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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 · Ethereum Foundation
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
58 → 58 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443505998
Off-chain at
2026-08-08T04:26:55.300Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
DT6oba69dcSmf2sVWjJien6sp5ho7atcrQGvCTMW3kwo
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1275 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-08T04:26:55.213Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"be844a50-a8c2-4465-90a0-16dd352b98e6","new_score":58,"page_slug":"ethereum-foundation","prev_score":58,"reason":"The Ethereum Foundation investigation page is substantively accurate across its major claims. The June 2026 restructuring details, leadership departures, Van Epps funding warning, ETHLabs launch, 2024 regulatory investigation, and treasury management narrative are all confirmed by independent Tier-1 and Tier-2 sources. The main accuracy concern is an internal inconsistency in the Treasury section: the claim that ~$100M in annual expenses represents ~15% of treasury assets does not reconcile with the stated $210M treasury value (15% of $210M = $31.5M). Additionally, the Van Epps warning timeline entry (June 26) may be slightly off — multiple sources date his warning to approximately June 18-19, with the June 26 CoinDesk article being secondary coverage. Protocol Guild's $40M distribution figure is plausible for mid-2026 but slightly overstated relative to the organization's own reported $31M+ as of mid-2025.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}