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
- #5
- Score
- 26 → 26 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457783088
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T21:13:06.885Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T21:13:32.794Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FtYk2BmoYukLV2FKMQZiQmJ3yVCMhfYUt2fwQW7NGfTB
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2101 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"922d11136066a37753322b131d02d751","decided_at":"2026-10-16T21:13:06.411Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2857,"findings_hash":"892ruX89TX1H414rqQyZz5se3sgUN9NoWn6C9xCWJCLH","investigation_id":"9d1c3851-93aa-49f3-b9f9-bf72fd0ffcfc","mode":"findings_only","new_score":26,"page_content_hash":"e126e524c06afd602f8847ab94f29feab443668b69931756eb3a82b3f1cc568f","page_slug":"john-daghita-aka-lick-us-marshals-crypto-theft","prev_score":26,"reason":"The page's central narrative -- a USMS-adjacent contractor's son allegedly stealing roughly $46 million in seized cryptocurrency, exposed by ZachXBT via a 'band-for-band' flex, followed by arrest in Saint Martin and ongoing French extradition proceedings -- is well corroborated by independent, credible reporting (CoinDesk, Washington Monthly, Cointelegraph, AFP-sourced wire coverage), and the on-chain figures in the 'Alleged Theft' and 'Band-for-Band' sections check out precisely against the cited CoinDesk article. Weaknesses cluster around claims sourced only to social-media posts that could not be independently fetched (the exact indictment count/charges, the Dec 2025-Jan 2026 transfer-by-transfer breakdown, the cash/watch/villa arrest details), where the page states precise figures that may be accurate but are currently unverifiable from accessible secondary reporting. Two citation-quality issues stood out: the $LICK meme-coin section states details (97% price drop, Telegram promotion) that are true per other reporting but not actually supported by either source the page cites for that section; and one of the three sources cited for the extradition venue (Phemex) names a different French court (Bastia) and detention facility than the page's own text (Basse-Terre), an internal inconsistency that the weight of other evidence resolves in the page's favor but which the citations do not reflect. No accepted community submissions existed to review.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}