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_revise · Broox Bauer / Axiom Insider Trading Ring
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 6 → 0 (-10)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514446
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:27:23.232Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 66Fcbzzin2XME4MvinTYbw74YCHWyvjaXKwTfnnY1DDt
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1795 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:27:22.827Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"1f1b480b-ecf3-4765-aada-13a43c6d4a2f","new_score":0,"page_slug":"broox-bauer-axiom-insider-trading-ring","prev_score":6,"reason":"Independent recount of the reviewer's tally confirms disputed_pct at 8.9% (5 of 56 claims) — inside the approval range on the numbers alone — and the central accusation, that Bauer misused Axiom's internal dashboard to extract and share wallet data, is solidly corroborated by tier-1 reporting and ZachXBT's own primary posts. However, two errors are serious enough to require revision rather than approval. The Polymarket section and its duplicate timeline entry (claim_findings disputed items on sections[4] and timeline[7]) state that bettor wallets were 'connected to Bauer or his associates' — a link none of the cited sources support, and one a same-day CoinDesk follow-up says cannot be established without exchange cooperation, turning an explicitly unattributable event into an attributed one against a person facing no charges. Separately, the page tells readers the party that retained ZachXBT 'was not disclosed' (claim_findings on sections[7]) while a source cited elsewhere on the same page quotes him saying Axiom itself retained him, concealing a fact relevant to judging the investigation's independence. Both issues are also flagged by the reviewer as high-priority coverage gaps, alongside a title ('ring') that outruns the properly hedged body text, and together they warrant a modest downgrade and required corrections even though the well-supported core allegation against Bauer is not in doubt.","score_delta":-10,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}