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
- #4
- Score
- 25 → 25 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 445507229
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-09T03:05:21.873Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 289zuzYucqNYjjTFSTdDdxz1WmcFEoU7y5L21BgPe1M1
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (735 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"a7139d35ee2725428b68c7d703e4ace6","decided_at":"2026-09-07T05:37:30.339627+00:00","decision":"review","findings_count":25,"findings_rows_hash":"9ac9c88a70e53311a09e08e4592be19be662209b28ba50bf21e5848a2fc40511","investigation_id":"b688413a-741b-4c62-938b-41cbb424a766","mode":"findings_only_retroactive","new_score":25,"page_content_hash":"1c101401ae1720c21aafbb5bb13b1eb22346c9c3d2f245f49fa74709dd9f8138","page_slug":"binance-mica-greece-application-withdrawal","prev_score":25,"reason":"Findings-only fact-check (retroactive anchor of stored findings)","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}