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 · Chainlink
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 72 → 72 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 424136284
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-04T00:35:48.559Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3uzNt1XXXPtLzY8ay593wFXAZTM7xiFqXBKhQ2GLXiJX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1226 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-04T00:35:48.095Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"06b2993d-72cf-4c50-9f68-28407556ae8d","new_score":72,"page_slug":"chainlink","prev_score":72,"reason":"The Chainlink investigation page is largely accurate and well-sourced. The most significant factual error is the inclusion of Franklin Templeton as a participant in the $58B corporate actions initiative — Franklin Templeton participated in a separate DTCC Smart NAV pilot, not the corporate actions program. Additional minor issues include an inflated page count for the Zeus Capital report (66 vs. the more widely reported 59 pages), a slight undercharacterization of Taylor Lindman's SEC role (Chief Counsel of the Crypto Task Force, not merely working on guidelines), and an imprecision around the Staking v0.2 launch date (November 28 was Priority Migration for existing stakers; broad Early Access opened December 7). The primary cited CoinTelegraph URL for the Zeus Capital claim returned a 404. No claims were found to be outright disputed by credible contradicting sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}