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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 · Polygon (POL)
View on Solana ↗
Sequence
#5
Score
60 → 60 (0)
Cluster
mainnet-beta
Slot
457918956
Off-chain at
2026-10-17T05:23:19.833Z
Anchored at
2026-10-17T05:23:26.181Z
Block time
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Independent verification

1. Database (off-chain)
35LY9V6nSQ9NqQqNdAfvuYZpSGB9jq6JDEnEGmx7RPKH
2. Recomputed (your browser)
computing…
3. On-chain (Solana memo)
fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1706 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"28e3cf36dca7d3b283ab0bbb4db66380","decided_at":"2026-10-17T05:23:19.637Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.2609,"findings_hash":"B64pRf2hPCRBZT7FXXZvYRkkR4c27wNQGDmijNkUzj72","investigation_id":"e1eee299-13f1-46e7-a2d8-249418ef628d","mode":"findings_only","new_score":60,"page_content_hash":"bfec33d7c8104dd921e5f4dbf7cdd4ec485e18b3d64886d4d2c9b3c154bd8054","page_slug":"polygon-pol","prev_score":60,"reason":"Most individual facts on the page (the two 2021 Immunefi bugs, co-founder departure dates and reasons, layoff figures, the Aave bridge-yield dispute, the October 2025 tokenomics proposal, the 15-validator hard fork, and the Boiron/Nailwal leadership dates) check out against independent reporting and are confirmed. However, the page has three distinct, non-trivial defects: (1) it conflates the MATIC-to-POL migration's September 2024 launch with its 99%-complete milestone, which multiple sources place a year later in September 2025; (2) its central SEC-related citation (sections[2].sources[0], two timeline entries, and the sources_used record) points to an unrelated SEC complaint against Consensys/MetaMask rather than the actual SEC v. Binance complaint, and the SEC section is stale because it omits that the entire Binance case was dismissed with prejudice in May 2025; and (3) the zkEVM deprecation is attributed to Polygon/Nailwal 'citing' a $1M annual operating loss, when that figure is an outside researcher's unverified estimate and Polygon's own stated rationale was strategic, not financial.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}