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 · Zondacrypto Collapse
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 1 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457928412
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T05:57:02.187Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T05:57:29.104Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CtrpTVrqbsZigkXG2VyV6FWjfCtnmqDgLtdZDYmfbdRU
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (669 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T05:57:01.952Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"1c3b6597-307f-4a55-9686-b391f90bfc61","new_score":1,"page_slug":"zondacrypto-collapse","prev_score":2,"reason":"Cryptonomist confirms a new arrest in the Zondacrypto investigation (Roman Z., fifth suspect, pretrial detention ordered), a development not yet on the page's timeline, matching the submission.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":"afef0ab05bdf7e8b667f5074c88829e6b32d5a0571bb31ba15176158da3d3d6b","submission_id":"f8c9ad5d-a2df-4a30-bae3-b847b631ba5e","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}