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 · ChangeNOW
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443513172
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T09:05:51.333Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- EZcTWPYcfvP2Aha5e3te6EBdb6d8Merau4YaSU8cPSfJ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1201 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T09:05:51.246Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"4363d267-d270-468c-a37f-ca36b140d556","new_score":42,"page_slug":"changenow","prev_score":42,"reason":"Most of the page's factual claims are directly confirmed by their cited sources, including the core narrative that ChangeNOW appeared in post-exploit fund flows for the Gravity Bridge and Coinsbuy 2026 incidents and reportedly froze a six-figure sum in the latter. Two notable issues were found: the Law Enforcement section conflates two distinct ChangeNOW recovery cases (a fake-Uniswap-app phishing case and an unrelated Romanian-law-enforcement malware case) that happen to share a $210,000 figure, and the Regulatory Status section's claim of no UK regulatory action omits a standing UK FCA unauthorised-firm warning-list entry against ChangeNOW dating to November 2024. The page also relies almost exclusively on ChangeNOW's own promotional materials for its asset-recovery narrative, omitting independent user complaints about prolonged fund freezes.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}