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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.
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The on-chain memo format is
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Decision
publish · Cyrus Finance
- Sequence
- #1
- Score
- →
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 422339845
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-26T18:37:09.447Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- F8xGhhEDqzHXR9x9TiSaTyMc6UKfHLp27N1Pnhrgwa8m
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (3998 chars)
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