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 · BitMEX
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 38 → 38 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426280288
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T21:27:14.962Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4NyG8iAfykt9reeBYsfPegfGNNyHJD1s4m9VALM9AX9u
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (980 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-13T21:27:14.843Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"1876f965-9dbe-4c95-8793-73c5838efe98","new_score":38,"page_slug":"bitmex","prev_score":38,"reason":"The BitMEX investigation page is well-sourced, accurate on all major legal and regulatory facts, and draws primarily on Tier 1 primary sources (CFTC, DOJ, FinCEN) supplemented by credible journalism. The three partially-supported findings are minor: the email field type (the page says CC but BitMEX's own statement says 'To:'), the Höptner appointment timing (slightly ambiguous between late November and December 1, 2020), and the $2 billion daily volume claim (plausible but not directly cited). One claim about Seychelles VASP licensing status is unverifiable from external sources and relies entirely on BitMEX's own regulatory page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}