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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Emerson Sousa Pires
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
2 → 2 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443516764
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T19:38:43.131Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
5xy73nawg8AqEfhFCgKxEVFRKYWLzdzub9SdFSiF42HV
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1099 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T19:38:43.036Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"2e0ff603-013f-44a5-82ea-a9c09709ed47","new_score":2,"page_slug":"emerson-sousa-pires","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual architecture -- the MCC/EmpiresX distinction, the civil-only status of Pires in the MCC matter versus his criminal+civil exposure in EmpiresX, the specific $10.9M/luxury-goods figure attributed to Pires individually, and the major dollar judgments -- all check out against primary and independently-corroborated secondary sources. Two notable defects were found: a source misattribution (the 'crypto fugitives' characterization was sourced to Bloomberg Law but actually originates from a Law360 headline) and an imprecise conflation of a $100 million 'funds raised' figure with 'investor losses.' The claim that Pires personally was arrested during Operation Yang rests on an unverified tip in the page's own cited source.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}