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 · Aban Tether
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443517787
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T22:38:29.277Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HHuiWjBNmC1Yqokk5pn9hfU2Gka7jjGsNhCPhFLbVDwy
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1683 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T22:38:29.166Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"a1a38396-d677-46f1-8b7a-1db34180ab43","new_score":2,"page_slug":"aban-tether","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual claims — the August 7, 2026 OFAC/SDN designation of Aban Tether under Executive Order 13902, its alleged role processing transactions for the already-sanctioned Nobitex/Wallex/Bitpin/Ramzinex network, the joint Shelbit designation, the Bessent quote, and the broader multi-month Iran crypto sanctions campaign — are all independently corroborated by the Treasury's own press release and multiple reputable outlets. The page's explicit disambiguation of Aban Tether from Tether Ltd. (the USDT issuer) is accurate and well-sourced, and no claim on the page attributes wrongdoing to Tether Ltd. itself. The main weaknesses found are: (1) an unsupported specific ordinal claim that this is the 'fourth' enforcement wave, which the page's own cited source does not state and which is ambiguous against the page's own timeline; (2) an extrapolation of secondary-sanctions screening obligations to Aban Tether's transaction graph that is legally reasonable but not directly sourced; and (3) minor date-precision slippage in three timeline entries where the page uses a cited article's publish date rather than the underlying OFAC action date. No named individual is accused without source support, and no evidence was found that the designation has lapsed, been reversed, or been legally challenged as of August 25, 2026.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}