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 · Ripple USD (RLUSD)
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 74 → 74 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443523800
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T05:07:42.671Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GxiTchs1KGCbYk2RbzAeZYvwSjtsv4LtT8edRYubMdGG
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1374 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T05:07:42.523Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b27480f7-c442-4be5-b018-f74d8851d9c2","new_score":74,"page_slug":"ripple-usd-rlusd","prev_score":74,"reason":"The page's core factual scaffolding -- issuer identity, NYDFS charter, launch date, reserve composition, custodian, attestation firm, freeze/blacklist terms, and the programmatic-vs-institutional XRP ruling -- is accurately sourced and well-drawn, including a correct separation of RLUSD from the XRP litigation and of the NYDFS state charter from the later OCC federal charter. The principal defect is a materially incorrect characterization of the SEC litigation's actual final outcome: the page states Ripple 'paid a $50 million settlement,' when the record shows Judge Torres twice rejected that proposed settlement and the original $125 million penalty plus permanent injunction remained the final, operative judgment when both sides dropped their appeals in August 2025. Several timeline entries also land on the first of a month with only month-level source support (partially_supported), and one (the Standard Custody acquisition) is dated to a specific day contradicted by a specific day in the record (disputed).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}