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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 · Gala Games
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
28 → 28 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514877
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:16:18.771Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
5MGyuXCSwusxLB4Bs8uQWtciye8jeSr7heYLEmXLuCWt
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2101 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:18.710Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"0c4a0d4e-3371-47ee-9292-5c183328c9e2","new_score":28,"page_slug":"gala-games","prev_score":28,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Gala Games is a legitimate, operating blockchain gaming platform founded by a credentialed entrepreneur (Zynga co-founder Schiermeyer) with real products and continued 2026 operations. Its score of 28 places it at the lower edge of WARNING, a band the post-policy semantics reserves for 'elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incidents.' The two primary incidents are: (1) a May 2024 access-control failure where a dormant admin key was exploited — the CEO publicly admitted negligence, the attacker returned ~$22M ETH within 24 hours, and remaining minted tokens were burned; net user harm was limited. (2) An unresolved founder-vs-founder lawsuit where Schiermeyer alleges Thurston stole $130M in tokens — a governance dispute where Gala Games is effectively the aggrieved party, not the perpetrator. The SEC action cited in the page is against Wright Thurston personally for a separate venture (Green United LLC) and names no Gala Games entity. None of these incidents constitute entity-level fraud, Ponzi mechanics, or an exit scam. A score of 42 — upper WARNING — correctly reflects real unresolved governance risk (active founder litigation, documented security negligence, token inflation history) while not treating Gala Games as a near-fraudulent actor. An outside skeptic can verify: (a) Halborn's technical post-mortem confirming the access control failure root cause, (b) Decrypt's reporting of the attacker's ETH return, (c) FindLaw case record showing ongoing but unresolved litigation, and (d) the SEC complaint PDF at sec.gov which names only Thurston and Green United LLC, not Gala Games.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}