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_revise · Trenton Johnston
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 2 → 0 (-5)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423205887
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-30T17:55:22.504Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3DLP3ayQThzjvE1xh21E3XjcBVMGZjG24FA4ug9zSVWe
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1299 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-30T17:55:22.300Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"0490cfbf-2bc7-4250-ad1a-5a03e4cab07f","new_score":0,"page_slug":"trenton-johnston","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page is well-grounded overall: 15 of 17 claims are confirmed by Tier 1 sources including the FDIC OIG official press release and PACER docket data, and no claims were disputed or contradicted by any credible source. Two claims are only partially supported. claim_findings[9] (social engineering tactics — 2FA codes, seed phrases, remote access) appears in secondary reporting but is absent from the primary FDIC OIG press release; the claim is plausible but should be linked directly to indictment text via PACER. claim_findings[11] (Tardibone as luxury car rental business owner) traces to ZachXBT social media rather than any official court document; the page hedge ('Reports identify') is appropriate but the sourcing should name the ZachXBT post explicitly. Two high-priority coverage gaps — the USAO justice.gov press release and the actual indictment document — represent the clearest path to resolving the partially-supported claims.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}