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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.

Sequence
#3
Score
60 (-15)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443521472
Off-chain at
2026-08-26T15:13:16.538Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
H7abgKD6BrZyXox9wWfhku1eQ7Gx5jkVrzDQjQYxByaH
2. Recomputed (your browser)
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3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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Canonical bytes hashed (1610 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-26T15:13:15.942Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"2a623f6b-0253-430c-bb2b-3ec76d9c4b26","new_score":0,"page_slug":"ben-pasternak-believe-launchcoin","prev_score":6,"reason":"Independent verification confirms 30 of 37 claims outright and finds no contradictions in the page's core civil-litigation narrative, which was checked verbatim against the actual filed complaint (claim_findings[18]-[27]), and no contradictions in the separately documented criminal assault arrest (claim_findings[30]-[32]). Set against that, the page states as fact — in its summary and in a dedicated section — that Pasternak faces a separate criminal indictment for crypto fraud in New York; the civil complaint the page otherwise relies on never uses the words 'criminal' or 'indict,' no DOJ or USAO-SDNY record could be located, and the page's own tier-1 sources describe only the civil suit (claim_findings[5], [28], [29]). This is a distinct error from the correctly-reported assault case, not a conflation of the two, and it names a living, non-convicted person. Additional, lower-severity errors include a peak market-cap figure that conflicts with the primary complaint (claim_findings[16]), a company founding year off by one (claim_findings[11]), two headline dollar figures presented as settled fact rather than a plaintiff's estimate (claim_findings[1], [2]), and a source list that both over- and under-lists its citations.","score_delta":-15,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}