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
review_approve · Clockwork
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 68 → 68 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425209125
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-08T23:21:24.943Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- AFHdu3qHSjuyrSSUBGj8QWA7trwU6kSLM89JFNgbrARK
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1217 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-08T23:21:24.686Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"688a8c90-57d9-408f-82ea-822fbbe378bc","new_score":68,"page_slug":"clockwork","prev_score":68,"reason":"The reviewer assessed 23 claims and found zero disputed. The three partially-supported findings (claim_findings[2] and claim_findings[9] — both concerning the omission of El Cap Ventures as a fourth seed investor; claim_findings[19] — live GitHub star/fork counts differing by one unit) represent minor completeness gaps rather than factual inaccuracies. All core allegations — founding date, seed round amount, investor identities, shutdown announcement, direct quotes, and technical description — are confirmed by Tier 1 sources. One CoinTelegraph citation is a confirmed 404 (timeline[4] link rot), but every fact that URL was meant to support is independently covered by live CoinDesk sources, leaving no orphaned claims. No high-priority coverage gaps were identified. At a 4% disputed rate and reviewer confidence of 0.88, the page meets the approval threshold.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}