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
reject · Shelbit Exchange
- Sequence
- #9
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457846065
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T00:59:55.517Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T01:00:27.619Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- CHvUSGt1qZujUddMhMh3Zx5dkvRLJsWhVP2gK4tMgVTF
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (666 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T00:59:55.266Z","decision":"reject","investigation_id":"4b1608f0-b1d0-41e6-893f-f4656b6af442","new_score":0,"page_slug":"shelbit-exchange","prev_score":0,"reason":"Signals show this exact normalized URL (home.treasury.gov Shelbit designation press release) is already accepted for this page (same_url_accepted_for_page set), so this is a duplicate submission.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":9,"submission_content_hash":"c0c3899dc70d64cc691699ec697724d585965028ca8dbf633f41b813266060b8","submission_id":"7631015e-9ae9-4489-9e9f-bbfb44be3d34","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}