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 · PGI Global
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423942035
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-03T03:06:55.897Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6H96JG7AhDHmug4dkvUVGgzswGhgswYiRvA5ao2cm2Ri
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1164 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-03T03:06:55.798Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"3a04c1e1-faba-4cc5-9e76-2adb42eee054","new_score":0,"page_slug":"pgi-global","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page accurately reflects the full arc of the PGI Global fraud including Palafox's confirmed recapture in Los Angeles and his current non-fugitive status. Nineteen of twenty-three atomic claims are confirmed by primary or credible secondary sources. The one material date error is the UK winding-up date (page says October 27, 2022; official The Gazette and Companies House records confirm September 13, 2022 — October 27 was the Insolvency Service press release date). Two other partial-support findings are minor: a slight overstatement of the guilty plea date range (September 16-18 vs. confirmed single day of September 16), and rounding of the UK misappropriation figure (£200,000 vs. documented £205,000). The trust score calibration at a very low level is appropriate for a convicted, sentenced Ponzi operator.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}