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 · Pickle Finance
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 18 → 18 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443561821
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-02T00:39:37.134Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4sT1etCPEs3F3k1QFifCdxAu1WFZyqZDB33P7ScWYPwR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1198 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"0d45498bf787837d5dfac8fbde9b7226","decided_at":"2026-09-02T00:39:37.039Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2,"investigation_id":"38261708-bdaf-4edf-8589-ff2c92a74fa2","new_score":18,"page_slug":"pickle","prev_score":18,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- the November 21, 2020 Evil Jar exploit, its technical mechanism, the audit-scope gap, the Cover Protocol payout shortfall, the Yearn merger governance controversy, and the 2025 shutdown -- is well corroborated by independent, largely consistent reporting. The most significant issue found is a timeline date error (the Tornado Cash laundering event is dated 2021 on the page but the page's own cited source places it in May 2022), plus minor imprecision in TVL peak figures ($140M vs. a $347M September spike reported elsewhere) and an uncorroborated 'DeFi's first merger' superlative. Two of the cited URLs (en.ethereumworldnews.com, publish0x.com) appear to be dead or unreachable, though the underlying claims they support are corroborated elsewhere.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}