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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 · Darwin Labs Private Limited
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
26 → 26 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457788929
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T21:34:15.494Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T21:34:30.470Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
kYShqLWrwjU9EXZDn2VsX9D7mhGoeUcAa11KRwzEwV4
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1953 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"ee1f490c4cf2fc02db89ab98684b8ae3","decided_at":"2026-10-16T21:34:15.016Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.087,"findings_hash":"3bMyBkoVeREEderLuMJkqMyNrrt4pA47YMGXP5jxWT7R","investigation_id":"5087a9e8-fd5e-4a03-bda7-7972b43a30c8","mode":"findings_only","new_score":26,"page_content_hash":"9003eb9d5e6f7374f6596811564b75dabfd04d8f44f8c3da9b1bba68dde7344c","page_slug":"darwin-labs-private-limited","prev_score":26,"reason":"The page's core factual spine — Darwin Labs' incorporation details, its three co-founders, the 2018 Pune Police arrests of Baghla and Jain with specific seized-asset figures, the January 2017 CoinJournal/Zebpay warnings, the April 2017 PR Newswire disavowal, the Supreme Court's December 2023 consolidation order, the February 2025 CBI raids, and the March 2026 interception and arrest of Ayush Varshney — is well corroborated by independent reporting (Inc42, CoinJournal, Finance Magnates, Phemex, Newsonair, Business Standard coverage reached via search, Bar and Bench) and by direct fetches of the PR Newswire release and IndiaFilings registry data. Two defects stand out: the timeline's judicial-custody remand entry is dated 2026-03-11 when the page's own cited ProKerala source places that event on 2026-03-17, and the page omits that Varshney was granted bail in early April 2026, leaving the custody narrative stale as of the October 2026 review date. A secondary issue is an incomplete attribution of Bluegape's founding to Baghla alone when Ayush Varshney also co-founded it. The two primary PIB government press releases central to several high-severity claims could not be independently fetched or archived, which limits (but given strong secondary corroboration does not invalidate) verification of the most serious allegations.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}