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
- #2
- Score
- 28 → 28 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443520881
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-26T12:07:03.164Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- HTnq3fiQ2Tg21C7PPWtdjNwgbh5ryk6ergjsqWYBRDyY
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1010 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-26T12:07:03.044Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"a3d3d9bd-c3d0-4cdd-9e1f-9cc811c73541","new_score":28,"page_slug":"everclear-protocol-formerly-connext","prev_score":28,"reason":"The core narrative of the page -- that Connext genuinely rebranded to Everclear in June 2024 and that Everclear shut down on May 21, 2026 after failing to monetize $500M in monthly volume -- is well corroborated by multiple independent outlets, and no evidence of merged or misattributed entities was found. The main defects are a funding-total figure ($23.2M) that is stated as inclusive of a 2024 investment round it predates, a market-cap figure that does not exactly reconcile with the page's own stated supply and price, several timeline dates that are off by days to weeks relative to primary sources, and one dead/unlisted citation.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}