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
- 443513195
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T10:06:48.911Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GvdkEA35DzKxvEFjU51jvpuzqLVX5fjqKMEPRWB9b8DT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1074 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T10:06:48.649Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"114cd987-aa00-4a8e-afad-188bf025e2bb","new_score":10,"page_slug":"doj-pig-butchering-civil-forfeiture-dc-district-july-2026","prev_score":10,"reason":"The page's core claims -- the July 21, 2026 filing date, District of Columbia venue, in rem/no-defendants civil forfeiture posture, dollar figures, victim counts, and the surrounding Strike Force enforcement timeline -- are well corroborated by DOJ, Secret Service, IRS, and multiple independent outlets, and the page consistently and correctly distinguishes civil forfeiture allegations from criminal charges/adjudicated findings. The main weakness found is an internally unreconciled dollar range for the MicMarkets complaint that appears to conflate two different sourced figures, plus reliance on secondary sources rather than the DOJ's own press release for the central event.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}