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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.

Decision
review · USI-Tech
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#2
Score
2 → 2 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
423509422
Off-chain at
2026-06-01T03:22:02.636Z
Anchored at
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Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
D9So8JND7W2JhYGqJzcteNr8Sv8cnApGau6AoVdgDgjG
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1487 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-06-01T03:22:02.468Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"49d8a103-a7f7-4e96-9e86-366080b68e3a","new_score":2,"page_slug":"usi-tech","prev_score":2,"reason":"The USI-Tech investigation page is substantially accurate and well-sourced. Core claims about the fraud structure, regulatory actions across seven-plus jurisdictions, indictment, arrest, and fugitive status of Horst Jicha are confirmed by primary regulatory and DOJ sources. The main imprecisions are: (1) the '$150 million' figure is the 2023 market-value equivalent of stolen crypto, not its 2018 theft value; (2) Mike Kiefer's status as a 'co-founder' is contested across sources, with some authoritative sources describing him as a senior promoter rather than a founding principal; (3) the 'FBI Most Wanted list' language, while technically supported by the FBI white-collar crime wanted list, could be confused with the more famous 'Ten Most Wanted' list. No claims were found to be outright false or disputed by credible current sources. Two claims (Nova Scotia/Manitoba simultaneous alerts; New Brunswick December 21 date) could not be verified from accessible primary sources. Trust score calibration as a known Ponzi with extensive multi-jurisdictional regulatory condemnation and a federal indictment is appropriate at very low levels.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}