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 · Verus Protocol Ethereum Bridge
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 31 → 30 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457736942
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T18:26:50.686Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T18:27:08.453Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3DiAjLMknC8kGehH3wMgG8FBS1oSCXW6ifsEG6rBDhsn
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (729 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T18:26:50.339Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"25a63bee-d211-406a-87b5-7f88d5de2606","new_score":30,"page_slug":"verus-protocol-ethereum-bridge","prev_score":31,"reason":"news.bitcoin.com confirms the second Verus-Ethereum Bridge exploit (~$7.3-7.5M) using the same contract/vulnerability as the May ~$11.6M exploit, total losses ~$19.1M, and the root cause remaining exploitable for 66 days — matching the note.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"c9141b750d62290c773c1bb073cbef949c15ea13f0ba1ac3d1098fffea0dd9a8","submission_id":"1b1f46ce-a312-460f-a4da-bd3decff14fd","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}