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 · Donald Basile
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 4 → 4 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443511371
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T03:36:41.577Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CJ1MRyrkt2nr2juPUjjQfNa8imBkhKY4gYnnp1CHnXWn
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1207 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T03:36:41.373Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b48adfb8-e5cd-4d76-b81b-4b8cad81f371","new_score":4,"page_slug":"donald-basile","prev_score":4,"reason":"The page's central claims — the April 2026 SEC civil fraud complaint, its specific dollar figures, statutory charges, and requested relief, plus the prior 2022 private litigation and Violin Memory/Fusion-io career history — are well-supported by primary regulatory filings and independent reporting, and the page is careful to distinguish untested allegations from adjudicated fact throughout. The main issues found are a mischaracterization of Basile as a Fusion-io 'co-founder' (independent sources credit David Flynn and Rick White as founders), an imprecise implication that Basile was a defendant in the Jonna Michigan lawsuit (he was not, in the original complaint), and several biographical details (education, early employers, unemployment/financing figures) that trace to self-published or unsupported sources rather than the specific citations given.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}