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
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 1 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457737122
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T18:26:56.307Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T18:27:46.616Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- RWu3AbB5zAnAXex6Y7JwrHQnkmrvhKVdv63aFAW7cG5
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (758 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T18:26:56.022Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"9355e449-fb9b-4dd8-9171-4e58d63dfaef","new_score":1,"page_slug":"trevor-vernon-argent-capital-management","prev_score":2,"reason":"Official CFTC press release (July 7, 2026) confirms the complaint against Trevor Vernon and Argent Capital Management alleging over $14M fraudulently solicited from 60+ participants, Ponzi-like payments, and false sworn statements to the CFTC — matching the note.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":"057f4f4771ddf67e309168803c013302ff9eb36d51c1710fc7e0a196e734a1bd","submission_id":"bf5854ea-af35-4376-8ed5-47c8a94d4db5","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}