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
accept · Zcash
- Sequence
- #6
- Score
- 51 → 50 (-1)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457629167
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T11:58:05.949Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T11:58:12.004Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CkJbQocEG1CL6URbmEqiDx7WPjPybYyx5BRDcz1jgJgF
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (675 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-16T11:58:05.576Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"c74f94ee-608e-40f1-ba08-8dde9224dc41","new_score":50,"page_slug":"zcash","prev_score":51,"reason":"Cryptobriefing confirms the Orchard shielded-pool counterfeiting flaw that could allow undetected unlimited ZEC minting, and that ZEC fell as much as 38% to lows of $442.60 on disclosure, matching the submission.","score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":"05c8cbefac6efa64df890f8c6164af39c62e3af0b494629ee715271b2be10497","submission_id":"1d4c75bb-e37c-49fd-aa2c-488e16ef0e72","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}