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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_revise · Alex Mashinsky
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
0 → 0 (-10)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
423955900
Off-chain at
2026-06-03T04:38:55.714Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
13tXHjq2PiwXzL3rnpzdTqyDLxebifQ9pe9XU8zTz1S3
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
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Canonical bytes hashed (1666 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-03T04:38:55.484Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"0519d3da-ef7d-4356-b8f9-bc72dccbbe10","new_score":0,"page_slug":"alex-mashinsky","prev_score":0,"reason":"The reviewer found 2 disputed claims in 35 (11.4%), placing this page in the minor-issues band. claim_findings[28] identifies a legally material error: the page characterizes Mashinsky's December 2024 guilty plea as covering 'commodities fraud and a scheme to manipulate the price of CEL token,' when DOJ press releases and multiple secondary sources confirm the two counts were securities fraud (Count 2) and commodities fraud (Count 5, covering CEL manipulation). This mischaracterization appears in both the page summary and the Guilty Plea section. claim_findings[16] documents a numeric overstatement: the page states the balance-sheet deficit 'exceeded $1.3 billion' while Bloomberg ($1.19B), CoinDesk ($1.2B), and Fortune (implied ~$1.2B from the cited asset/liability figures) consistently report approximately $1.2 billion. The penalty is set at -10 rather than the band minimum because the guilty-plea-count error touches a core legal fact present in multiple locations on the page, and a high-priority coverage gap (Mashinsky's May 2026 pro se motion to vacate his sentence) represents a material post-sentencing development that should be reflected in the timeline and relevant section. The page's overall narrative, chronology, and regulatory coverage are broadly accurate; no link rot was detected.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}