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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443515547
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T17:21:03.636Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3AW2ejZK8MVDTzsrEcYAexHaPgNKgU9nKTCRFcUnKUHU
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1120 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T17:21:03.522Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"e5e9168d-7847-4457-a735-e58b23759dfd","new_score":2,"page_slug":"gotbit-vortex-antier-contrarian-doj-crypto-market-maker-manipulation-ring","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's individual factual claims about dates, charges, pleas, sentences, forfeiture amounts, and statutory maxima are well supported by DOJ-adjacent (IRS-CI) and independent secondary sources, and the page is careful to distinguish alleged, pled-guilty, and pending statuses among the ten named defendants. However, the page's central framing — presenting Gotbit, Vortex, Antier, and Contrarian as a coordinated 'ring' — is not supported by any source found; primary and secondary sources describe these as separately-charged, unconnected schemes swept up under one DOJ operation. The page also misstates the SEC's civil defendant list by including MyTrade, which was not named in the cited SEC press release.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}