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 · Gemcoin
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423925348
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-03T01:16:14.490Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4NCnbN6s6HDPr1EKeWz522oUU6w7Ltp96vY6bUVkFhV8
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1453 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-03T01:16:14.259Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"28c5b6a3-cd5a-4a8d-b7b1-820035a1a2e0","new_score":0,"page_slug":"gemcoin","prev_score":0,"reason":"The reviewer examined 29 claims and found zero disputed. All core allegations — SEC enforcement action, civil judgment amounts ($74 million), DOJ criminal prosecution timeline, Chen's guilty plea and 10-year sentence, and his death in federal custody — are confirmed by primary government sources (Tier 1 SEC and DOJ press releases). Five claims are partially supported (claim_findings[1], [11], [23], [25], [30]) but all involve minor characterization differences: the four-country mine list reflects SEC vs. DOJ framing across proceedings; the backing-figure discrepancy ($15B vs. $5B) reflects different promotional phases; and the class action filing date is off by three days due to the page using a CoinDesk article publication date. The most concrete correction needed is a one-day sentencing date error (January 10 vs. January 11, 2021, per multiple independent Tier 2 sources) appearing in both sections[2] and timeline[10], but this is a peripheral detail that does not affect the integrity of the investigation. No link rot, no stale citations, and no high-priority coverage gaps were identified.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}