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
accept · AscendEX (BitMax)
- Sequence
- #16
- Score
- 52 → 49 (-3)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465079290
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T23:13:26.848Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T23:13:33.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T23:13:33.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 9ecCj61VM8X7BSWfyL5ByEfnHgrAVUYZsxv96PptQ9Lo
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (617 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T23:13:26.472Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"a2376978-bfce-4a51-9673-406ac00d7f5d","new_score":49,"page_slug":"ascendex-bitmax","prev_score":52,"reason":"The Defiant confirms AscendEX ceased operations effective July 1, 2026 and moved withdrawals to manual review from July 6 per a website notice.","score_delta":-3,"sequence_num":16,"submission_content_hash":"d3c0fda5f5269a075aec6fce76bb674ec3ca850224e97169bd65567223c753ca","submission_id":"1738df1d-2043-478d-a8e6-681cbc84c6d9","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}