApostolico and your country hashtag: #Uruguay, #Argentina or #Peru.
Tag @clickdeepreals and @nodlenetwork.
Submit: reply to our official post for your country (Uruguay, Argentina or Peru) with the link to your post. On X, reply to the post; on Instagram, comment on it.
Install or open the Nodle app with the same account you use for Click. This is how we pay your bounty if you're selected: https://www.nodle.com/nodle-app

Copy-paste text for your post.

Add your Click link, change the country tag to #Argentina or #Peru if that's where you are, and post it with your photo:

Mi Click de la visita del Papa León XIV @clickdeepreals @nodlenetwork

[link de tu Click]

#ClickBounty #ClickDeepreals #PapaLeonXIV #ViajeApostolico #Uruguay

Example post: Crowds outside the Basilica of Luján this morning. [Click link] #ClickDeepreals #ClickBounty #PapaLeonXIV #ViajeApostolico #Argentina @clickdeepreals @nodlenetwork

Our three country posts are pinned on X and Instagram from launch day. Each one carries that country's map. We only review entries submitted as replies under these posts.

Bounties

Top prize: in each of the 11 cities and areas, our team selects the best high-quality Click of Pope Leo XIV captured there during its window. Each of these up to 11 Clicks receives 50,000 NODL.
Other Clicks of the venues, crowds and atmosphere may be considered for smaller prizes, depending on their quality and only if our team selects them.
Rewards are paid through the Nodle app linked to your Click account.
After the tour ends, our team reviews every entry manually for eligibility and quality.
Taking part does not guarantee a payout.

Bonus: a countrywide Hot Zone

A country becomes a Hot Zone with 10× Nodle Network mission rewards for one week, but only if a high-quality Click of Pope Leo XIV is captured there. The link to it must be posted under that country's post by the end of the visit's last local day. Our team confirms qualifying Clicks.

All Hot Zones start together, after the Peru leg has been evaluated. We'll announce the qualifying countries and the dates then. This Nodle Network reward is for everyone in a qualifying country, and it is separate from the NODL photo rewards.

Photograph respectfully and safely

These are religious events attended by families, the elderly and many vulnerable people.

Follow local laws, venue rules and any photography restrictions.
Respect people's privacy, dignity and consent, especially during prayer.
Take extra care around children, vulnerable people and sensitive situations, including visits to prisons, shelters and hospitals.
Don't trespass, enter restricted or security areas, harass anyone or disrupt the event.
Don't interfere with attendees, staff, security, clergy or emergency services.
Never take risks to get a photo: no climbing, no crossing barriers, no pushing through crowds.
This mission does not give you admission, accreditation or permission to photograph. Ticketed venues stay ticketed.

After the tour

Capture closes with the final Mass in Lima on 16 Nov, and the sharing deadline is 18 Nov, 23:59 PET. We then review every entry manually: we pick the best high-quality Click of the Pope in each city for 50,000 NODL, and we may select other high-quality Clicks for smaller prizes. Winners will be announced on Socials. Make sure your Nodle app uses the same account as Click so we can send the prize to you.

Get the apps: Click · Nodle

Paraguay is now a Nodle Hot Zone

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:34:19 GMT

Following the Central Bank of Paraguay's intervention at Ueno Bank earlier this week, many people in Paraguay are dealing with changes to their usual banking services. With our community there in mind, we are opening this Hot Zone so that anyone in Paraguay who is interested can try the Nodle app and take part in Nodle Network Missions during this period.

New to Hot Zones?

They are selected cities, regions or countries where we temporarily boost Nodle Network Mission rewards to encourage coverage contributions in those places.

The Paraguay Hot Zone

The Paraguay Hot Zone offers a 20× Mission reward boost starting on 6 Nov 2026 at 01:30 UTC (5 Nov, 22:30 Paraguay time) and ending on 21 Nov 2026 at 01:30 UTC (20 Nov, 22:30 Paraguay time).

Nodle. The Trust Network.

Paraguay is now a Nodle Hot Zone

20× Nodle Network Mission rewards in the marked zone until 21 Nov, 01:30 UTC.

Get the app, create a pseudonym, start your Missions. No phone number needed.

nodle.com/nodle-app

paragraph.com/@nodle/2026-11…

Tag a friend in Paraguay

Only Mission activity inside the Hot Zone, as marked on the Nodle Network Explorer, qualifies for the boost. The boost ends at exactly 01:30 UTC on 21 November, so activity from that moment on is no longer boosted.

Important: you need the latest version of the Nodle app to benefit from the Hot Zone boost. Please update before you start.

The 20× multiplier applies to Nodle Network Mission rewards only. It does not apply to other rewards, products or activities.

Why this Hot Zone

The Nodle Network grows through its community. Every participant who contributes from a new street, town or region helps extend the network's reach. The recent economic events that have pushed the country into chaos made it obvious that the Nodle network could provide quick support and help so people can have an easy way to keep on exchanging goods and services.

With more people taking part from Asunción, Ciudad del Este, Encarnación and across the Hot Zone, we aim to strengthen network coverage in Paraguay. Participants earn NODL, the native asset of the Nodle Network, for eligible Mission activity.

Taking part is entirely optional. Mission rewards are not a substitute for savings, banking or any other financial service.

Private by design

The Nodle app is built so you can get started without sharing who you are:

No personal information needed to get started. No ID verification and no phone number.

Your own decentralized pseudonym. Create it in the app and you are ready to go.

Private, end-to-end encrypted messaging. Chat one-to-one or in groups, fully end-to-end encrypted.

Earn NODL by taking part in Nodle Network Missions.

How to participate

Download the latest Nodle app. It is available on Android and iOS: nodle.com/nodle-app. If you already have it, update to the newest version.
Install and set up your profile. Create your decentralized pseudonym. No personal details needed.
Take part in Nodle Network Missions inside the Hot Zone. Mission activity verified inside the marked area earns 20× Mission rewards until 21 November, 01:30 UTC.
Check the details. If you are near a border, confirm the boundary on the Explorer and make sure you meet the usual Mission participation requirements.

How to find the Hot Zone

You can see the marked Hot Zones on the Nodle Network Explorer: network.nodle.com

Open the Map page.
Look for the areas highlighted in green. These are the Hot Zones.
Use the Hot Zones toggle in the lower-right corner of the map to show or hide them.
Zoom in to check the marked boundaries, especially near the borders with Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.

Wake up your friends in the Hot Zone

If you have friends, family or colleagues in Paraguay, share this post with them. Help them download the Nodle app, set up their pseudonym and start their first Missions while rewards are boosted 20×.

Download. Install. Set up your profile. You are good to go.

Download the Nodle app on Android or iOS and start your Missions in the Paraguay Hot Zone.

Want your community to see what is going on where you live? With the Click app, you can share what is happening around you. Download the Click app

Please note: the Hot Zone boost applies to Nodle Network Mission rewards in the Nodle app only. It does not apply to the Click app.

Wake up your friends in the Hot Zone. We are glad to welcome our community in Paraguay.

Mission rewards depend on eligible activity and are not guaranteed. This post is for information only and is not financial advice.

Hot Zones are live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:36:00 GMT

New to Hot Zones? They are selected cities, regions or countries where we temporarily boost Nodle Network Mission rewards to encourage coverage contributions in those places. This time, the boost covers three neighbouring countries in the heart of Europe.

The new Hot Zones

Each Hot Zone follows the national border of its country, as marked on the Nodle Network Explorer. Only Mission activity inside the marked areas qualifies. The boost ends at exactly 04:00 UTC on 15 November, so activity from that moment on is no longer boosted.

Please note: the 10× multiplier applies to Nodle Network Mission rewards only. It does not apply to other rewards, products or activities.

Why these Hot Zones matter

Nodle. The Trust Network.

Hot Zones are live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Nodle Network Mission rewards are boosted 10× inside the marked zones until 15 Nov, 04:00 UTC.

Full details
paragraph.com/@nodle/2026-11…

The Nodle Network grows through its community. Every participant who contributes from a new street, town or region helps extend the network's reach.

Together, Germany, Austria and Switzerland form one continuous Hot Zone across Central Europe. With a 10× boost in place for two weeks, we want to invite more community members there to contribute, with the aim of building denser, more consistent coverage across all three countries.

How to participate

Get the latest Nodle app. Download the Nodle app, or update it if you already have it. You need the latest app version to benefit from the boost.
Be inside the Hot Zone. You need to be within the marked area of Germany, Austria or Switzerland during the campaign window.
Take part in Nodle Network Missions as usual. Mission activity verified inside the marked Hot Zones earns 10× Mission rewards.
Check the details. If you are close to a border, confirm the boundary on the Explorer, and make sure you meet the usual Mission participation requirements.

How to find the Hot Zones

You can see every marked Hot Zone on the Nodle Network Explorer: https://network.nodle.com/

Open the Map page.
Look for the areas highlighted in green. These are the Hot Zones.
Use the Hot Zones toggle in the lower-right corner of the map to show or hide them.
Zoom in to check the marked boundaries, especially near borders.

Wake up your friends in the Hot Zone

Whether you are in Berlin, Vienna, Zurich or anywhere in between, now is a great time to get involved. Share this post with friends and family in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and invite them to join the Nodle Network with the Nodle app while Mission rewards are boosted 10×.

While you are at it, discover the Click app, another part of our app ecosystem.

Two weeks go by fast. Wake up your friends in the Hot Zone, and keep an eye on our channels for future Hot Zone announcements.

Clicks of the Week

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:54:56 GMT

Hello fellow Clickstars!

This week's Clicks travel across four countries in five scenes that slow down and look closely at things most people pass by. In East Atlanta Village, a pit bull in a rolled-cuff denim jacket turns a sidewalk ledge into a runway. In Corona, California, a nearly empty bus glides down an avenue where electric Red Cars once ran. Back in Bytom, a hummingbird hawk-moth hovers at a bed of purple catmint, wings blurred to an orange glow. On the shore below Norway's royal monument in Haugesund, slate cairns stand like a village of small memorials. Finally, in Paiporta, the bell tower of Sant Jordi glows over an empty plaza at dawn, two years after the flood that changed the town.

Click Camera

Clicks of the Week no. 44 is live!

From a dapper pit bull to a bell tower at dawn, this week’s Clicks cross 4 countries:

Atlanta & Corona
Bytom
Haugesund
Paiporta
Grab a coffee and come along

Our journey begins on Monday with CBECKS, who introduces us to the most stylish resident of East Atlanta. DARRYLMILLARD carries us into Tuesday aboard a bus in Southern California's "Circle City", before TORROCUS reaches the middle of the week with a tiny migrant in Upper Silesia. On Thursday, THOMAS0682 leads us to the Karmsund shore, and FLYERIN closes the week in the Valencian town of Paiporta. Each scene was captured with Click Camera and signed into the Trust Network, creating a verifiable record of the moment it entered the archive.

This week, the archive grew. It now has a total of 80,792 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week's selection

Monday, October 26, 2026

Where: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Feed: Animals

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." - Mark Twain

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Our week opens with a gaze that needs no introduction. CBECKS made this Click on the morning of 26 October 2026 in East Atlanta Village, where a chocolate-coated pit bull sits squarely on a weathered stone ledge, leash in the foreground and amber eyes fixed on the lens. The outfit steals the show: a denim jacket with the cuffs neatly rolled over each front leg, worn with the calm confidence of someone who knows exactly how good it looks. Behind, the low sun throws long shadows across the street, and a graffiti-covered wall hints at the neighbourhood's creative streak.

East Atlanta Village, known locally simply as EAV, is one of the city's most independent corners, a cluster of bars, music venues, vintage shops and murals around the intersection of Flat Shoals and Glenwood Avenues. It also has a fitting October story. In 2013, residents came up with Dogtoberfest over dinner and turned it into a neighbourhood celebration with canine costumes and a parade of adoptable dogs, raising money for local animal rescue. The following year, proceeds went to Pitties in the City, a group devoted to dogs just like our denim-clad model. On the last Monday before Halloween, a dog dressed for the occasion feels like a quiet nod to that tradition.

The streets here carry a much older history too. Just around the corner from where this Click was made, at the meeting of McPherson Avenue and Monument Avenue, a cannon marks the spot where Union General James B. McPherson was killed on 22 July 1864 during the Battle of Atlanta. Much of that day's fighting took place on the land that is now East Atlanta, which is why so many local street names read like a page from a Civil War history book.

Today the neighbourhood is far more about porch conversations and evening walks than battle lines, and dogs are a big part of that rhythm. Pit bulls in particular have had many ambassadors in Atlanta's rescue scene, working to replace an old reputation with the gentle, goofy and loyal character their owners know well. One look at this patient, well-dressed sitter makes that case better than any campaign could. Fittingly, the quote comes from Mark Twain, who spent much of his life poking fun at human vanity and rarely missed a chance to put in a good word for dogs.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Where: Corona, California, United States
Feed: Cars

"People don't take trips, trips take people." - John Steinbeck

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From a sidewalk in Georgia, DARRYLMILLARD takes us on a ride across the country. This Click was made on the evening of 26 October 2026 aboard a bus in Corona, California, as low sun spills through the windows and across rows of empty seats. A few riders sit up front, heading home after a Monday, while the glowing display above the driver announces the next stop: Magnolia & McKinley.

The street outside has been carrying commuters for more than a century. From 1915 to 1931, Pacific Electric Red Cars ran down the middle of Magnolia Avenue into Corona, covering 6.6 miles in 22 minutes. The trees along the route grew so close that crews were banned from riding on the car roofs. When the line closed, the track bed became the landscaped median that still divides the avenue today, and a historical marker just east of McKinley tells the story to anyone who stops to read it.

Corona has a few more surprises for the curious traveller. The town was first called South Riverside and was renamed in 1896 after its most unusual feature, Grand Boulevard, a perfectly circular road about 2.75 miles around that wraps the old town centre and earned Corona the nickname "Circle City". In 1913, 1914 and 1916, that loop became a racetrack for international road races that drew huge crowds, and in the decades that followed the surrounding groves made Corona the "Lemon Capital of the World".

The timing of this Click adds one more layer. Rosa Parks died on 24 October 2005, and in the days after, buses across the United States draped a black ribbon over their front seat in her memory. Every year since, many transit agencies reserve a front seat in her honour around this date. Seen that way, the priority seating sign and the quiet rows of seats in this frame carry a bigger idea: a seat for everyone.

Steinbeck's words, from his road trip memoir Travels with Charley, fit perfectly. The best journeys are often the ordinary ones, the daily ride home on a street that remembers every era it has carried.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Where: Bytom, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Feed: Animals

"…by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see." - Joseph Conrad

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Last Friday, TORROCUS showed us a red-eyed mechanical skull on a concrete wall in Bytom. This week the same Clickstar returns to the same city with something far gentler. Made on 1 October 2026 in central Bytom, this Click catches a hummingbird hawk-moth hovering beside a bed of purple catmint, its long proboscis reaching into a flower while its wings dissolve into an orange blur against the grey stone paving.

It looks like a hummingbird, sounds like one and feeds like one, but it is a moth. Its wings beat around 80 times a second, fast enough to produce a soft hum, and its tongue can be longer than its body, letting it sip nectar while hovering in mid-air. Unlike most moths, it flies by day, and it is said to keep a schedule, returning to the same flower beds at about the same time each day.

