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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 · PAX Gold (PAXG)
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
72 → 72 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443524207
Off-chain at
2026-08-27T05:54:37.608Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
BRZTciXwy3UG2p3fhaiwPa2crw6MU9Uv6GiyhtYQxrAD
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1431 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T05:54:37.460Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"14e3e40f-1c66-42d6-9bfd-64c1a5dad571","new_score":72,"page_slug":"pax-gold-paxg","prev_score":72,"reason":"The page correctly reflects Paxos's current OCC-regulated status as of December 2025 (unlike a sibling Paxos-token page reviewed the same day, which was found stale on this exact point) and its NYDFS AML settlement and SEC Wells-notice sections are unusually precise, matching primary-source statutory citations and dollar figures almost exactly. The one clear, repeated factual error is a stale/inverted claim that PAXG charges a 0.02% on-chain transfer fee and that this is a disadvantage versus XAUT; PAXG's own current official page and the article the page itself cites both state the opposite -- PAXG has zero on-chain transfer fees and XAUT is the one with a fee. The page also omits the allocated-gold/serial-number-lookup feature and the bankruptcy-remote custody structure, both of which are verifiable and relevant to the product's core value proposition and risk profile respectively. Several early-history timeline dates use unsourced day-level placeholders, and one (the 2018 Paxos Standard launch date) is off by eight months against Paxos's own primary announcement.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}