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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.

Sequence
#3
Score
20 → 14 (-6)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443510246
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T02:46:33.784Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
8dYEjtRTfRgfGLub6cVhjDXz7EEyN49YP8XQWpN973er
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1850 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T02:46:33.566Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"c9315989-c7a8-474a-97ba-e9c46606cf83","new_score":14,"page_slug":"bybit-v-dprk-lazarus-group-1-5b-hack-civil-lawsuit-august-2026","prev_score":20,"reason":"Recomputing disputed_pct as (disputed + unverifiable) / total_claims over the authoritative 14-entry claim_findings array gives 3/14 = 0.21, consistent with the reviewer's reported 0.23 and falling within the 10%-30% band. This places the page in review_revise territory, though at the low end: zero claims were actually found disputed or contradicted by more credible reporting, and the elevated pct is driven entirely by three unverifiable items (claim_findings[8], [12], [13]). Of those, two (claim_findings[8], [12]) were marked unverifiable primarily because a cited source returned an HTTP 429 rate-limit during the reviewer's fetch attempt rather than because the claim itself is doubtful -- the underlying legal framework and 'landmark' characterization are described as plausible and consistent with broader coverage. The third (claim_findings[13], the Zhou quote paraphrase) reflects genuine absence of a verbatim source match rather than a fetch failure, and so carries slightly more weight. Combined with three partially_supported findings that reflect citation-support gaps rather than factual errors (a source doesn't fully back a detail that is otherwise accurate per cross-referencing) and one minor numeric slip (52 vs. 50 FBI-listed addresses in claim_findings[3]), the page merits a modest revise-level penalty rather than the top of the band, given no link rot, no staleness, and no high-priority coverage gaps were identified.","score_delta":-6,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}