Poles call it the fruczak gołąbek, roughly "the whirring little dove". Not long ago it was considered a rare southern visitor that crossed the Alps on warm summer winds. With hotter summers, it has become a familiar sight, nicknamed the "Polish hummingbird" and now turning up in gardens and city flower beds like this one between Bytom's Old Town and the station. Its caterpillars feed on bedstraw, a humble meadow plant, which makes the adult's appearance in a pedestrian street all the more delightful.

The moth also comes with a touch of folklore. A swarm was reportedly seen flying across the English Channel on D-Day in 1944, and ever since, it has been regarded in parts of Europe as a lucky omen. The date of this Click brings a little music as well: 1 October is International Music Day, a fitting moment for a creature whose wings literally hum.

The quote comes from Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to a Polish family, who wrote that the task of the writer is, above all, to make you see. A sharp eye and a quick shutter do the same here, freezing a blink-and-you-miss-it visitor long enough for all of us to notice it.

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Where: Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway
Feed: Nature

"Memorial stones seldom stand by the road unless kin raise them for kin." (Bautarsteinar standa sjaldan brautu nær, nema reisi niðr at nið.) - Hávamál

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On Thursday, THOMAS0682 brings us to the west coast of Norway on a cloudless morning. This Click was made on 2 October 2026 on a pebble beach in Haugesund, where a cairn of flat grey slate rises in the foreground, carefully balanced stone by stone. Behind it, dozens more cairns dot the shore, the calm waters of the Karmsund strait shine to the left, and the low hills already wear their autumn russet and gold.

The beach lies a short walk from Haraldshaugen, the national monument where tradition says Harald Fairhair, the king who first united Norway, was laid to rest. A 17-metre granite obelisk was unveiled there on 18 July 1872 by Crown Prince Oscar to mark a thousand years since the Battle of Hafrsfjord. Around it stand 29 smaller stones, one from each of Norway's historic counties, so that the whole country is gathered around its first king.

Stacking stones is one of the oldest ways people leave a mark in this landscape. The Norwegian word varde means both a cairn and a beacon. According to Snorri Sturluson, Harald's son Håkon the Good had fire beacons built on high mountains, each within sight of the next, so a war alarm could travel the length of the country in seven nights. Cairns still guide hikers across the mountains today, and on beaches like this one, every passer-by is welcome to add a stone of their own.

The quote comes from the Hávamál, the Old Norse "Sayings of the High One", and speaks of bautasteinar, the memorial stones raised by family for family. Seen against the royal monument up the hill, this beach becomes a people's version of the same idea: small, anonymous monuments built by visitors who simply wanted to say they were here.

Haugesund itself grew rich in the 19th century on the herring that crowded these waters, and the town still carries a good sense of humour about its history. On the harbour front stands a statue of Marilyn Monroe, honouring the local belief that her father had roots in Haugesund. Royal legends, film stars and a beach full of cairns: not bad for a quiet October morning.

Friday, October 30, 2026

Where: Paiporta, Valencia, Spain
Feed: Architecture

"Beside the ravine of the Algadins, four palm trees rise into the sky." (Vora el barranc dels Algadins, s'alcen al cel quatre palmeres) - Teodor Llorente

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FLYERIN closes the week in Paiporta, a few kilometres south-west of Valencia, at 07:30 on Sunday 11 October 2026, about half an hour before sunrise. The bell tower of the Església de Sant Jordi glows cream and gold against a deep navy sky, its open belfry and crowning lantern lit from below. Tall palms lean toward the façade, warm street lamps line the edges of the square, and the Plaça de l'Església is almost completely empty, save for an early riser walking a dog at the far right of the frame.

The church was built in 1754 on the old-town side of the ravine, but the village's bond with its patron saint is even older. After Jaume I conquered Valencia in 1238 and handed out land to his followers, the settlement here was known as Sant Jordi. Its tower holds a bell called the Ravatxolet, cast in 1682, and the Grossa, weighing about 950 kilos and dedicated to the saint. Most of the 18th-century bells were lost during the Civil War and recast in 1954 for the church's 200th birthday.

The timing of this Click is full of meaning. It was taken on the quiet Sunday between two holidays: the 9 d'Octubre, the Valencian national day that celebrates Jaume I's entry into the city in that same year of 1238, and Monday's Spanish national holiday. The 9th is also the feast of Sant Donís, Valencia's own day of love, when sweethearts traditionally exchange the mocadorà, little marzipan fruits and vegetables wrapped in a silk handkerchief.

The bells of Sant Jordi took on a new role after 29 October 2024, when the Barranc del Poyo burst its banks during the DANA storm and floodwater tore through Paiporta. A month later, they were rung by hand at 18:28, the minute the ravine overflowed, an idea that came from a local bell-ringer and the parish priest. Inside the church, a mud-covered statue of Christ became a symbol both of what the town lost and of the calm it tried to keep. The second anniversary fell this Thursday, and in the weeks before it, an exhibition by local photographer Iris Prieto paired flood images with how the same places look today.

The quote comes from Teodor Llorente, the great poet of the Valencian Renaixença, whose verses about palms and ravines could almost be a caption for this frame. An empty plaza at dawn would hardly be news anywhere else. In Paiporta, two years on, it is a small and hopeful sign of a town getting its ordinary mornings back.

Final words

This week began with CBECKS in East Atlanta Village, where a dog in a denim jacket reminded us that neighbourhood character comes in all shapes and sizes. DARRYLMILLARD then took us for a ride through Corona, on an avenue where Red Cars once ran and a single seat can carry a nation's memory. At midweek, TORROCUS returned to Bytom to freeze a humming visitor from the south in mid-air, before THOMAS0682 guided us to Haugesund's beach of cairns below the monument to Norway's first king. FLYERIN brought the journey to a close in Paiporta, where a lit bell tower at dawn speaks of resilience as much as of faith.

Together, these Clicks show how much can be contained in a single frame. A dog can reveal a neighbourhood's personality, a bus ride can trace a century of commuting, a moth can tell a story about a changing climate, a pile of stones can echo a royal legend, and an empty plaza can mark a community's recovery. Each photograph remains faithful to the scene its Clickstar encountered, with its origin preserved through Click Camera and the Trust Network.

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Now, go relax and enjoy your Halloween weekend!

And while you are out among the pumpkins and costumes, don't forget our Festivities & Events Contest! Capture Halloween shadows, Día de Muertos colours, Bonfire Night sparks, Diwali lights or any local celebration, sign your Click to the Festivities or Events feed, share it on X and drop your post link in the comments under the contest article. There are 30,000 NODL for first place, and entries are open until Sunday, 8 November 2026, at 11:59 p.m. California time.

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Crypto 101 | e48: Digital Trust in Practice

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:29:34 GMT

Crypto 101 is Nodle’s educational series about blockchain, digital trust, content provenance, and the technologies shaping Web3.

A familiar logo. A convincing photograph. A verification badge.

Together, they can make a message feel trustworthy. But before sharing it, following its instructions, or sending money, what should you actually check?

In e46, What does “Verified” really mean?, the focus was on interpreting verification results. e47, When proof goes missing, explored how screenshots and sharing can separate content from its credentials.

This final edition brings those ideas together through one hypothetical announcement. It follows an original publication, a legitimate edit, and a misleading repost to show how technical evidence and everyday checking work together.

Nodle. The Trust Network.

A genuine photo. A misleading message. Would you spot the difference?

Crypto 101 e48: Digital Trust in Practice brings this arc together with a walkthrough of checking sources, reading evidence, and knowing what remains uncertain.

Trust starts with better questions.

The goal is not to turn every reader into a cryptographer. It is to build a habit: understand what the evidence supports before deciding what to trust.

Evidence before confidence: A verification result becomes useful when you understand which file it describes, what was checked, and what remains unknown.

One image, different claims

The same image can appear alongside different claims; its credential does not automatically cover a later message.

Imagine a community organisation announcing a free weekend workshop.

Its official website includes the event details and a photograph from an earlier gathering. The photograph has a Content Credential, and the page clearly identifies it as an image from the previous year.

The organisation also publishes a cropped version for social media using a provenance-aware editing workflow. Later, someone screenshots that social post. A new message appears in a group chat, asking readers to pay a registration fee.

The scene still looks familiar, but the claim has changed. This is a fictional example, not a report about a particular organisation. Checking the photograph and checking the payment request are different tasks.

Define the question first

Before opening a verification tool, decide what you need to establish. In this example, the question is not simply, “Is this photograph real?” It is, “Is this organisation running this event, on this date, with this registration process?”

A credential associated with a photograph does not automatically cover text or links added around it. The C2PA explainer describes provenance evidence and its limits: provenance alone cannot establish whether content is true, accurate, or factual.

That distinction helps prevent a common mistake: accepting a true statement about one object as proof of something else.

Check the right object: Proof attached to a photograph does not automatically cover a caption, payment link, or instruction added later.

Find the closest original

Look for the announcement through an established channel. In the workshop example, navigate independently to the organisation’s known website rather than following the payment link in the forwarded message.

Compare the date, venue, registration instructions, and payment requirements. If something important conflicts, seek clarification through a previously established contact method.

The official event page in this fictional scenario says the workshop is free. The group-chat message asks for payment. That contradiction is already relevant, even before inspecting a signature.

Next, obtain the original published image if it is available. A screenshot can preserve what was visible without preserving the source file’s embedded credential, as explained in e47.

A source link is not a substitute for verification, but it can help identify the publication and file that need checking.

Inspect the available credential

Suppose the original photograph contains a Content Credential. A compatible viewer can inspect its signed provenance and report the applicable validation results. These technical checks are different from investigating whether a depicted event or surrounding claim is true, as the C2PA explainer makes clear.

Read beyond the headline status. Look for the credential’s relationship to the file, the signing information, the declared actions, and any warnings.

The reader-friendly categories introduced in e46 remain useful, although viewers may use different labels:

Trusted: Review the recognised trust framework, signing information, and recorded history without treating the result as a truth verdict.
Valid but not trusted: Investigate the signer and certificate context rather than assuming an unfamiliar trust relationship means deception.
Failed: Identify which check failed before relying on the credential as evidence for this file.
Not found: Look for the original source or supported recovery options without concluding that the content is fake.
Read the details: A positive technical result is a starting point for understanding the evidence, not permission to stop asking questions.

Understand who signed

A valid signature does not automatically identify the human photographer or prove that an organisation approved a later message. The signing information may identify a device, application, or service; additional identity information should not be assumed from the presence of a credential alone.

Ask what the displayed identity actually establishes. Does it identify the tool that signed the record? Is there additional evidence connecting the content to the publisher? Does the claimed organisation acknowledge this publication through its established channels?

The C2PA explainer’s discussion of identity provides background on these distinctions.

In the fictional workshop example, identifying an editing service would not, by itself, establish that the organisation authorised the payment request.

Read time and history carefully

A displayed date is useful only when its meaning is clear. A creation assertion, an editing action, a signing time, and a publication date describe different events.

A trusted timestamp can provide evidence about a signature’s timing, but it should not automatically be read as the moment the depicted scene occurred. Revisit the time distinctions in e46.

The photograph could have intact provenance while depicting last year’s gathering. That would not make the photograph fraudulent. It would make the current caption important.

A provenance-aware workflow can record transformations and link new assets to earlier material. A crop is not automatically suspicious, but a crop that removes a visible date may change how viewers interpret the photograph. The C2PA explainer describes the role of recorded actions and ingredients.

An edit needs context: Ask not only whether something changed, but whether the available evidence explains the change and its significance.

When the credential is missing

Finding an earlier record does not reconstruct a screenshot’s missing history.

Now inspect the group-chat screenshot. If the viewer finds no credential, keep the conclusion narrow: no credential was found by this tool in the evidence it could inspect.

That result does not establish whether the content is genuine or fabricated. The C2PA harms guidance warns against treating the presence or absence of provenance as an automatic judgment about truth.

A supported discovery service may help locate an earlier related record. Recovery depends on available records, supported discovery methods, and the content being examined. It is not guaranteed.

Suppose a search locates the original workshop photograph. The result can add context about the earlier image. It does not necessarily explain who created the screenshot, added the caption, or inserted the payment link.

Nor does discovery automatically validate the transformed screenshot against the earlier asset’s hard binding. Finding a related record and establishing what that record proves about today’s copy are different tasks, as explained in e47.

A match is more evidence: Recovering a related credential gives you something else to inspect, not a complete explanation of everything that happened afterwards.

Separate three questions

Integrity, identity, and context answer different questions.

Integrity asks whether protected information matches the signed record being checked. Identity concerns the signing credential and the evidence connecting it to a relevant actor. Context concerns whether the wider evidence supports the claim being made now.

These are complementary questions, not an automatic truth score. The C2PA explainer separates provenance from factual truth.

In the fictional example:

The original photograph validates: the applicable checks passed, but the later event details are not thereby confirmed.
The credential identifies a signing service: that does not establish that the organisation approved the payment request.
The screenshot matches earlier material: that does not provide a complete record of intervening changes.
The official announcement says registration is free: that conflicts with the payment request, but does not identify who created it.

These are hypothetical findings, not reported results from a real investigation.

Decide what to do next

The response should match the stakes. In this fictional scenario, do not use the payment link until the conflict is resolved through an established channel.

When explaining the result to others, describe what you actually found. “The official event page says registration is free” is more precise than “the photograph is fake.” The photograph may be genuine while the payment request is misleading.

Likewise, “this viewer found no credential” is more accurate than “no provenance exists anywhere.”

Make a precise claim: Explain what the evidence shows without stretching it into a stronger conclusion.

Evidence in the real world

Nodle’s Sign Everything or Trust Nothing describes ContentSign’s use for authenticating official communications, including Vivendi press releases. This provides a practical reason to make source material independently inspectable rather than relying only on familiar branding.

Signed publishing should not turn the absence of a credential into automatic suspicion. The C2PA explainer cautions against judging an asset solely by whether it carries provenance.

AI-generated content can also carry Content Credentials. Adobe’s February 2025 Firefly announcement provides an example: provenance can disclose synthetic creation rather than certify camera capture.

For the community discussion behind this finale, revisit Nodle’s e46 thread and e47 thread.

Try the workflow yourself

Define the claim, find the source, inspect the evidence, and choose a proportionate response.

Choose public, non-sensitive content. Avoid confidential documents, private conversations, or material that should not be uploaded to an external service.

Write down the claim you want to evaluate. Find the closest available original, then inspect any provenance using a compatible tool such as Content Credentials Verify.

Record the tool’s actual result, signing information, declared history, and uncertainties. Compare these findings with the source and surrounding claim rather than treating a status label as the entire answer.

Finish with three sentences:

The evidence supports…
The evidence does not establish…
The next useful check would be…

Leave room for uncertainty: “Not enough evidence yet” is a useful outcome when it prevents a stronger claim than the facts support.

Making digital trust practical

A genuine photograph can accompany a misleading message, and valid provenance does not establish that every surrounding claim is accurate. Content Credentials provide evidence about origin and recorded history, while context still requires investigation.

