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_approve · ZKsync
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 38 → 57 (+19)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514533
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:01.197Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6cctRe9ibG5tShxdXHkm3Qy69RKmat7QyRGnvdsz15HC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1651 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:01.082Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"9d227bdb-3345-4be5-aa9a-d03dcf819c80","new_score":57,"page_slug":"zksync","prev_score":38,"reason":"This was a severity-calibration review, not a content dispute. All six claim_findings[0–5] are supported, and disputed_pct is 0%. The review establishes that ZKsync's current score of 38 (WARNING band) is miscalibrated: the April 2025 airdrop exploit affected only unclaimed reserve tokens — core user funds were never at risk — and ~$5.7M was recovered under a safe harbor agreement (claim_findings[1]). The Upbit price surge was caused by third-party market manipulators on a separate regulated exchange with no operational link to ZKsync (claim_findings[2]). The X account compromise was a phishing attack on delegated accounts, making ZKsync the victim (claim_findings[4]). The BANKEX lawsuit remains unresolved and denied (claim_findings[3]), and the entity is backed by credible institutional investors with no fraud conviction or exit-scam mechanics (claim_findings[5]). WARNING band is reserved for entities with elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incidents attributable to the entity itself; ZKsync fits CAUTIONARY (50–69). A score of 57 reflects the legitimate caveats — unresolved IP suit, two operational-security failures in one month, ecosystem engagement decline — without penalizing the entity for incidents it suffered. The page content is accurate and must remain published.","score_delta":19,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}