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
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 445505826
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-09T03:05:06.211Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4UnY95j2faYeeeK3hyr1o3CA7RbUeswD2smzQL6f1dmV
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (739 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"54a32cdb18026d38c57d8b910efe8e0d","decided_at":"2026-09-07T01:08:25.140259+00:00","decision":"review","findings_count":34,"findings_rows_hash":"dc3e612a121d5e60a3c2f450e39cf6eb7ff663e0ca52291c3cec5c7e477e2df8","investigation_id":"5caaf7ce-4d97-4ee9-bd46-ceeaa5d70a7d","mode":"findings_only_retroactive","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"0cf25bee29f1898fbed8a4631087878bc15f380904150bf1f63a838e439fc19e","page_slug":"lazarus-group-mach-o-man-clickfix-macos-campaign","prev_score":0,"reason":"Findings-only fact-check (retroactive anchor of stored findings)","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}