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 · Circle Internet Financial
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 43 → 62 (+19)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514548
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:01.733Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- G4nLWVGRyzhxA4MByENqLdwC5qxdfXqeekDuQsRqEZ7d
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1546 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:01.620Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"83786d67-bd35-49b7-bd52-5b4615943f5a","new_score":62,"page_slug":"circle-internet-financial","prev_score":43,"reason":"This is a severity-calibration adjudication. The page content is accurate and well-sourced; all six claim_findings are marked 'supported' with disputed_pct of 0%. The reviewer (confidence 0.88) finds the current WARNING score of 43 to be over-penalized because the incidents driving it — Drift, Cetus, Mango, Nomad, and SVB — are third-party hacks or macroeconomic events where Circle was not the perpetrator of fraud (claim_findings[2], modifier_flags[0], [2]). The ZachXBT '$420 million missed freezes' allegation is investigative journalism, not a regulatory finding or court judgment, and was correctly weighted as Tier 3 confidence in isolation (claim_findings[5], modifier_flags[1]). Circle's regulatory standing is exceptionally strong: NYSE-listed, OCC conditional approval, GENIUS Act compliance, and first NYDFS BitLicense (claim_findings[0], [1], [5]). The CAUTIONARY band score of 62 is appropriate because it captures the live McCollum v. Circle class action and the documented freeze-policy inconsistency without misclassifying Circle as fraud-adjacent. A positive delta of +19 moves the score from 43 to 62, correcting the band mismatch identified by the reviewer.","score_delta":19,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}