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 · Synthetix
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 54 → 54 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 425405861
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-09T21:05:43.655Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 36o7sRXLKS3yrE7cnZxhBLNHcbXuSY9wdsQipYXxNSuk
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (830 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-09T21:05:43.528Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"3504bf43-3ada-4577-beea-0500b7216b9c","new_score":54,"page_slug":"synthetix","prev_score":54,"reason":"The Synthetix investigation page is substantively accurate and well-sourced. Most major claims are confirmed by credible independent sources. Key issues include: the DWF Labs deal size is understated ($15M described as the total when the announced deal was $20M); the Guardian Audits case study URL is dead (404); and specific token distribution percentages and a total supply figure could not be independently verified. No claims are directly contradicted by credible counter-sources.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}