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 · Bybit
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 72 → 72 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 418531332
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-09T03:28:15.593Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DB8xKNbaGDATADbF5D2YQ3R5KokvF6f2my9hBpq3FkAT
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (934 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-09T03:28:15.267Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"cc5d2629-b918-4554-b41b-cf765ff31285","new_score":72,"page_slug":"bybit","prev_score":72,"reason":"The reviewer examined 28 claims across 7 sections and found 0 disputed, 17 confirmed, 6 partially supported, and 2 stale. The reviewer initially flagged two high-priority issues (BVI present-tense claim in Overview and UK listed as restricted despite December 2025 re-entry) plus three medium-priority corrections (Phemex amount, DPRK figure attribution, user count). All five issues were editorially corrected prior to this decision. The corrected page is factually sound with well-sourced hack narrative confirmed by FBI IC3, multiple forensic firms, and blockchain analytics providers.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}