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 · Rathnakishore Giri
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425428260
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T23:33:29.989Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- EbyefjG9E4WgcdhLuZRifbKNum51A2EW7QdRLUE5nrdS
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1010 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T23:33:29.894Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"9fc34a71-4cbd-47c4-b12a-6a7c1f199011","new_score":0,"page_slug":"rathnakishore-giri","prev_score":0,"reason":"The investigation page is broadly accurate and well-sourced. Core facts — sentencing date and term, guilty plea date, case number, indictment, CFTC filing, entity names, relief defendants, scheme start date, post-plea conduct, arrest date, and amended plea agreement — are all confirmed by credible primary and secondary sources. The only unverifiable claim is the 'Ravi' alias, which appears in the summary but is absent from every reviewed source. The luxury-items detail is partially supported: the specific vehicle list is confirmed by ABC News/DOJ language but the CFTC press release itself is less granular. No sources contradict any claim on the page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}