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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.

Sequence
#3
Score
120 (-13)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
443510636
Off-chain at
2026-08-25T03:04:42.212Z
Anchored at
Block time

Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
J5ANk2BMLBtKizVyY5QvZVaEcA2vvRy5y256ZBbzrVA6
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (2231 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-25T03:04:41.907Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"84bc6fb0-ce4d-4bbb-bd61-7b6e25e09d0f","new_score":0,"page_slug":"michele-spagnuolo-alpharaccoon","prev_score":12,"reason":"The reviewer confirmed the page's core facts about the arrest, charges, dollar amounts, timeline, and money-laundering allegations, with no confusion between Spagnuolo and the AlphaRaccoon alias. However, of 44 claims checked, 4 (20.5%) were found to be disputed, and three of those sit in the page's 'Legal Precedent' section: claim_findings[37] and [39] show that three of the four law-firm citations (Sidley, Debevoise, DLA Piper) actually analyze a different defendant's case, and the page's statement that the CFTC invoked the 'Eddie Murphy Rule' against Spagnuolo is contradicted by independent analysis of his specific case. Because this page concerns an individual currently facing criminal charges, misattributing legal analysis to his case is a more serious error than an ordinary date typo. claim_findings[24] also identifies an internal chronology inversion (the page frames a Dec 1 username removal as a reaction to speculation dated Dec 4), and claim_findings[20] mischaracterizes the Pope Leo XIV wager as smaller when it was larger than the wager it's compared to. Two coverage gaps were flagged as high priority, including one that echoes the same law-firm sourcing problem, reinforcing that this is a substantive rather than cosmetic issue. The five unverifiable findings are attributable to justice.gov/cftc.gov blocking automated fetches rather than absent evidence and were weighted leniently. Given the reviewer's moderate-to-solid confidence (0.72) and that no disputed claim undermines the central allegations against Spagnuolo, a revise-and-correct outcome rather than denial or full approval is warranted. Note: a related page (michele-spagnuolo) covering the same individual was reviewed separately with no disputed claims; that outcome does not apply here since the two pages contain different content and were judged independently.","score_delta":-13,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}