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 · Huobi / HTX
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 26 → 26 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457717278
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T17:15:44.006Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T17:16:00.008Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HCmFjHnjTuKsDVnFcFdtnfjuyKW9DZ4Vrwzi3h5YxHg6
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1920 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"3fb01ff0b4d417684a4dba426d6052e4","decided_at":"2026-10-16T17:15:43.801Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.129,"findings_hash":"D7h3f6YmE5KvmWUr1Hesc3jrny8cHMphQp3tqV5tc1EL","investigation_id":"2ece5745-c331-49f2-8a6b-cbd578cfd4e5","mode":"findings_only","new_score":26,"page_content_hash":"40ab52248fe7b619d55b5d434692f4035aff64994c6e93e3f2d4af4c4289d8ba","page_slug":"huobi-htx","prev_score":26,"reason":"The page's core narrative — the May 26, 2026 UK FCDO designation of Huobi Global S.A. under Regulation 17A, the Garantex/A7 network allegations, the $1.5B/$4.9B/$7.64B flow figures, HTX's denial, the SEC case against Justin Sun, and the 2023 security incidents — is well supported by the cited primary and secondary sources, several of which were independently fetched and confirmed verbatim (the UK sanctions notice PDF, the TRM Labs blog, the CoinTelegraph/Global Ledger figures, the Halborn hack writeup, and the FCA's own statements). Two clear defects were found: the FCA Legal Proceedings section asserts specific 2024 dates for TikTok/Meta/Telegram blocking HTX that are chronologically impossible given the underlying FCA action did not begin until October 2025 and was not publicly announced until February 2026, and Telegram is not even named by the FCA as one of the platforms involved; and a timeline entry attributes Grinex's April 2026 shutdown to generic 'international enforcement pressure' when contemporaneous reporting attributes it to a disclosed cyberattack. A minor one-day date discrepancy was also found in the SEC dismissal timeline entry. The page omits the EU's parallel sanctioning of Huobi Global S.A. in August 2026, which is a notable coverage gap given how central the UK action is to the page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}