Reading Historical Events with viem

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The concept Every state change a contract emits (a Transfer, a Mint) is written as a log entry on-chain, with indexed fields called topics that let you filter efficiently — for example, "every Transfer where to equals this address." getLogs (or wagmi/viem's getContractEvents, which decodes the raw log using the ABI) fetches these historical logs over a block range without……

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