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 · Thorchain DEX
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 14 → 14 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514837
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:16.699Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9fABs1sbsHRoGMsYn1JGiPyAkvzKUfpbRSwEQbiv2B8X
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1958 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:16.640Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"05cd7768-ea55-47f0-a1ae-da562e54f3a7","new_score":14,"page_slug":"thorchain-dex","prev_score":14,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. THORChain DEX is a legitimate, still-operating decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol with real infrastructure, $68M+ TVL, and $118B in cumulative trading volume. A CRITICAL band score of 14 requires evidence of fraud, scam, or Ponzi mechanics under the platform's own band semantics; no such evidence exists in the page or in independent sources. The incidents driving the score are of three types: (a) external security exploits the protocol suffered (2021 hacks, May 2026 vault breach); (b) third-party abuse by Lazarus Group using the protocol as a laundering conduit — with a genuine negligence component in that governance voted against blocking the transactions and node operators profited; and (c) the THORFi lending collapse, which reflects serious design negligence and mismanagement but is characterized even by Dragonfly Capital as 'the first on-chain restructuring,' not an exit scam. The correct band is WARNING (20-49), reflecting elevated loss risk, unresolved legal action, and documented governance failures, while acknowledging the protocol continues to operate and is not itself a fraud. A score of 28 reflects serious but non-fraudulent risk: the THORFi insolvency is a material mismanagement event, the Lazarus facilitation creates genuine OFAC/legal exposure, and the recurring security exploits raise long-term viability questions — but none of these individually or collectively constitute the fraud/scam evidence required for CRITICAL.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}