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
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443519890
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T10:06:48.674Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- E7Hdt3NqyFS5pXCG7MzUazi1gTXMSgYUP19pSeC6PaRQ
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1325 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T10:06:48.535Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"db5d0bd1-e00a-4022-a5f9-e80dacf78503","new_score":2,"page_slug":"patrick-steven-yaroch-fbi-agent-crypto-theft","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- a supervisory FBI counterintelligence agent charged with stealing roughly $925,000 in cryptocurrency from Russia-linked investigative wallets, self-reporting, and using ChatGPT to plan finances and possible emigration -- is well corroborated by multiple independent tier-1/tier-2 news outlets and is presented with generally appropriate 'allegedly'/'prosecutors allege' hedging. However, the page states Yaroch's age as 37 when consistent independent reporting gives 41; its central court-filing citation resolves to an unrelated 2011 Nebraska document rather than the actual EDVA complaint; and its description of Yaroch as currently held in custody appears to be superseded by reporting that he was granted conditional pretrial release on bond with home confinement. One section also states a conclusion about his intent (self-enrichment rather than whistleblowing) in unqualified terms while charges remain pending.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}