Before sharing or acting, ask three questions: Am I checking the right file? What does the available evidence establish? What still needs confirmation?

Sometimes the most useful next step is to find the original publication, contact the source independently, or pause before passing a message on.

Have you ever encountered a genuine image used in a misleading way? What checking habit would you recommend to someone entering Web3 for the first time?

Thank you for following this Crypto 101 arc and for being part of the Nodle Network.

Next, we turn from digital trust to connectivity. The next Crypto 101 arc will explore how community-powered infrastructure could disrupt the connectivity market, challenge traditional deployment models, and change who can build, contribute to, and benefit from a network.

This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies carry inherent risks, and provenance tools have technical, privacy, security, and availability limitations. Always do your own research and consult a qualified professional before making financial decisions.

Glossary

Asset: A digital item, such as a photograph, video, audio recording, or document, whose provenance may be recorded.

Assertion: A structured statement in a provenance record describing information such as creation, editing, or the tools used.

C2PA: The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity develops an open technical standard for recording and verifying digital provenance.

Certificate: A digitally signed statement associating a public key with information about its holder under an issuer’s policies.

Content Credential: A digitally signed provenance record associated with a digital asset.

Cryptographic hash: A value calculated from protected data to support integrity comparisons.

Digital signature: A cryptographic mechanism for checking that signed information has not changed and was signed using the corresponding private key.

Hard binding: A cryptographic connection between a manifest and the protected content of its associated asset.

Integrity: The property that protected information matches the record against which it is being checked.

Manifest: A C2PA structure containing a signed claim and associated provenance information.

Metadata: Information describing a file or its content beyond the visible image or audible recording.

Perceptual fingerprint: A content-derived representation designed to help identify similar versions rather than only identical data.

Provenance: Information about an asset’s origin and recorded history.

Signer: The credential holder whose corresponding private key is used to sign a record.

Soft binding: A discovery mechanism, such as a watermark or perceptual fingerprint, that can help locate a related credential.

Timestamp: Time information whose evidential meaning depends on what event it describes and how it was recorded or verified.

Trust list: A maintained set of recognised trust anchors used by a validator when assessing signing credentials.

Validation: The technical process of checking a credential’s required structures, signatures, and applicable relationship to an asset.

Validator: Software that performs provenance checks and reports their results.

Terminology follows the C2PA explainer and the distinctions developed in e46 and e47.

The Click Festivities & Events Contest

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:54:11 GMT

A street filled with music. A handmade costume. The glow of a carefully arranged display. The familiar faces that make an annual tradition feel like home. Whatever makes you stop and Click, we want to see it and hear its story.

Our Festivities & Events Contest brings these moments together in Click’s Festivities and Events feeds, with 30,000 NODL for first place, prizes for second and third, and up to five honourable mentions.

Important: Entries belong on X, not in the comments under this Paragraph post. To enter, share the link to your X post in the comments beneath the official contest article published by Click on X.

Find your reason to Click

You don’t need a huge festival on your doorstep. A neighbourhood gathering, a local performance, or the small details people put their hearts into can tell just as much of a story.

All festivities and local events are welcome, not just the celebrations mentioned above. Look for something that means something to you, capture it with Click Camera, and tell us why it caught your attention.

Be respectful of the people and traditions you photograph, ask permission where appropriate, and capture the action from a safe spot.

How to enter

1. Capture something new with Click Camera.

Find a celebration or local event and take your Click during the contest period. Older Clicks won’t count, even if you post them while the contest is running.

2. Choose your feed.

Sign your Click to either the Festivities feed or the Events feed.

3. Post your Click on X.

Include the link to your Click and a few words about what you captured and why it made you Click. Tag @clickdeepreals and @nodlenetwork.

Use #clickdeepreals #contest #keepitreal, plus #festivities or #events to match your chosen feed. You only need one of the two feed hashtags.

4. Submit your X post link under the official X article.

Copy the link to the X post you just shared. Visit @clickdeepreals on X, open the official Festivities & Events Contest article, and paste your post link into the comments beneath that article.

Click Camera

This is the step that completes your entry. Posting on X alone is not enough, and commenting under this Paragraph post does not count as a submission.

Check your prize wallet

Make sure your Nodle app and Click app use the same seed phrase. Prizes will be sent to the wallet address associated with your submitted Click, so double-check your setup before entering.

🔒 Never share your seed phrase in a post, comment, or DM. It is not part of your entry, and our team will never ask for it.

Prizes that pack a punch

🥇 1st place: 30,000 NODL

🥈 2nd place: 20,000 NODL

🥉 3rd place: 10,000 NODL

✨ Honourable mentions: Up to 5 winners, 5,000 NODL each

Winners will receive a DM from our team through Click’s or Nodle’s official X account after the contest ends. Keep an eye on your inbox!

Contest dates

Start: As soon as the official contest article on Click’s X account goes live.

End: Sunday, 8 November 2026, at 11:59 p.m. California time.

Both your Click and your completed submission must fall within this window. The start is tied to the official X article, not the publication time of this Paragraph post.

Ready, set, Click!

Grab your phone, see what’s happening around you, and show us the moments that make a celebration yours.

Capture it. Tell its story. Then submit your X post link in the comments beneath the official contest article on Click’s X account. 📸

Click Camera

Clicks of the Week

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:11:18 GMT

Hello fellow Clickstars!

This week's Clicks cross four countries through five scenes that move from crowds to quiet corners and back again. On Avenida Paulista, São Paulo turns yellow and green as a presidential campaign borrows the rhythm of Carnival. After the rain in Lleida, a European mantis hunts across wet paving stones. In Berlin, Wolfgang Mattheuer's bronze self-portrait lifts a sheep's mask at the very moment of speaking out. On the lagoon coast of Laguna, boats rest beneath wooden shelters where fishers and dolphins have worked side by side for generations. Finally, on a concrete wall in Bytom, a mechanical skull stares out from the shadows of living branches, in a city whose oldest legends come from the silver mines below.

Our journey begins on Monday with EDUARDOMORENONETO, who opens the week in the middle of one of Brazil's biggest political gatherings. CAFECONENKE carries us into Tuesday by looking down at a tiny predator most people would walk past, before SPACESMUTJE reaches the middle of the week with a monument to courage and civic memory. On Thursday, KOINOFICIAL leads us to a working shoreline in southern Brazil, and TORROCUS closes the week in Upper Silesia, where street art and mining folklore share the same walls. Each scene was captured with Click Camera and signed into the Trust Network, creating a verifiable record of the moment it entered the archive.

This week, the archive grew. It now has a total of 80,649 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week's selection

Monday, October 19, 2026

Where: São Paulo, Brazil
Feed: Events

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature." - José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

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Our week opens in a sea of yellow and green. EDUARDOMORENONETO made this Click on Avenida Paulista on 18 October 2026, during the "Bloquinho 22" rally for Flávio Bolsonaro, then the Liberal Party's presidential candidate, in the final week before Brazil's 25 October runoff. Researchers from the Monitor do Debate Político at USP/Cebrap and More in Common estimated 71,900 people at the rally's peak, within a range of 63,300 to 80,500.

The name was a deliberate play on words. "22" is the candidate's ballot number, while a bloquinho is a small bloco, the roving, music-led street party that fills Brazilian cities during Carnival. That explains the mood captured here: jerseys and flags in the national colours, a campaign banner rising above the crowd, a sound stage in the distance and red beer umbrellas sheltering vendors from the midday sun. Speeches mixed with campaign jingles, funk and axé, turning a political rally into something that looked and sounded like a street festival.

The setting is unmistakable. Glass office towers, older residential blocks with balcony gardens and a broad strip of sky frame the avenue, while a concrete overhang shades the left side of the frame. Avenida Paulista opened in 1891 as a grand boulevard for São Paulo's coffee barons, whose mansions once lined its ridge. Over the 20th century those villas gave way to banks, offices and cultural landmarks such as MASP, whose famous open span beneath the museum has become one of the city's favourite meeting points.

Paulista has long been São Paulo's largest open-air forum. It hosts Pride, labour marches, New Year's Eve, World Cup celebrations and demonstrations from across the political spectrum, and on Sundays it closes to cars so families, cyclists and street musicians can claim the asphalt. In October 2026 that role became especially visible: on 11 October, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held his own campaign mobilisation on the same avenue, and a week later these blocks filled again in the opposite political colours.

There is also an everyday São Paulo story inside this crowd. Big days on Paulista are carried by the informal economy - people selling water, flags, shirts, snacks and rain protection - and by families who come to take part, to watch or simply to be there when history unfolds in public. Fittingly, the quote comes from José Bonifácio, remembered as the "Patriarch of Independence", whose ideas still echo whenever Brazilians gather to argue about their country's future.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Where: Lleida, Spain
Feed: Animals

"The humblest creature is the centre of a world." - Jules Michelet

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From Monday's crowd of tens of thousands, CAFECONENKE takes us to a crowd of one. After the rain in Lleida, a slender green hunter steps across dark, grooved paving bricks, raindrops still beaded on its wings. This Click appears to show a European mantis (Mantis religiosa), recognisable by its triangular head, long folded wings and powerful spined forelegs.

The species owes its name to its resting pose, with the front legs folded like hands in prayer. Catalan speakers call it pregadéu, "pray-to-God", and in Spanish it is often known as santateresa, after Saint Teresa of Ávila. The piety is pure appearance: those forelegs are raptorial tools lined with spines, built to snap shut on other insects in a fraction of a second. Mantises are also among the few insects that can turn their heads to look over their shoulders, which is exactly what this one seems to be doing as it eyes the camera.

The wet pavement is part of the story. On 19 October 2026, Catalonia was emerging from a severe rain episode linked to DANA Adam, and parts of Lleida province recorded especially heavy rainfall. The glistening bricks make the mantis look like a small traveller caught out by the weather passing through the region.

October is the hinge between Lleida's hot, dry summers and its cooler, wetter autumn, and for a mantis it marks the final chapter of adult life. Before winter, females lay a foamy egg case called an ootheca, which hardens around the eggs and protects them until spring, when the next generation hatches. A late-season adult like this one therefore carries both an ending and a beginning.

Lleida itself is a city of plains and orchards. Its old cathedral, the Seu Vella, watches over the Segre river from the hill that once held Roman Ilerda, while the fruit trees of the surrounding Segrià plain, together with parks and field edges, offer just the kind of insect-rich habitat where mantises thrive. After a downpour, even a city pavement can become an accidental stage for that hidden ecosystem.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Where: Berlin, Germany
Feed: Monuments

"Whoever wants to fight must first learn to see." - Christa Wolf

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At midweek, SPACESMUTJE brings us face to face with a work about the courage it takes to show one's face. This Click captures Gesichtzeigen (Mann mit Maske), "Man with a Mask (Show Your Face)", by Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927-2004), one of the leading painters and sculptors of the Leipzig School. Created in 1981, the over-life-sized bronze stands 220 cm high and belongs to the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Mattheuer portrayed himself holding a sheep's head over half his face. The sheep stands for naïveté or foolishness, qualities that can offer protection in hostile times, yet his half-hidden eye looks straight past the mask, and the pose suggests it is about to be lowered. The clenched right fist gives the moment its charge: an awakening of resistance rather than a gesture of surrender.

The work was first titled Maskenmann ("Mask Man") and later renamed Gesichtzeigen in memory of Leipzig's Monday demonstrations of 1989-90. In German, Gesicht zeigen means both to show one's face and to take a public stand. The demonstrations began as gatherings after the Monday peace prayers at St Nicholas Church and grew in autumn 1989 into one of the defining civic movements of the Peaceful Revolution, pushing the GDR toward reform and helping bring down the Wall.

The sculpture carries that East German memory personally. Mattheuer and his wife Ursula took part in the demonstrations, and the work reflects the evasions and enforced double lives that many GDR citizens knew well. The quote fits too: Christa Wolf, one of East Germany's best-known writers, spoke to the huge crowd on Alexanderplatz on 4 November 1989.

This Click was made on 30 August 2026 in the outdoor sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie, the steel-and-glass temple Ludwig Mies van der Rohe completed in 1968 and which reopened in 2021 after a careful restoration by David Chipperfield Architects. The museum is part of the Kulturforum, built in West Berlin during the Cold War close to the border strip. Today it shows art shaped by German division inside a reunited city.

Look behind the bronze and you will see the ivy on the granite wall already blushing orange and red at its tips, a first hint of autumn in late summer. It makes a quiet counterpoint to the figure, frozen forever between hiding and speaking out.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Where: Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Feed: General

"The sea is not a place to work; the sea is a place to dream." - João Guimarães Rosa

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On Thursday, KOINOFICIAL takes us back to Brazil, this time far from the crowds, to a working waterside in Laguna, Santa Catarina. The sun bursts over the frame and turns everything below into silhouette: corrugated roofs on timber posts, a tall slatted wooden gate, hauling gear for pulling boats ashore and two hulls resting in the shade, one proudly painted with the name of its home port, "Laguna SC".

These open-sided sheds are ranchos, simple shelters where fishers store boats, nets and gear between trips. They are practical rather than picturesque: places where equipment is repaired, boats wait out the weather and the water sets the rhythm of the day. Across Santa Catarina, artisanal fishing is still passed from one generation to the next, together with the skills of mending nets, reading the water and waiting for the right moment.

Laguna is one of southern Brazil's oldest towns, founded in 1676 at the tip of a peninsula that encloses the Santo Antônio, Imaruí and Mirim lagoon system. It once marked the southern edge of Portugal's claim under the Treaty of Tordesillas, and in 1839 it briefly became the capital of the short-lived Juliana Republic. Laguna is also the hometown of Anita Garibaldi, who met Giuseppe Garibaldi here and went on to fight alongside him in South America and Italy, earning the title "Heroine of Two Worlds".

The town's most remarkable tradition, however, involves dolphins. For more than 140 years, net-casting fishers standing in the lagoon channel have waited for wild bottlenose dolphins to drive mullet toward the shore. A sudden deep dive is the signal to cast. A 2023 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirmed what local families always knew: fishers who time their casts to the dolphins' cues catch far more fish, and the cooperating dolphins have a 13 per cent higher survival rate.

Mullet, locally called tainha, is a powerful symbol along this coast. The traditional beach-seine method, arrasto de praia, has Indigenous roots and can bring whole communities together to haul a net ashore during the autumn and winter season. Azorean settlers, who arrived along this coast in the 18th century, added their own maritime customs, festivals and lace-making, and that heritage still flavours the region today.

The boats, shelters and tidal shoreline make this Click a portrait of a coast lived from the water rather than merely viewed from it, a place where boats are tools, sheds are workshops and the sea is both livelihood and horizon.

Friday, October 23, 2026

Where: Bytom, Poland
Feed: Street Art

“Reality is the shadow of the word.” — Bruno Schulz

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A machine has an eye. What does it see? TORROCUS closes the week in Bytom, Upper Silesia, with a Click that brings metal, lettering and light together on a concrete wall. On the right, a chrome cyborg skull with a glowing red eye stares across the panels, its Terminator-like jaw rendered in fine metallic detail. To its left, sharp wildstyle letters in red and silver twist like flames, while a red tag hovers above. The artist and official title remain unknown, but the most striking detail comes from nature: the soft shadows of tree branches drifting across the painted steel, as if the wall were breathing.

