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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.

Decision
review · Gate.io
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#4
Score
32 → 32 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
454772676
Off-chain at
2026-10-09T05:29:59.026Z
Anchored at
2026-10-09T05:30:22.111Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
ARZ2xPpnje9m8edvaSt5n8XnoBihC3avnwkQH7ZUhcvd
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2058 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"b93ab227b1f2954961843ffb6a3a87e7","decided_at":"2026-10-09T05:29:58.699Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2333,"findings_hash":"ATVt4jk9nM9ckmQuaGT7tzfYhgLE2ogVuWv4qqRtbknn","investigation_id":"8cb38982-caca-4f41-81b3-f93e7d056a99","mode":"findings_only","new_score":32,"page_content_hash":"288e46edabe5ba208529afa3ea615db6e583caabfc573e06fb6a0ff006365a37","page_slug":"gate","prev_score":32,"reason":"The page's core narrative — the 2018 ZachXBT-alleged $234M hack, the 2015 Bter.com hack, the India FIU action, the June 2025 $LA futures incident, and the December 2024 privacy-coin delistings — is substantially corroborated by the cited reporting and by independent sources. However, several specific details are unsupported or wrong: the $LA incident's KuCoin attribution and most of its price figures do not appear in any of the three cited articles (all of which report different, lower figures); a 'personal error by an employee' quote attributed to Gate.io appears in no source and contradicts the cited reporting's account of Gate.io declining to explain the cause; the claimed Vanuatu/VFSC license is unsupported and likely wrong given Gate.io's documented Dubai VARA and Malta MiCA licenses; the Trustpilot score/suspension claim does not match the live page; the DOJ/FBI attribution of the $3B Lazarus figure contradicts the cited source's own attribution to Recorded Future; and a timeline entry claims Gate.io delisted privacy-coin perpetuals in August 2022, which is unsupported and contradicts the page's own, well-sourced December 2024 date for that same event. Two cybercriminal.com citations (used across two sections and sources_used) are now dead, redirecting to a GoDaddy parked-domain page. Headline user/asset-count figures (30M users, 4,600 altcoins) appear stale against the current cited source, which now reports 58M+ users and 4,800+ assets.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}