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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425410138
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T21:34:00.947Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7i7298Mkk7o48yeGLugoQ9sV9kQ7hmUFbQ1bDC3DcLx3
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1172 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T21:34:00.741Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"013a0a09-ae20-4647-a35a-080a0a5e1fd1","new_score":2,"page_slug":"mach-o-man-lazarus-chollima-macos-malware","prev_score":2,"reason":"The investigation is well-sourced and substantially accurate for its core technical claims about the Mach-O Man malware kit, with IOCs, attack chain, and attribution all confirmed by primary sources. The principal weaknesses are: (1) the Tornado Cash regulatory claim is materially stale — sanctions were lifted in March 2025 and the page presents them as current; (2) the page incorrectly characterizes Tornado Cash as the 'first-ever' sanctioned mixer (Blender.io was first) and cites an incorrect press release ID and date; (3) the Bybit CEO attribution of laundering-pace commentary is a misattribution — the observation belongs to TRM Labs' Ari Redbord; and (4) the 'since 2017' framing of Chainalysis cumulative theft data is not supported by Chainalysis methodology, which tracks from 2019.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}