The setting fits the subject. Bytom's history is written in metal. Silver was mined here from the Middle Ages, and a papal bull of 1136 already mentions "argenti fossores", silver diggers, near the town. Later, coal, zinc and lead shaped the city's 19th and 20th century boom, leaving behind a landscape of shafts, slag heaps and industrial architecture.

Long before science fiction imagined mechanical guardians, Bytom had its own underground spirit. Local legend tells of Szarlej, a demon of the silver mines described with red bulging eyes and a sulphurous breath. One tradition says the miners struck a pact with him in 1367, promising him a tenth of their yield, and when they broke their word he flooded the mines. Another version links the curse to townspeople who drowned two priests in a pond during a 14th century tithe dispute, a curse said to have been lifted only in 1711 by Pope Clement XI. Walenty Roździeński retold the story in his 1612 poem Officina ferraria, and Szarlej is often seen as the silver-mine cousin of Skarbnik, the better-known spirit of Silesia's coal mines. The painted figure is not meant to be Szarlej, but the pairing is irresistible: an old mining apparition and a futuristic one, both with red eyes watching from the dark.

Bytom also has a lively tradition of turning infrastructure into open-air galleries. In 2020, the 400 ml Graffiti Festival brought more than 40 artists to the city, and works in the railway station passage drew on local legends. Those murals disappeared during railway reconstruction, and in 2025 Mona Tusz and collaborators began painting new ones showing local industry, trains, wildlife and buildings, proof that the city's walls keep carrying fresh layers of memory.

There was a fitting coincidence on the day of this Click, 10 October 2026: Bytom's Upper Silesian Museum invited families to "Pomaluj sobie jaskinię", "Paint Your Own Cave", a workshop on prehistoric-style wall painting. Inside the museum, a new generation learned how humans first made images on walls, while outside, on concrete, the latest chapter of that very old story was already shining in the sun.

Final words

This week began with EDUARDOMORENONETO on Avenida Paulista, where São Paulo's grandest boulevard once again became a stage for a nation testing its voice. CAFECONENKE then showed us how a single mantis on rain-soaked bricks in Lleida can hold an entire season of change. At midweek, SPACESMUTJE found Mattheuer's masked bronze in Berlin, a reminder that civic courage often begins with the decision to be seen, before KOINOFICIAL guided us to Laguna's fishing shelters, where people and dolphins have shared the same waters for generations. TORROCUS brought the journey to a close in Bytom, where a mechanical stare on a concrete wall meets the legends of the silver mines below.

Together, these Clicks show how much can be contained in a single frame. A crowd can reveal a country's political pulse, an insect can explain an ecosystem, a sculpture can carry the memory of a revolution, a boat shed can hold centuries of local knowledge, and a mural can continue a city's oldest stories in a brand-new language. Each photograph remains faithful to the scene its Clickstar encountered, with its origin preserved through Click Camera and the Trust Network.

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Crypto 101 | e47: When proof goes missing

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:15:10 GMT

Crypto 101 is Nodle's educational series about blockchain, digital trust, content provenance, and the technologies shaping Web3.

In e46, What does “Verified” really mean?, the focus was on reading a verification result without confusing technical proof with factual truth. This edition follows the next question: what happens when the evidence is no longer attached to the file?

Imagine a creator publishing a signed photograph. Someone screenshots it, a friend crops the screenshot, and another person reposts the result. The scene still looks familiar, but the original embedded Content Credential has not necessarily travelled with it: a screenshot creates a new image rather than carrying over the source file's C2PA metadata.

Nodle. The Trust Network.

The picture survived. Did the proof?

A screenshot can keep the image while leaving its embedded Content Credential behind.

Crypto 101 e47: “When proof goes missing” explores what happens next.

Missing proof does not mean fake.

Let’s unpack it.

The challenge is not only keeping the picture available. It is keeping the evidence discoverable, while being honest about what that evidence can still establish.

Missing does not mean fake
A missing credential leaves a question open; it is not a verdict that the content is genuine or fabricated.

Why proof becomes detached

The visible picture can survive while its embedded provenance record becomes detached.

A Content Credential is a signed record of provenance: information about a digital asset's origin and recorded history. It may be embedded in a file or stored externally, depending on the workflow.

A screenshot captures a displayed image, not the original file's complete structure. The new screenshot does not automatically inherit the original embedded credential, even when the visible image looks almost identical.

Other changes can break the connection too. Platforms and tools that do not preserve C2PA information may strip metadata or create resized and recompressed versions without recording those transformations in a new credential.

Two outcomes need separating: a credential may still be present but fail validation against the changed content, or the verifier may find no credential at all. The first reports a failed check; the second reports unavailable evidence, not a successful integrity check.

Two links, different jobs

A discovery mechanism does a different job from an integrity check.

A hard binding ties a credential to protected content through cryptographic hashing. It helps a verifier detect changes to the data covered by that binding. A soft binding, such as an invisible watermark or perceptual fingerprint, can help locate a related credential after the embedded record becomes detached.

A cryptographic hash and a perceptual fingerprint are not interchangeable. The former is designed for exact protected-data comparisons; the latter can be designed to recognize similar-looking versions even when their underlying data differs.

Mechanism	Main job	Important limit
Hard binding	Checks whether the protected content matches its signed record.	A transformed copy may no longer match the earlier binding.
Invisible watermark	Can carry an identifier used to find a stored credential in a supported system.	Finding the identifier is not a substitute for checking the credential and its relationship to the content.
Perceptual fingerprint	Can search for visually related content and its stored provenance.	Similarity is not exact equality, and candidate matches need review.

Find first, then verify
Finding a related credential is not the same as proving that the current file is unchanged.

This distinction is central to C2PA's implementation guidance: discovery methods complement hard bindings, not replace them.

How recovery actually works

Recovery is a search followed by evaluation, not an automatic authenticity verdict.

A recovery workflow needs more than a recognisable picture. A relevant credential must remain available, a supported discovery method must connect the content to it, and the tool must be able to query an appropriate service. C2PA does not operate a universal repository containing every credential.

A useful way to understand the process is:

Inspect the available file. Check whether an embedded credential is present before looking elsewhere.
Search for related evidence. A compatible service may use a watermark identifier or perceptual fingerprint to locate stored credentials.
Compare the candidate. Review the matched image, version, and available history rather than accepting visual similarity as conclusive.
Check the evidence. Examine the credential's validation result, signer, timestamps, and relationship to the content being inspected.

A lookup can miss relevant evidence because the record is unavailable, the service is outside the tool's search coverage, or the content no longer produces a usable match. “Nothing found here” should not become “no provenance exists anywhere.”

Real tools, specific conditions

Adobe's October 2024 announcement described combining signed metadata, invisible watermarking, and fingerprinting to make Content Credentials more durable. Its April 2025 press release subsequently announced the Content Authenticity app's public beta.

For the practical limits, Adobe's recovery instructions are more useful than a broad promise of durability: credentials stored in its Content Credentials cloud can be recoverable from screenshots, while credentials embedded only in a file may be lost if a platform removes them.

Adobe also notes that published cloud credentials can appear as possible matches for visually similar work. That is a discovery result to assess, not evidence that every pixel in the submitted copy matches an earlier signed original.

Durable is not indestructible
Recovery depends on available records, supported discovery methods, and the copy being examined.

For a complementary community perspective, Nodle's post about watermarks and signed provenance distinguishes a signal used for detection from a signed record that provides context. The two can support different parts of a verification workflow.

The gap recovery cannot fill

Rediscovering an earlier record does not reconstruct every step that happened afterwards.

Consider a hypothetical image with a credential recording its creation. It is then cropped using a tool that does not record provenance, reposted, and later matched to the earlier record. The recovered credential can provide evidence about the earlier asset, but it does not automatically document the intervening crop or repost.

C2PA explicitly recognises that provenance histories can be incomplete. A compatible workflow can incorporate recovered earlier provenance into a new manifest and disclose the interruption, but discovery alone does not generate a missing editing history.

There are also two different checks to keep separate: validating the recovered credential's signed information, and establishing how that credential relates to today's transformed copy. A credential can be internally intact without its original hard binding validating the new screenshot.

A recovered past is not a complete history
An earlier signed record can add context without proving what happened during an undocumented gap.

As in e46, provenance is not a truth detector. A well-documented image can still be shared with a misleading caption, so the source, timing, and wider evidence remain part of the decision.

Where Nodle fits

Nodle ContentSign describes a C2PA-compatible approach that combines a signed content record with a cryptographic fingerprint anchored on the Nodle Chain. Nodle's technology overview presents this anchor as an independent proof record alongside portable C2PA credentials.

That is a different function from perceptual lookup. A cryptographic fingerprint can support comparison with the corresponding protected content, but it is not an image backup, a reconstruction of a missing manifest, or an automatic match for every cropped screenshot.

C2PA itself does not require blockchain; compatible implementations can add ledger-based storage or anchoring. Keeping those roles separate helps readers distinguish an open provenance standard from an additional implementation layer.

For a real-world application, Nodle's post on authenticating official communications describes ContentSign's use for Vivendi press releases. It illustrates why recipients need a way to check official material, rather than depending only on familiar branding.

A proof record is not the file
An independent anchor can preserve evidence about content without preserving the content itself or filling gaps in its history.

Durability needs privacy choices

Making credentials easier to rediscover can also make earlier information easier to find. C2PA's guidance warns that soft-binding searches can reconnect content with older manifests containing information omitted or redacted from a later version.

Before publishing discoverable credentials, review which identity, location, and workflow details are included, who can query them, and what controls the repository offers. C2PA recommends informed participation in discovery workflows, including making users aware when repository queries occur.

Adobe's cloud-credential management guidance provides a product-specific example: users can view and delete credentials stored in Adobe's service. Those controls should not be confused with a promise to remove every previously distributed copy elsewhere.

Publish evidence deliberately
Decide what should remain discoverable before sharing a credential publicly.

Use an image you created and are comfortable making public. Avoid private documents, confidential screenshots, or identifiable material that should not be uploaded to an external service.

First, inspect the original with a compatible viewer, such as Content Credentials Verify, and note whether a credential is present, whether it validates, and which signer and history are shown. Verify supports several media formats, but it also cautions that a chosen file may not contain provenance information to display.

Next, make a screenshot and inspect that file separately. If the original credential is absent, a tool with a supported recovery service may let you search for a related record; the Content Authenticity Initiative's technical FAQ explains why screenshots need that separate discovery step.

Record three observations: what stayed visible, what evidence remained attached, and what evidence the recovery service found. If nothing is found, record that outcome too rather than treating recovery as guaranteed.

Finally, compare the versions yourself. What did the screenshot or crop leave out, and does any recovered record actually explain those changes? A match is a reason to inspect the evidence more carefully, not a reason to skip that step.

As a practical publishing habit, keep an original copy and share a source link alongside reposted material when possible. When inspecting someone else's content, ask for the original or an official publication rather than treating a screenshot of a verification badge as the underlying credential.

Nodle's post on proof and judgment offers a useful prompt for this process: inspect identity, history, timing, and context as well as the technical evidence.

This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies carry risks, and provenance tools have technical, privacy, and availability limitations. Do your own research and seek qualified advice when appropriate.

Glossary

Asset: A digital item, such as an image, video, audio recording, or document, whose provenance can be recorded.

Assertion: A structured statement in a credential about an asset, such as a declared creation or editing action.

C2PA: The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity develops an open standard for recording and verifying digital provenance.

Content Credential: A digitally signed provenance record associated with a digital asset.

Cryptographic hash: A fixed-length value calculated from protected data to support exact-data integrity comparisons.

Digital signature: A cryptographic mechanism used to verify that signed information has not changed and was signed using the corresponding private key.

Durable Content Credentials: Credentials made more discoverable after detachment through supported methods such as watermarking or fingerprint lookup.

Hard binding: A cryptographic connection between a manifest and the protected content of its associated asset.

Integrity: The property that protected information has not changed relative to the record being checked.

Invisible watermark: A signal embedded in content that may carry an identifier for discovering a related credential.

Manifest: The signed C2PA data structure containing statements and related information about an asset's provenance.

Manifest repository: An external service or store that holds manifests and may support discovery queries.

Metadata: Information about a file or its content, rather than only the visible picture or audible recording.

On-chain anchor: A blockchain record used as an additional reference for evidence such as a cryptographic fingerprint.

Perceptual fingerprint: A content-derived representation designed to help identify similar versions rather than only identical protected data.

Provenance: Information about an asset's origin and recorded history.

Redaction: The removal of selected information from a provenance record through a supported workflow.

Soft binding: A discovery association, such as a watermark or perceptual fingerprint, that can reconnect content with a related external credential.

Validation: The technical process of checking a credential and the applicable relationships and structures required by its standard.

Sid Dixit Joins Intergalactic Labs as Advisor to the Board

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:03:37 GMT

Nodle started with a simple idea. The smartphones already in our pockets can act as a network that helps connected things stay in touch and find their way home. Today Nodle is one of the largest Bluetooth networks running on phones. The next step is to look up.

Meet Sid Dixit

Sid has spent years building technology infrastructure at scale, in orbit and on the ground.

Planet. As an executive at Planet, Sid helped develop systems supporting a fleet that has put hundreds of satellites in orbit.
Maxar Technologies. He later served as CTO of Maxar Technologies, another major satellite builder and operator.
iTradeNetwork. Today he is CTO of iTradeNetwork, part of publicly traded Roper Technologies, where he leads technology for a digital network supporting the movement of food across the United States.

Very few people know both what it takes to build infrastructure in space and what it takes to move real goods through a network on the ground. Sid does, and that combination is exactly what Nodle needs for its next chapter.

Why space

Phones cover the places where people are. Satellites can reach the places where they are not.

The Nodle network works because smartphones pass near Bluetooth devices throughout the day, relaying their signals to the cloud. That model is strong in cities, along busy routes and anywhere people gather. It is thinner over oceans, deserts, remote farms and the long roads between cities.

Wireless communications in space could fill those gaps. Bringing phones and satellites together could mean that a sensor, a container or a shipment stays connected wherever it travels, not only when it passes near a phone. With Sid, Intergalactic Labs will explore how to make that possible for the Nodle network.

Where Nodle stands today

Nodle is one of the largest Bluetooth networks running on phones, and it keeps growing in good company.

Nodle works alongside Hubble Network, Apple and, more recently, Google. Each relationship extends what the network can see and connect. Sid's experience in satellite infrastructure and supply chain technology is particularly valuable as Nodle expands its connected asset tracking platform, from the phone in your pocket to the sky above it.

Welcome, Sid

“When we started Nodle, the idea of turning phones into a network sounded a little crazy. Now the next frontier is right above our heads. Sid has built infrastructure in orbit and runs a network that moves real goods on the ground. It is an honor to build this next chapter with him.”
Micha Benoliel, Founder and CEO, Nodle

"I have spent my career building networks, first in orbit and more recently across the food supply chain. What drew me to Nodle is how it turns the phones people already carry into real infrastructure. Adding space to that picture could connect the places phones cannot reach, from the open ocean to the remote farm. I am excited to help the Intergalactic Labs team explore what that looks like.”
Sid Dixit, Advisor to the Board, Intergalactic Labs

Welcome aboard, Sid. We are excited to explore what comes next together.

