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One human-verification step in a browser on first install.","tooling":"Install via `curl -fsSL https://up.decdn.org/decdn.sh | sh -s -- get '<uri>'` (both scripts returned HTTP 200); PowerShell variant; node operator side is `decdn setup` / `decdn node bond`.","chaining":"Origin node in front of your own S3/R2/B2/NFS/local disk stays hidden; bonded nodes cache and re-serve over iroh QUIC with bao-encoded verified streaming. Multi-source fetch splits blobs >64 MiB across up to 4 nodes, one per operator. 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