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.
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 3 → 3 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 462045598
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-27T10:59:42.697Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-27T11:00:01.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-10-27T11:00:01.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6xH7bLSL4qQhu1r1mrWjdYBunzBQ1sMUHdUQXHB5h7AY
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1683 chars)
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