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 · Monero
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 42 → 58 (+16)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514698
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:16:09.519Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3dX4bdLc1WXtbDWxfCo4xBdxy3sF6wL4V145EbSTqqzR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1468 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:09.401Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"ab69b864-4fd5-4abf-8bcb-9c6f65db0c25","new_score":58,"page_slug":"monero","prev_score":42,"reason":"The blue-chip calibration review returned zero disputed claims across all six claim_findings (disputed_pct = 0%). Every incident driving the current WARNING/42 score — darknet market payments (claim_findings[1]), money laundering events (claim_findings[1]), and cryptojacking campaigns (modifier_flags[2]) — is attributable to third-party abuse of Monero's privacy features, not to fraud, deception, or fund misappropriation by the Monero project itself. As claim_findings[5] notes, the page's own summary already acknowledges Monero is 'legitimate, open-source' with 'no premine,' making its WARNING band placement internally inconsistent with stated band semantics. The former lead maintainer's legal charges (claim_findings[4]) pre-date Monero and are unrelated to the protocol. Real, material caveats remain — widespread exchange delistings, EU AMLR prohibition incoming by July 2027, and the Spagni charges — which a CAUTIONARY/58 score appropriately captures. Applying a +16 score_modifier_delta to move from 42 to the reviewer's recommended 58 is warranted. The page content is accurate and must remain published.","score_delta":16,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}