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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 · Monero
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
4242 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514694
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:16:09.469Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
J3zTau3ec16rJHPdHA46cxPPCH73kqdn8RWKRKNcyjSs
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1884 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:09.401Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ab69b864-4fd5-4abf-8bcb-9c6f65db0c25","new_score":42,"page_slug":"monero","prev_score":42,"reason":"Blue-chip calibration review (Prompt A). Verdict: over-penalized. Page content is treated as accurate; the trust_score band is miscalibrated. Monero is a legitimate, open-source privacy cryptocurrency that launched in April 2014 with no premine and is legal to own in both the US and EU as of 2026. Every incident driving its WARNING/42 score is attributable to third-party abuse of its privacy features (darknet drug markets, money laundering by independent thieves, cryptojacking by unrelated malicious actors) or to regulatory pressure that constrains exchange listings but does not constitute a fraud finding against the project itself. The page's own summary explicitly acknowledges Monero's legitimacy yet scores it identically to high-risk scam/fraud entities. Under the stated band semantics — WARNING (20-49) is reserved for entities with elevated fraud/loss risk or unresolved severe incident caused by the entity — Monero does not qualify: it has never been found to have committed fraud, misappropriated user funds, or operated deceptively. The appropriate band is CAUTIONARY (50-69), reflecting the real material caveats: widespread exchange delistings, imminent EU AMLR prohibition on regulated-entity handling, documented heavy use in money laundering and dark markets, and the former lead maintainer's unresolved personal criminal charges. A score of 58 captures these legitimate concerns while correctly distinguishing a protocol that is a victim of its own privacy properties from one that is itself fraudulent or negligent.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}