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_revise · Ondo US Dollar Yield (USDY)
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 72 → 60 (-12)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443524037
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-27T05:40:08.673Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 97dZ6sbQv5TZQrHeHToReSkWsH2GSTnhM6ccppjdYrRW
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1854 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-27T05:40:08.471Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"821c154a-56ee-4fd0-96e5-716742622713","new_score":60,"page_slug":"ondo-us-dollar-yield-usdy","prev_score":72,"reason":"Of 56 claims checked, 14 were disputed or unverifiable (25%), placing this page in the upper part of the minor-issues band. The most consequential problem is that the page twice states reserves are subject to 'monthly independent audit review' (claim_findings[11], claim_findings[33]) when the only documented monthly activity is a self-attestation by Ankura Trust, the same firm acting as the product's own Verification Agent -- and the page's own cited source for this claim is a dead link. The page also twice misattributes a company-wide Ondo Finance TVL milestone to USDY specifically (claim_findings[41], claim_findings[50]), which additionally contradicts the page's own later figure for USDY's actual size. A timeline citation for a Solana expansion links to an article that is actually about Aptos (claim_findings[46]), and the headline USDY supply figure was already roughly three times too low by the time of review (claim_findings[4]). These are real accuracy problems that warrant correction, but they sit alongside a well-supported core: the page's regulatory and structural description of USDY (SPV structure, Regulation S restriction, secured-debt characterization) held up against primary sources and, notably, the page never overstates USDY's legal status or mischaracterizes it as a stablecoin. Most of the remaining unverifiable items are absence-of-evidence claims or minor unchecked details rather than page defects, which keeps this short of a more severe verdict.","score_delta":-12,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}