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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_approve · HTX
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#7
Score
3 → 28 (+25)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514397
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:15:54.457Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
49FMqdPGyM4ewZB8E6ZkHvHgoc3sYc6UNH8exxVVKPzL
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1596 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:15:54.333Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"209069f2-af57-47e8-baef-8d5873d176e2","new_score":28,"page_slug":"htx","prev_score":3,"reason":"All six claim findings in the review are supported with 0% disputed content. The review confirms HTX is a legitimate, actively operating exchange (approximately 55 million registered users, $3.3 trillion in 2025 trading volume — claim_findings[0]), and that the primary security losses — the September 2023 $7.9M hot wallet theft and November 2023 ~$97–115M HECO bridge/hot wallet exploit (claim_findings[1]) — were external attacks suffered by HTX, with user compensation provided. The current score of 18 (CRITICAL/fraud band) misapplies band semantics to an exchange that is a hack victim, not a fraud perpetrator. The page accurately documents genuinely serious ongoing concerns — UK FCDO sanctions for alleged Russia evasion (claim_findings[2]), FCA legal proceedings for illegal promotions (claim_findings[3]), material reserve opacity (claim_findings[4]), and Justin Sun's pending SEC charges (claim_findings[5]) — which together support an elevated WARNING band score of 28. The page content is accurate, stands as published, and requires no revision; only the trust score band requires correction upward to reflect the WARNING classification appropriate to a legitimate exchange carrying serious but unresolved regulatory and governance risks.","score_delta":25,"sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}