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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426252596
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T18:24:06.124Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Ev8rk4AR2hUyYAcemjKXkfQSoEBFN7mVyBNuev3rqvdX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1105 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-13T18:24:05.979Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"a7424c5a-dc18-45a7-abdf-76e66fe798a6","new_score":2,"page_slug":"google-coin-fake-gemini-ai-chatbot-presale-scam","prev_score":2,"reason":"The investigation page is well-sourced and factually accurate across its core claims. The primary Malwarebytes article is confirmed live and supports all specific operational details including wallet addresses, financial projections, chatbot scripting, and visual impersonation. Contextual statistics from Chainalysis and the FBI IC3 are confirmed by multiple independent sources. Two minor partial-support findings relate to a chatbot self-identification quote where both phrasings appear in the source, and an FBI/crypto loss framing that is directionally accurate but imprecise in aggregation. One attribution claim about TechRepublic could not be directly verified due to a 403 response. No material disputes were found.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}