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
- #2
- Score
- 4 → 4 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443522995
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T03:14:12.525Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DM9ZPD8P5wTpJgPTCi6DAyyaBRiaUb3phwotsYYgd7tT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1347 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T03:14:12.341Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"bb0f5270-464b-4b29-bfc6-0040fd189172","new_score":4,"page_slug":"step-finance-ai-agent-over-permission-exploit-january-2026","prev_score":4,"reason":"The page's factual backbone — the Jan 31, 2026 SOL theft amount, executive-device compromise as root cause, the Feb 24, 2026 shutdown of Step Finance/SolanaFloor/Remora Markets, the Harrap quotes, the Tornado Cash laundering route, and the $4.7M recovery — is well corroborated by multiple independent tier-1/2 sources. However, the investigation's central, title-defining claim — that autonomous AI trading agents with unconstrained transfer authority amplified the breach — is not corroborated by any primary or forensic source (CoinDesk, rekt.news, Halborn, CCN, Tom's Hardware all describe a purely operational credential-compromise incident with no agentic component), and one of the page's own three cited sources for that claim (AssureDefi) contradicts it when read directly. A secondary, lower-stakes discrepancy was found in the STEP token all-time-high date (page/cited source say August 2021; CoinGecko primary market data says April 28, 2021).","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}