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
accept · polymarket
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- 35 → 34 (-1)
- Cluster
- devnet
- Slot
- 458744797
- Off-chain at
- 2026-04-28T20:47:51.736Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 7Smi8vg5g8nCqAUb99RXEj8auiEYSqZ1A9Ku9NrWBtt8
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (434 chars)
{"actor":"admin","decided_at":"2026-04-28T20:47:51.295Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"e79a082e-deb8-4d91-88ce-d964801aaebf","new_score":34,"page_slug":"polymarket","prev_score":35,"reason":null,"score_delta":-1,"sequence_num":1,"submission_content_hash":"JE9m6fhmVTtLNd13yV3MJDqhBAvFPm2kfHNr4F3PofS3","submission_id":"6e00a6a8-b4ca-4872-bdf0-63e3f1d0c636","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}