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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443520091
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T11:04:11.580Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8Gx2YHQL8eVhCLKosemY3vvFpFnVrZsaZyNozm17q4Ur
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1326 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T11:04:11.504Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"66004779-b4f2-4848-838e-cc78e9d06099","new_score":2,"page_slug":"hormuzsafe-marine-services-authority-persian-gulf-marine-insurance-company-pgmic","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual claims — the July 29, 2026 OFAC designations of HormuzSafe and PGMIC, the extortion/insurance scheme structure, IRGC linkage, Bitcoin payment acceptance, and the Zanjani connection — are well-supported by the primary Treasury press release and corroborating secondary reporting, and the page appropriately hedges several unverified figures (the $10B revenue claim, the $1/barrel fee, and the Zanjani-Binance allegation). However, the page mischaracterizes the legal basis for the July 29 designations by attributing Executive Order 13224 to HormuzSafe and PGMIC when that authority applies only to the separately-designated PGSA, blends the financial-sector and petroleum-sector prongs of E.O. 13902 across different designees, misattributes a FinCEN whistleblower program to OFAC, and states an incorrect date (July 1 instead of July 14, 2026) for the Tether USDT freeze in its timeline.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}