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+## solidity topics
+
+solidity provides two types of events:
+
+* anonymous 
+  * 4 topics may be indexed, and there is not signature hash (no filter)   
+* non-anonymous (default)
+  * up to 3 topics may be indexed, since the first topic is reserved to the event signature (filter)