Follow Nodle on X and LinkedIn for updates as this work moves forward.

Clicks of the Week

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:08:57 GMT

Hello fellow Clickstars!

This week's Clicks cross four countries through five scenes that could hardly be more different. In Sharpsburg, Georgia, a red-spotted purple butterfly flashes electric blue against dark mulch. In Kuala Lumpur, a Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One car glows under neon light as the city celebrates its love of racing. A crescent-topped minaret rises above a humid Karachi night, while a skeleton horse with a bright pink mane rears off a pickup truck outside a Texas supermarket. Finally, green flags, smoke and a red flare fill the Athens Olympic Stadium as Panathinaikos supporters turn a European night into a ritual.

Our journey begins on Monday with TDC123, who looked down at the leaf litter and found a butterfly wearing the colours of a summer night. AFFANDYFAIZ carries us into Tuesday nose-to-nose with a Formula One car, before FARAZSALEEM1999 reaches the middle of the week on a quiet Karachi rooftop. On Thursday, DORKYDAD serves up a perfect piece of Texas October mischief, and KAPA1 closes the week in the green-and-white heart of Athens. Each scene was captured with Click Camera and signed into the Trust Network, creating a verifiable record of the moment it entered the archive.

Throughout the week, the team handpicks Clicks to promote the different feeds and Clickstars on social media, like X and Instagram. They get a tip from Nodle for their contributions to the network, Click archive and creativity - if you want to get highlighted by the official accounts, keep on Clicking, yours might be next!

Link your Click app profile to your Nodle app by using the same seed phrase in both apps, set up a username, and claim your clk.eth or nodl.eth handle - this makes it easier to get in touch with your fans and receive tips!

Note: last week's query passed faulty numbers, this is the corrected total of certified Clicks.

This week, the archive grew. It now has a total of 80,451 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week's selection

Monday, October 12, 2026

Where: Sharpsburg, Georgia, United States
Feed: Animals

"The poetry of earth is never dead." - John Keats

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This Click shows a red-spotted purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax), one of the most striking butterflies of the eastern United States, resting with its wings spread wide on dark mulch in Sharpsburg. The blue-black wings carry an iridescent wash across the hindwings, a row of pale-blue marginal spots and small orange markings near the forewing tips, every detail sharp against the soil.

Despite the name, the red spots are easiest to see on the underside of the wings. The topside is the surprise: its shimmer comes from the structure of the scales rather than from pigment, so the black turns blue and violet only when light hits it at the right angle. In the soft daylight of this Click, the butterfly seems to glow from within.

The choice of ground is typical, too. Red-spotted purples visit flowers, but adults are far more often drawn to tree sap, fermenting fruit and damp soil, a habit known as puddling, where butterflies sip moisture rich in salts and minerals. The wood chips here are not just background but a likely refuelling stop, while a few leaves in the corner have already blushed red with the turning season.

Georgia's wildlife agency lists wild cherry as a host plant for the caterpillars, alongside willows, poplars, birches and oaks. The young larvae look remarkably like bird droppings, a disguise that keeps hungry birds away, and they spend the winter tucked inside rolled leaves before resuming growth in spring. A brief adult encounter like this one carries a whole woodland life cycle behind it.

The Click was made on 1 October 2026, as Coweta County entered its autumn season of markets, harvest gatherings and outdoor community events. The Coweta County Farmers Market, running since 1977, keeps alive the local tradition of growers and gardeners bringing seasonal food, flowers, crafts and honey together. Fittingly for a pollinator story, Georgia even has an official state butterfly: the eastern tiger swallowtail, adopted in 1988.

The red-spotted purple also offers a lesson in survival. Its dark, blue-washed wings imitate the pipevine swallowtail, a species that tastes foul to predators thanks to the toxic plants its caterpillars eat. Birds that have learned to avoid the swallowtail tend to leave its harmless lookalike alone, although a close look reveals the difference: the red-spotted purple has no tails on its hindwings. In a single pair of wings, this Click holds camouflage, mimicry and brilliant colour at once.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Where: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Feed: Cars

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." - Les Brown

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This Click shows a Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One display car at Plaza PETRONAS, KLCC, part of the From Track To You Returns activation. From 1 to 4 October 2026, visitors could get close to the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 W17 Performance, try a racing simulator, explore PETRONAS experiences and browse the brand shop.

The Click was made on 6 October, shortly after the public programme concluded. The car itself is a time capsule: the FTX, CrowdStrike, Akkodis and TeamViewer logos, together with the special Pirelli 150 badge marking the tyre maker's 150th anniversary, point to the 2022 livery, the first season of Formula One's ground-effect era. Its wide, sculpted front wing and low-profile 18-inch tyres were the new look of the sport that year.

PETRONAS has been the team's title and technical partner since 2010, which makes Kuala Lumpur far more than a marketing stop. The teal teardrop on the nose and the Syntium branding on the wing belong to the company's fuel and lubricant research, developed alongside the engines that power the team on track.

The display followed a special 30 September gathering at the PETRONAS Twin Towers, when team principal Toto Wolff and drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli visited the city. A façade light show capped the evening. The towers themselves carry a quiet piece of local symbolism: architect César Pelli based their floor plan on an eight-pointed star drawn from Islamic geometry, and at 452 metres they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004.

The celebrations also recalled Malaysia's long love affair with Formula One. Sepang International Circuit first hosted the Malaysian Grand Prix in 1999 and became famous for its tropical heat and sudden afternoon downpours, which regularly turned races upside down. This year's festivities carried that energy into the city, with fan zones at KLCC, a pop-up at The Exchange TRX, simulator sessions and performance-car displays.

At Plaza PETRONAS, this Click captures the quieter side of that festival: no grandstand and no start lights, just a front wing, slick tyres and carbon fibre bathed in blue and violet light, with a PETRONAS-liveried Mercedes road car glowing on the screen behind it. At arm's length, a machine built for over 300 km/h looks almost unreal, paused just long enough for the city to admire it.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Where: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Feed: General

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark." - Rabindranath Tagore

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This Click looks across a neighbourhood mosque and its minaret in Karachi, toward the lit high-rises of a city that keeps moving long after sunset. The crescent finial, the white pointed arches and the carved lattice panels on the minaret, a pattern known as jali, mark a familiar scale of sacred architecture set against the rapid vertical growth of the metropolis.

Karachi has thousands of mosques woven through its districts, from small community prayer rooms to landmark congregational buildings such as the single-domed Masjid-e-Tooba in Defence. Their minarets are more than signs of worship: they are anchors in a city of well over 20 million people, whose streets, markets and residential quarters spread in every direction.

The heavy, cloud-filled sky belongs to Karachi's coastal climate. Moist air from the Arabian Sea keeps October nights warm and hazy, softening and scattering the distant lights of the towers, some glowing red and green. That haze gives this Click its muted, cinematic mood and fits one of the city's proudest nicknames: Roshniyon ka Shehar, the City of Lights.

The Click was made on Sunday, 11 October 2026, as the city's religious, family and market rhythms carried on between evening prayer and the later hours. Karachi's mosques are neighbourhood institutions, tied to teaching, charity, discussion, Ramadan iftar tables and the busy social life that gathers around Friday prayer.

They also carry a particular kind of urban continuity. Karachi grew from a small fishing settlement remembered in local lore as Kolachi, named after the legendary Mai Kolachi, and in the old city several mosques have outlasted changing governments, migrations and redevelopment. Jamia Mosque Beech Wali is described as around 250 years old, while mosques in the Ranchore Line and Bolton Market areas trace their histories to the 19th and early 20th centuries. This Click needs no famous monument to show that same enduring role.

Look closer and the everyday city appears too. Round rooftop water tanks, one with a spiral staircase, stand like small towers of their own, a reminder of how much Karachi depends on stored water. Power lines, a lamp post and razor wire trace the street below. Between low rooftops and tall towers, the crescent makes its point quietly: Karachi's skyline is never only about height, but about calls to prayer, family homes and the landmarks that guide a neighbourhood after dark.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Where: Magnolia, Texas, United States
Feed: Festivities

"Texas is a state of mind." - John Steinbeck

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This Click was made outside H-E-B Magnolia Place on FM 1488, where autumn had already turned the parking lot into a stage for Halloween. In 2026, the Magnolia-area H-E-B stores stocked Halloween and Día de los Muertos décor alongside themed sweets, from skeleton-shaped gummies and candy-corn mixes to porch-ready cauldrons.

The star of the scene is a full-size skeleton horse with a flowing pink mane and tail, strapped to the tow hitch of a black Ram pickup and rearing up over the tailgate like a bronc leaving the chute. It is half ranch-country prop, half Halloween joke. In Texas, October decorations love to borrow from rodeos, pickup trucks and livestock, so a bony stallion riding along with a cooler in the truck bed feels spooky and distinctly local at the same time.

The red banner by the garden centre reads "Game Day - Texans Football", a nod to Houston's NFL team and to a region where autumn arrives with Friday-night lights, barbecue smoke and team colours. H-E-B, founded in 1905 by Florence Butt in a small Kerrville storefront, enjoys an almost legendary loyalty among Texans, which makes its parking lot a fitting place for a little hometown theatre.

The Click was made on Sunday, 11 October 2026, as the Magnolia and Woodlands area entered the busiest stretch of its Halloween season. Community calendars listed family activities, crafts and outdoor gatherings, while just up the road near Todd Mission, the Texas Renaissance Festival filled its autumn weekends with costumes, jousting and theme days that lean happily into the spooky season.

Later in the month, Magnolia's recurring Fall Fest Community Family Fair was scheduled for 31 October at the Magnolia Event Center. The free gathering promised trick-or-treating, children's crafts, face painting, pumpkin-patch scenes, food trucks and a market for local makers, a modern community ritual built on exactly the cheerful, slightly absurd spirit captured here.

There is a local joke hidden in the timing, too: by mid-October, Southeast Texas decorates for autumn with great conviction even when the weather still feels like summer. The deep blue sky, hard sunlight and the Clickstar's own shadow stretched across the asphalt make that contradiction part of the charm: Halloween by calendar, Texas by temperature.

Friday, October 16, 2026

Where: Amarousio, Attica, Greece
Feed: Sports

"A crowd is not merely many people, but one living voice." - Nikos Kazantzakis

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This Click was made during Panathinaikos vs Borac Banja Luka at the Athens Olympic Stadium on 15 October 2026, a UEFA Conference League league-phase fixture. Panathinaikos won 2-1: Cyriel Dessers converted a penalty in the 10th minute, Kings Kangwa added the second in the 70th, and Aleksandar Jojić scored late for the visitors.

The scene centres on the home support rather than the pitch. Green flags wave, a red flare burns, smoke drifts up toward the roof and fans in club jackets and scarves stand shoulder to shoulder while a steward watches from the track. It is the ritual side of a European night, where the stadium becomes a place to perform collective identity as much as to watch a match.

The stadium itself has a story. Its sweeping white steel arches and roof were designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for the 2004 Olympic Games, when Athens welcomed the Summer Games back to the country where they began. The athletics track still separates the stands from the pitch, one reason supporters dream of the club's long-awaited new home in Votanikos.

The "1966" on the banner honours Gate 13, officially founded on 19 November 1966 and widely regarded as Greece's oldest organised supporters' union. Its name comes from Gate 13 at the club's traditional home, Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium on Leoforos Alexandras, where the most passionate fans began gathering in the late 1950s. It was traditionally the cheaper, unnumbered section, where students, workers and loyal regulars stood together, and its chanting culture has followed the team across Athens and Europe ever since.

Next to the date sits the green shamrock, the club's emblem since its early years. Founded in 1908, Panathinaikos takes its name from the idea of being a club "of all Athenians", and the clover has become as much a part of the city's football identity as the colour green itself.

European nights carry extra weight here. Panathinaikos remains the only Greek club to have reached the European Cup final, losing to Ajax at Wembley in 1971 under the legendary Ferenc Puskás. Every continental fixture since invites comparison with that memory, and on nights like this one, the crowd sings as if the story is still being written.

Final words

This week began with TDC123 spotting a red-spotted purple on the mulch of Sharpsburg, where a single butterfly revealed mimicry, structural colour and a whole woodland life cycle. AFFANDYFAIZ then brought us face to face with a Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS car in Kuala Lumpur, a reminder of Malaysia's lasting bond with Formula One. At midweek, FARAZSALEEM1999 found calm above Karachi, where a crescent-topped minaret stood guard over water tanks, rooftops and glowing towers, before DORKYDAD caught a pink-maned skeleton horse rearing off a pickup in Magnolia, Texas humour at its finest. KAPA1 brought the journey to a roaring close in Athens, where green flags and red smoke carried more than 50 years of supporter history.

Together, these Clicks show how much can fit into a single frame. A butterfly can explain survival, a racing car can tell the story of a city's ambitions, a minaret can anchor a neighbourhood, a Halloween prop can capture a regional sense of humour, and a crowd can keep a club's legend alive. Each photograph remains faithful to the scene its Clickstar encountered, with its origin preserved through Click Camera and the Trust Network.

Want to be featured next? Keep Clicking, keep signing and keep showing the world what authentic looks like - one capture at a time.

Now, go relax and enjoy your weekend!

And help us spread the word about Click. Encourage your friends and family to submit their Clicks too - it is becoming a destination for authentic, verifiable media from around the world. Every contribution strengthens the archive and helps remarkable local stories reach new audiences.

Before we forget!

Did you know that you can submit your favourite photos to ClickAI? It will provide helpful feedback on how you could improve your next shots. Simply log in to www.clickapp.com with your Click Camera through WalletConnect, select your image and click the AI✨ button below it.

You can then enter your Click in the AI contest for a small entry fee and have the chance to win if the AI's evaluation is favourable. Curious? Try it today!

Did this catch your attention?

Explore our blog post, Click: Beyond the Filter, to discover how the app powers the ecosystem behind the Digital Trust Network. Click lets creators capture media, swipe to sign and authenticate it on the blockchain, and then share the authenticated content anywhere.

Happy Clicking - we can't wait to see what you share!

Crypto 101 | e46: What does "Verified" really mean?

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:20:09 GMT

Crypto 101 is Nodle's educational series about blockchain, digital trust, content provenance, and the technologies shaping Web3.

In e45, "Who Signed the Proof?", the focus moved from the signature itself to the identity behind it. That leads to the next practical question: what should someone do when a verification tool displays a result?

A green check can feel final. It is not. A verification result answers a defined set of technical questions, and its meaning depends on what was checked, which trust framework was used, whether the credential remains available, and what evidence the viewer can inspect.

"Verified" is not a universal verdict. It is a report about specific checks performed on specific evidence.

Verification is a process

A five-stage verification flow showing a file, Content Credential, signature checks, trust checks, and the final result.

A Content Credential is a cryptographically signed provenance record that can contain information about an asset's origin, edits, tools, signer, and use of AI. A validator examines the credential, its relationship to the media, the signature, the certificate chain, timestamps, assertions, and other required structures. The C2PA Conformance Program includes signature validation, timestamp validation, assertion validation, cryptographic hash validation, and result reporting among the expected capabilities of validator products.

