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 · Rainberry Inc
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 25 → 25 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514676
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:41:23.913Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3MBk8xzkhh89SB5DLKbXzAMLqnQGFYRYok99hTBNhBeN
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1038 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:41:23.558Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ddc1afee-2423-49f7-bee7-0f9cee732ccc","new_score":25,"page_slug":"rainberry-inc","prev_score":25,"reason":"The page's core SEC narrative (2023 complaint, 2026 $10M settlement, dismissal with prejudice, no admission of wrongdoing, and correct separation of Rainberry's corporate penalty from Sun's lack of personal penalty) is well-supported by primary SEC sources. However, the celebrity co-defendant subsection contains a factual error (misstating a combined $400,000 settlement as a per-celebrity figure) and incorrectly states that Austin Mahone remained a defendant through the March 2026 resolution when his case was actually concluded in August 2023; the copyright section also misdates the original Hall/Juraszek lawsuit and relies on a questionable source for a claimed 2025 class action.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}