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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443518692
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T23:09:03.805Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DujeaVNPWhNQMtiV9FCbb3V5BdyKHWYfB2bfQcXVJs3B
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1149 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T23:09:03.721Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"f6f77518-dd5a-4dd9-af79-69e44c34b339","new_score":0,"page_slug":"goliath-ventures-christopher-delgado","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core factual spine — Delgado's identity, arrest, guilty plea, admitted losses, sentencing status, forfeiture details, bankruptcy, and the JPMorgan litigation — is well-sourced and independently verified against DOJ, IRS-CI, and multiple credible news outlets, including a verbatim-confirmed attorney quotation. The main defects found are an internally inconsistent sentencing date (the summary retains an outdated October 8, 2026 date that the page's own body text and timeline correctly update to October 21, 2026) and a significant omission of the SEC and CFTC's parallel civil fraud actions filed August 11, 2026, which cite different aggregate dollar figures. No evidence of namesake conflation, in-absentia mischaracterization, or fabricated quotations was found.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}