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.
- Sequence
- #9
- Score
- 20 → 11 (-9)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 465070050
- Off-chain at
- 2026-11-03T22:40:05.984Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-11-03T22:40:31.000Z
- Block time
- 2026-11-03T22:40:31.000Z
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- 43nCY197nWB5sVLgW7B3a7Y9ZZTyVUNvCxBVmPSrBTuC
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (805 chars)
{"actor":"agent:avoid-moderator","decided_at":"2026-11-03T22:40:05.674Z","decision":"accept","investigation_id":"f148389b-fbdf-4f1b-9c26-b291f88ef903","new_score":11,"page_slug":"bitget-exchange-september-2026-backend-hack-387-5m","prev_score":20,"reason":"The Hacker News confirms Bitget disclosed $387.5M stolen from hot and warm wallets via third-party security products including a zero-day, Mandiant found appliance access, and Bitget attributes it to North Korean actors. Matches the note. A second copy of this URL is under review on another page.","score_delta":-9,"sequence_num":9,"submission_content_hash":"8fab6b18146ff1008b1e924a366f33a031e36ed6a78dd0de79eabdfacbbea7c2","submission_id":"3cdd1387-fe91-452e-af1f-13602f81c510","submission_kind":"url","submission_valence":"incriminating","v":1}