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Here's a weird technical detail to help dispell some magic: When you call a contract, the calldata in the transaction starts with 4 bytes (8 hex characters) which is the "selector". This tells the contract which function you're calling, it's actually a truncated hash of the original function signature. After that, it's arguments that get passed in.

For example,
claimWithdrawals(uint256[])
Is 0x48e30f54

There are databases of these you can use to look them up, like

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Here's a weird technical detail to help dispell some magic: When you call a contract, the calldata in the transaction starts with 4 bytes (8 hex characters) which is the "selector". This tells the contract which function you're calling, it's actually a truncated hash of the original function signature. After that, it's arguments that get passed in.

For example,
claimWithdrawals(uint256[])
Is 0x48e30f54

There are databases of these you can use to look them up, like https://www.4byte.directory/