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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505291
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T01:34:48.184Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- KLzqcbgp2JSKURkxgCBLEKLrgvUy1KX84xb7uWy4A3L
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1105 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-08T01:34:48.014Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"b5f38cf3-e16d-40df-8bed-f751036f15c7","new_score":2,"page_slug":"hyperfund-rodney-bitcoin-rodney-burton","prev_score":2,"reason":"The investigation is substantively accurate and well-sourced, with its core factual claims — fraud scale, co-founders, charges, plea details, proceeds amounts, sentencing dates, fake CEO identity, and payment — confirmed by DOJ, SEC, and Tier 1-2 news sources. One material error was identified: the timeline dates the superseding indictment against Burton as January 2025 when it was actually filed December 12, 2025. The stale timeline entry for Burton's sentencing (page lists it as 'scheduled July 23, 2026' but it has already occurred, with a 32-month sentence imposed) requires updating. A minor ambiguity exists in reporting the actor's payment as '$7,500' without specifying this is Australian dollars rather than US dollars.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}