This means verification is not a single comparison. It is a sequence of checks that asks whether the available evidence is internally consistent and whether the signer connects to a recognized trust framework.

Verification does not ask, "Is this believable?" It asks, "Does the available evidence pass the checks this validator knows how to perform?"

Four results to understand

Four result cards compare trusted, valid, failed, and not-found Content Credential outcomes.

1. The credential is present and trusted

A trusted result generally means that the credential is cryptographically intact, the protected content matches, and the signing certificate connects to a trust list recognized by the validator. C2PA's deployment guidance distinguishes a technically valid credential from one whose signer is also trusted by the validator.

That is strong evidence of provenance and integrity. It can help a viewer understand who signed the content, when it was signed, and what declared actions form part of its history. It still does not establish that every scene, caption, statement, or claim inside the media is factually correct. C2PA describes Content Credentials as provenance evidence rather than a value judgment about whether the recorded information is true.

Trusted provenance strengthens a decision. It does not make the decision for you.

2. The credential is valid but the signer is not trusted

A valid result can mean that the signature and content binding pass technical checks while the signer does not connect to the validator's recognized trust list. This is not proof of deception. It means the cryptography may be intact, but the validator cannot provide the same level of assurance about the identity behind the signing certificate.

The next step is to inspect the signer, certificate issuer, timestamp, product, and available context. An unfamiliar credential may belong to a legitimate creator, a private workflow, a test system, or an unrecognized source. It may also deserve extra caution.

"Not trusted" often means "not recognized by this trust framework," not automatically "malicious."

3. Validation fails

A failed or invalid result can appear when the media no longer matches its protected hash, the signature cannot be validated, required structures are malformed, or another validation rule fails. With Nodle ContentSign, modifying signed content changes its hash, so the recomputed hash no longer matches the value bound into the manifest.

Failure is a warning that the available credential should not be treated as intact proof for the file being inspected. It does not always reveal intent. A file may have been maliciously altered, but it may also have been resized, transcoded, recompressed, or processed by software that did not preserve the signed data.

Validation failure tells you that the proof no longer matches. It does not tell you why the mismatch happened.

4. No credential is found

When a tool finds no Content Credential, the safest conclusion is simply that no credential was available to that tool. Content Credentials are still being adopted, so many legitimate files have none. The public Content Credentials Verify tool also warns that inspected content may not contain information to display.

Credentials can also become detached when a platform strips metadata or transforms a file. Durable Content Credentials address this risk by combining a hard binding, such as a cryptographic hash, with soft-binding methods such as invisible watermarking or fingerprint lookup, which can help rediscover an externally stored manifest.

No credential does not mean fake. It means provenance could not be established from the evidence the verifier found.

A better result screen

A useful verification experience should not stop at a badge. It should show enough information for a person to understand the result and decide what to inspect next.

At minimum, look for:

Credential status: Was a credential found, and did it pass validation?
Signer: Who or what signed the asset?
Trust status: Does the signer chain to a trust list recognized by the validator?
Time: When was the content signed, and is there a trusted timestamp?
Actions: What creation or editing steps were declared?
Binding: Does the credential still match the asset being viewed?
Warnings: Did any part of the signature, certificate, manifest, or asset relationship fail?

The free Content Credentials Verify tool lets users upload or drag supported media into an inspector and review available Content Credentials and changes over time. The C2PA Conformance Explorer provides a separate way to examine conforming products and relevant trust information.

A badge is the beginning of verification. The details are where informed trust begins.

Integrity, identity, and truth

Three columns show integrity as a file-to-hash match, identity as a key-to-signer relationship, and truth as a contextual human judgment.

Three ideas are often collapsed into one:

Integrity asks whether the protected content or provenance data changed.
Identity asks who or what controlled the signing credential and how that signer connects to a trust framework.
Truth asks whether the claims and events represented by the content are accurate in the real world.

A validator can provide strong evidence about integrity and signer identity. Truth requires broader context, corroboration, and human judgment. This distinction is why proof should inform a decision rather than replace it.

Cryptography can verify a relationship between data and a signer. It cannot independently verify every claim depicted in the file.

Ask five questions

A five-step checklist covering the credential, validation result, signer, content history, and wider context.

When inspecting digital content, use this five-question check:

Was a credential found? If not, avoid concluding that the content is either genuine or fake.
Did the credential validate? If it failed, identify which check failed before relying on it.
Who signed it? Review the signer and the authority that issued the signing certificate.
What does the history say? Examine declared edits, tools, timestamps, and AI-related assertions.
Does the surrounding evidence agree? Compare the credential with the publisher, original source, reporting, and real-world context.

This workflow gives readers a repeatable way to move from a badge to an informed decision.

Do not stop at the status. Check the signer, history, timing, and surrounding evidence.

Where Nodle fits

Nodle ContentSign creates a C2PA manifest that binds signer identity, timestamp information, and a content hash to an image, video, or document. A recipient can inspect the standard C2PA data with compatible tools without needing Nodle software.

Nodle also describes an on-chain fingerprint as an independent record that can remain available if a platform strips the file's embedded manifest. Across Nodle's Trust Network, this provides an additional anchoring layer while keeping the credential compatible with the open C2PA ecosystem.

This layered design matters because no single transport path is perfect. Embedded metadata can travel with a file, soft bindings can help rediscover missing credentials, and public anchoring can provide an additional record for comparison.

Open verification works best when proof can survive beyond the app, platform, or company that created it.

From standards to adoption

The ecosystem around Content Credentials is moving from specifications toward broader implementation. C2PA launched Content Credentials 2.3 with support for live video, more file types, clearer edit histories, cloud-linked information, and updated validation protections. Its Conformance Program and official Trust List add public governance for products and certificate authorities that create or validate C2PA data.

Recent announcements also show how provenance is becoming part of platform and creator workflows. TikTok joined the C2PA Steering Committee in July 2026 after implementing Content Credentials alongside complementary labeling methods. C2PA also published practical guidance for identifying AI-generated, AI-modified, and non-synthetic content through signed, machine-readable manifests.

For ongoing developments, readers can follow C2PA announcements, the Content Authenticity Initiative, and Nodle on X. Nodle's recent posts reinforce the arc's central message: a signature supports verification, while context and judgment remain essential.

Better standards do not remove the need for judgment. They give judgment better evidence.

Read the evidence

The goal of content provenance is not to reduce every piece of media to a green or red symbol. It is to make important evidence visible, portable, and testable.

A trusted result can provide strong confidence that a recognized signer approved a particular asset and that the protected content remains intact. A valid but untrusted result asks the viewer to investigate the signer. A failure warns that the proof no longer matches. A missing credential leaves the provenance question open.

The best habit is not "trust the badge." It is "read the result".

Glossary

Assertion: A structured statement inside a Content Credential describing information such as creation, edits, tools, or AI use.

Certificate chain: The linked sequence of digital certificates that connects a signing certificate to a recognized root authority.

Content binding: The cryptographic relationship that associates a Content Credential with a specific digital asset.

Content Credential: A cryptographically signed provenance record that can describe the origin and history of digital content.

C2PA: The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, which maintains an open technical standard for content provenance.

Durable Content Credential: A credential designed to remain discoverable through a combination of hard and soft bindings even when embedded metadata is removed.

Hard binding: A cryptographic link, commonly based on hashing, that tightly associates a manifest with a particular asset.

Hash: A fixed-length cryptographic fingerprint that changes when the protected data changes.

Integrity: Confidence that protected content and provenance data have not changed since signing.

Manifest: The signed data structure that stores a Content Credential's claims, assertions, ingredients, and related provenance information.

Provenance: Information about a digital asset's origin and recorded history.

Signer: The person, organization, device, or service that controls the key used to sign a credential.

Soft binding: A discoverability method, such as watermarking or fingerprint lookup, that can reconnect an asset with an externally stored credential.

Timestamp: Cryptographic or recorded evidence indicating when a signature or related event occurred.

Trust list: A maintained set of recognized certificate authorities or trust anchors used by validators when making trust decisions.

Validation: The technical process of checking a credential's structure, signature, assertions, timestamps, and relationship to the asset.

Validator: Software that reads a Content Credential, performs required checks, and reports the results.

Valid: A result indicating that required technical checks passed, even if the signer is not recognized as trusted.

Trusted: A result indicating that validation passed and the signer connects to a trust framework recognized by the validator.

Nodle and Gozem bring a phone-powered asset network to West and Central Africa

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:42:10 GMT

Nodle is partnering with Gozem, the super app for transport, delivery and financial services in French-speaking Africa. Gozem is joining the Nodle network and deploying it across the five countries where it operates: Togo, Benin, Gabon, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo.

The goal is practical. Gozem leases vehicles to drivers across its markets, and every one of those vehicles needs to be located and, when necessary, recovered. With the Nodle network, Gozem adds a new layer of visibility over its fleet, built on smartphones and Bluetooth rather than on costly dedicated infrastructure.

About Gozem

Gozem brings transportation, e-commerce, e-banking and financing together in one app. Its team works across 12 cities in French-speaking Africa, serving riders, drivers and businesses every day.

How the Nodle network works

Nodle turns smartphones into Bluetooth gateways. A Bluetooth tag or device broadcasts a small signal. Nearby Nodle-enabled phones, along with always-on gateways, pick up that signal and relay it, so the owner of the asset knows where it was last seen. There is no SIM card and no cellular modem to install in each asset.

Today Nodle is one of the largest Bluetooth networks running on phones. It covers the places where people are, which is exactly where vehicles on a ride and delivery platform spend their day.

What it means for Gozem

For Gozem, the network means two things:

Location. A clearer view of where leased vehicles are across five countries.

Recovery. A faster path to finding a vehicle when it goes missing or needs to come back.

What it means for the Nodle network

Five new countries, and dense urban fleets moving through busy cities every day. Each new deployment makes the network denser and more useful for everyone who relies on it, from fleet operators to logistics companies to anyone tracking an asset in the region.

"Gozem has built one app that moves people, goods and money across French-speaking Africa. Bringing the Nodle network to their fleet means the vehicles drivers depend on are easier to find and easier to recover. Every country Gozem brings online makes the network stronger for everyone." Micha Benoliel, founder and CEO, Nodle

Learn more

Companies that want to locate and recover assets on the Nodle network can reach the team here.

Clicks of the Week

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:37:32 GMT

Hello fellow Clickstars!

This week's Clicks cross five countries through five scenes that could hardly be more different. Above the Byfjorden in western Norway, a suspension bridge scatters its lights across the dark water like a ribbon of gold. In Budapest, the white turrets of Fisherman's Bastion frame a Gothic spire and a roof of patterned tiles. In Cantabria, two towering giants lead a street procession of dancers and children in traditional dress, while in the French Vaucluse an apple orchard rests under a canopy of anti-hail netting. Finally, in the old streets of Gliwice, two handmade fursuit characters prove that imagination is best when it has room to walk around.

Our journey begins on Monday with THOMAS0682, who watches the lights of a bridge dissolve into a Norwegian fjord at night. Clickstar carries us into Tuesday with a sunlit climb up Castle Hill, before a fellow Clickstar reaches the middle of the week with a parade of giants through northern Spain. On Thursday, MOI2233 leads us into a quiet Provençal orchard, and TORROCUS closes the week in Gliwice, where two original characters step out of the sketchbook and onto the pavement. Each scene was captured with Click Camera and signed into the Trust Network, creating a verifiable record of the moment it entered the archive.

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This week, the archive grew. It now has a total of 80,704 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week's selection

Monday, October 5, 2026

Where: Loddefjord, Vestland, Norway
Feed: Architecture

"Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who cross them." - Mehmet Murat Ildan

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THOMAS0682 begins the week on the water, where a long string of lamps stretches across the Byfjorden beneath a heavy night sky. The Click shows Askøy Bridge, or Askøybrua in Norwegian, a suspension bridge linking Bergen with the island municipality of Askøy. A single tower rises against the clouds, a few moored boats glow near the shore and the lights of the hillside homes twinkle in the distance. Its 1,057-metre length and 850-metre main span once made it Norway's longest-span suspension bridge, and it remains among the country's largest.

The bridge was built between 1989 and 1992 and opened on 12 December 1992, ahead of schedule. Until then, the ferry between Kleppestø and Bergen was the essential route across the fjord, and the last car ferry crossing marked the end of an older island-to-city routine. Even the island's name points to its landscape, as Askøy is usually read as the "ash tree island", a green and hilly place that lies right next to Norway's second-largest city.

That is why the view means more than its lights suggest. The bridge did not simply shorten a trip. It connected Askøy to Bergen by road and changed journeys to work, school, shops and family visits for generations of residents. It remained a toll crossing until 2006, when it was paid off and the toll booths disappeared.

The Click was made at the beginning of October, when western Norway moves decisively into darker evenings and Bergen, a city famous for its rain, turns indoors. The Bergen International Film Festival was due to begin on 14 October 2026 with documentary, fiction and short film screenings across the city, an annual reminder that autumn darkness here is as much a setting for culture as for reflection.

There is also a quieter ritual in the bridge's story. For decades the crossing meant ferry timetables, quayside waits and vessels gliding through the fjord. The bridge replaced that pause with an unbroken roadway, but the water below still keeps the old geography visible. In this Click, the golden lamps smear across the surface like brushstrokes and almost draw a ferry route back onto the fjord. Monday opens with a reminder that a good bridge connects two shores without erasing the water between them.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Where: Budapest, Hungary
Feed: Monuments

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W. B. Yeats

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This Clickstar carries the journey into Tuesday with a view from the street up to Fisherman's Bastion (Halászbástya) and Matthias Church, formally the Church of Our Lady, on Castle Hill in Buda. The arched gateway, the broad stone staircase and the cone-roofed towers belong to the bastion, while beyond them rise the church's Zsolnay-tile roof and ornate Gothic spire. At the foot of the steps, a woman with a hoop and a golden dog pass through the morning light, giving the monument a wonderfully human scale.

The bastion was built between 1895 and 1902 and designed by Frigyes Schulek as a Neo-Romanesque lookout and decorative setting for the church rather than as a working fortress. Its seven turrets represent the seven Magyar chieftains traditionally associated with the Hungarian settlement of the Carpathian Basin in 895.

The name carries older Buda lore. One tradition says the medieval stretch of wall here was defended by the fishermen's guild, while another links it to the former riverside neighbourhood known as Fishermen's Town. Either way, the "bastion" was conceived as a memorial to the medieval city and never fired a shot.

Matthias Church is far older. It was founded in the 13th century after the Mongol invasion, turned into a mosque under Ottoman rule and reworked several times. Its popular name honours King Matthias Corvinus, whose raven emblem still appears in Buda's heraldry and who married Beatrice of Naples here in 1476. Schulek's 19th-century restoration gave the church much of its sharp Neo-Gothic character, and its glazed roof tiles come from the Zsolnay factory in Pécs. Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth were crowned here in 1867, so the church holds medieval Buda, Ottoman occupation, Habsburg ceremony and modern Hungarian nationhood in a single silhouette.

