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An event is the chain's account of what happened; an extrinsic is the request that caused it, and carries what no event does — who signed, what they called, the nonce and tip, and whether it worked. A history built from events alone omits every failed attempt and never names a submitter. The same oracle does both. The metadata's extrinsic type carries four parameters and the registry names all of them, including `qp_dilithium_crypto::types::DilithiumSignatureScheme` — the part that looked like it would need hand-written post-quantum knowledge and does not. The chain describes its own signature scheme, so `decode_extrinsic` reads a Quantus transaction without a line of code that knows Quantus exists. Two facts about this chain's extrinsics, both now in CLAUDE.md. The first byte is not the version: the top two bits are a type tag, and mainnet carries `0x84` (signed, v4) and `0x05` (bare, v5) in the same block while the metadata declares version 4 — check the byte against the metadata and you reject every timestamp inherent on the chain. And a signature is 5.3 KiB, two orders of magnitude larger than the call it authorises; it is decoded to find where the call begins and then discarded, keeping only the scheme's name and the byte count. Both halves of a block index in one pass, off calls already being made. Whether a dispatch succeeded comes from the `ExtrinsicSuccess`/`ExtrinsicFailed` events in that same decoded list — read, used, not stored. The block page grows a table below the facts: call, signer, arguments, and the signature's size. The account page merges extrinsics into the history it already had, ordered by block with the request above the results it caused. `source` is 1 for an extrinsic and 0 for an event so that every part of the sort key descends, which lets the paging cursor be a plain row comparison rather than a mixed-direction one Postgres cannot express. Nested calls are why this had to be generic. A `Utility::batch_all` carries whole calls in its arguments, so a transfer's recipient can be three levels down — and because the decoder collects account ids wherever they appear, that batched transfer shows on the recipient's page tagged *received* even though they signed nothing. Verified on mainnet 12,616: the batch renders both its transfers with destinations and values, above the two `Balances::Transfer` events they produced. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jp6a8EDar9ueEhAxzep4V5