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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_approve · BitConnect
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
00 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443505063
Off-chain at
2026-08-08T00:44:01.686Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
85cMcUJ6NvS8kTNXYSTXLMNehqbpWUvxeHxa51qgQTtk
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1634 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T00:44:01.196Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"6d72d3b3-e619-41b5-aeb6-7f1fbc2842e3","new_score":0,"page_slug":"bitconnect","prev_score":0,"reason":"The reviewer evaluated 24 claims and found 19 confirmed, 4 partially supported, and 1 disputed, yielding a disputed rate of 4.2% — well within the approval threshold. The sole disputed finding (claim_findings[22]) is a one-day date error in the timeline: the Texas cease-and-desist is listed as January 3, 2018 when the actual date was January 4. The four partially-supported claims are similarly peripheral: an ATH upper-bound figure not corroborated by major price aggregators (claim_findings[7]), a mathematical restatement of the 1%/day rate as 40%/month (claim_findings[6]), an unsupported upper bound in the victim-count range (claim_findings[18]), and a media characterization overstated as an SEC confirmation (claim_findings[23]). All core fraud allegations — the $2.4 billion loss, Arcaro's 38-month sentence, Kumbhani's five-count indictment and fugitive status, and the February 2025 India Enforcement Directorate seizure — are corroborated by Tier 1 sources including DOJ, SEC, IRS Criminal Investigation, and UK Companies House. No link rot or stale citations were identified. Two high-priority coverage gaps (on-chain wallet tracing; Kumbhani's post-February-2025 status) are noted as expansion opportunities and do not affect the factual integrity of the existing page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}