The timing of the Click adds another layer. It was made on 20 September 2026, the morning after a free outdoor concert by the South Tyrolean Männerchor Völs am Schlern at the pavilion near the bastion. A place built as stone scenery for history had just become a stage for live voices above the city.

The Castle District has long moved between defence, devotion and performance. It was badly damaged in the Second World War and rapidly restored, and since 1987 it has belonged to Budapest's UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube panorama. Tuesday's Click catches the gentler modern rhythm of the hill, with arches made to evoke the past, a dog walker passing beneath them and a city that carries on below.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Where: Las Rozas de Valdearroyo, Cantabria, Spain
Feed: Festivities

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit." - Jawaharlal Nehru

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At the middle of the week, another Clickstar introduces two towering gigantes leading the way down a paved street lined with glazed Cantabrian balconies. One is a stern man in a hat, waistcoat and walking stick, the other a woman in a long brown dress and headscarf. Behind them, a purple banner identifies the Grupo de Danzas San Sebastián de Reinosa, one of the local groups keeping Campoo's dances, pandereta traditions and regional costume alive, while small children in miniature costumes follow in the giants' shadow.

The scene belongs to Día de Campoo, the closing celebration of Reinosa's San Mateo festivities. It takes place every year on the final Sunday of September and has been celebrated since 1954. It was recognised as a Festival of Tourist Interest in 1977, growing from a tribute to rural families who, after the summer's agricultural work, came into Reinosa to celebrate together.

The giants are part of the festival's public theatre, walking beside dancers, piteros playing pipe music, rabelistas performing on the traditional bowed rabel and residents wearing the distinct dress of the Campoo valleys. Like giants across northern Spain, they are usually carried from the inside by a bearer, which is why they sway so gracefully above the crowd. Heritage here is not displayed behind glass but made to move down the street with the people.

The date, 27 September 2026, was the Día de Campoo itself and the final day of Reinosa's 2026 San Mateo fiestas. The programme included rural sports, the Concurso de Rondas Campurrianas, a Campoo Mass at San Sebastián parish, rabel performances, a pasacalles of piteros, music and the annual cart competition.

This year carried an unusual twist. Restrictions linked to contagious nodular dermatitis meant that the traditional oxen could not pull the decorated carts, so the carts became stationary displays in Parque de Cupido instead of travelling their usual route. The celebration adapted rather than stopped, and the rondas, giants, musicians, costumes and communal gathering still filled Reinosa with the sound of Campoo.

For nearby Las Rozas de Valdearroyo, a municipality on the Ebro Reservoir within the Campoo-Los Valles region, the festival is part of a larger shared cultural landscape. This is high country close to the source of the Ebro, Spain's longest river by flow, shaped by mountain farming, livestock, folk song and borderland history. Ancient routes between the Cantabrian coast and Castile, Roman traces around Julióbriga and villages that still gather around fairs, processions and local food all belong to it. Wednesday's Click shows a valley that knows how to keep its traditions walking, with or without oxen.

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Where: Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse, France
Feed: Nature

"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality." - Jean Jaurès

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MOI2233 guides Thursday into a quiet corridor of green under a deep blue sky. The Click appears to show an apple orchard covered by anti-hail netting, which hangs in loose folds from poles and cables above the rows, almost like sails. The netting leaves the trees room for light and air while creating a barrier against hail, wind and violent rain, hazards that can mark fruit or strip leaves just before harvest. In the foreground, a thicket of tall reeds sways at the edge of the rows.

Those reeds are a small piece of regional lore. Giant cane has traditionally been planted around Provençal fields as a windbreak against the mistral, the cold, dry wind that can blow for days and shapes how farmers lay out their land. The orchard therefore tells a story of protection from both sides, with reeds against the wind from the north and nets against the storms from above.

The setting fits Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue especially well. The town lies on a fertile plain shaped by the Sorgue's waterways, where market gardening and fruit production have long been central to the local landscape. Vaucluse is often called one of France's great orchard regions, and a family organic apple farm works across Entraigues, Althen-des-Paluds and Pernes-les-Fontaines, tending around 40 hectares of apple trees.

The September date places this Click in the heart of the apple season. Local producers harvest successive varieties from August into spring, while nearby growers sell apples, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, quinces and juices directly from farm shops and regional markets. What looks like a quiet green corridor is a working landscape at one of its busiest moments.

Water has always been part of the area's agricultural memory. Entraigues sits where the Sorgue meets the Ouvèze, and its name comes from inter aquas, "between waters". The springs and channels of the Sorgue powered mills, irrigated fields and helped turn the land around Avignon, Carpentras and L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue into a patchwork of orchards, vegetables and market gardens.

The Click also falls just after one of the town's recurring late-summer gatherings, the artisanal, commercial and industrial fair on the first Sunday of September, with a flea market and a local organic-wellbeing salon. Later in the month, the final night market turns the old town into an evening meeting point for food, craft and conversation. Thursday's orchard shows where much of that social calendar begins, in the growers and the patient work behind a regional table.

Friday, October 9, 2026

Where: Gliwice, Poland
Feed: Events

"The imagination is the greatest gift given to humanity." - Olga Tokarczuk

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TORROCUS closes the week with two fursuits, full-body costumes based on original anthropomorphic animal characters. One is a gryphon with a bright red face, feathered yellow ears, a blue crest and a bold yellow muzzle. The other is a red-and-green canine with a green mane, oversized paws with green claws, sculpted facial features and custom goggles. Their materials, colour plans and expressive heads reflect a craft that combines illustration, character design, sewing, foam work, synthetic fur and performance.

The details make the scene especially personal. In furry culture, characters are called fursonas, imaginative avatars with their own names, species, palettes and visual stories. The gryphon's wearer carries a convention-style badge on a lanyard, and while the fursuit is only one way to take part, it turns a drawing into something that can wave, pose, dance and meet the public at street walks and conventions.

The Polish community has been building a visible creative infrastructure. The association OwO describes its mission as promoting furry subculture through art, costume-making and other artistic activity, while supporting openness, understanding and acceptance. The Click shows that idea in its most immediate form, with two handmade identities sharing a pavement, each designed to be recognised at a glance.

The exact event attached to the Click cannot be independently confirmed from reliable public listings, so it is best not to name a specific Gliwice convention. The timestamp, just after midnight on 30 September 2026, does fall in an active autumn season for European furry events, with fursuit walks, small local meets and larger conventions. A passer-by in the background wears a blue shirt that appears to carry the Futrołajki logo, a hint of the national scene, but not enough to tie the scene to a specific event.

Futrołajki is Poland's recurring national furry gathering, founded in 2021. Its 2026 edition, titled Futrołajki: Apocalypse, was scheduled for 11-15 November in Kielce, bringing the Polish community together around costumes, art and social activities.

Gliwice gives the Click a fitting backdrop. Behind the characters, pastel facades and old street lamps belong to a city centre that grew around a medieval market square, shaped by Silesian, Polish, German and industrial history. This is also the city of the Gliwice Radio Tower, a 111-metre wooden structure from 1935, so the town has long been a place where technology and imagination meet. Friday closes the journey with creatures that exist because someone decided an idea deserved a body, and with a street that makes room for them.

Final words

This week began with THOMAS0682 on the Byfjorden, where the golden lamps of Askøy Bridge turned a dark October night into a ribbon of light. A Clickstar then led us up to Budapest's Castle Hill, where a bastion built purely to be beautiful stood against a flawless blue sky. At midweek, a fellow Clickstar caught the giants of Día de Campoo in Reinosa, proving that a festival can adapt when the oxen cannot pull the carts. MOI2233 took us into a Vaucluse orchard where reeds and nets stand guard against wind and hail, before TORROCUS brought the journey to a colourful close in Gliwice, where two fursonas turned an old Silesian street into a stage.

Together, these Clicks show how much can be contained in a single frame. A bridge can replace a ferry timetable with an unbroken road, a monument can be built to honour a city's memory, a street festival can keep a valley's traditions walking, an orchard can show how farmers work with wind and water, and a costume can give an imagination a body. Each photograph remains faithful to the scene its Clickstar encountered, with its origin preserved through Click Camera and the Trust Network.

Want to be featured next? Keep Clicking, keep signing and keep showing the world what authentic looks like - one capture at a time.

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And help us spread the word about Click. Encourage your friends and family to submit their Clicks too - it is becoming a destination for authentic, verifiable media from around the world. Every contribution strengthens the archive and helps remarkable local stories reach new audiences.

Before we forget!

With the latest update to the Nodle app, you can also submit your favourite Clicks to the AI agent directly through the app's chat interface. Less friction, more opportunities!

You can also reach out to the featured Clickstars through the Nodle app's private, decentralized chat, powered by XMTP. Send them a kind note to thank them for sharing their Click, or support their creativity with a tip. The app combines end-to-end encrypted messaging with the ability to send value directly inside a conversation, making it easy to connect with and encourage the creators behind the week's stories.

You can then enter your Click in the AI contest for a small entry fee and have the chance to win if the AI's evaluation is favourable. Curious? Try it today!

Did this catch your attention?

Explore our blog post, Click: Beyond the Filter, to discover how the app powers the ecosystem behind the Trust Network. Click lets creators capture media, swipe to sign and authenticate it on the blockchain, and then share the authenticated content anywhere.

Happy Clicking - we can't wait to see what you share!

Crypto 101 | e45: Who signed the proof?

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:44:45 GMT

A digital signature can confirm that a particular key signed a particular claim and that the protected data has not changed. It cannot, by itself, tell you whether the signer is competent, independent, honest, or correct. C2PA is deliberately designed to provide verifiable provenance and trust signals without making a value judgment about whether those signals are good or bad.

A valid signature answers, “Did this key sign this claim?” It does not answer, “Should every claim from this signer be believed?”

That distinction becomes more important as Content Credentials spread across cameras, editing tools, publishers, AI services, and social platforms. The next question after “Is the proof valid?” is therefore “Who or what stands behind the signing key?”

Three stages separate a valid digital signature, the identity connected to the signing key, and the viewer’s final trust decision.

From a key to an identity

Public-key cryptography uses a private key to create a signature and a corresponding public key to verify it. A verifier can establish that the holder of the private key authorized the signed claim, but a bare public key is only a technical identifier. A certificate adds a signed statement connecting that key to information about a signer, product, device, service, or organization.

C2PA uses X.509 certificates as signing credentials. Its trust model is based on the identity associated with the cryptographic key that signs a claim in a C2PA Manifest, while validators also examine the certificate chain and other trust signals before presenting information to the user.

The signature proves control of a key. The certificate explains what that key is supposed to represent.

A certificate is not permanent proof that a signer will always behave responsibly. It establishes an accountable link under a defined policy, at a defined assurance level, during a defined validity period.

The certificate chain

A signing certificate is normally part of a chain. The signer’s certificate can be issued by an intermediate Certification Authority, which in turn connects to a root that a verifier accepts as a trust anchor. C2PA guidance describes validation as building a chain from the signing certificate to an entry in the relevant trust list.

A four-stage certificate chain connects a signer to a certificate, a Certification Authority, and an accepted trust anchor.

A successful chain check can show that the certificate was issued under an accepted policy and that the chain reaches a trusted root. It does not automatically prove that every assertion inside the signed content is factually correct.

A trust list is not a list of true statements. It is a governed list of accepted trust anchors.

Conformance and trust lists

The C2PA Conformance Program evaluates whether generator products, validator products, and Certification Authorities follow the Content Credentials specification and applicable security requirements. Products that pass are placed on a public conforming-products list, while accepted Certification Authorities and Time Stamp Authorities appear on dedicated trust lists.

The program was introduced to raise confidence that implementations create, sign, read, and validate C2PA data securely and interoperably. Its public launch material describes conformance as a technical and governance layer for the ecosystem, not as an endorsement of everything produced by a conformant tool.

Readers can inspect the current lists through the C2PA Conformance Explorer. The explorer separates conforming products, the C2PA Trust List, and the C2PA TSA Trust List so that verification tools do not have to treat every certificate or implementation as equally trusted.

Conformance asks whether a product implements the standard correctly. Reputation asks whether a signer deserves confidence in a particular context.

Industry announcements help show how this trust layer works in practice. The Content Authenticity Initiative’s conformance announcement explains the program’s security and interoperability role. Irdeto’s Trust List announcement describes approval as a Certification Authority able to issue credentials for conformant products. A related Irdeto LinkedIn post connects the announcement to media provenance and live-video workflows.

Assurance is not absolute

Trust systems often use assurance levels to describe how strongly an implementation protects its signing key and validates its operating environment. Higher assurance can make key theft or unauthorized signing harder, but no assurance level turns provenance into an automatic verdict about the world depicted in a file.

In C2PA workflows, software-based and hardware-backed implementations can carry different security expectations. For example, current certificate guidance distinguishes software-oriented signing from stronger hardware-backed protection for capture devices and other environments where the original capture moment is especially important.

Stronger key protection raises confidence in the signing process, not certainty about the meaning of the content.

This is why readers should treat a verification result as structured evidence. A “valid” result may combine several checks, such as whether the credential is well formed, the content binding still matches, the certificate chain reaches an accepted root, the signing credential was valid at signing time, and the product follows the relevant specification.

Several signals, one judgment

No single trust signal should carry the entire decision. C2PA describes assertions and signer information as signals that a human or application can use to assess trustworthiness, while explicitly avoiding a built-in judgment that the provenance is good or bad.

Five cards show valid credential, conformant product, signer identity, reputation, and content evidence contributing to a trust decision.

A useful evaluation separates at least five questions:

Is the credential technically valid? Check whether the signature, content binding, and manifest validate.
Was the signing product conformant? Look for the product in the official conformance records.
Who or what signed it? Inspect the identity or product information connected to the credential.
Is that signer appropriate for this claim? A trusted camera maker, news publisher, public agency, independent witness, and anonymous creator may each be credible for different purposes.
What does the content itself support? Compare the provenance with the visible material, corroborating sources, date, location, and surrounding context.
Verification reduces uncertainty. It does not eliminate the need for judgment.

A pseudonymous signer can still produce valuable evidence. Consistent keys, a documented history, independently verifiable activity, or endorsements from recognized organizations can build reputation without requiring every creator to publish a legal name. The right identity model depends on the risk of the claim and the privacy needs of the signer.

Trust changes over time

Certificates expire, organizations change, and keys can be lost or compromised. Revocation mechanisms allow an issuer or trust system to indicate that a certificate should no longer be accepted for new signing or that its status requires closer examination.

A trusted timestamp can help establish that a claim was signed while its credential was valid and not revoked. C2PA’s technical model combines claim signatures with trusted timestamps so validation can later determine whether a claim was signed during the credential’s valid period.

A credential timeline shows issuance, signing with a timestamp, later revocation, and a historical validity check.

Revocation does not always mean that every older file signed with the key becomes meaningless. The time of signing, the reason for revocation, the certificate policy, and available timestamp evidence all influence how a verifier should interpret the result.

Trust is a lifecycle, not a permanent badge.

This is also why interfaces should avoid collapsing all outcomes into one green checkmark. A clear verifier should distinguish technical validity, recognized trust, identity information, revocation status, timestamps, and warnings so that the user can understand what was actually checked.

