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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_revise · MiCA Transition Impersonation Scam Wave 2026
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-12)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523420
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T03:48:41.465Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5JQjJgUCRkWfLa9sXw4d9c92aYUmCaf5ZiviFj3Hi31B
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1882 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-27T03:48:41.285Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"1620215f-f081-449c-b8c1-deed771b06ff","new_score":0,"page_slug":"mica-transition-impersonation-scam-wave-2026","prev_score":2,"reason":"The review found 3 of 25 factual claims (12%) disputed, placing this page in the minor-issues range rather than a serious-issues or denial range. The page's central premise -- a genuine wave of impersonation scams tied to the MiCA transition -- held up: it is grounded in on-the-record statements from ESMA, AMF and AFM to the Financial Times, not a single unverified source (claim_findings[0], claim_findings[1]). However, the review identified a claim that named exchanges Coinbase, Kraken and OKX were 'reportedly impersonated' with no source, including the page's own citations, actually saying so (claim_findings[13]) -- a more serious defect than a routine factual slip because it attributes a specific circumstance to identifiable businesses without evidence. It also found a Binance user-count figure that contradicts Binance's own contemporaneous disclosure by over 100 million users, apparently confusing a market-size estimate with an actual user count (claim_findings[14]), and a timeline entry that attributes a statistic to a source article that does not contain it (claim_findings[24]). A regulator, Belgium's FSMA, is placed under an 'entities impersonated' heading even though the source cited for it describes an unrelated enforcement action (claim_findings[12]). These are sourcing and attribution problems that require correction, not evidence the page's core reporting is wrong, so a revision request is warranted rather than escalation to under-investigation status or denial.","score_delta":-12,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}