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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423841783
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-02T16:01:59.663Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 5jedNCHPfK8b2Wg6VMFwwUsyWsmt6CaDNfbmrhgMapqA
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (888 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-02T16:01:59.542Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"a35c9291-ad0b-4bed-8888-a836ff498f0a","new_score":0,"page_slug":"goliath-ventures-christopher-alexander-delgado","prev_score":0,"reason":"The investigation page is well-sourced and highly accurate. The vast majority of claims are directly confirmed by tier-1 government sources (IRS CI, DOJ Middle District of Florida) and consistent tier-2 news outlets. The two unverifiable claims — Jordan Shaw's $60 million aggregate figure and a 'Nicholas Petrillo' investor seeking $40 million — could not be independently confirmed; the latter may be a conflation with the COO of the same name. No claims were found to contradict credible contrary sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}