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
- #7
- Score
- 14 → 11 (-3)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457936992
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T06:27:56.494Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T06:28:19.400Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GLNyiNCTYtjjDW3e53gmjWv6JEKd6gF3QXiAM2mUnHRh
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (685 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T06:27:56.231Z","decision":"reject","investigation_id":"a9cdc7b5-15a1-4e71-857b-15faed45731b","new_score":11,"page_slug":"coldcard-coinkite-firmware-seed-entropy-exploit-multi-actor-august-2026","prev_score":14,"reason":"This TechCrunch link is already accepted on this page (same_url_accepted_for_page: b2c8355a-e2c6-4b33-a5ac-e83c90e9abc9); a duplicate copy adds nothing new.","score_delta":-3,"sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":"8e7aac3fe0ff7a41e6adb7e60091ff4b0c387ef2a82fdbb2db082f255ec64c78","submission_id":"da893143-0b42-4806-8f1b-071114423936","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}