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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 · PeopleDAO
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#6
Score
52 → 52 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457728924
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T17:58:00.020Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T17:58:15.322Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
3PzT7SsVLq1eWP5eyMkLVniN2r4Ty6K3P6FkBJQaYP4j
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1984 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"9c64149e4bb44f9b63106c7c717f4cf9","decided_at":"2026-10-16T17:57:59.832Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.1667,"findings_hash":"DV2cSRbWQxgsvdTsHYhGCuxSyicU7sNLBBA1PRNNvyUw","investigation_id":"28b0aaa9-98f7-4552-b0ea-b8e96024fc77","mode":"findings_only","new_score":52,"page_content_hash":"8be33d62edc6935d9041c46cb02fa55b6f1d32eefd234950bf4fc2fd6186496d","page_slug":"peopledao","prev_score":52,"reason":"The page's core narrative — ConstitutionDAO's failed $47M Sotheby's bid, the Dec 6, 2021 Snapshot vote founding PeopleDAO, and the March 2023 76.5 ETH ($120,000) Google Sheets social-engineering theft with its FBI/FTC report, ZachXBT/SlowMist engagement, 10% bounty, and HitBTC/Binance fund flows — is well supported by multiple independent, credible sources (The Block, Forklog, web3isgoinggreat, CNBC, Fortune, Binance Research) and the page's attribution of the incident as third-party theft rather than insider fraud is accurate. Current token statistics (supply, GitHub activity, KuCoin delisting, PolitiFi price narrative, dormant website) all check out against live sources. The main weakness is a recurring, unverified $5.4 million PeopleDAO treasury/funding figure that appears in three places and is not supported by the cited official website or by the one PeopleDAO internal document found during this review (which suggests a far smaller treasury in 2022); this figure should be sourced properly or removed. Secondary issues are minor: one timeline entry's single cited source (The Block) does not itself support every detail attributed to it, the Etherscan snapshot is mislabeled 'early 2026' when its archive timestamp is from July 2026, and one news citation (CryptoTVplus) could not be reached across two attempts, though the claim it backs is otherwise well corroborated.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":6,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}