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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 · Bybit
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#7
Score
82 → 82 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457819668
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T23:25:22.013Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T23:25:26.827Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
HjyMwUnPcL9zeuDafzdtubCdmUoNXcP5faSXreGZWEua
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1975 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"095b30c65ab106283bddb041f5e886e8","decided_at":"2026-10-16T23:25:21.461Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2381,"findings_hash":"8f2ZHNi1zUAQBzeV1hb5KtgujRMc7J9ixaQxeWNMWgpk","investigation_id":"cc5d2629-b918-4554-b41b-cf765ff31285","mode":"findings_only","new_score":82,"page_content_hash":"d411eb4cb50a044e1a590aed95cd94b7238b782e418597a205bd56b26e998558","page_slug":"bybit","prev_score":82,"reason":"The page's core narrative — the February 21, 2025 Bybit hack, its ~$1.46B/401,347 ETH scale, the Safe{Wallet} supply-chain compromise mechanism, FBI/Lazarus Group attribution, Bybit's solvency response, and the November 2025 ICIJ Coin Laundry mention — is well supported by credible primary and technical sources (FBI/IC3, Sygnia, Hacken, ICIJ, CNBC) and is written with appropriate hedging where evidence (e.g., the ICIJ citation) is limited. However, four factual errors were found: the timeline misstates Bybit's founding location as Singapore when the page's own cited Wikipedia source places it in Shanghai; the Attribution section cites a $73 million Phemex hack figure that contradicts both its own cited source and the page's own timeline entry of $29 million; the FBI address count is given as 50 rather than the 51 in the cited PSA; and the claim that Bybit remains 'blocked or restricted' in France is now stale, contradicted by the page's own cited Datawallet source, given Bybit's 2025 AMF-blacklist removal and Austrian MiCAR license. Several granular figures (the 86.29% BTC-conversion disclosure, the QinShihuang memecoin details) are accurate per independent reporting but not actually supported by the specific sources the page cites for them, and two response-timeline figures ($4B/12-hour withdrawal surge, 30-minute CEO response) could not be verified either way.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}