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 · Circle Internet Financial
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 48 → 43 (-5)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 419341085
- Off-chain at
- 2026-05-12T22:06:38.986Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FXRebRozrWXt4aZf4xnAeYHPXvQS2hy7HpgkGbJ7zPMq
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1523 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-05-12T22:06:38.779Z","decision":"review_revise","investigation_id":"83786d67-bd35-49b7-bd52-5b4615943f5a","new_score":43,"page_slug":"circle-internet-financial","prev_score":48,"reason":"The review confirmed 29 of 42 claims outright and found zero disputed claims, placing the raw disputed_pct at 7%. However, 10 claims are partially_supported, including a repeated material figure error: the Drift Protocol losses are stated throughout the page as $285 million (an early estimate), while official Drift recovery documents and later reporting place the figure at $295.4 million (claim_findings[13]). Additional fixable errors include Dante Disparte's title being misidentified as 'Chief Policy Officer' when his actual title is 'Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy' (claim_findings[20]), the Swapnet incident being labeled 'January 2025' when it occurred January 2026 (claim_findings[27]), and three timeline entries using January 1 placeholder dates for events known to have occurred in other months (timeline entries for 2015, 2019, and 2023). These are correctible inaccuracies across high-severity sections that warrant revision before the page is finalized, but they do not undermine the core investigative narrative or suggest bad-faith sourcing. No link rot, stale sources, or genuinely disputed core allegations were found.","score_delta":-5,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}