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 · Ambient Finance
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 58 → 58 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443524408
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T06:09:23.263Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 3cnbA9vGycECfCse5bz9xKw6UCWpiXBiXVohky2cphZS
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1365 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-27T06:09:23.158Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"15c90e9f-a964-4aa4-8358-196a48fbbd4d","new_score":58,"page_slug":"ambient-finance","prev_score":58,"reason":"The page's core factual scaffolding (identity of the entity, founder background, funding round, deployment chains, and the occurrence and rough magnitude of both security incidents) is well corroborated by independent sources, and the page appropriately avoids two common corpus defects: it does not assert an unconfirmed root cause for the June 2026 exploit as settled fact, and it does not misrepresent an investor relationship (Quantstamp) or an automated scoring tool (CertiK Skynet) as a completed audit. However, several timeline dates around the October 2024 DNS-hijack recovery are misdated by one to several days relative to the team's own tweets and a community incident log, the July 2023 Ethereum mainnet-launch date is off by roughly two weeks per contemporaneous reporting, the page's own arithmetic for the June 2026 exploit's 'net gain' does not follow from the ETH figures it cites, and the page materially understates Ambient's cumulative trading volume relative to the DefiLlama source it cites.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}