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.
Decision
review · Vy Pham
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 4 → 4 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443514683
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T13:42:26.094Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- EwaNmqyvFnARs23k3teu6LHQzD6Jid7TTYNWXhE2sHHs
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1246 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T13:42:25.716Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"4485e8d6-1d5a-4668-81f2-6d32ff0baeae","new_score":4,"page_slug":"vy-pham","prev_score":4,"reason":"The page closely tracks the unsealed SEC and DOJ filings, and the large majority of specific claims — dates, dollar figures, quoted Telegram messages, Operation Token Mirrors details, and Gotbit sentencing outcomes — are confirmed against primary source text. However, three claims are disputed: Pham's Saitama departure date (page says 'late 2021'; the SEC complaint says summer 2021), a Gotbit chat quote attributed to Pham that the SEC complaint attributes to an unnamed associate, and a garbled claim that Pham 'concealed' manipulation via an 'official agreement' request when available sourcing indicates the opposite dynamic. The page also understates how resolved the SEC civil matter actually is, omitting that Pham has already consented to a settlement per its own cited source, and a specific sentencing-exposure claim could not be verified because the primary charging document was unreachable.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}