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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.

Sequence
#2
Score
8 → 8 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443511852
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T04:16:29.623Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
2HkkzEmLQVQGPcyY7KkpihrZy7eCLDAsYEpWxbWNmDYp
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1195 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T04:16:29.366Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"47f4611a-50df-41d6-bfed-730ee8e53928","new_score":8,"page_slug":"ben-bitboy-armstrong","prev_score":8,"reason":"The page's core factual scaffolding -- the August 2023 removal, the FTX and Binance litigation, the CFTC subpoena, the three arrests, and the $2.8 million O'Leary default judgment -- is well-supported by credible, independently verifiable reporting, and the page is notably careful to distinguish allegations, arrests, and unresolved cases from adjudicated outcomes. The main weaknesses are a small number of direct quotations sourced to articles the page does not actually cite, one internally inconsistent description of which jurisdiction (Florida vs. Georgia) is prosecuting the judge-threat case along with an unverified statutory sentencing range, an uncited and loosely-framed claim about a $10,000 payment to ZachXBT, and one instance where the page asserts more certainty about a lack of FTX settlement than its own source supports.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}