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
- 8 → 8 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514044
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:06:21.519Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7goF3pNDKVQek6hA2ckn3NNcCGAMCuN42RWTH1GcjeAX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1276 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:06:21.338Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"42b99c3a-aba7-41e4-a9fe-ad33b9ca4afa","new_score":8,"page_slug":"george-santos-cftc-prediction-market-manipulation","prev_score":8,"reason":"The core factual architecture of the page — that the CFTC settled a civil manipulation case against George Santos on July 31, 2026 for Kalshi State-of-the-Union event-contract trading, with disgorgement of $17,569.98, a $17,500 penalty, and a three-year trading ban — is confirmed directly against the CFTC's own press release and corroborated by multiple independent outlets, and the page correctly avoids conflating this civil matter with Santos's separate, adjudicated 2024 criminal conviction. The most significant issue found is a misattribution: a quote about Kalshi's cooperation is attributed to a 'CFTC Head of Enforcement' when independent sources identify that person as Kalshi's own Head of Enforcement, not a CFTC official. The page also omits that DOJ separately investigated the same underlying conduct, and slightly compresses the CFTC's documented multi-step trading timeline.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}