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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 · Socket Protocol
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
58 → 58 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
425210646
Off-chain at
2026-06-08T23:31:35.285Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
CfSXVh55BxJ8wfExw5L9RpiHgz74oiTcxrHv2DU3giYL
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1241 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-08T23:31:35.157Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ab00ba7b-7a03-47da-bf5e-acf5a07d2621","new_score":58,"page_slug":"socket-protocol","prev_score":58,"reason":"The investigation page is well-sourced and technically accurate on the core exploit narrative: the vulnerability mechanism, timeline, fund recovery, and user compensation are confirmed across multiple independent security research firms and tier-1 crypto news outlets. The principal weaknesses are: (1) the unverifiable claim that both founders have Biconomy backgrounds — available sources consistently point to Matic Network for Vaibhav Chellani with no Biconomy link found; (2) the disputed $800K Arbitrum grant figure, which the Arbitrum Foundation forum records as 1,000,000 ARB (worth approximately $900K-$1.1M at the time); (3) one CoinTelegraph URL is dead (404); and (4) total disclosed funding of $10M appears to omit a pre-seed round that would bring the total to approximately $12.8M per community sources. The CoinTelegraph recovery article URL should be corrected or replaced.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}