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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Audius
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
3232 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514348
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:15:51.936Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
AZWxucwhsd74AuKviL3NMtRxjsmRekDuyY3mVcUkD877
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1765 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:15:51.875Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"783e4b94-9c36-46a8-b071-ef7fc56191b5","new_score":32,"page_slug":"audius","prev_score":32,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Audius is a legitimate decentralized music protocol founded by credentialed Stanford CS alumni, backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Pantera Capital, and currently operating in 2026 under the Open Audio Protocol brand. The sole major incident — the July 23, 2022 treasury exploit — was perpetrated by an external attacker who exploited a storage-collision re-initialization vulnerability in governance contracts; the team patched the vulnerability within 87 minutes. Two independent audits (OpenZeppelin, Kudelski) missed the specific bug, which is a known limitation of smart-contract auditing and does not constitute fraud or gross negligence. No SEC actions, no fraud convictions, no exit-scam mechanics, and no Ponzi indicators exist. The current WARNING band (20-49) is reserved for elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incidents; a single resolved third-party exploit on an otherwise operating, funded, legitimate protocol belongs in CAUTIONARY (50-69), which covers legitimate entities with material caveats. Residual caveats include the unresolved piracy/copyright concerns raised by the NMPA, the severe token value decline, and the historical audit failure — these justify a mid-CAUTIONARY score of 58 rather than a higher VERIFIED score.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}