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 · Syndicate Labs (SYND)
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 28 → 28 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423207919
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-30T18:08:45.098Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6vd613gsfwpW68YSsTBb7nWMFoAZ6Hg9jrB1BNXaUGYM
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1426 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-30T18:08:45.035Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"cd1a9816-eeb7-4d10-bec4-3d3d0c61b550","new_score":28,"page_slug":"syndicate-labs-synd","prev_score":28,"reason":"The investigation page is substantially accurate: all core claims about the April 2026 bridge exploit (amount, mechanism, root cause, compensation, CertiK tracing), the May 2026 wind-down (date, quote, rollup market statistics, DUNA legal structure), and the funding history ($28M total, a16z lead, named co-founders) are confirmed by independent Tier 1 and Tier 2 sources. The five partially-supported findings are minor in character: the $0.01061 ATL is a snapshot figure that has since been superseded by a lower actual ATL; the ATH range ($1.28-$2.61) is imprecisely bounded because CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap disagree materially; the '300+ investors' figure overstates sources reporting '150+'; and the 'security researchers' attribution for the multi-stage reconnaissance characterization more accurately traces to Syndicate Labs' own disclosure. No claims were found to be actively disputed by credible counter-sources. Three coverage gaps of high priority (on-chain forensics, official post-mortem, regulatory history) would improve confidence and verifiability.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}