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Velocity as in?

Faster onboarding, possibly as part of hardfork20. They've been quiet on the detail, but manually checking each application doesn't scale well; so a current priority is speeding that right up.

Seriously, I don't understand what's there to check and what information can the moderators find out from mere phone numbers and emails provided by the applicants.

I guess they just check them against the database of existing numbers and addresses to make sure they're not duplicates?

I thought finding duplicates can be done within seconds by computers......

As in enticing more people into the verification process?