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 · Alex Mashinsky
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 423955897
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-03T04:38:55.618Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4egDiZ7dTxsSvPHoUC632gX3wo9JjpBnbME7781TZZVh
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1332 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-03T04:38:55.484Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"0519d3da-ef7d-4356-b8f9-bc72dccbbe10","new_score":0,"page_slug":"alex-mashinsky","prev_score":0,"reason":"The investigation page is broadly accurate on the major events — Celsius's collapse, the bankruptcy filing, the regulatory actions by DOJ/SEC/CFTC/FTC, and the sentencing — but contains two notable factual errors: (1) the guilty plea counts are mischaracterized in both the summary and the Guilty Plea section (the actual counts were securities fraud and commodities fraud, not 'commodities fraud and a scheme to manipulate CEL'); and (2) the balance-sheet deficit is overstated as 'exceeding $1.3 billion' when primary sources consistently report approximately $1.2 billion. Several minor inaccuracies are also present: the company's founding year is stated as 2018 (actually 2017), the patent count is overstated at 'approximately 50' (commonly cited as 35+), and Arbinet's IPO valuation is characterized as 'billion-dollar' when primary sources cite approximately $750 million. The FTC judgment section is well-sourced and accurate. No link rot was detected on the accessible URLs.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}