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 · Compound Finance
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 72 → 72 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425236707
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T02:24:24.946Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3iciuVvnY8QHRwQUuZPdbCemiTzfQumbyxuahp7gK6Pe
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1148 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T02:24:24.727Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"3f4dd138-18e5-404a-a014-3a75ddc91a6d","new_score":72,"page_slug":"compound-finance","prev_score":72,"reason":"The Compound Finance investigation page is largely well-sourced and factually accurate across its major claims. The core incidents — the 2021 COMP distribution bug, the December 2023 X account hack, the July 2024 Squarespace DNS hijack, and the Humpy/Golden Boys governance attack — are all confirmed by multiple credible sources. The primary factual weakness is the TVL figure ($2-3.15B) which is materially overstated relative to current DeFiLlama data (~$1.4B as of early 2026). The Inferno Drainer victim count ($180M/189,000 victims) is partially supported but draws from a data point that conflicts with some primary security firm reports. Three claims were unverifiable due to dependence on secondary research-level on-chain analysis that could not be confirmed via direct primary sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}