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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.

Decision
review · FX Winning / David Merino Quintana
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#4
Score
0 → 0 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457476417
Off-chain at
2026-10-16T02:49:18.082Z
Anchored at
2026-10-16T02:49:22.678Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
BxGipbpaPBKcLfZFcryuj9tc648hLUrne4xr4SiFrWRo
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2405 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"cc308c3edffdc096b1c7f8249353262b","decided_at":"2026-10-16T02:49:17.864Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.3333,"findings_hash":"4jqGBt9jQjP2qn3nN7ucR1RmUb9jncc5Xx3UkNrmyAbg","investigation_id":"7110be02-af51-4049-bf0b-002f8a8452d8","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"6c502cc9523f7fbb8769331422129df2c183c62919ec4d96e9174c1d98f18feb","page_slug":"fx-winning-david-merino-quintana","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's central claims — Merino's June 1, 2026 arrest in Dubai, the FX Winning Ponzi-scheme allegations, the €460 million confirmed/€46 billion ($53.3 billion) alleged scale, the 15,000-victim/30+-country reach, the June 2025 Operation Borrelli raid and five arrests, the UK shell-company dissolutions, the regulatory warnings from CNMV and FSMA, and Merino's March 2026 video blaming Jose Lucas Cruz — are each independently corroborated by at least one credible, live source. However, review surfaced a clear date error: the claim that Robin Tassilo Laurer and Juan Faber Esquivel were placed in provisional detention in 'June 2024' is contradicted by the page's own cited source, which places that detention in June 2025, concurrent with Operation Borrelli; this error is repeated in three places (two sections and one timeline entry) and should be corrected together. A Finance Magnates source cited in the Regulatory Warnings section is about an unrelated 2019 CNMV action against different firms and does not mention FX Winning at all, and should be removed as a citation there. The 'Interpol Red Notice' and '15-40 day extradition window' details could not be confirmed in any source checked (unverifiable, not necessarily false). One cited source (bitcoinworld.co.in) is dead (HTTP 410) but has a working archive.org snapshot already on file that can replace it. The DEA's $100 billion figure is true (per Bitget News) but is cited in two sections to sources that do not actually contain it, and one of those same sources instead reports a much lower $3 billion figure attributed to investigators. Overall the page is substantially well-sourced for a recent, fast-moving cross-border fraud case, with the detention-date error being the most material defect requiring correction.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}