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.
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443515398
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T17:14:16.181Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DaTgXtkPhqVtFE6crjiqd7jPLjTj7zx4jaQ1dEDPtNgv
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1165 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T17:14:15.925Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"6fbfea24-1ca0-4a70-93c0-6957bd54d09b","new_score":0,"page_slug":"263m-rico-social-engineering-crypto-theft-gang-dc-2024-2026-prosecutions","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative -- the RICO prosecution of the Social Engineering Enterprise, the August 2024 D.C. theft, and the named defendants' individual roles, pleas, and sentences -- is well corroborated against IRS-CI releases and independent journalism, and the page correctly avoids the three specific errors previously found on the related malone-lam-crypto-syndicate page. However, this page has its own distinct problems: two internally self-contradictory numerical claims (a premature '17 total defendants' figure attached to the May 2025 indictment, and an arithmetic mismatch in the guilty-plea count in the Case Status section), plus a valuation-precision issue conflating a later $263M headline figure with the theft's contemporaneous $230M value.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}