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_approve · HyperFund / Rodney 'Bitcoin Rodney' Burton
- Sequence
- #3
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443505295
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-08T01:34:48.304Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- FR388ZA6AgRYmh54uhv2q7UwAi3bjdskC54o12S6Sy2b
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1687 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-08-08T01:34:48.014Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"b5f38cf3-e16d-40df-8bed-f751036f15c7","new_score":2,"page_slug":"hyperfund-rodney-bitcoin-rodney-burton","prev_score":2,"reason":"The review found 26 of 33 claims fully confirmed by DOJ, SEC, and Tier 1-2 news sources, with a reviewer-computed disputed_pct of 6.1% — well within the 0-10% approval threshold. The single disputed finding (claim_findings[33], timeline[7]) is a procedural date error placing the Burton superseding indictment in January 2025 when it was actually returned December 12, 2025 — a timeline placeholder issue, not a misstatement of any core fraud allegation. A stale finding (claim_findings[34], timeline[9]) notes that Burton's July 23, 2026 sentencing has now occurred (32 months imprisonment, credit for time served since January 2024), meaning the page should be updated to reflect the outcome rather than listing it as scheduled. Four partially supported claims involve peripheral details (currency denomination on an actor's payment, secondary-source-only regulatory warnings for Hungary and Germany, and an omission that Chunga entered her guilty plea on the same day charges were announced). No link rot was found. Reviewer confidence of 0.82 and a clean core evidentiary record support approval; the high-priority coverage gaps identified (sentencing outcome, Sam Lee extradition status, on-chain fund flow analysis) indicate update opportunities but do not warrant denial or revision under review policy.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":3,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}