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_approve · BitMEX Exchange Closure September 2026
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 28 → 28 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505712
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T03:21:11.492Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- Ff73F55UqcD3GSuxVMZ6ApyJE9iV1xiPbsYWa41WsaUX
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1370 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T03:21:11.177Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"4ae6a329-6762-4493-a983-9752d79f1fc0","new_score":28,"page_slug":"bitmex-exchange-closure-september-2026","prev_score":28,"reason":"The reviewer confirmed 14 of 22 claims outright via Tier 1 sources (FinCEN, CFTC, DOJ, official BitMEX blog) and marked 6 as partially_supported — none as disputed. The disputed_pct of 9% falls within the 0–10% approval band. The partially_supported findings are limited to minor precision issues: claim_findings[1] mis-states the sale process start as 'early 2025' when evidence places it in late 2024 (an internal inconsistency the body of the page already corrects), claim_findings[9] conflates the FinCEN payment assessment with the actual up-front payment, and claim_findings[12]/claim_findings[20]/claim_findings[21] omit Gregory Dwyer's co-pardon and misattribute Reed's March 9, 2022 guilty plea to the February 2022 date. No core allegations — penalties, closure timeline, regulatory enforcement history — are undermined. One high-priority coverage gap (disposition of unclaimed assets post-closure) is noted for future expansion but does not affect the accuracy of current content.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}