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_approve · Gate.io
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 18 → 32 (+14)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514874
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:18.324Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- z3X53TXfeN3fhKnGVFAVDfKApfkwCZP2Pm2FDiHtXru
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1541 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:18.207Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"8cb38982-caca-4f41-81b3-f93e7d056a99","new_score":32,"page_slug":"gate","prev_score":18,"reason":"This is a severity-calibration adjudication, not a content dispute. The reviewer found 0% of claims disputed across all 6 claim_findings (indices 0–5), each returning 'supported,' with reviewer confidence of 0.87. Gate.io is an actively operating exchange with 30M+ users, a 125% proof-of-reserves ratio audited by Hacken, and active regulatory licenses in multiple jurisdictions. The current CRITICAL band (score 18) requires evidence of fraud or scam mechanics by the entity itself; no such evidence exists. The 2018 $230M loss (claim_findings[1,2]) was a Lazarus Group hack in which Gate was the victim — the culpable act is non-disclosure, a serious transparency failure warranting a penalty, but not exchange-perpetrated fraud. The 2025 $LA futures incident (claim_findings[3]) was confirmed as a third-party data-source error with over $30M in voluntary compensation paid. The India regulatory action (claim_findings[5]) was a PMLA compliance issue shared by eight other exchanges. Taken together, these incidents justify the WARNING band but not CRITICAL. The page content stands accurate and published; the score is adjusted upward by +14 to reach the reviewer's recommended score of 32.","score_delta":14,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}