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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.

Sequence
#3
Score
4 → 0 (-12)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443511011
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T03:17:37.849Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
2S2BWhGRktXCfUtTcgz27iD1j2xKkr8M2oNBdW6BLfyN
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2285 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T03:17:37.581Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"2ab16daa-c9d3-4e5d-b5a7-fed1646c3710","new_score":0,"page_slug":"patrick-yarmoch-fbi-agent-crypto-theft","prev_score":4,"reason":"The fact-check found the page's core allegations well corroborated: the charges, the alleged seed-phrase theft method, the confession, and the $925,426.07 recovered amount are all confirmed across multiple independent tier-1/tier-2 outlets (claim_findings[3], [4], [14], [19], [21]), and the page consistently and correctly frames the matter as an accusation rather than a conviction. At 17.3% disputed, the page falls in the minor-to-moderate issues range, but two of the five disputed findings deserve above-average weight. The page's primary name spelling, 'Yarmoch,' is used by only one lower-credibility source, while every tier-1/tier-2 outlet -- including the page's own primary citation, NBC News -- spells the name 'Yaroch' (claim_findings[0]); because this spelling is the entity's primary identifier, appears in the page's URL/slug, and propagates into every citation and index entry, it carries more weight than an ordinary content typo, even though the underlying criminal narrative is unaffected. The page also states the subject's age as 41, while independent reporting and an apparent affidavit quote support 37 (claim_findings[6]). The remaining three disputed findings all trace to one underlying issue: the page compresses the complaint filing, termination, and detention order into a single August 1 date, while other reporting places termination on July 31 and the detention order around August 3 (claim_findings[11], [32], [50]) -- a sequencing error, not a dispute over whether these events occurred. Two coverage gaps rated high priority reinforce these concerns: the page cites no primary court document (complaint/affidavit or DOJ press release) that could resolve the age and date discrepancies, and the name-spelling conflict was not resolved against the docket before publication. Reviewer confidence (0.72) is moderate, supporting a measured penalty rather than an extreme one.","score_delta":-12,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}