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 · Hedera
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 55 → 55 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425399900
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T20:26:16.517Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- ANyd8dAUds6ZHLBWbeQ2bXutbPbCUDcQvjDp5PG8d4cW
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1036 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T20:26:16.360Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"09206d5c-aa4a-4fbb-82ef-48f4c5313be8","new_score":55,"page_slug":"hedera","prev_score":55,"reason":"The Hedera investigation page is factually solid overall, with all 16 atomic claims confirmed or partially supported. The four partially-supported findings involve minor inaccuracies: the ATH date is off by one day (Sep 16 not Sep 15); the 'full mainnet shutdown' language overstates what was actually a proxy access restriction; the DAI token attribution in the exploit is stated by Hedera but not independently corroborated by the Pangolin post-mortem; and the '70% decline by end of Q1 2025' claim overstates the pace of decline (price was roughly 50-55% off peak by March 31, 2025). No claims were found to contradict reputable current sources, and no link rot was detected on checked URLs.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}