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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_revise · Sinaloa Cartel — OFAC Ethereum Address Designations
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 0 → 0 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505055
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T00:37:19.808Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7XsNxJTJk2s9DefEyZC9rwgiCaF6iYYK8XFcM5k43Znt
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1674 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T00:37:19.555Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"4c7d3d05-b4ba-477c-b6b4-30b3a094b5da","new_score":0,"page_slug":"sinaloa-cartel-ofac-ethereum-address-designations","prev_score":0,"reason":"The review confirmed 17 of 21 claims outright, with all core regulatory facts — the May 20, 2026 OFAC action, all six Ethereum addresses and their attributed owners, all 11 designated individuals, the executive order citations, the FTO designation date, and the 'eighth designation' count — confirmed by multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 sources. Three partially-supported findings (claim_findings[6], claim_findings[7], claim_findings[10]) reflect minor inaccuracies: the timeframe for Jimenez Castro's wallet activity is misstated (the source period appears to be ~11 months, not two months beginning January 2023); the September 2023 designation count of 'nine' omits one Colombia-linked individual bringing the true total to ten; and the $5 million reward for Gonzalez Penuelas is attributed to the DEA when it is formally a U.S. State Department Narcotics Rewards Program offer. One financial typology claim (claim_findings[13]: 0.5–5% laundering fee range) is unverifiable beyond a single Scorechain source. None of these affect the page's primary factual substance. The page should be revised to correct the wallet activity period, the designation count framing, and the reward attribution, and ideally to incorporate the on-chain cluster totals noted in the high-priority coverage gap.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}