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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443520247
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T11:09:21.985Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DtoLeYnpWSEDGVsYaypMsZQ38DZNT1s6wCEG4n8354qh
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1276 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T11:09:21.864Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"dd4506df-f53a-4fb4-8a37-e2a89d110810","new_score":0,"page_slug":"famous-chollima-clickfake-interview-campaign-pylangghost-golangghost","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- attribution to Famous Chollima under the DPRK Lazarus umbrella, the ClickFix social-engineering mechanic, and the technical profiles of PylangGhost and GolangGhost -- is well supported by the cited primary vendor reporting (Cisco Talos, Sekoia, SOCRadar) and independently corroborated in several places (e.g., Sophos's parallel 'NICKEL ALLEY' tracking). The most significant problems are a mischaracterization of the Famous Chollima / BlueNoroff-APT38 cluster relationship, an unsupported 'documented initially by Sekoia' claim for GolangGhost that a cited source itself contradicts, a misattributed Nuitka-compilation detail, a repeated off-by-one error (51 vs. 52) in the FBI's published Bybit wallet-address count, and DPRK-wide theft statistics ($2.02B/51%/$6.75B) that are accurate but not found in any of the three sources cited for them.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}