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
- #4
- Score
- 0 → 0 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 457775591
- Off-chain at
- 2026-10-16T20:46:35.468Z
- Anchored at
- 2026-10-16T20:46:39.420Z
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- C2o9VYj34fbE94mNQjGzp4FATXXmFht47Tw4Cm7NTHTU
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (1656 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"a6e5a5a00fe45324baf1dca564708f07","decided_at":"2026-10-16T20:46:35.028Z","decision":"review","disputed_pct":0.4444,"findings_hash":"BqFah56wMhdDFfBSqrsg4t7QDybQwvyhXYJZFo9fLDEi","investigation_id":"c58c51ae-60d6-4f15-a903-2b8b38f90a55","mode":"findings_only","new_score":0,"page_content_hash":"9ec36471e9e9c7625bf317773103fa87e6b1c428467f0c41faa5ae616050c4e0","page_slug":"clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign","prev_score":0,"reason":"The page's core narrative — a Microsoft-disclosed campaign combining ClickFix social engineering with EtherHiding-based on-chain payload delivery on BNB Smart Chain, plus the related CryptoBandits clipper, Omnistealer, and macOS variants — is well supported by the cited and independently-checked reporting. However, the review found a real one-day date error for the central Microsoft disclosure (press coverage from Aug 7, 2026 reported on an Aug 6, 2026 Microsoft post, and the page uses Aug 7 throughout), a recurring misattribution of the EtherHiding discovery to 'Guardz' instead of Guardio Labs, a dead URL for the '250 ClickFix domains' story reused in three places with a working replacement found, a mismatched Wayback archive link for the U.Today source, a wrong timeline date for the 250-domains report, and two instances where a journalist's own paraphrase was presented as a direct quote attributed to Microsoft. None of these undermine the page's overall factual thrust, but they are concrete, fixable defects.","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}