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
rescore · Sahil Arora
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 3 → 0 (-3)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 455370134
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-10T18:50:05.908Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-10T19:26:41.052Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- A6QYDiAE61xCnrTmNG27zkS44s3oxF7w1MoCs14cEEVy
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (517 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:50:05.816Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"34ac79a9-35ed-42eb-b044-0e887b922b1c","new_score":0,"page_slug":"sahil-arora","prev_score":3,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 3 → 0. The page establishes that the subject is itself a scheme, so the score is 0.","score_delta":-3,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}