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
accept · Verus Protocol (VRSC)
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 26 → 25 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457553786
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T07:27:16.309Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T07:27:37.134Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HZa6p298eChtURoQgb2ngzSRc6bSt2M8oo8Jf9SQmNnh
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (651 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T07:27:15.900Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"8b05afa2-b3b1-4812-a3c2-2b69513839e8","new_score":25,"page_slug":"verus-protocol-vrsc","prev_score":26,"reason":"CoinDesk confirms the Verus-Ethereum bridge hack took 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC, later swapped for 5,402.4 ETH worth over $11 million. Matches the note exactly.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":"0662320d84e768dccfcba2397e84cb1e51f785fbf16c981b03c34a4a67d3faf6","submission_id":"5f90ef8a-da27-42ac-8318-aa6f48d0d6d6","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}