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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Trenton Johnston
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
2 → 2 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
423086691
Off-chain at
2026-05-30T04:48:22.864Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
Ab5DJN1C1LREJt2WSAsBMUchpkduYic5qbWhraMxcNdz
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1061 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-30T04:48:22.719Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"0490cfbf-2bc7-4250-ad1a-5a03e4cab07f","new_score":2,"page_slug":"trenton-johnston","prev_score":2,"reason":"The investigation page is substantially accurate. Core claims — the indictment, charges, defendants' identities and ages, loss amounts, spending patterns, immigration violations, and investigating agencies — are all confirmed by official government sources including the FDIC OIG press release. Two recurring issues weaken precision: (1) the page conflates the public announcement date (May 11/12) with the indictment filing date (May 6 per PACER), and (2) the characterization of Tardibone as a 'luxury car rental business owner' appears in secondary reporting attributed to ZachXBT social media rather than official DOJ documents. One timeline entry (Daily Hodl article) could not be fetched for verification.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}