Verify a decision
Every moderation decision on AVOID.NET is anchored to the Solana blockchain. You don't have to trust us — you can verify cryptographically that we committed to a verdict at a specific moment and have not rewritten it.
How verification works
- We commit. When a moderator accepts/rejects a submission, we serialize the decision into deterministic UTF-8 bytes (
payload_canonical_string), hash it with SHA-256, encode the digest as base58, and write it to Solana inside an SPL Memo v2 transaction. - We store the bytes. The exact bytes we hashed are stored alongside the decision in our database. Anyone can read them and recompute the hash in any language.
- You compare three values. Database hash, your independently-recomputed hash, and the hash inside the on-chain memo. If all three match, the decision is authentic and timestamped.
The on-chain memo format is
AVOID.NET|v1|h:<b58-sha256>|d:<id>|t:<iso>Find a signature on any investigation page's decision log, or run python -m src.verify_decision --signature <sig> for a CLI check.
Decision
review · PeopleDAO
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 52 → 52 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443512294
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T07:32:42.593Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Bh1zejKVG5ysRd8P6igTiBMuoy1wb6LNy2ffFewsTxUC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1222 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T07:32:42.329Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"28b0aaa9-98f7-4552-b0ea-b8e96024fc77","new_score":52,"page_slug":"peopledao","prev_score":52,"reason":"The page's core narrative — PeopleDAO's origins as a ConstitutionDAO successor and the March 2023 social-engineering theft of ~76.5 ETH — is strongly corroborated by multiple independent sources (Web3 Is Going Great, The Block, and independent search corroboration of CryptoTVplus and Hacker News coverage), including specific figures like the 69.2 ETH/7.3 ETH exchange split and the six-of-nine multisig detail. Weaker points include unverified inferential claims about specific control gaps (reconciliation, verification steps), an overstated characterization of the loss as a 'significant portion' of the $5.4M treasury (roughly 2.2%), a token-metrics snapshot whose specific numbers and 'early 2026' dating don't precisely match independently found data, and a timeline date for the KuCoin delisting that is off by roughly two to three weeks from KuCoin's own announcement.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}