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
rescore · Nelly
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 40 → 62 (+22)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 455366920
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-10T18:47:05.934Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-10T19:14:59.924Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- DBB1XxJfCDNTAo1QHGNPa9Gfmj7VRxahYifu3L6s3U3p
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (644 chars)
{"actor":"system","decided_at":"2026-10-10T18:47:05.838Z","decision":"rescore","investigation_id":"bd93d224-985e-4ebc-ae8a-be2a7da9c5f3","new_score":62,"page_slug":"nelly","prev_score":40,"reason":"Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 40 → 62. Problems weighed by who is responsible: incidents the subject suffered −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −3.2; fact-check adjustments (−8) now shown as page reliability, not in the score.","score_delta":22,"score_model":"v2","sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}