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
- Sequence
- #2
- Score
- 2 → 2 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 443513187
- Off-chain at
- 2026-08-25T10:04:56.885Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 4xoHSf87zMBmBPCiQotQQocva3DBWw5TJygSyWKMbtpR
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1216 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","decided_at":"2026-08-25T10:04:56.639Z","decision":"review","investigation_id":"0cb466fb-b42c-498a-8146-c175847ac1d7","new_score":2,"page_slug":"christopher-delgado-goliath-ventures-inc","prev_score":2,"reason":"The page's core factual architecture -- charges, court, dates, dollar figures, and the direct quotation -- is strongly corroborated against primary sources including the full text of the SEC complaint, IRS-CI releases, and independent news reporting. Two findings warrant correction: an unsupported claim that Delgado misappropriated funds for 'gambling' (absent from the SEC complaint and all reporting reviewed), and a timeline entry stating the scheme collapsed in January 2026 when the page's own cited SEC complaint states the operational collapse occurred in November 2025. Several other items (a residence discrepancy, an unreconciled yacht-cost figure between regulators, and a selectively-framed CFTC return-rate figure) are accurate as far as they go but incompletely reconciled against other primary sources cited on the same page.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":2,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}