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 · Internet Computer
- Sequence
- #5
- Score
- 26 → 52 (+26)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 426514370
- Off-chain at
- 2026-06-14T23:15:52.504Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 8jTWixsffzfJFSasLgjfGnoRaaVPMs2Y16CVo3dfUT4T
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1703 chars)
{"actor":"judge","decided_at":"2026-06-14T23:15:52.372Z","decision":"review_approve","investigation_id":"7464bbaa-7441-4e83-b3cc-f24c6ed145fe","new_score":52,"page_slug":"internet-computer","prev_score":26,"reason":"This is a severity-calibration review, not a fact-dispute review. All six claim findings (claim_findings[0]–[5]) are supported with no disputed content. The page accurately documents Internet Computer's 2021 launch controversy, the 95% price collapse, and the class-action litigation — but the current WARNING band score of 26 reflects a penalty calibration error: both the federal lawsuit (dismissed March 2025, time-barred) and the state action (summary judgment February 2025, affirmed by appellate court January 30, 2026) were resolved in DFINITY's favor without any fraud adjudication on the merits (claim_findings[0], [1]). The primary incriminating source — the Arkham token-transfer analysis — is explicitly qualified as circumstantial by Arkham itself (claim_findings[3]). The network processed over 1 billion transactions in Q1 2026, passed on-chain governance reform (Mission 70), and carries no unresolved regulatory or legal exposure (claim_findings[2], [4], [5]). Under AVOID.NET band policy, WARNING requires elevated fraud risk or an unresolved severe incident; with all litigation resolved in the entity's favor, CAUTIONARY (50–69) is the correct band. A score of 52 appropriately reflects the genuine launch-transparency concerns while not treating dismissed litigation and circumstantial on-chain analysis as confirmed fraud.","score_delta":26,"sequence_num":5,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}