Nodle’s Trust Network

Nodle’s approach combines open Content Credentials with independently checkable records. ContentSign is presented as a way to attach C2PA-compatible provenance to media while using public blockchain infrastructure as an additional verification anchor.

In that model, the credential travels with or alongside the file, while the network can preserve an immutable reference to the signed record. This makes the evidence less dependent on one private database remaining online and gives compatible tools another way to check whether the presented file matches the original proof.

A real-world example is Vivendi’s use of Nodle’s authentication technology for signing and verifying corporate documents such as press releases. The announcement describes cryptographic signatures, timestamps, and blockchain transaction references that readers can use to inspect a document’s provenance.

Open verification is strongest when identity, integrity, time, and an independent proof record can be checked separately.

Nodle’s Crypto 101 posts provide a public path into the same discussion. The e41 thread on X introduces signed evidence for origin and integrity, while the e42 post on X emphasizes that a signed file still needs context.

A practical trust check

When a signed image, video, audio clip, or document matters, begin with the verification result but do not stop there. Ask who controlled the signing key, what the certificate identifies, which authority issued it, whether the chain reaches an accepted trust anchor, and whether the product appears in current conformance records.

Then inspect time and status. Determine whether the credential was valid when the content was signed, whether a trusted timestamp is present, and whether the certificate has expired or been revoked.

Finally, evaluate the claim in context. Compare the stated origin with the content, seek independent corroboration, consider the signer’s role and incentives, and distinguish what the proof establishes from what remains uncertain.

Read the credential as evidence, not as an instruction to believe.

The next layer of digital trust

The first layer of content provenance asks whether the file and its history can be verified. The next asks whether the signer can be identified or held accountable under a known policy. The final decision still belongs to the reader, platform, newsroom, organization, or community applying that evidence to a real situation.

A healthy trust network therefore does not replace judgment with a badge. It makes judgment better informed by exposing the signature, signer, certificate chain, product status, timestamps, changes, and independent proof records that sit behind the interface.

Glossary

Assurance level - A category describing the security expectations and controls applied to a signing product or credential.

C2PA - The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, which develops an open technical standard for verifiable media provenance.

Certificate - A digitally signed record that connects a public key to information about a signer, device, product, service, or organization.

Certificate chain - A sequence of certificates connecting a signer’s certificate through intermediate authorities to an accepted trust anchor.

Certification Authority (CA) - An organization that validates applicable information and issues digital certificates under a defined certificate policy.

Claim generator - The hardware or software component that creates a C2PA claim, assembles its assertions, and produces the claim signature.

Conformance - Formal evaluation that checks whether a product or authority follows the C2PA specification and applicable security requirements.

Content Credential - The user-facing term for C2PA provenance information bound to a digital asset through cryptographic methods.

Content hash - A cryptographic fingerprint calculated from a file or defined portion of it so later changes can be detected.

Digital signature - A cryptographic proof created with a private key that allows others to verify authorization and detect tampering.

Private key - Secret cryptographic material used to create signatures and therefore requiring strong protection.

Public key - The non-secret counterpart used to verify signatures created by the matching private key.

Revocation - A status change indicating that a certificate should no longer be relied on under the applicable policy.

Signer - The person, organization, device, product, or service represented by the credential used to sign a C2PA claim.

Time Stamp Authority (TSA) - A trusted service that provides signed evidence that particular data existed at a particular time.

Trust anchor - A root certificate or other authoritative entry that a verifier accepts as the starting point for a certificate-chain decision.

Trust list - A governed list of accepted certificate or timestamp authorities used by validators when evaluating credentials.

Trust signal - A piece of provenance, identity, security, reputation, or contextual information that supports a trust decision without dictating it.

Bring your own agent: the Nodle MCP server is live

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:19:51 GMT

Most questions about a fleet of BLE tags and trackers are simple. Where is this asset? When was it last seen? Why did the data stop arriving? Until now, answering them meant opening a dashboard, filtering a list, or writing a script against an API.

Today we are opening the Nodle IoT Dashboard to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets AI assistants connect to outside tools and data. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or any agent that supports remote MCP servers, sign in with your Nodle account, and ask your fleet directly.

What your agent can do

With read access, your agent can:

List your fleets with their status and device count
List your devices with their fleet and last detection time
Look up a device with its last location and signal strength
Pull the recent detections of a device, with time and location
Check whether a fleet identifier is valid, and its registration
Review a fleet’s webhook status and its last 24 hours of deliveries

With write access, which you choose at sign-in, it can also:

Rename fleets and devices so names match your asset register
Turn a fleet’s existing webhook on or off
Send a signed test event to a fleet’s webhook

Ask it the way you would ask a colleague

“Which devices in the Rotterdam fleet have not been detected since yesterday?”
“Where was tag DOCK-0042 last seen, and how strong was the signal?”
“Show me the recent detections for this tracker.”
“Is this fleet identifier valid and registered?”
“Rename these twelve devices to match the asset IDs in this list.”
“Our webhook went quiet. Check the last 24 hours of deliveries and send a test event.”

The agent picks the right tool, queries the Nodle IoT Dashboard, and answers in plain language. Because it runs inside the agent your team already uses, fleet data sits next to the rest of the work: an incident note, a status update for operations, a reconciliation against a spreadsheet.

Built for enterprise control

OAuth sign-in. Every connection is authorized through a Nodle account.
Permissions you choose. Read access covers your organization, fleets, devices, detections and webhooks. Write access is optional and selected at sign-in.
Scoped and revocable. Connections are specific to a team, can be revoked at any time, and expire after 30 days.
Admin control. Administrators decide who in the organization can connect.
Limited exposure. Webhook details show the host only, and test events are capped at 5 per fleet per minute.

Connect your agent

Server URL: https://dashboard.nodle.com/api/mcp (remote MCP over streamable HTTP, with OAuth)

Claude (web, desktop, mobile): go to Customize › Connectors, add a custom connector with the server URL, and sign in with Nodle. Team and Enterprise plans can add it once for the whole organization.
Claude Code: run claude mcp add --transport http nodle https://dashboard.nodle.com/api/mcp
ChatGPT: turn on developer mode in settings, create an MCP app with OAuth, and sign in with Nodle.
Codex: add the server URL to ~/.codex/config.toml, then authenticate from the terminal.
Gemini, Grok and other agents: add the same URL as a custom remote MCP server or connector, then sign in with Nodle.

Full setup guide: dashboard.nodle.com/docs/mcp

Your fleet, your choice of agent

An enterprise should not have to choose its AI vendor based on what its IoT provider supports. MCP is an open standard, so your Nodle fleet follows your team’s choice of agent, today and as that choice changes.

Connect your agent at dashboard.nodle.com/docs/mcp

Clicks of the Week

nodle@newsletter.paragraph.com (Nodle Network) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:05:18 GMT

Hello fellow Clickstars!

This week’s Clicks cross four countries through five scenes that could hardly be more different. In the mountains of Rio de Janeiro State, a scarlet fungus rises from the forest floor like a tiny alien sculpture. In Soweto, a sewing machine built from car parts preserves the courage of Lilian Ngoyi. A truck transformed into a travelling workshop celebrates Magnolia’s culture of salvage and reinvention, while a monumental face in Los Angeles watches over layers of graffiti and remembrance. Finally, beneath the Argentine flag in Luján, a memorial connects national history, local loss and a tradition of pilgrimage.

Our journey begins on Monday with LEANDROBENVENUTIDASILVA, whose discovery rewards anyone curious enough to look closely at the leaf litter. KIDDDAPPER carries us into Tuesday with a tribute to one of South Africa’s great women leaders, before DORKYDAD reaches the middle of the week with a wonderfully improvised Texas creation. On Thursday, OGSPAZM turns an ordinary Los Angeles block into an open-air gallery, and REYCRYPTO closes the week in Luján, where memory stands beneath a blue-and-white sky. Each scene was captured with Click Camera and signed into the Trust Network, creating a verifiable record of the moment it entered the archive.

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This week, the archive grew. It now has a total of 80,130 certified media. All of these were added to the chain. Week by week, contributions from around the world strengthen Nodle - the first Trust Network empowering creators and enterprises through its Android and iOS apps.

This week’s selection

Monday, September 28, 2026

Where: Bom Jardim, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Feed: Nature

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” - John Muir

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LEANDROBENVENUTIDASILVA begins the week at ground level, where a bright red cage appears among dry leaves, twigs and shaded soil. The Click shows a stinkhorn in the genus Clathrus, possibly Clathrus crispus or a closely related species, although a photograph alone is not enough for a definitive identification. Its hollow, coral-like lattice is a mature fruiting body rather than a flower, giving the forest floor the unexpected appearance of hosting a tiny piece of biological architecture.

Stinkhorns begin in a pale, egg-like structure before expanding into their more spectacular mature form. The inner surface produces an olive-brown substance called gleba, which contains spores and gives off a powerful smell that attracts flies and other insects. Instead of relying mainly on wind, the fungus recruits these visitors to carry its spores into the surrounding landscape.

Its startling colour feels perfectly at home in Bom Jardim, whose name translates as “good garden.” The municipality lies in the mountainous Região Serrana, near Nova Friburgo, where rivers, farms and remnants of the Atlantic Forest create a landscape rich in cultivated and wild life. Fungi quietly support that environment by feeding on decaying organic matter and returning nutrients to the soil.

Bom Jardim is also one of Rio de Janeiro State’s important centres for coffee and cut flowers, with a particular reputation for roses. Its agricultural roots reach back to the coffee era, while the arrival of the railway in 1875 encouraged a settlement to grow around the station. Local celebrations honour flowers, coffee, yams and rural producers, but this Click reveals the untamed counterpart to those cultivated harvests. Monday opens with a reminder that a good garden includes decomposition, insects and fungi, as well as the blooms arranged for display.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Where: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Feed: General

“Let us be brave: we have heard of men shaking in their trousers, but who ever heard of a woman shaking in her skirt?” - Lilian Ngoyi

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KIDDDAPPER carries the journey into Tuesday with a memorial built directly into the wall and fence of Lilian Ngoyi’s family home on Nkungu Street in Mzimhlophe, Soweto. Artist Stephen Maqashela assembled its sewing machine from car parts and placed beside it a partly finished garment painted in the black, green and gold of the ANC. Below, Ngoyi’s portrait and memorial plaque turn the modest residential wall into a biography that can be read from the pavement.

The sewing machine connects Ngoyi’s public courage with the private labour that sustained her. She entered political activism through the Garment Workers’ Union and later became president of both the ANC Women’s League and the Federation of South African Women. Repeated banning orders confined her largely to this small house, prevented her from addressing public gatherings and forced her to request permission for even basic journeys, so she sewed clothing to earn a living and wrote letters to friends and fellow activists.

The memorial was unveiled in 2006 as part of the Sunday Times Heritage Project, making 2026 its twentieth year. At the ceremony, Ngoyi’s relatives remembered not only the commanding speaker who could electrify a crowd, but also the woman who cared for her family and continued working while the state attempted to silence her.

Her most famous public moment came on 9 August 1956, when she joined Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn in leading approximately 20,000 women to Pretoria’s Union Buildings to oppose the extension of pass laws to Black women. Ngoyi is remembered as the leader who knocked on the prime minister’s door to deliver the petitions, transforming a simple physical gesture into an enduring symbol of refusal.

Later in 1956, she became the first woman elected to the ANC’s National Executive Committee. Her 115th birthday fell on 25 September 2026, while the Women’s March reached its seventieth anniversary that August. Known affectionately as Ma Ngoyi, she was buried in Avalon Cemetery beside Helen Joseph, her friend and fellow march leader.

The Tuesday Click therefore captures more than an artwork. The gears, springs and metal body of the sewing machine preserve the story of a woman who turned work into survival and confinement into resistance. Even attached to an ordinary family home, her memory continues to speak to the street.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Where: Magnolia, Texas, United States
Feed: Cars

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” - Francis Bacon

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At the middle of the week, DORKYDAD introduces a six-wheeled truck that has become part vehicle, part workshop and part roadside folk sculpture. A weathered timber cabin occupies the truck bed, complete with a corrugated roof, cloudy windowpanes and a small covered porch. Chains, saw blades, gears, shovels, pans and rusted tools cover the walls, allowing every dent and discarded object to take on a second life.

The creation feels especially appropriate in Magnolia, a community shaped by timber, transport and skilled trades. The settlement was once known as Mink’s Prairie and later Mink, but it moved closer to the International-Great Northern Railroad when the line arrived in 1902. The railway briefly called the new stop Melton, but confusion with Milton led to another change in 1903, when the town adopted the name Magnolia after the trees growing around Mill Creek.

By the 1920s, Magnolia had become a shipping centre for lumber, cattle and farm products. Sawmills, a blacksmith shop, cotton gin, livery stable, garage, depot and telegraph station served a community whose working life depended on tools much like those now decorating the truck. The vehicle can almost be read as a playful monument to that period, with a wooden cabin replacing cargo and the equipment of rural labour transformed into ornament.

Magnolia’s historic depot still anchors this local story. Saved and relocated during highway expansion, the building retains its plank flooring, exposed wooden trusses and sliding freight doors. The surrounding museum complex includes a vintage sawmill, Southern Pacific caboose and the former office of Dr Ware, all maintained as reminders of the railroad town that grew around the tracks.

There is even a small piece of local lore hidden in the address: the depot stands on Melton Street, preserving the name that postal confusion prevented the town from keeping. Depot Day fills the site with food, crafts and entertainment each April, while Halloween brings the Haunted Depot and Spooky Caboose. Wednesday’s truck shares the same cheerful philosophy. In Magnolia, the past is not discarded or polished beyond recognition - it is patched up, displayed proudly and allowed to keep rolling.

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
Feed: Street Art

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” - Pablo Picasso

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OGSPAZM guides Thursday into Los Angeles with a mural that turns an otherwise plain façade into a watchful presence. A young woman gazes beyond the edge of the building, her face painted in warm gold, copper and rose against a turquoise-blue field. Flowers float around her hair, while real windows interrupt the portrait and make the architecture part of the composition.

Along the bottom of the wall, polished portraiture meets a restless band of graffiti, names and handwritten remembrance. A tribute to Fred Ritchon Jr. appears beside the larger lettering, while a yellow utility box marks the surrounding Social District, an area that presents its collection of murals and installations as an open-air gallery. The mural’s title and artist could not be verified reliably, so the wall is best allowed to speak through what the Click actually preserves.

That layered surface belongs to a long Los Angeles tradition in which public art, neighbourhood identity and unofficial intervention occupy the same visual space. Murals may be commissioned, tagged, surrounded by memorials or eventually painted over, meaning that a photograph can preserve a version of the wall that may not exist for long. Community databases and mural maps attempt to document this changing outdoor archive, but change remains part of its character.

Los Angeles formalised a new chapter in that history in 2013, when its Mural Ordinance lifted the 2002 ban on murals on private property. The ordinance distinguished original murals from commercial advertising and created a registration process intended to support public access and community participation. Thursday’s Click shows why those walls matter. The portrait gives the building a face, the graffiti gives the block a voice, and the memorial keeps a local name visible in a city that is always repainting itself.

Friday, October 2, 2026

Where: Luján, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Feed: Monuments

“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” - David McCullough

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