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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_revise · Ambient Finance
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
5848 (-10)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443524512
Off-chain at
2026-08-27T06:09:23.337Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
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2. Recomputed (your browser)
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3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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Canonical bytes hashed (1979 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-27T06:09:23.158Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"15c90e9f-a964-4aa4-8358-196a48fbbd4d","new_score":48,"page_slug":"ambient-finance","prev_score":58,"reason":"Of 24 fact-checked claims, 5 were disputed and 4 partially supported, giving a disputed rate of 20.8% (5/24), which falls in the moderate-minor band. The most notable defect (claim_findings[12]) is that the page's sentence deriving a 'net gain of roughly $110,600' from 50 ETH seeded and 83.72 ETH withdrawn does not follow arithmetically (83.72 - 50 = 33.72 ETH, ~$56,700) -- but the $110,600 total-loss figure itself is independently corroborated elsewhere on the page (claim_findings[11]), so this is a flawed derivation sentence rather than a wrong headline number. Separately, the page understates Ambient's cumulative trading volume by roughly 10x against its own cited DefiLlama source (claim_findings[15]), and three timeline dates around the 2023 mainnet launch and the October 2024 DNS-hijack recovery are off by days to weeks against contemporaneous or primary sources (claim_findings[20], [22], [23]) without changing the substance of what happened. Weighing in the page's favor, it avoided two of the most common defects in this review process: it did not assert the single-contract design as a confirmed cause of the exploits (claim_findings[13]) and it correctly avoided treating an investor relationship (Quantstamp) or an automated scoring tool (CertiK Skynet) as a real audit (claim_findings[16]). No citations were found to be dead or stale. A high-priority coverage gap was flagged: the page never examines who controls admin/upgrade keys on the single contract, which is directly relevant to its own stated risk thesis and should be addressed even though it does not itself constitute a factual error.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}