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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 · PGI Global
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
2 → 2 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
423516457
Off-chain at
2026-06-01T04:08:36.000Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
6hDG3JoPRnr5n5vfe9CnwNNbiZZ7obFXbLxQQYghyDXT
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1501 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-01T04:08:35.789Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"3a04c1e1-faba-4cc5-9e76-2adb42eee054","new_score":2,"page_slug":"pgi-global","prev_score":2,"reason":"The PGI Global investigation page is substantively accurate and well-sourced for a confirmed criminal conviction case. The core facts — scheme mechanics, financial figures, conviction, sentencing, SEC action, and international regulatory responses — are supported by tier-1 government sources (IRS, DOJ, SEC) and credible secondary coverage. Two material issues warrant correction: (1) the UK High Court winding-up date is stated as October 27, 2022 but was actually September 13, 2022 (October 27 was the Insolvency Service press release date); and (2) the page is stale with respect to a critical post-sentencing development — on April 6, 2026, Palafox cut off his GPS monitor, failed to report to prison, and was added to the FBI Most Wanted white-collar crime list as a fugitive, a fact entirely absent from the page. The trust score treatment (very low, consistent with a confirmed Ponzi and DOJ conviction) is calibrated correctly. The IRS unit attribution in the Criminal Conviction section conflates the Cyber Crimes Unit (which executed the 2021 domain seizure) with the Washington Field Office units credited in the 2025-2026 criminal proceedings.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}