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   "prompt": "Will my favourite football team win this week's match?"
 }
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-2. The application gets the metadata’s IPFS hash.
+2. The application gets the metadata's IPFS hash.
 
 3. The application writes the request’s IPFS hash to the Mech contract and makes a small payment (currently $0.01 on the Gnosis chain deployment). Alternatively, the payment could be done separately through a Nevermined subscription.