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.
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465071085
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T22:43:53.447Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T22:44:13.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T22:44:13.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5UUVZn98GuEy2iwTZyuRVRCSnuqnqWRJvvKUi4YmhQDR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (697 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T22:43:53.059Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"e017af8a-4584-4968-886a-17da7a811d8c","new_score":0,"page_slug":"lazarus-group-tradertraitor-dprk-september-2026-blitz-campaign","prev_score":0,"reason":"Decrypt confirms Chainalysis attributed the Sept 24 Bitget hack (about $387M per article) to North Korea-linked actors and that 2026 DPRK theft passed $1B. Note: page says $351.6M, article says $387M.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":"7oqyH95yR1QXYvCXaVgmZbA2dw7cCuME2trEVZ8FjdqE","submission_id":"cb2536a0-b727-4943-996e-5ce27dfb10b1","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}