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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.

Decision
review · Malone Lam
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
0 → 0 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
423943449
Off-chain at
2026-06-03T03:16:19.261Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
Fdonvq5MXzwZJFA78YW5bzHvfnLqZgA3uTR9goHvLQkX
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1191 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-03T03:16:19.064Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b28b65b7-e922-4f73-9afb-5d75276ac7e5","new_score":0,"page_slug":"malone","prev_score":0,"reason":"The core factual claims about Malone Lam — identity, nationality, arrest date, RICO charges, the August 18 2024 Genesis creditor theft, and the December 2025 plea hearing — are well-supported by credible sources including DOJ press releases and major news outlets. The primary accuracy issues are date precision errors: the Veer Chetal timeline entry (2025-03-01) conflates his March 25, 2025 arrest with the parents' kidnapping that occurred August 25, 2024; the Evan Tangeman sentencing date (2026-04-27) reflects the article publication date rather than the actual sentencing date (April 24, 2026); and the Danish Zulfiqar arrest entry is dated December 1 when the ZachXBT report appeared December 5, 2025. No claims are outright disputed or unverifiable. The page's seven content sections are entirely blank, which is a significant structural gap.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}