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 · Shiba Inu (SHIB)
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 38 → 38 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443526285
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T15:08:41.307Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- kqP5BMSGZWD1PEgruH1T7jxQxTsW9gecjv6xUMBRDGb
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1233 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T15:08:41.161Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"e95d1c25-6904-40c7-a5be-2d7e7dde9448","new_score":38,"page_slug":"shiba-inu","prev_score":38,"reason":"The page's core supply and burn arithmetic (1 quadrillion initial supply, ~410T Buterin burn, ~590T current circulating supply) is internally consistent and matches current CoinGecko data closely, and its most operationally significant claims -- the September 2025 Shibarium bridge hack figures and the February 2025 fraud allegations against Shytoshi Kusama -- were verified word-for-word against the page's own cited sources. The most significant defects found are: a timeline date that conflates and misdates the May 2021 Buterin donation/burn events, an internally contradictory claim that Shibarium 'relaunched in August 2025 following' a hack that the page itself dates to September 2025, an imprecise ~$1.14B donation figure that undercounts or misattributes value versus multiple credible sources, and a T. Rowe Price ETF claim that has been superseded by subsequent SEC approval.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}