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
review · Celsius Network
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 3 → 3 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 418529862
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-09T03:18:27.149Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 98Uz8Ge77NjxEgsXzb8TnRuqdCycN1JoUCXgCeLY1p8e
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1399 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-09T03:18:26.967Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"c5f166d2-5939-421c-8e76-941fd0af7104","new_score":3,"page_slug":"celsius","prev_score":3,"reason":"The Celsius investigation page is substantively accurate across its core claims. Founding details, financial figures at collapse, criminal charges and their specific counts, regulatory actions from SEC/CFTC/FTC, sentencing details, and bankruptcy proceedings are all confirmed by primary sources including DOJ press releases, federal agency filings, court records, and tier-1 news coverage. Six claims are partially supported rather than fully confirmed: most significantly, the ICO figure of '$50 million' repeats Mashinsky's false public claim without noting that DOJ documents establish the actual raise was approximately $32 million; the StakeHound loss is materially understated at $50 million when the total exposure exceeded $150 million per Celsius's own lawsuit; and the BadgerDAO $22 million figure is the net realized loss rather than the $54 million gross loss. No claims were found to be directly disputed or fabricated. The page is strong on the criminal and regulatory record but has gaps on the financial loss figures from the 2021 incidents.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}