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
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 459476812
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-21T03:19:46.410Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-21T03:20:16.653Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4CzBnqXdRestkSDup2AjUWqZWp2PCA8BZXaYoFhm462A
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1728 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"a02454b28bd8c87dea5b337adf2e1043","decided_at":"2026-10-21T03:19:46.254Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.1765,"findings_hash":"9aWdbBvEB4sEVeM9yw74KuHxrWoXbfDHVox1noWQZTv9","investigation_id":"42b99c3a-aba7-41e4-a9fe-ad33b9ca4afa","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"3c161f3c3c6cdee0c6eadbe0270f00a669f83800192130bf1397e5751c84f693","page_slug":"george-santos-cftc-prediction-market-manipulation","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core factual spine — Santos's prior criminal case (expulsion, guilty plea, sentence, commutation) and the CFTC's July 31, 2026 Kalshi settlement (trading window, disgorgement, penalty, three-year ban) — is accurately and precisely sourced, matching the CFTC's own press release and corroborating news coverage word for word in several places. The weaker parts of the page are in the 'Regulatory Significance' section covering adjacent cases: it misidentifies Robert DeNault as a CFTC official when he is Kalshi's Head of Enforcement and lightly misquotes him; it calls Gannon Ken Van Dyke 'an Army officer' when he is an enlisted Master Sergeant; and it cites the wrong CEA subsection for the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' (4c(a)(4) instead of 4c(a)(3)). One cited archive snapshot (Blockonomi) points to an unrelated article due to an archival mismatch, though the live source URL is fine. The most significant omission is Kalshi's own subsequent lifetime ban and $71,356 penalty against Santos (Aug 31, 2026), which postdates the page's last timeline entry and meaningfully extends the story.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}