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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 · Bybit
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#1
Score
42 → 42 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
418471884
Off-chain at
2026-05-08T20:51:17.772Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
55phVb13joSEKe38VhUuA1dGYfWgqXUNv8aDReHXMUv3
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1156 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-05-08T20:51:17.606Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"cc5d2629-b918-4554-b41b-cf765ff31285","new_score":42,"page_slug":"bybit","prev_score":42,"reason":"The page is broadly accurate on the core factual narrative of the February 2025 Bybit hack — attack mechanics, attribution, amount stolen, and remediation response are all well-supported by high-credibility sources. The most significant issues are in the regulatory section, which contains two materially stale claims: the assertion that Bybit is still registered in the British Virgin Islands (the BVI entity was dissolved in July 2023) and the claim that Bybit holds no full regulatory license from major jurisdictions (Bybit obtained an EU MiCAR license in May 2025 and a UAE SCA license in October 2025). Minor factual errors include the FBI wallet address count (51, not 50) and the DPRK total theft figure ($3 billion understates the CSIS-cited $3.4 billion). One cited CoinTelegraph URL is link-rotted (404).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}