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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_approve · Cointelegraph
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#3
Score
44 → 62 (+18)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
426514554
Off-chain at
2026-06-14T23:16:02.234Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
6NAuLND5kA6oMKVAU5Ju9qLnujUJbPgfmG6dRFH91Ss4
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1344 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:16:02.133Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"674e90a3-87f1-45b8-a266-ff1084c6dd58","new_score":62,"page_slug":"cointelegraph","prev_score":44,"reason":"This is a severity-calibration review, not a fact-dispute review. All six claim findings (claim_findings[0]–[5]) are supported — no content on the page is disputed. The review establishes that Cointelegraph is a legitimate, established cryptocurrency news outlet and that both documented incidents (January 2024 MailerLite breach; June 2025 ad supply-chain attack) were executed by external threat actors against third-party infrastructure, not Cointelegraph's own systems. The current score of 44 places the entity in WARNING band, which under AVOID.NET's band semantics requires elevated fraud/loss risk or an unresolved severe incident. Neither criterion is met. The iGaming/SEO issue (claim_findings[5]) reflects an editorial integrity lapse but carries no financial fraud risk to users. A score of 62 in CAUTIONARY band — a positive delta of +18 — correctly reflects a legitimate operator with material but external-origin caveats. Page content stands and publish status is unchanged.","score_delta":18,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}