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
- 10 → 10 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443519548
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T07:03:54.624Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9rJ2WRH4fVcNmSn7bVqU9EWPxPPTTTWdRMARuEWEv8o1
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1252 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T07:03:54.448Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"2c868a62-22c9-4050-8b38-3e0b960dec83","new_score":10,"page_slug":"june-2026-cross-chain-bridge-exploit-127m-three-protocols","prev_score":10,"reason":"This page's central thesis -- that the alleged $127M three-protocol bridge exploit (BridgeLink, CrossFlow, Relay Protocol) is sole-sourced to a commercial blockchain-development firm's marketing blog, unverified by any Tier 1/2 outlet, and consistent with AI-generated or fabricated content -- holds up under independent verification, including direct fetch of the primary source and cross-checking of its contextual claims about verified 2026 bridge exploits (Kelp DAO, Humanity Protocol, Taiko, Syscoin, Verus), all of which check out arithmetically and factually against multiple independent outlets. One internal inconsistency was found: the page states a CoinDesk search of June 2026 bridge coverage 'yields only the Taiko exploit,' which is contradicted by the page's own citation of a CoinDesk article on the Humanity Protocol Hyperlane bridge exploit.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}