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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

  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 · Circle Internet Financial
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#1
Score
48 → 48 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
419341079
Off-chain at
2026-05-12T22:06:38.906Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
51iCQCGXk2tVRNVRNuY4LEyYwuASmenjASyruxaTKaVw
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1345 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-12T22:06:38.779Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"83786d67-bd35-49b7-bd52-5b4615943f5a","new_score":48,"page_slug":"circle-internet-financial","prev_score":48,"reason":"The Circle Internet Financial investigation page is broadly accurate and well-sourced for its major claims. The primary factual issues are: (1) Bitmain is described as a co-founder of USDC when it joined the Centre Consortium in October 2019, not at the September 2018 launch; (2) Dante Disparte's title is consistently misidentified as 'Chief Policy Officer' when his actual title is 'Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy'; (3) the Drift Protocol total losses of $295.4M are understated throughout as $285M (an early estimate); (4) the section-narrative characterizes the Tether/Drift rescue as a '$127.5 million package' when the total including partners is $147.5M; (5) several timeline entries use placeholder dates (2019-01-01, 2015-01-01, 2023-01-01) that are factually wrong. The ZachXBT allegations and compliance comparison with Tether are accurately presented as researcher claims with appropriate caveats, and the legal and regulatory claims are well-supported.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}