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 · Bitget Exchange (Shawn Liu)
- Sequence
- #16
- Score
- 7 → 5 (-2)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465558055
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-05T03:43:59.872Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-05T03:44:25.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-05T03:44:25.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7cAtXMPNjatDn2dNHdF4gqwE3BxPpBGNF8nAFhgHkG7g
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (659 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-05T03:43:59.386Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"3d4730c1-4369-4e11-80d9-494b6fb43800","new_score":5,"page_slug":"bitget-exchange-shawn-liu","prev_score":7,"reason":"Bitcoin.com News reports ZachXBT's allegations (supply-control schemes on RAVE, RIVER, SIREN, LAB; Shawn Liu behind Gracy Chen). Reported as allegations, which matches the note.","score_delta":-2,"sequence_num":16,"submission_content_hash":"2108a8695f32c19255a3d24e103aff2643f66685282e028f993b8328d1ec6d0d","submission_id":"d7b3965a-e2c0-4c8f-a6e3-d9cd2b329bc1","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}