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
accept · BitMart Exchange Shutdown 2026
- Sequence
- #7
- Score
- 7 → 3 (-4)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457904042
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-17T04:29:17.226Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-17T04:29:39.523Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8MJVLbXvaM1kYosmuyvap5EL71bBS484VKHrqx5fajmD
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (765 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-10-17T04:29:16.947Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"d9ede437-ae38-4d5f-b563-ac48f657c4d5","new_score":3,"page_slug":"bitmart-exchange-shutdown-2026","prev_score":7,"reason":"Cryptonomist confirms an OpenGradient co-founder's unverified insolvency allegation against BitMart, explicitly notes no verified evidence of a shortfall, and confirms the Scandic Coin figures (21,898 USDT, 926,635 SNC unprocessed since July 26) exactly as described in the note.","score_delta":-4,"sequence_num":7,"submission_content_hash":"0df0010957ff2493a5bd5f3d4507dafb1713f63577a9bf6ddb6b2b6757dc812a","submission_id":"a278d190-9348-4e11-88aa-b2e318cf0858","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}