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 · Gate.io
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 42 → 42 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426285089
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-13T21:58:57.968Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 6mZJqhvfKPR2BkjWWJPPKiJBuZxvwZWFJ6SPZX5uQtPy
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (996 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-13T21:58:57.796Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"ba1440aa-37bd-4263-9369-af270f4a4a8d","new_score":42,"page_slug":"gateio","prev_score":42,"reason":"The Gate.io investigation page is largely accurate on verifiable facts — regulatory filings, hack amounts, reserve figures, and tokenomics are all well-supported by cited sources. The most significant factual issue is the treatment of the $LA futures incident: the page states Gate.io 'declined to compensate' affected traders but omits that Gate.io publicly committed approximately $30 million to cover negative-balance holders. The ETC 51% attack dollar loss is also understated ($200K vs. approximately $271.5K across multiple sources). The FinCEN registration claim for Gate US is unverified by the cited source. One CoinTelegraph URL returned a 404.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}