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_revise · Carrot Protocol
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 32 → 24 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419337711
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-12T21:44:41.278Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FBqGYHn3rtY6akvZxgZFYf8c89iHoHxzpQvXj9oWHmKY
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1563 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-12T21:44:41.095Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"66deb8ba-9978-4277-ac06-a4590184fe62","new_score":24,"page_slug":"carrot-protocol","prev_score":32,"reason":"The core narrative — Carrot Protocol shut down as a downstream casualty of the April 1, 2026 Drift exploit — is well-supported across 19 confirmed claims and multiple Tier 1 sources (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic). Disputed claims total 7% of reviewed claims, within the approve band, but two issues require correction before the page is clean. First, claim_findings[7] misidentifies Drift Protocol as 'the largest DeFi lending platform on Solana' when authoritative sources including Chainalysis and QuillAudits consistently describe it as a perpetual futures DEX; this error appears in the critical-severity exploit section and should be corrected. Second, claim_findings[3] overstates that Carrot 'operated for more than two years' — Tracxn shows a 2024 founding and a May 2025 seed round, putting live operation at roughly one year. Additionally, the review identified a high-priority coverage gap: the May 14, 2026 voluntary withdrawal deadline has now passed, and the page does not yet document the current status of forced deleveraging, IOU token issuance, or the $148M Tether recovery package available to Drift-exposed protocols. These items are expected to be updated as a condition of approval.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}