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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
- 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
review_revise · Arthur Hayes — Maelstrom CIO Exit Liquidity Allegations
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 22 → 14 (-8)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505476
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T02:15:02.470Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CqeuLjY1kp86h4jbsfnHBjEGcH7WXDFRhCpQaTQgPjic
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1480 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T02:15:01.965Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"195be5f5-22eb-4c43-8c70-6772efb85476","new_score":14,"page_slug":"arthur-hayes-maelstrom-cio-exit-liquidity-allegations","prev_score":22,"reason":"The core investigative narrative is well-supported: claim_findings[0–10] and [16–22] are confirmed by Tier 1 sources including the CFTC, CoinDesk, and Hayes' own published essay. The disputed_pct of 4.5% would normally yield an approve, but one high-priority coverage gap pushes the verdict to revise: the page's regulatory history (sections[1] and [7]) presents Hayes' 2022 guilty plea and $10M CFTC penalty as ongoing context without disclosing that President Trump pardoned Hayes, Delo, Reed, Dwyer, and HDR Global Trading on March 28, 2025 — a material omission that alters the legal weight of every enforcement reference on the page (coverage_gaps[0]). Additionally, claim_findings[14] and [15] contain quantitative errors on the ZEC decline (page says ~30%; multiple independent sources report 38–57%) and the WLD intraday drop (page says 33% intraday; CoinDesk and three other outlets report 20–28%), and claim_findings[10] conflates SpaceX with Sam Altman — errors that are minor individually but together reduce factual precision on a page making specific market-impact claims.","score_delta":-8,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}